recent studies show that just an hour of focused concentration on any one subject doubles the number of connections in your brain related to that subject. The same research tells us that if you don’t repeat, review, or think about what you’ve learned, those circuits prune apart within hours or days. Thus, if learning is making new synaptic connections, remembering is maintaining those connections.
The more you know what you’re doing and why, the easier the how gets.
And when you can align your behaviors with your intentions, make your actions equal to your thoughts, or get your mind and body working together, you are going to have a new experience.
That means the instant you feel freedom, abundance, gratitude, wholeness, or joy from that novel event, now you’re teaching your body chemically to understand what your mind has intellectually understood.
And since all genes make proteins and proteins are responsible for the structure and function of your body (the expression of proteins is the expression of life), you are literally changing your genetic destiny. This suggests that it’s quite possible your body can be healed.
I’m talking about healing from diseases or imbalances of the body as well as the mind; creating a better life by consciously directing energy and attention into a new future—the manifestation of new jobs, new relationships, new opportunities, and new adventures—equal to our ability to imagine it; and initiating mystical experiences that literally transcend language.
It makes sense that when the synchronicities, coincidences, and new opportunities appear in your life, you’ll pay attention to what you have been doing and it should inspire you to do it again. That’s how you go from being the victim in your life to being the creator of your life.
Science and metaphysics are generally considered to be polar opposites. Science is experimental, practical, rigorous, empirical, materialistic, objective, and intellectual. Metaphysics is spiritual, experiential, abstract, mystical, ephemeral, internal, irreplicable, imprecise, subjective, otherworldly, impractical, and impossible to prove. Science studies the world of matter while metaphysics seeks to transcend it.
Albert Einstein said: “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.” When we begin to “free ourselves from this prison,” as Einstein phrased it, then we expand our consciousness to “embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.” Our consciousness interacts with the energy of the universe.
The way we use that consciousness—the way we direct our awareness—produces profound and immediate changes in the atoms and molecules of our bodies. Science also shows us that our consciousness affects the material reality around us. As our consciousness changes, so changes the world.
You’ll discover that you are a potent creator, and that your thoughts lead to things. You’ll learn how to use your mind deliberately, as a creative tool, to think nurturing thoughts. You’ll understand how you can nudge material reality effortlessly toward your desires. You’ll grasp just how powerful you really are and how capable you are of creating change by simply changing your mind.
As they say in The Big Short, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Most of what science knew, as recorded in the biology textbooks of Mrs. Hughes’s day, like the static brain, just ain’t so.
build a brain that’s habituated to process the signals of love, peace, and happiness.
Your body’s electromagnetic field extends about five yards or meters from your body. When you’re five meters away from another person, your field begins interacting with their field. The two of you might be saying nothing, yet your energy fields are shaping each other in an invisible dance of communication (Frey, 1993).
However, like antennae, microtubules are hollow. They are long cylinders. This property allows them to resonate, like a drum. And like antennae, their structure makes them capable of receiving signals from energy fields (Hameroff & Penrose, 1996). Microtubule signaling has been proposed as a method by which the body’s complex systems are coordinated among trillions of cells (Oschman, 2015).
Genius inventor Nikola Tesla is often quoted as saying, “If you wish to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
People who don’t believe in the possibility of healing, like the skeptical grad students, introduce the nocebo effect into their work.
Energy medicine programs such as those offered by Bill and Donna now show that healing is a skill that can be taught. Case studies written by their students include patients who have recovered from serious conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and autoimmune diseases.
The list excludes methods such as acupuncture and EFT (emotional freedom techniques) because these have their own online databases. Nonetheless, there are over 600 studies on the list.
When you change your mind, sending new signals through the neural pathways of your brain, altering the energy fields all around you, interacting with the fields of others, you have no idea how far the effect might travel.
One of the characteristics common to best-selling authors is a focus on creation. They are much more interested in producing information than consuming it.
Even though she was healthy, smart, and financially set for life, her mind was consumed by worry. She attuned her consciousness to the bad stuff, like a vacuum cleaner sucking in garbage. Filling her mind with problems led to a mind filled with garbage. The places to which she turned her attention led to Delilah’s immersion in the energy field of bad news. Conditioned by her consciousness, her brain was busy growing the neural circuits of stress.
That’s the risk you take when you’re a consumer of information rather than a producer. When the flow of information is from the outside in, you hold your consciousness hostage to the consciousness of the people producing the information. When the container of your mind is being filled with unhappy input, it’s hard to maintain a happy state.
Musk’s mind-set is relentlessly positive, whatever the challenge. His mind has been the source of multiple game-changing material realities.
PUTTING THESE IDEAS INTO PRACTICE Activities to practice this week: As soon as you wake up in the morning, place your hand over your heart and feel love. Buy a journal. Write down a list of your intentions. What are 10 things that would transform your life? Breathe and send healing intentions to someone who is sick. Make a donation of 10 percent of your next paycheck to a charity dedicated to social change.
The Extended Play version of this chapter includes: An audio interview with Bill Bengston, Ph.D. Stanford marshmallow experiment video and full story A full list of conditions improved by energy therapies Women whose inventions changed the world To access the Extended Play version, visit: MindToMatter.club/Chapter1
How Energy Builds Matter
Each cell of your body has its own unique electromagnetic field. The molecules of which your cells are built also have fields. Electromagnetism is central to the processes of biology.
Burr’s huge insight was that fields weren’t just produced by living organisms, but that fields created matter, providing lines of force around which matter could arrange itself into atoms, molecules, and cells.
