Lesson 20: New Beliefs (Part 3)

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OK, so picking up where I left off yesterday, I was about to reveal a crazy belief that I have recently accepted as true. Whether it is in reality true makes no difference--believing it serves me.

As I mentioned, despite the fact that we seem solid, we humans (and everything in our universe) are actually just spinning energy--and frankly it is somewhat of a miracle that we can even keep our shape.

Whether we consciously realize this or not, as we learned from Jill Bolte Taylor, there is a part of our brain (the right hemisphere) that knows this. The rest of our brain, however, believes the illusion that we are solid, and CONTINUES TO TRY TO PROVE ITSELF RIGHT. It is constantly looking for security and reassurance that we are solid, we are unique, and we are individual.

We are really just floating in space, but there is a part of us that keeps trying to hold on to something.

This is another thing that I learned from Jon Gabriel. He teaches that the reason people retain weight is because the body needs to feel safe. The body stores the fat because it believes that it needs it for protection. And so his program is designed to consistently send the message to the brain, "You're safe. You're OK."

From the moment we were born, we started making decisions about our universe--"Oh, when I do this, that happens!" We were born trying to "put it all together" and "figure it out." And every time we figured something out (good or bad), we breathed a sigh of relief--"Whew! OK, I got it. This I know." That belief (again, even if it limits our potential or makes us feel bad about ourselves) makes us feel secure. It makes us feel safe. It makes us feel solid.

That's why we hold our beliefs so tightly. That's why, as Beyond Freedom says, "we will evaluate and scrutinize practically every bit of information that passes in front of us. But, our beliefs are held sacred."

So if this is the case, how do we change them? How do we give up something that for so long has made us feel safe in a spinning universe? I'll have to write about that tomorrow.