Cracking The Code 7: Can You Become Aware Of Your Limiting Beliefs?

 

Buckle up because we’re going to get a bit esoteric here. Gregg Braden’s The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits moves into serious contemplation and questions concerning the life force of which you, I, everyone, and everything are “made.” Remember that the author was a serious and dedicated professional in both earth sciences and computer technology who was drawn to examine ancient and modern spiritual practices and beliefs from his unique point of view. What then follows is no great surprise.

Belief Code 21: The same principles that allow us to hurt ourselves into death also work in reverse, allowing us to heal ourselves into life.

Recall the examination we had concerning “As above, so below” as it relates to the greater unseen energy of life. The notion of separation can be shown to be an illusion enforced by our limited perception.

How limited are we talking about? I’ll give you two practical examples:

VISION: Human vision is trichromatic: we rely on 3 types of color photoreceptor cells (cones) sensitive to red, green, and blue wavelengths. Combining these allows us to perceive millions of shades of color.

The mantis shrimp possesses 12 to 16 distinct photoreceptor types. This detects deep ultraviolet light as well as wavelengths far beyond human capability and both linear and circular polarized light. Circular polarization detection is extremely rare in nature; it allows mantis shrimp to perceive subtle signal reflections from other organisms and shell patterns underwater that appear completely plain to human eyes.

SOUND: The human ear typically hears frequencies between  and . Beyond these boundary lines lie whole acoustic worlds.

There’s Infrasound (): Elephants, whales, and rhinos communicate across vast distances using low-frequency acoustic waves that pass through ground and dense forest. Humans might feel these as low vibrations, but cannot hear the acoustic content.

There’s also Ultrasound (): Microbats emit chirps up to  or higher. Their brains process the returning acoustic echoes to construct three-dimensional, real-time spatial topographies of moving prey as small as mosquitoes.

So, perception is the way we “read” the world and give it meaning, thus creating our life/story. The same interaction with another person or event can be interpreted as either joyful or profoundly sad. It depends on how you see it; that’s how you create it for yourself.

Taking the previous example of the loss of a spouse, it can spur the surviving member to focus on loss, grieving until the depletion of their life force and ultimate passing. On the other hand, looking back and holding dear all the treasured moments shared with their partner can serve as an inspiration, love personified.

It’s the choice of perception of the exact same event. It all depends on how one chooses to see it, and thus either separate further from the energy of life or let it flow with appreciation. Our beliefs will partially or completely dictate the choice made, consciously or otherwise.

Belief Code 22: Our belief in one force for everything that happens in the world, or two opposite and opposing forces – good and evil – plays out in our experience of life, health, relationships, and abundance.

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

— Francis Bacon

"There is no position of non-alignment in the battle between good and evil. Not to choose is to choose."

— Elie Wiesel

"Good and evil are twin born; one cannot exist without the other."

— Ursula K. Le Guin

"There are two forces in the universe: one is for creation, one is for destruction. Every day, every hour, every minute, you have to choose which one you intend to serve."

— Deepak Chopra

"Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in thought as twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two, the wise choose rightly; not so the unwise."

— Zarathustra (Zoroaster), Yasna 30.3 (Gathas)

You can see that the belief in opposing forces, in good and evil, has essentially been around forever. But here’s the thing: we talked earlier about the discovery of the unified quantum field and the virtually “impossible” nature of it, which is becoming increasingly harnessed in quantum computing and AI.

There is no separation within the quantum field. But it does have contrast, things such as matter and anti-matter, for example. Thus, in our journey of perception, supported by and impacting the quantum field of which we are part and parcel, we engage in contrast as we author our life/stories; The most common element playing out is “good vs. evil.”

The choices we make, consciously or otherwise, will determine the chapters we create, the experiences we have, and the other people who “play” with us as our stories intersect.

Belief Code 23: To heal the ancient battle between darkness and light, we may find that it’s less about defeating one or the other, and more about choosing our relationship to both.

Judgement.

My, do we reflexively engage in judgement! It’s essentially an automatic reflex in humankind, whether it is experienced in traffic, while following the news, watching sports, or talking about family members; the list is inexhaustible.

But here is a question posed to me long ago, one that has remained a constant in my conscious experience of life:

Would you rather be right, or happy?

Judgement gets directly into the teeth of the previous Belief Code, right vs. wrong. If you choose right, from your perception, you’ll encounter occasion after occasion where you’ll need to defend that state of “rightness.” Judgment does that, magnetizes that response to you.

The quantum field makes it so by the power of your focus. Braden states five facts to support this and the impact that this has upon our life and our bodies:

·         Fact 1: The beliefs and feelings that we hold in our hearts are having an ongoing discussion with our brains in each moment of every day.

·         Fact 2: During that dialogue, our hearts tell our brains to send “love chemistry” or “fear chemistry” into our bodies.

·         Fact 3: Chronic love chemistry affirms and perpetuates life in our bodies.

·         Fact 4: Chronic fear chemistry denies life in our bodies.

·         Fact 5: To internalize the belief that two forces with different agendas are battling is to invite the combat into our bodies and our lives.

So, as I learned in simple terms long ago, would you rather be right, or happy?

It is a choice.

Belief Code 24: A miracle that’s possible for anyone is possible for everyone.

Ah, the legendary quest for the four-minute mile. The record had stood at 4:01.4 for a decade before 1954. Expert commentators, coaches, and medical professionals began to frame the four-minute threshold as an absolute physiological wall. Doctors quoted “heart rupture and over-expansion, extreme asphyxiation and oxygen debt, and frictional resistance of air and track” as factual proof that it could not be done.

On May 6, 1954, 25-year-old medical student Roger Bannister ran the mile at Oxford's Iffley Road track in 3:59.4.

Just 46 days later (June 21, 1954), Australian runner John Landy broke Bannister's record with a time of 3:58.0.

By the end of 1955: 3 more runners (László Tábori, Chris Chataway, and Brian Hewson) joined the sub-4 club—all breaking it in a single legendary race in London.

Within 2.5 years (End of 1956): A total of 10 runners had achieved sub-four-minute miles.

By 1957: The number rose to 16 runners.

Why?

Why did what was once deemed “impossible” begin to become, dare I say, somewhat ordinary?

Mankind first flew at Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903. It covered 120 feet in 12 seconds.

Powered by a speech to Congress by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961, stating, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth," on July 20, 1969, 2,978 days later, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon.

Exactly 65 years, 7 months, and 3 days (or 23,957 days) passed between the Wright brothers' first powered flight and Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon. That’s about one typical human lifetime.

So, a miracle is only a miracle until it isn’t.

I’ll borrow a quote by philosopher Neville Goddard that Gregg Braden shares in his book to wrap this article with:

“Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.”

Due to travel, I’ll conclude this series next week with two more articles that cover the remaining seven Belief Codes. I appreciate your attention.

Choose to stay (mostly) conscious!