Biology of Belief

The Biology of Belief

Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D.

The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and that of other leading-edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. The implications of this research radically change our understanding of life. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr. Lipton's profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed as a major breakthrough showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking. 

(From Goodreads)

Some excerpts:

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health. Because we are not powerless biochemical machines, popping a pill every time we are mentally or physically out of tune is not the answer.

Drugs and surgery are powerful tools when they are not overused, but the notion of simple drug fixes is fundamentally flawed. Every time a drug is introduced into the body to correct function A, it inevitably throws off function B, C, or D.

It is not gene-directed hormones and neurotransmitters that control our bodies and our minds; our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives … Oh ye of little belief!

Positive thoughts have a profound effect on behavior and genes but only when they are in harmony with subconscious programming. And negative thoughts have an equally powerful effect. When we recognize how these positive and negative beliefs control our biology, we can use this knowledge to create lives filled with health and happiness.

We have been taught to wage war against microorganisms with everything from antibacterial soap to antibiotics. But that simplistic message ignores the fact that many bacteria are essential to our health. The classic example of how humans get help from microorganisms is the bacteria in our digestive system, which are essential to our survival. The bacteria in our stomach and intestinal tract help digest food and also enable the absorption of life-sustaining vitamins. This microbe-human cooperation is the reason that the rampant use of antibiotics is detrimental to our survival. Antibiotics are indiscriminate killers; they kill bacteria that are required for our survival as efficiently as they kill harmful bacteria.

Now that we are aware of this inter- and intra-species gene transfer mechanism, the dangers of genetic engineering become apparent. For example, tinkering with the genes of a tomato may not stop at that tomato but could alter the entire biosphere in ways that we cannot foresee. Already there is a study that shows that when humans digest genetically modified foods, the artificially created genes transfer into and alter the character of the beneficial bacteria in the intestine.

Similarly, gene transfer among genetically engineered agricultural crops and surrounding native species has given rise to highly resistant species deemed superweeds.

So many of us are leading limited lives not because we have to but because we think we have to.

Since the dawning of the Age of Genetics, we have been programmed to accept that we are subservient to the power of our genes. The world is filled with people who live in constant fear that, on some unsuspecting day, their genes are going to turn on them. Consider the masses of people who think they are ticking time bombs; they wait for cancer to explode in their lives as it exploded in the life of their mother or brother or sister or aunt or uncle.

Millions of others attribute their failing health not to a combination of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual causes but simply to the inadequacies of their body’s biochemical mechanics. Are your kids unruly? Increasingly the first choice is to medicate these children to correct their “chemical imbalances” rather than fully grappling with what is going on in their bodies, minds, and spirits.

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Animated Book Review of 'Flow' by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Animated Book Review of 'Flow' by 

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

WHERE LUCK HAS BEEN FOUND

WHERE LUCK HAS BEEN FOUND

In thrift and foresight.

In thorough preparation for one's life work.

In mental alertness.

In always being ready to lend a helping hand wherever and 

whenever needed.

In being tactful and a good mixer.

In holding the efficiency ideal of oneself and one's

capabilities.

In downright, constant hard work.

In being ready for the opportunity when it came.

In courtesy, kindness, and consideration toward everybody.

In helping oneself instead of looking to others for boosts, 

capital, or favors of any sort.

In doing one's work a little better than others did theirs.

In not being satisfied with anything but one's best, never 

accepting one's second best or a botched job.

In always carrying some reading matter in one's pocket, so 

that spare time could be utilized while waiting for trains, or 

for those who were tardy in appointments, by reading for self-

improvement.

In being cheerful, no matter how dark the outlook.

In trying to make good in every possible way, while never 

taking advantage of others.

In beginning the thing which something within one said one 

could and ought to do, no matter what obstacles stood in the 

way; by obeying one's good impulses promptly, before they 

quit prodding one.

In never allowing oneself to believe that he was born to be 

poor, a failure, a mediocre sort of a man or woman.

In carrying the victorious attitude in everything, looking like a 

winner, talking like a winner, and radiating the confidence of 

a winner.

In holding that the good things of the world were not made 

for a favored few, but for all God's children.

In substituting clear grit and persistency for the advantages 

which many others enjoyed from birth.

In believing that the best part of one's salary was not in 

one's pay envelope but in the chance to make good in every 

bit of work that passed through one's hands.

