Gregg Braden - The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

THE SPONTANEOS HEALING
OF BELIEF

A LSO BY G REGG B RADEN

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THE
SPONTANEOS
HEALING
OF BELIEF

SHATTERING THE PARADIGM
OF FALSE LIMITS GREGG BRADEN

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Copyright 2008 by Gregg Braden

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to reproduce an excerpt from The Illuminated Rumi, translations and commentary by Coleman Barks, Copyright 1997. Reprinted courtesy of Broadway Books, an imprint of Random House, Inc.

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Braden, Gregg.

The spontaneous healing of belief : shattering the paradigm of false limits / Gregg Braden. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4019-1689-3 (hardcover) ISBN-13: 978-1-4019-1690-9 (tradepaper) 1. Belief and doubt. 2. Common fallacies. 3. Contagion (Social psychology) I. Title.

BF773.B73 2008

299.93--dc22 2007039920

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-1689-3
Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-1690-9
11 10 09 08 4 3 2 1
1st edition, April 2008

Printed in the United States of America

In the instant of our first breath, we are infused with the single greatest force in the universethe power to translate the possibilities of our minds into the reality of our world. To fully awaken our power, however, requires a subtle change in the way we think of ourselves in life, a shift in belief. Just the way sound creates visible waves as it travels through a droplet of water, our belief waves ripple through the quantum fabric of the universe to become our bodies and the healing, abundance, and peaceor disease, lack, and sufferingthat we experience in life. And just the way we can tune a sound to change its patterns, we can tune our beliefs to preserve or destroy all that we cherish, including life itself. In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, were limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world. This book is dedicated to our acceptance of such an awesome power and our knowing that we are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.

Contents

Let yourself be silently drawn by
the stronger pull of what you really love.

Rumi (c. 1207 c.e.1273 c.e.), Sufi poet

Pioneering physicist John Wheeler once said, If you havent found something strange during the day, it hasnt been much of a day.

For a scientist, what could be any stranger than discovering that by simply watching our world in one place, weve somehow changed what happens somewhere else?... Yet this is precisely what the revelations of the new physics are showing us. As far back as 1935, Nobel Prizewinning physicist Albert Einstein acknowledged just how unsettling such quantum effects can be, calling them spooky action at a distance. In a paper that he coauthored with noted physicists Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, he stated, No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this [action at a distance].

Today, its precisely these bizarre anomalies that have ignited a powerful revolution in the way we think of ourselves as well as the universe. For the better part of the 20th century, scientists struggled to understand what quantum strangeness is telling us about the way reality works. Its a documented fact, for example, that human consciousness influences quantum energy the stuff everything is made of under certain conditions. And that fact has opened the door to a possibility that pushes the limits of what weve been led to believe about our world in the past. A growing body of evidence now suggests that these unexpected results are more than just isolated exceptions. The question is: How much more?

Are the effects of observers in influencing their experiments actually a powerful window into the kind of reality we live in? And, if so, then we must ask, Are those effects also telling us who we are within that reality? The answer to both questions is yes: These are precisely the conclusions that the new discoveries suggest. They are also why Ive written this book.

There Are No Watchers

Scientists have shown that while we may think that were only observing our world, in fact its impossible for us to simply watch anything. Whether our attention is focused on a quantum particle during a laboratory experiment or anything elsefrom the healing of our bodies to the success of our careers and relationshipswe have expectations and beliefs about what were watching. Sometimes were consciously aware of these preconceptions, but often were not. Its these inner experiences that become part of what were focused on. By watching, we become part of what were watching.

In the words of Wheeler, that makes us all participators. The reason? When we focus our attention on a given place in a moment of time, we involve our consciousness. And in the vast field of consciousness, it appears that theres no clear boundary that tells us where we stop and the rest of the universe begins. When we think of the world in this way, it becomes clear why the ancients believed that everything is connected. As energy, it is.

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