"Mind Over Matter" - Learn How To Use This Principle In Healing
Everything is energy, whether you can perceive it or not.
The stuff around you is energy (chairs, TV, computers, food, etc).
Your thoughts are also energy.
The difference between the matter you can perceive and the energy you can't see and/or touch is in the frequency of vibration.
Low frequencies (i.
e.
slow vibration) are characteristic of dense matter, whereas thoughts have higher vibratory frequencies.
The bodymind is a bundle of energies with different vibratory rate.
The physical body (muscles, ligaments, connective tissue, etc.
) has slow vibratory rate, hence it falls within the range of the human perception.
Chakras, meridians and acupuncture points, on the other hand, represent faster vibratory frequencies and thus fall outside of the range of our perception.
The endocrine system is somewhere in-between.
Although the human body represents a big spectrum of vibratory frequencies, roughly we can distinguish between five different levels to the bodymind: • Bliss Body (the highest level) • Supramental Body • Mental Body • Vital Body • Physical body (the lowest level) The Physical Body, the lowest level, is obviously the human anatomy - the bits and pieces you can touch and see and that hurt when you injure them.
The next level up is the Vital Body which is represented by the chakras, meridians and other similar energies.
Next up we have the Mental Body, the Supramental Body, and finally the Bliss Body at the top - these represent the mind in its various states (conscious, unconscious, superconscious, etc).
Quantum physics argues in favour of the principle of "Downward Causation".
Applied to the five levels above, this principle states that the cause for manifestation at any given level is found at a higher level.
Thus, the Bliss Body (i.
e.
higher consciousness) is at the root of the cause for manifestation of the physical body.
Another way of saying that is "Mind Over Matter".
Thus, "Mind over Matter" is the popular version of the quantum principle of Downward Causation.
From this principle it follows that when the mind is healthy, the body will be healthy.
When the mind is sick, the body will also be sick.
Given the principle of Downward Causation, it follows that when you do a treatment on a certain level, you can influence the health at all of the lower levels of the bodymind.
For instance, if you treat the Vital Body, you will also help heal the Physical Body because the former is causing the latter.
Given Downward Causation it also follows that in order for a treatment to be effective, it has to touch at least two levels of the bodymind (because the cause for an imbalance at any given level is always located at a higher level).
Thus, working on the Physical Body often results in temporary healing because what's causing the physical imbalance is by definition somewhere on the higher levels.
Conventional medicine and various medications mainly aim to heal the Physical Body.
Such treatments give us mostly symptomatic relief and can almost never deal with the primary cause for disease.
Therapies like Acupuncture and Reiki, on the other hand, are aimed to treat the Vital Body.
Therefore, they can bring about longer lasting healing of the Physical Body since they are dealing with more causative factors.
Some sophisticated forms of counselling and psychotherapy work on the Mental Body and by extension can bring about changes in the Vital as well as the Physical Body - this makes them even more effective.
According to quantum physicist Amit Goswami from What The Bleep Do We Know, the only therapy at present that uses quantum principles and works on the Supramental Body is BodyTalk PaRama.
The Bliss Body cannot be treated at present and possibly doesn't need any treatment to begin with.
So whether you want to be scientific and talk about "Downward Causation" or stick to the old "Mind Over Matter", the message is the same - subtle, higher vibratory energies (i.
e.
mind) are the cause for manifestation of denser, slower vibratory energies (i.
e.
matter).
Therefore, if you want to heal the cause for a physical imbalance, you need to approach the mind.
To do that, energy medicine is your best bet.
It may take longer but it will be more effective in the long term.
Of course in case of emergencies, by all means use allopathic medicine - it can do wonders in the short term and it still plays a very important role in our life (if we didn't need it, it wouldn't exist).
Long term though, use a form of energy healing or integrative medicine (Auyrveda, Reiki, Acupuncture, Psych-K, NLP, BodyTalk, etc.
).
Such therapies can help you heal existing ailments effectively.
But more importantly they are also great preventative healthcare because you will be able to address imbalances on the subtler (more difficult to perceive) levels before they manifest on the physical level.
