Fear and Illness Are Best Friends

There are a lot of fears running through the idea of getting sick, injured, dying or losing someone in the family to one of those aspects. Thinking of illness or anything opposite of well being on a continual basis can literally destroy your body; this is because the mind is hard-wired from birth to put function to the information that is going through it. The mind comes pre-programmed by DNA to run and control particular parts of the body. The primary area is called the Limbic System (or Emotion Nervous System).

Let us focus in on the area of the brain known as the hypothalamus. It is one of the busiest parts of the brain. It balances the body and is responsible for regulating hunger, thirst, pain level responses, pleasure, sexual satisfaction, anger, aggressive behavior and plenty more. These areas had to come “installed from the factory” so to speak, so that the body could function rudimentarily as soon as it was born.

The hypothalamus does not come pre-programmed with illness, worries of illness, stress, panic, fear or self-loathing. Of course, the hypothalamus can regulate those things once they are added as a thought program by an outside source; but those principles are not inherent. With that in mind, you can see that the brain gives the body the precise instructions and tools it needs to survive and thrive. Only outside sources give the body what it needs to fail. The body will do exactly what the brain tells it to do. The brain will command only what it knows, as the body will carry out what is commanded of it. 

Once the mind learns of fear, the hypothalamus will try to regulate it into the body as a function to perform; except the body was not ever intended to regulate fear. But it tries the best that it can, and since the body is a vessel that is able to evolve somewhat, it does a pretty good job. However, the body will usually interpret the various levels of fear with various levels of physical responses. Remember that fear comes in all shapes and sizes; such as anxiety, stress, panic or others. Fear can cause hives, shingles, rashes, forgetfulness or many other physical conditions. Just a note, the hippocampus (where short term memory is processed into long term memory), is super close in proximity to the hypothalamus. It isn’t unreasonable to believe one could affect the other.

 

Look at the hypothalamus a little more deeply:

The hypothalamus receives inputs from a number of sources.

1.  From the vagus nerve, it gets information about blood pressure and the distension of the gut (that is, how full your stomach is).

2.  From the reticular formation in the brainstem, it gets information about skin temperature. 

3.  From the optic nerve, it gets information about light and darkness. 

4.  From unusual neurons lining the ventricles, it gets information about the contents of the cerebrospinal fluid, including toxins that lead to vomiting. 

5.  And from the other parts of the limbic system and the olfactory (smell) nerves, it gets information that helps regulate eating and sexuality. 

The hypothalamus also has some receptors of its own, that provide information about ion balance and temperature of the blood.  

Now this is not a biology lesson, but as you can see, these indigenous platforms in the brain control nearly everything you experience every moment of your life. So if you make any modifications to the cellular memory of the brain, which is where these DNA programs are stored, the brain will naturally include the new additions in its daily routine because the brain believes the new ideas are supposed to be there.

AND HERE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART:

The Body WILL Respond.

The body doesn’t recognize the difference between a good thought implant or a bad one. The body just executes the impulse from the brain that is sent to it. You see, in the beginning of your life, the mental programming was benign. You did not arrive on Earth with anything in your mind that works against you. These things are added later. If a baby was isolated and given only what it needed to survive, the brain would stay at its most basic, survival level until the end of its life. The brain would, in fact, shut down other areas of itself that were never stimulated. Thus, illustrating further that the brain does not produce new thoughts of its own volition; it cannot. It was never designed to. It receives and commands.

  

That is why thinking about, or inundating yourself with hostile, troubling, confusing, or fearful thoughts will only lead to undesirable outcomes from within the body. Cancer is the result of a body trying its best to formulate a response to what it has been given from the brain. The body was not designed to produce an outcome for fear on a long term basis, so cancer is often what arrives from the continual input of fear or its sub-parts. 

Keep in mind that cancer does not manifest overnight. Your brain is presented with fear over a length of time – sometimes a lifetime; so the brain in return gives it to the body as a function to perform, all the while, the hypothalamus is constantly attempting to return the body to homeostasis; that is a default state of balance.

Cancer cells are fought off by the body every day and the body is a champ at fighting; but even the body can wear down because chances are, if you are treating your brain in such a terrible way, you are probably treating your body in a similar way.

Along with feeding your mind the best possible thoughts, you must also feed your body the best possible foods so that it can have precisely what it needs to keep your body in balance. Just as bad thoughts confuse the mind, bad foods confuse the body’s natural state of balance.

To say it simply:

Cancer is a body-wide state of confusion.

- JB Lewis

A Little Conscious Training ...

How hard would it be to face a foreclosure on your home? Your spouse is worried sick about what will happen while you try to shield your children from what is really going on. How stressing is it to not bring in enough money to get caught up, because your job falls short or you are unemployed? 

It seems impossible to close your eyes and feel absolutely at peace about the entire calamity, doesn't it. And once you've engaged the roller-coaster of emotion that comes with those circumstances, and ridden that wave for months, it feels impossible to simply shut down the emotional peril and believe everything will be just fine somehow.

Perhaps you feel you just can't sit around and be at peace while your life falls apart.

