The Confidence Doc

Quantum Physics: Everything IS Energy

Quantum Physics can substantiate that everything is energy – yes EVERYTHING.  This includes you!  Now about ten years ago, when I was in a different place, if someone started talking about energy, the judgment would be that it was “woo-woo” or “new age” (this is such a subjective term). 

It was said in a spooky negative way in the circle of people that I knew then.  Even now, there are still those who think that energy is something spooky or “other worldly”. 

The fact is, you don’t know what you don’t know.  This is why we as humans only use about 90% of our brains capacity; we are afraid of looking at or learning about anything new that does not neatly fit into our existing paradigm! 

I was talking to someone recently who made this comment about us not using our brain, and when I shared with him some of the most recent findings in neuroscience, you can probably guess what his rather typical response was – “I don’t know if I can believe that”.  This is so common. 

When I reminded him that he just a few moments before complained about people being closed minded and not using their minds to a greater capacity, he realized what he had just done.  Without even investigating what I was saying, his mind immediate ran to the “I don’t believe it” rut. 

Stress: Your Focus Determines Your Vibration

Stress is a killer and it is at an all time high.  Stress causes feelings that are harmful to your body when they are chronically released.  These feelings are actually chemicals. 

Feelings cause electromagnetic energy to radiate from your body (this may sound sci-fi, but I assure you it is not) and this sets up a vibrational pattern.  Haven’t you ever gone into a room and noticed the “vibes”? 

You are feeling the thought and feelings of others radiating outward into the environment.  Just because you cannot see them means nothing.  You cannot see electricity either; you can see the effect of it through a light bulb though.  Your body is like the light bulb. 

Here’s the point – what you focus on and give your attention to will impact your feelings.  Feelings determine your vibration and your vibe will determine everything from your health, wealth and relationships.  If you get yourself into anxiety, worry and fear, from listening to too much negativity about the economy or world events, you can get depressed. 

In fact, I just read an article in the NY Times today on this very topic.  People who are not even suffering financially are worried about the possibility.( Click Here NY Times)  Well,if you worry about it, you are actually more likely to attract it as you will start to put out the negative vibes to make it a reality. 

If your mind is focused on believing negativity is coming your way, your subconscious has the power to direct your behavior in the direction to make it happen.  It’s like a missile seeking machine. Haven’t you ever heard the term “self-fulfilling prophecy”? 

Emotions and Health: Ignore Your Feelings to Your Peril!

Emotions are very powerful and they impact your health whether you are aware of them or not.  Emotion technically, is not the same as feelings.  Emotion is the perception that colors your reaction to a particular thought. 

You either experience a “like it” emotion, or a “don’t like it” emotion.  Once the emotion is connected with the thought, the thought plus emotion is processed in your nervous system to create the feeling in your body.  These feelings are literally chemicals that affect your body at a cellular level. They form memory in your body’s tissues. 

I used to repress my feelings because I had conditioned myself unconsciously to fear feeling pain.  This is really a learned behavior.  While feeling negative may not be the most pleasant experience, repressing feelings is very unhealthy, psychologically as well as physically.

 Stress and repressed negative emotion is at the root of at least 85% of disease.  Look at the word disease – “Dis-Ease” or not at ease.  The lack of ease, the feeling of fear and struggle can gradually kill you.  It is at the root of cancer and chronic illness.  Illness does not just come out of nowhere.  It is a combination of nature and nurture. 

You may have a tendency toward certain diseases due to genetic composition but you DO NOT have to manifest the illness in your life.  How you think and feel is a major contributor to whether or not you will experience the disease as well as your nutritional intake.  While environment, including dietary and exercise habits matter, your emotional health is the main driving factor. 

Age is not naturally associated with disease.  Our Creator did not design us to last a few short years and then start to suffer and deteriorate from chronic sickness.  Unfortunately, ignorance is not bliss. 

Low Self-Esteem: Healing Belief

Low self-esteem, as everything else in life, is rooted in belief.  As the ancient wisdom goes, “be it unto you as you believe”. 

My purpose here is not to tell you what to believe.  My message is to help you to understand that belief can change according to your consciousness or level of awareness.  The issue is, what you truly believe will determine your quality of life.  This includes your health, spirituality, finances and relationships. 

The challenge is that as a whole, we are conditioned to believe ideas that do not serve our greatest good.  We are often taught, ignorantly and unintentionally, to think less of each other, and ourselves as if this is a saintly quality.  It does not serve you to play small.  These are beliefs, they are not who you are. 

They are thoughts that you have identified with as being a part of yourself, when in reality, they are more like software programs that you have allowed to be “downloaded” into your subconscious long-term memory.  Many of these beliefs developed as a young child when you did not have developed logic, but now you are certainly responsible for your choices. 