The stuff around you is energy (chairs, TV, computers, food, etc).
Your thoughts are also energy.
The difference between the matter you can perceive and the energy you can't see and/or touch is in the frequency of vibration.
Low frequencies (i.
e.
slow vibration) are characteristic of dense matter, whereas thoughts have higher vibratory frequencies.
The bodymind is a bundle of energies with different vibratory rate.
The physical body (muscles, ligaments, connective tissue, etc.
) has slow vibratory rate, hence it falls within the range of the human perception.
Chakras, meridians and acupuncture points, on the other hand, represent faster vibratory frequencies and thus fall outside of the range of our perception.
The endocrine system is somewhere in-between.
Although the human body represents a big spectrum of vibratory frequencies, roughly we can distinguish between five different levels to the bodymind: • Bliss Body (the highest level) • Supramental Body • Mental Body • Vital Body • Physical body (the lowest level) The Physical Body, the lowest level, is obviously the human anatomy - the bits and pieces you can touch and see and that hurt when you injure them.
The next level up is the Vital Body which is represented by the chakras, meridians and other similar energies.
Next up we have the Mental Body, the Supramental Body, and finally the Bliss Body at the top - these represent the mind in its various states (conscious, unconscious, superconscious, etc).
Quantum physics argues in favour of the principle of "Downward Causation".
Applied to the five levels above, this principle states that the cause for manifestation at any given level is found at a higher level.
Thus, the Bliss Body (i.
e.
higher consciousness) is at the root of the cause for manifestation of the physical body.
Another way of saying that is "Mind Over Matter".
Thus, "Mind over Matter" is the popular version of the quantum principle of Downward Causation.
From this principle it follows that when the mind is healthy, the body will be healthy.
When the mind is sick, the body will also be sick.
Given the principle of Downward Causation, it follows that when you do a treatment on a certain level, you can influence the health at all of the lower levels of the bodymind.
For instance, if you treat the Vital Body, you will also help heal the Physical Body because the former is causing the latter.
Given Downward Causation it also follows that in order for a treatment to be effective, it has to touch at least two levels of the bodymind (because the cause for an imbalance at any given level is always located at a higher level).
Thus, working on the Physical Body often results in temporary healing because what's causing the physical imbalance is by definition somewhere on the higher levels.
Conventional medicine and various medications mainly aim to heal the Physical Body.
Such treatments give us mostly symptomatic relief and can almost never deal with the primary cause for disease.
Therapies like Acupuncture and Reiki, on the other hand, are aimed to treat the Vital Body.
Therefore, they can bring about longer lasting healing of the Physical Body since they are dealing with more causative factors.
Some sophisticated forms of counselling and psychotherapy work on the Mental Body and by extension can bring about changes in the Vital as well as the Physical Body - this makes them even more effective.
According to quantum physicist Amit Goswami from What The Bleep Do We Know, the only therapy at present that uses quantum principles and works on the Supramental Body is BodyTalk PaRama.
The Bliss Body cannot be treated at present and possibly doesn't need any treatment to begin with.
So whether you want to be scientific and talk about "Downward Causation" or stick to the old "Mind Over Matter", the message is the same - subtle, higher vibratory energies (i.
e.
mind) are the cause for manifestation of denser, slower vibratory energies (i.
e.
matter).
Therefore, if you want to heal the cause for a physical imbalance, you need to approach the mind.
To do that, energy medicine is your best bet.
It may take longer but it will be more effective in the long term.
Of course in case of emergencies, by all means use allopathic medicine - it can do wonders in the short term and it still plays a very important role in our life (if we didn't need it, it wouldn't exist).
Long term though, use a form of energy healing or integrative medicine (Auyrveda, Reiki, Acupuncture, Psych-K, NLP, BodyTalk, etc.
).
Such therapies can help you heal existing ailments effectively.
But more importantly they are also great preventative healthcare because you will be able to address imbalances on the subtler (more difficult to perceive) levels before they manifest on the physical level.
