Your Beautiful Mind 3rd Edition

November 2005
YOUR BEAUTIFUL MIND
Transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary!

It is easy to be inspired by people's acts of genius. What is not commonly acknowledged is that those that win Nobel prizes and labeled geniuses carry the same brain, equal in potential to you and I. Yet even they are only using a fraction of their mental power - and we perhaps a fraction less.

In the First Edition we looked at how thoughts and beliefs are formed in the brain demonstrating that many ideas and concepts we take for granted have been taught and can easily be untaught. It was suggested that intelligence was about being open minded to all possibilities and the more flexible we could be with our views, the more capable we would become at creative problem solving and avoiding obstacles in the first place.

In the Second Edition, we look at how our belief systems shape the ways we perceive reality. Looking at the amazing perception capabilities of animals showed that many realities exist outside our ability of sensing them. We too often dismiss possibilities simply because we are not perceiving them at the time. The key message in this edition was to begin seeking to expand our perception range.

This was going to be made possible by ceasing to churn out the same thoughts from the same beliefs that predetermined our perception range. Exercises were suggested that would allow you to hold your focus on goals and new experiences that would begin the process of expanding your perception.

We now turn our attention to the incredible and liberating discovery linking perception with our DNA and how this proves we are responsible for our health and success.

Decoding our DNA Potential
What is interesting about animal perception ranges is that the Human Genome Project is proving we can develop these types of abilities from our own DNA. Science has proved that we only use about 3% of our DNA housed in the nucleus of every cell of our body. It is rumored that Professor Sam Chang and Dr. Mussaelian from The Human Genome Project is decrypting the unused DNA codes and have found that they are all genes without the active instruction code added called the alu sequence. The remaining unused 97% offers an incredible potential of genetic expression linked with health including stopping cancers and evolving our biological abilities including expanding our perception.

What would happen to our decision-making when we gain the ability to perceive more of what is going on? Why can animals see, hear and sense more than us? DNA Research is discovering we can have these abilities because we carry them within our DNA, but why we currently do not express these abilities is being debated. So far there is a link between our beliefs and what genes are expressed in our bodies.

Thoughts Transform into a Holographic Reality
Thoughts are energy directed to a destiny determined by the beliefs held by sets of neurons. The first law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, merely transformed from one form to another. Combine this with Albert Einstein’s discovery that energy is interchangeable with solid mass (E=MC2)* and we can summise that thoughts can transform into other forms, including physical reality.

Just like a burning log transforms to heat, light, sound (crackling) and minerals (carbon etc) and how a gaseous substance like vapour can turn into water and then become solid ice. It is common to hear people these days debate the possibility that our thoughts create reality, but embracing the scientific proof makes it a much credible and easier proposition to entertain.

Therefore, whatever we think, begins its journey of changing form, from thought to molecules of emotion to physical reality. Like computer software programs that project a two dimensional reality unto a screen, our millions of neuron patterned thoughts become our programmed blueprint of reality, powered through the electrical impulses that project a 3 dimensional hologram within and around us that we view as reality.

A great analogy of this concept is the green numbers cascading downwards in the Matrix movie when Neo became aware of the programmed reality he is in. Notice how he could predict and manipulate it once he could see it was simply a program?

Many ideas held by thought patterns contain beliefs that place an expectation of what will happen in the future. Projected from the brain, the ideas in the form of unique signatures are transformed from high thought frequencies to lower physical frequencies. Finally, through the senses we experience an environment that is in phase with our idea signatures, in the form of beliefs and expectations.

Dr Bruce Lipton (Cell Biologist, Author of Biology Of Belief) has also proved that these beliefs also determine what is decoded for genetic expression. Lipton has conclusively proven that perception determines genetic expression, contrary to the previously misguided assumption that genes are the command center of the cell and body. This is what the medical profession’s model is based on. In a dramatic shift, our mind, body and environment are aligned so we can think and feel what we believe and stress is something linked to our belief systems, not the external world.

Where do Beliefs Originate?
We are taught what to believe and do not develop our full level of consciousness until we reach the age of 12. By then, all the ideologies of our parents, role models, schools and society, their actions, how they handle challenges and insecurities end up shaping how we should perceive. We learned our fundamental beliefs about life through this conditioning and we were also made to belief that they were absolute.

When these beliefs are expressed inwardly or outwardly, they are called our attitudes. We only have to look among our family, friends and work colleagues to see differences of beliefs. Looking outside of our country and culture shows how diverse beliefs can be. In knowing how they formed we know that they can be changed. When we change what we believe, our perception and how we feel is impacted greatly.

Auditing our Beliefs
Understanding how beliefs generate the thoughts that shape our reality encourages responsible thinking and a conscious desire to audit our beliefs! It is important to challenge our perception before we defend it if we want to constantly grow wiser. Wisdom does not come from proving we are right, it comes from evolving our perception, which changes the way we respond to situations that previously resulted in undesirable outcomes. Auditing our beliefs should be triggered each time we have an undesirable experience because beliefs are the cause of the experienced effect.

Dr. S. Lupien of Montreal's McGill University studied brain scans of 92 senior citizens over a period of 15 years. She found the brains of those with a negative self-esteem became 20% smaller than those who felt good about themselves. These people also performed significantly far worse in memory and learning tests.

Dr Lupien believes those with a negative mind set could reverse their mental decline. Most of today's neuroscientists agree and this is proving that if we want the quality of our lives to change, then addressing our belief systems is the key. The reasons why we see a glass half empty, full or contaminated ought to be explored and understood.

Positive and Negative Thinking
People shout, “be positive!” and “positive thinking will make you happy”. We have all heard or said it many times – yet trying to be positive means we are firing thoughts that confirm we have reason to need to be positive; as if the negative is chasing us! Perhaps the answer is not about being positive because without negative, positive would lose its meaning.

It seems forming a thought pattern that does not entertain a reality that is not desired is the key, rather than maintaining beliefs that create undesirable experiences and not being aware they are the reason for the negativity and positivity.

For example, if we are attempting to be positive at work because there is so much negative vibes from an uncooperative work colleague, we are better to address the belief that makes us perceive our work colleague’s mood and is negative. If we ignore their and just try to be happy, then the causes will continue to affect us until the stress cannot be ignored.

Identifying what is causing you stress does not make you negative, it prepares you to deal with it so that it does not continue. Ignoring the stress and thinking you are being positive by pushing away only serves to magnify the problem until there is nowhere left to run.