But how far have you gotten living the way I have just described? Do you feel like your mind cannot stand one more piece of bad news? Can you literally feel the cancer cells of worry germinating somewhere within your body? Has worrying added one single support beam to the already crumbling structure of your existence?

The same can be said about any other conceivable circumstance; wrecking your car, the death of a loved one, or even just feeling depressed and not knowing why. These things well up inside of you without a remedy because your mind does not know how to process things as they really are. It may not have been given data on how to respond to these types of outcomes, so the brain remedies them as crises and becomes confused and panicked. 

REMEMBER: The mind only Knows what it has accepted as Truth.

Your mind is working off of the limited data that it has been using for years. Your mind, because of training, actually does not understand that the world it perceives is nothing more than an abstract reaction to what we have put into it. It does not know how to process world events in an abstract way. When cornered, or without sufficient data, the mind will process worldly events in your life as a direct attack, and go into fight or flight mode. That is, it struggles, hastily recalling anything it can from its past deliberations on how to solve the problem at hand. When all on-board resources are exhausted, the mind fatigues, and sometimes gives up.

But listen to this:

There will come a time during your crisis that you will realize that you simply are unable to produce the effect desired to make your life better. You will feel like an empty gas tank, running on fumes. This result is not because you are unqualified, or not intelligent enough to do it. It is not because you didn't work hard enough, or that you wronged someone in a previous life, and are now reaping bad karma. It is because you have taken life too personally, and as a result, skewed your perception of it.

Let me ask you this. Have you ever played a video game with multiple levels, only to get near the completion and fail? Did you become agitated, angry or frustrated because you have to start the level all over again, until at some point, a friend who has already played the game and won had to help you pass the level?
Your friend has already understood how to process the events and circumstances of the game that are being thrown their way. Well, life is like that – once you teach your conscious mind how to react to what comes its way, life will feel like it is no big deal. Everything will seem achievable, even in the midst of turmoil.

Understand that everything that has happened in your life was completely constructed by you. The things you've accumulated and the towers you've built are just inanimate objects. They are made of millions of pieces of wood, brick, steel or plastic. These things have no opinions. They have no ideas. They do not become angry or happy. They Do Not Have Minds. They are not out to get you. Your diamonds do not care if you toss them into the garbage, and your house will not be aware if you rip it to the ground.

These things seem obvious, but when life is falling down, visions become blurry. To shrink these monstrous problems back down to size, you must believe that your home, job, possessions and status mean absolutely nothing. You have to treat everything that is collapsing onto your head as an "easy come, easy go" situation. Yes, it all has to mean that little to you. Do not let your ego tell you that you've worked hard for all you have and that you are going to hold onto to it with all of the strength you can muster.

"How can I get to this point?" you may ask. I shall tell you. If you wish to place your mind in this frame of thinking quickly, imagine that you are only a few minutes from your death. That's right. Pretend that I just told you that you will die in the next five minutes. With this new knowledge, picture the things that really mean the most to you. Is it truly your house? Your car? The money you wish you had? Your prestige in the community?

You know you cannot take anything from your current life with you into the coffin, or the crematory. You will absolutely go your last mile with exactly what you arrived with - yourself. So why hold on so dearly to anything you’ve acquired? Are you leaving it all to your children? Are you attempting to create a legacy so you can be remembered?

Believe me, those who care enough to remember you, will. Your children will be their own adults and make their own way because they came to this physical world through you to experience their own choices. Your family is not unable to acquire their own things, so what are you doing?

I promise that if you lose all of your possessions, you will not die. If all that you think you are vanished before your very eyes, you will survive. That alone tells you that the things that are tearing your mind and heart apart right now are harmless artifacts. They are only as overwhelming as you allow them to be, because they have no power of their own. 

The secret is - you must find a way to let these things go. You must decide that they are worthless and suddenly you will not mind if they are absent from your life. You must absolutely be one hundred percent okay with having nothing; but in the process of not needing anything, you will find even more. This is not just a great perception, it is true. Teach your conscious mind that you do not care about possessions. Make your brain understand that you do not love material items, and that you were thinking of starting fresh anyway. Until you can walk away from the disaster that you created, and accept that you created it, you will be trapped under it.

“It isn’t my fault the economy failed,” you say. But it is your fault that you went to work in a field that was affected by the failing economy. No one forced you at gun point to work in that marketplace. Every choice you have made has put you here. The issue isn’t whether you could have foreseen an economic fluster in the beginning of your career. The issue is can you accept responsibility for all of the choices, for all of your life, from the very beginning that led to the outcomes you see before you now? You could have chosen something else all those years ago, and been virtually immune to Wall Street’s impositions.

Here is what you do now:

If recovering what you have built thus far is unrecoverable, let it go. It is important to understand that letting it go, and being okay with that decision, will open up new doors. When you let it go, and do not want to have a panic heart-attack, you must believe that everything will benefit you somehow. You may be blind to what is around the corner for you and your family, but when you feel as peaceful about the unknowing as you did when you thought you knew everything, you will have unleashed your power.

Do not allow your mind to feed on doubts. Remember that your mind is working with what it does not know, so it will naturally be doubtful. Your peace of mind has to come from another place – your Soul. Tell yourself that everything you need will arrive – be at peace with telling yourself that – and then mentally let it go.