In the opportunity to absorb the secrets of one's employer's 

business; to learn for pay what he bought dearly, perhaps, 

after failure and an enormous expenditure of money and 

time, and, possibly, the shortening of his life in the process.

In keeping eyes and ears open, and mouth closed most of 

the time.

In indomitable perseverance, a determination which will 

never give up or retreat; in everlastingly pushing ahead 

whether one could see the goal or not.

In the right attitude towards life, towards one's work, towards 

everything and everybody.

In choosing one's company, associating only with people 

who were doing their best to get on and get up in the world.

In the consciousness of one's partnership with the All-Good, 

the All-Supply, with the Infinite Mind.

In learning, through mental chemistry, to neutralize the 

things which kill one's best efforts — fear, worry, anxiety, 

jealousy, envy, malice, touchiness, anger, and thus to keep 

one's mind free for the larger things.

Marden, Orison Swett. 7 BOOKS ON PROSPERITY & 

SUCCESS. (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 57) 

(Kindle Locations 2206-2241). Kindle Edition.

Awaken The Giant Within

Awaken The Giant Within

Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is called upon to consult and coach with some of the world's finest athletes, entertainers, Fortune 500 CEOs, and even presidents of nations.

This book is the powerhouse of motivation. The author discusses various topics of self improvement in details like

1.  The power of decision making

2.  The concept of NAC ( neuro - associative conditioning)

3.  The concept of CANI ! (Constant and Never Ending Improvement)

4.  The importance and impact of words, appropriate vocabulary in developing once character,

5.  Emotions and their impact and how to use them in self- empowerment.

Every section of this book contains various activities and sequential steps about how one can make a change in oneself.
Initially some people might find this book a bit boring as there is too much repetition of some concepts and anecdotes.

Dhriti Shandilya

Some excerpts….

Raise Your Standards: Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Location 136

Know that it's your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Location 686

The question is: which one of these beliefs is the true belief? The answer is that it doesn't matter which one is true. What matters is which one is most empowering.

Location 1289

  

Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer. So if you ask, "Why can't I ever succeed?," it will tell you—even if it has to make something up! It might come up with an answer like, "Because you're stupid," or "Because you don't deserve to do well anyway.

(Location 3038)

“It's not only the questions you ask, but the questions you fail to ask, that shape your destiny.”

Anthony Robbins

(Location  3376)

Be careful not to ask limited questions, or you'll receive limited answers. The only thing that limits your questions is your belief about what's possible. A core belief that has shaped my personal and professional destiny is that if I continue to ask any question, I will receive an answer. All we need to do is to create a better question, and we'll get a better answer.

(Location  3543)

Those people who focus on what they can't control are continually disempowered.

(Location  5797)

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Akashic Records

Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records – The Book of Life

Kevin J. Todeschi

 “For more than forty years of his adult life, Edgar Cayce was able to put himself into some kind of trance state and provide individuals with accurate information, called readings, in response to virtually any question. In this state he was able to perceive a source of information which he called the Akashic Records”.

It was while being connected to these records that all manner of information became available to him. Also called the ‘Book of Life’, this source was the compilation of every thought, word and deed that had occurred in space and time since the dawn of creation. And it enabled Cayce to give insights into an individual’s mission in life or a long-standing problem.

Rather than being simply a place, the readings emphasized that these records are everywhere. Everything from an individual’s qualities and imperfections to past lives and present conditions were somehow accessible. These same records were accessible by the subconscious mind, through dreams, through reveries, and through esoteric exercises.

Not only do the Akashic Records store, track and compile everything about every person in the history of the world, but they continually attempt to guide, educate and transform everyone to eventually become the very best that they can be.

Unfortunately rather than seeing that individuals are very much ‘cocreators’ in the unfoldment of their life journeys, too often reincarnation has been misinterpreted as a fatalistic journey, through experiences and relationships that belong to an individual because of her or his karma. With this approach, choices made in the past have somehow etched in stone the future and life is simply a process of going through the motions. This is definitely not the Cayce approach to reincarnation and karma in which each lifetime is one of nearly limitless opportunities. From his perspective, individuals are very much active participants in their life journeys and not simply sometime – reluctant observers.

Name of the Book:      Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records – The Book of Life

Author:                         Kevin J. Todeschi

Edition:                         18^th Printing, December  2011

Publisher:                     ARE Press, Virginia Beach, Virginia

For more excerpts from the book read the blog by Anand Wardhan Spiritual Essence