Practice of the Month: “Creating Positive Belief”

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Welcome Members once again to the October Edition of SGM. Kevin Schoeninger here.

In the second week of each month, we review a specific book/product/or tradition for the practices that it offers. The key to our personal transformation is to apply our insights by practicing them daily. This month’s material is drawn from Gregg Braden’s book entitled “The Spontaneous Healing of Belief.”

In last week’s message, we discussed the “new” view of reality brought to us by modern physics. The basic insight of this new view is that “everything is energy.” We exist as energy systems within one Universal Energetic Field.

We then talked about the nature of this energetic reality. The facts of life in the Divine Matrix (Braden’s term for the One Field) are much different from the materialism that we’ve grown up with. Reality is a fluid web of possibilities that are made real by the way we interpret events in the Field. We experience life as we do because of the way we look at things, because of what we believe is real and possible for us.

In this Week’s Message, we’ll investigate the inner technology that lies at the heart of how we shape our reality. The three key components of this inner technology are emotion, thought, and feeling. These three distinct, yet related, powers are the elements that fuse to create our beliefs and, therefore, the world as we know it. This week, we’ll look specifically at how we create positive beliefs.

First, let’s define each of these and then we’ll talk about how they join forces. Once we understand how these work together, we’ll talk about how we can harness this inner technology to shift our lives in a positive direction.

Let’s begin with Braden’s use of the word “emotion.” Braden points us to the template of our chakra system for his explanation. Our chakras are energy centers that run up through the center of our body.

Traditionally, human beings are seen as seven chakra beings. The first three chakras are located from our perineum (between genitals and anus) up to our solar plexus at the base of our ribs. Braden groups these together as the source of “pure energy” in our bodies. You can think of these three as the abdominal energy centers. These serve as the power source for all of our activities. In other words, the abdomen is the center of life force.

Braden says that this life force has two polarities: love and the opposite of love (fear, hate, negativity). This polarized life force is what he calls emotion. It is either loving and attractive or non-loving and repelling. This primary energetic polarity produces the dynamic of our life energy. Yet as can be seen by its polarity, we can be tossed back and forth between two primary emotions. This is where thought comes in.

“Thoughts are associated with the upper three energy centers of our body—the chakras related to logic and communication. Whereas emotion can be considered a power source, thoughts are the guidance system that directs it, focusing it in precise ways.” (P.65 SHOB)

A thought is an imagined possibility. It has no energy or force of its own, but is simply a pattern by which you can perceive, organize, and act upon reality. Thought guides the expression of the primary energy of emotion.

“When we marry thoughts with the emotion of our love or fear regarding them, we create feelings. Feelings are defined as the ‘union of thought and emotion.’ They’re the basis of our beliefs and are formed in our hearts.” (P.67 SHOB)

Feelings then are the result of a primary emotion, love or fear, joined to a thought that creates a feeling and a belief about what is real and possible. The energy center where this union takes place is our heart. We can have many different feelings that can all be traced back to either love or fear joining with a thought about ourselves or about the world. While thoughts alone can be neutral, beliefs have emotion attached to them. This is what gives us strong feelings about our beliefs.

We can intellectually debate ideas. We can more easily observe them with detachment. We move mountains or go to war over our beliefs. Which of these two options prevails depends on what emotion fuels our belief–love or its opposite. Beliefs are a form of feeling.

Because of the energetic nature of our beliefs, they have a strong effect in the energetic field of our lives. As Braden says, “Beliefs and the feelings that we have about them, are the language that speaks to the quantum stuff that makes our reality.” (P.68 SHOB)

Resonance and Inner Guidance

Resonance is an energetic interaction between two things. It is the basis of the Law of Attraction and a primary creative force in our experience. When two energies resonate they come into synchronization with each other. They vibrate at the same frequency.

When we scan the environment, we pick up on events that match the beliefs we have about what is real, possible, and important at that moment. We filter reality according to our beliefs. When we find something in our environment that matches our belief, we resonate with it. It feels true for us in that moment because of our perceptual filters at that moment. We feel “yes, that’s what I want”. Conversely, we might sense, that something doesn’t feel right. We feel “I need to get out of here.” Rather than resonance, you might feel dissonance or repulsion.

Learning to pick up on resonance and dissonance is an internal skill that you can develop. As I suggested last week, it’s a great practice to regularly check in with your feelings and note the thoughts that you are thinking at the moment. Now that you know a little more about your inner technology you can add emotion to that checklist. You can ask yourself: “Am I coming from love or its opposite at this moment?”

Creating Your Reality

These three elements, feeling, thought, and emotion are the basis of your inner guidance system. They are also the basis of your inner creative force. Once you get good at recognizing them, then you can get good at putting them to use to create what you want in your life.

You can consciously choose your emotional vibration, love or fear. You can choose an imagined possibility that you desire to create, you can choose the thoughts. And by putting these two together in your heart you can project your desired creation into the world of form.

As Braden says, “A thought that’s imbued with the power of emotion produces the feeling that brings it to life.” (P.74 SHOB)

When we combine the thought of an imagined possibility with the energy of love, we create the feeling that comes when that event is accomplished. To do this consciously and effectively: We visualize the thought of what we desire, the outcome. We imbue it with the positive force of love and, then, we experience the core heart feelings of appreciation for its beauty and gratitude for its coming into being.

Going back to Braden’s computer metaphor from last week’s message, we program reality in three steps: 1. Begin, 2. Work, and 3. Completion. When you are programming a computer you have a begin command, a work command, and a completion command.

The begin command gives the computer the information that it needs to do its work such as the value of the symbols used and the pattern of how they repeat. This is the thought, the pattern, or the design. The work command tells the computer what to do with the symbols and patterns it has been given. The work command says “yes” or “no,” it powers the thought with love or fear. The completion command tells what the result looks like when all the pieces come together. The completion command is our belief of what is real and possible.

In this analogy, thoughts are the begin command, they gather information and set the stage. Emotion is the work command which give energetic fuel to the program. Feeling/Belief is the completion command. It is the desired end result.

Let’s bring this analogy to a practical situation. I want to bring healing to my son who is sick. I put my hands on his body to establish an energetic rapport. I think of the attributes of health that I want to bring to him, I send the emotion of love through my hands, and I picture him completely healthy. I imagine and feel what he is like when he is healthy and happy. I feel that vibrant healthiness in my body and send it to him.

You can do the same with any desired reality that you desire to create. The key to your success is that you have to believe that it is right and possible. You feel it without doubt. You can only do this for things that you really believe in, for your core possibilities, for those things that are truly right for you here and now. By developing your inner guidance you will sense what those possibilities are for you and those around you so that you can direct your efforts in effective ways.

As I’ve suggested many times, the perfect time to practice this form of conscious creation is at the end of a meditation session when you are in a state of strong, positive, clear energetic coherence. In this state of higher vibration you will resonate with what is best for you and for others and you can strengthen that vibration in the world. If you desire world peace, you can strengthen this experience in the world by coming from a state of inner peace.

In next Week’s Message, we’ll talk about what to do when you can’t seem to come from that positive state, when limiting beliefs and negativity are getting in your way. We’ll talk about how to heal the subconscious beliefs that hold you back. Braden tells us, the key is to heal your deepest hurt.

Until next time,

Happy Practicing,

Kevin