Take in a deep breath. You are almost there.

The Key To The Mind ...

It’s easy to falsely validate fears if you use the same literature for validation that introduced the fear to you in the first place. To investigate the things you question by that method will always yield the same result, making things seem true, no matter how the data is spun. The only way to find out if something metaphysical or spiritual is true would be to question it through meditation. The only way to visit a non-physical realm, while using a physical body, is through the mind, via a deep sleep state, coma, or near-death-experience, or meditation where the conscious mind is relaxed enough not to reject new intuitions. It will be during the meditative state that the subconscious can apply new data, since the cognitive areas of the conscious mind that have been trained to reject such information, will be subdued or even paralyzed, temporarily. 

If you are new to meditation, it is not a magic trick or witch doctor voodoo. It is a non-invasive, peaceful way to put your thinking mind to sleep, while continuing to be aware of your surroundings. The subconscious part of your mind is where all of your core beliefs are retained. The conscious part of your mind is where those core beliefs are processed and put into practice. The subconscious mind is simply a storehouse; it does not decide what data will be kept there. It simply retains. The conscious mind is the guardian of the subconscious and rejects or accepts new data based off of the information already stored in the subconscious.

That is why religious beliefs are so hard to shake or disbelieve as an adult. Those stories, whether of Heaven or Hell, were embedded in most of us as children when our subconscious minds were fresh, containing no previous data on the subject of religion. We accepted it because the conscious mind already had a few things programmed. First, we trusted the ones unconditionally that gave us the information, and we had no other data to compare what we were being told to. 

We had no reason not to believe it. But as adults, when we are given new data that the conscious mind determines is a contradiction to the current data stored in the subconscious, the data is rejected as false. The only way to reprogram your subconscious is to circumvent the conscious, since the conscious mind only knows what is given it from some other source.

Let me remind you – the conscious brain does not create new thought. It is a processor. The conscious brain formulates, calculates, processes, re-processes, re-directs and evaluates all new data against stored data. However, the conscious mind does not store information; it only processes. Hence, whatever is retained in the subconscious is what you will believe. That is why no matter what an adult is told, and no matter how convincing the evidence is, they will not believe it unless it does not clash with current standards of belief.

So, in order to learn to control your mental processes, it helps to know where all new spiritual data comes from; and that is the Soul. The Soul feeds everything you will ever need to know straight through your mind and into the subconscious. Your Soul has the override key to bypass the conscious guardian, and the conscious mind is none the wiser. The conscious then pulls the new data from the storehouse as if it has always been there and considers it true.

At that point, you can hear a spiritual speaker, see a book about the Soul, or even have someone tell you that Hell isn’t real, and your conscious mind will be accepting of it. The only clash will be that there is still the older data that was planted there when you were a child that contradicts the new data. This confuses the conscious mind because of the conflict, but because your Soul personally implanted the new data, it too is trusted, making your journey to explore and expand your mind even that much easier; which was the plan of your Soul all along, once more revealing that the Soul is in charge and can always have its way. Why do you think you are reading this now?

Now you may ask how one erases the original data if you do not want it in your storehouse any longer. Think of it in terms of a hard drive in a computer. The best way to overwrite old material is to continuously record new material over it. Do this again and again until the old stuff is a distant memory. Overwrite it until it no longer feels true for you. You will not have to force the overwrite, because when the Soul is making a change, all of the new material you need for the process will automatically pour through you.

You will notice the same happenings will continue to arrive on the scene in your life. A song with a specific message will be everywhere, or television shows will be covering a certain topic that will seem to come out of nowhere. Or perhaps, people will come into your life with all of the tools you need to accomplish that one thing that keeps popping up. An unaware mind will believe these happenings to be coincidence; this will be the case until the realization comes that there are no coincidences, and that your life is happening very much on purpose.

Just Be You ...

It is alright if you don't yet know what your purpose in life is, because your Soul does. This knowledge of the Soul is kept from the physical mind so that the experiences to be had remain unfiltered by the uncertainty and fear that has been built into the mind.

There is nothing that the Soul does not know; it is not subject to the limited view of the body - but this news is not shared with your physical brain because the purity of the experiences would change.

Even though your mind is left in the dark, do not worry. There is nothing you need to pursue in order to figure out what your purpose is. Life will pursue you, if you allow it.

May I remind you that you absolutely cannot stop life from happening. Even if you sit on a couch in complete ignorance of the world around you, life will still come for you. Just because your brain is unaware of a purpose, does not mean the world is void of you.

The best thing you can do in this unaware moment is to simply be yourself. That is, whoever you feel that you are at your core, just keep being that. I don't mean you should keep being a student, a lawyer or a housewife. Those are just titles. Who you are is what you feel when you take all of the descriptions away. Be That!

And keep being that because life is coming for you. It always has been and always will be.

Trust me, your Spirit knows precisely what it is doing, although your physical mind does not. If you trust nothing else, trust that your Spirit is taking you right where your next, grandest experience will be. After all, if you can't trust you - who can you trust?

- JB Lewis