Once I understood that I am not my thought, that thoughts were vibratory “things” and I had the choice to accept or reject them, my life truly started to expand and change for the better.  I have learned tools and processes to make this change much easier than when I first realized this truth for myself. 

The most powerful key to this was when I began to realize that not only was I a spiritual being, but that my identification and connection to this aspect of who I AM was the source of all healing and life.  As the realization becomes deeper, health is more the norm than the exception, good relationships are becoming the rule and finances are more abundant.

As my old, dysfunctional beliefs about life and myself are identified and healed, so has the sense of low-self esteem and judging of self and others.  Here is a short video clip by Larry Dossey MD discussing the power of healing when understood at the level of your connection to your Infinite Spirit.  Low self-esteem can be healed, as you change your beliefs!

Practical Spirituality: You Are Spirit Mind and Body

Spirituality is a topic that I have been hearing more buzz around lately.  Perhaps it is because during times of uncertainty, many people start to ask deeper questions such as, 'Who am I'?  What is going on here?  Why am I here?' 

These are important questions.  In holistic health circles you may also notice an increasing usage in the phrase, 'Mind Body Spirit' medicine or something to that effect.  I believe, and I have read studies that agree, that a very important factor in your health is your level of inner peace and happiness. 

I am talking about a state that is obtained WITHIN you despite your outer circumstances.  It is a peace that surpasses your conscious thinking.  This can only come through spiritual awareness. 

In general, most people have it backwards at best.  First of all you are more than a body with a mind.  And, once you add the level of spirit, often this level of self is put at a lower priority level for many.  What I mean is, spirit is often treated more like the caboose than the engine that propels our life forward.  It is often treated as an after thought. 

Spirit is the life force that not only animates your body, but to nurture this aspect of yourself is important for your state of energy, awareness, health and inner peace.  I am not talking religion here. 

Self Esteem and Health: Can Low Self Esteem Lower Your Level of Health?

Self-esteem, or how you feel about YOU, your intrinsic value can impact your
health. If you feel unworthy, you can sabotage yourself and become the proverbial couch potatoe. 

Sure, you can also have low self-esteem and become addicted to working out. Becoming obsessive about your outer appearance can likewise be a sign of low self-esteem. The key is the intention. 

Really what is on the line here is your level of inner peace.  If you lose motivation for self-care and develop poor exercise, eating and hygiene habits, this obviously will reflect in your physical appearance and well-being. You will likely experience a vicious cycle of not caring for yourself and then disliking what you see in the mirror.

Likewise, if you are so driven that you become a workaholic, socially acceptable or not, you are still prone to develop high blood pressure, chronic diseases and overall dissatisfaction with life. Speaking from prior experience, workaholics tend to use work as the excuse to avoid looking at their own personal life. 

At issue here is your level of self-acceptance and inner peace. No self-acceptance, no peace.  Know self-acceptance, know peace. 

Happiness and Health: Are you Happy or Simply Surviving?

Happiness is that feeling of well being that virtually every human being longs for.  One of the reasons that happiness can be so elusive is because we have fear hardwired into our brains.

As I’ve mentioned before, from a Neuroscience standpoint, a major contributor to our chronic fear feelings are based in an area of the brain known as the Amygdala, and there is another area in the brainstem that contributes as well. 

However, to the degree that you begin to ‘wake up’ and take charge of your own thinking patterns, happiness will stay a pipe dream. 

IN OUR FOCUS ON SURVIVAL, WE ARE KILLING OURSELVES! 

How ironic is this? 

Belief Influences Health: My Cure for the Common Cold

Belief absolutely influences health. I will tell you how I usually stay free and clear of the common cold during the winter, the so-called ‘cold and flu’ season, even when every member of my household is coughing and sneezing all around me.

In fact, I did not have a single cold this whole winter here in Chicago.

First, let me illustrate some clinical examples of the power of belief.  There have been well-documented stories about the ‘placebo’ effect.  This is when a patient thinks they are being given a drug, when it is actually only an inert pill or the IV fluid is actually common saline solution.  Because they BELIEVE it, they get well. 

Quantum Field, DNA and Self-Esteem

The Quantum Field is an omnipresent Field of energy that interconnects all things, living and all material form.  It is also called the matrix, (I like the term, Divine Matrix which I hear now being used,) the Quantum Hologram and even simply ‘The Field” 

Here on my blog is a link to the book by this name written by Lynne McTaggert which is an excellent book on this subject matter for lay people. 

The current model of life based on Newtonian Physics which is still very much the predominant world view (though incorrect) is that we are all separate and what we think and do has no effect on our experience or what forms in our visible world.  Well, one of the many paradigms that are currently shifting is this one and it is a positive earthquake of a shift!