For instance, when you cut your finger and your skin regrows, the field provides the blueprint around which the new cells organize themselves.
Energy is not an epiphenomenon of matter; energy is organizing matter.
Cancer was showing up in the field of energy before it showed up in the cells of matter.
Energy fields form the templates around which matter condenses. Change the field and you change matter.
He also reviewed research showing that the energy fields of a healer’s hands can change how fast cellular enzymes catalyze and, in red blood corpuscles, increase the content of hemoglobin, the compound that carries oxygen to our cells.
I wrote the most recent edition of the handbook describing the method, The EFT Manual, to make the version of EFT used in studies more widely available (Church, 2013).
EFT uses some simple elements drawn from talk therapy but adds the ingredient of tapping on acupoints. It takes less than a minute to tap through them all, and psychological distress usually diminishes immediately.
“What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.” We can choose to remain materialists. Faced with imbalances in our lives, disturbances in our emotions, and diseases in our bodies, we can look for material solutions like pills or surgery or recreational drugs to make us feel better. We can also choose the path of energy. When people change energetically, matter follows right along. Faced with the inevitable challenges of being human, we can take Einstein’s advice and shift the E side of the equation.
As we free our attention from fascination with matter, we perceive the intelligence innate in energy. Shifting to the level of detached consciousness opens us to the infinite possibilities contained in the nonlocal field of infinite intelligence.
PUTTING THESE IDEAS INTO PRACTICE Activities to practice this week: Sing for at least a few minutes each day when you’re alone. Experience water deeply. Take a walk by a body of water, enjoy a bath, splash in a fountain. Notice the ripples and reflections. Before you drink a glass of water, hold it to your heart and radiate blessing toward it. Use sound consciously. For the entire week, fast from all music other than meditation music channels. Write your observations of your experiences of sound and water in your journal.
The Extended Play version of this chapter includes: Studies of life-forms able to detect electromagnetic fields Best cymatics videos The sound patterns of Ernst Chladni Sound healing case histories Dawson’s galvanometer video Water memory videos Professor Rustum Roy’s presentation on the changes in the properties of water To access the Extended Play version, visit: MindToMatter.club/Chapter2
How Our Emotions Organize Our Environment
A brain producing lots of gamma waves reflects complex neural organization and heightened awareness. When monks were asked to meditate on compassion, large flares of gamma were found in their brains (Davidson & Lutz, 2008).
The slowest frequency is delta. Delta is characteristic of deep sleep. Very high amplitudes of delta are also found in people who are in touch with nonlocal mind, even when they’re wide awake. The brains of meditators, intuitives, and healers have much more delta than normal.
“The awakening of awareness is like gradually awakening from sleep and becoming more and more vividly aware of everyday reality—only it’s everyday reality from which we are awakening!”
I developed a meditation method called EcoMeditation that’s very simple, yet it’s consistently and automatically able to bring people into the Awakened Mind EEG pattern. EcoMeditation uses EFT tapping to clear obstacles to relaxation.
It does not rely on belief or philosophy; instead, it’s based on sending the body physiological cues that produce a deeply relaxed state automatically. The instructions are free at EcoMeditation.com.
Those in a creative trance, such as a composer making music or a child at play, usually have lots of delta. They lose all awareness of the outer world as they become absorbed in their creativity. They’re mostly in delta, with some theta and alpha, and just enough beta to function (Gruzelier, 2009).
When we’re in a state of bliss, our brains show the Awakened Mind pattern. A step beyond, they can also move to a symmetrical pattern Cade called the Evolved Mind. As our consciousness is filled with love, our brains function very differently, with large amounts of theta and delta, plus an alpha bridge to connect our conscious with our subconscious mind.
When mind changes, it creates molecular facts in the form of these neurotransmitters. As they flood our brains, we feel satisfied, secure, bonded, blissful, and serene. When our minds enter elevated emotional states, we’re literally getting high—on drugs produced by our bodies.
Indian saint Ramakrishna (1836–1886) would go into states of bliss that lasted for hours at a time. His body became stiff, and he became so absorbed in his transcendent experience that he was unaware of his surroundings. When he emerged from meditation, he was often unable to speak for a while. Once, after regaining the power of speech, he described seeing a light like a million suns. A luminous form emerged from the light, took human shape, then reintegrated with the light.
When we meditate, tap, use another form of energy psychology, or otherwise shift our consciousness, the brain changes quickly. The brain can be intentionally changed by the mind, especially by what is known as attention training (Schwartz & Begley, 2002). True transformation repatterns neural pathways. Eventually, the entire state of the brain shifts and establishes a new and healthy level of homeostasis.
U.S. Navy SEALs need to operate effectively in rapidly changing combat conditions. Using millions of dollars of advanced EEG equipment in a “Mind Gym” specially constructed in Norfolk, Virginia, they learn to enter a state they call ecstasis (Cohen, 2017). Once they “flip the switch” into ecstasis, their brains are in a state of flow, an altered reality in which super-performance becomes possible. Other peak performers, such as elite courtroom lawyers, Olympic athletes, and Google executives, also train themselves to enter ecstasis.
You truly are at the crossroads at this very minute. Which direction will you choose? My mission in this book is to encourage you to say, “I know I have greatness in me, and I’m determined to express it fully!”
The longest personality study ever conducted, however, shows that our personalities can change beyond recognition over the course of our lives (Harris, Brett, Johnson, & Deary, 2016).
Their thoughts and emotions are affecting us too—at the subconscious and unconscious levels. Prior research has shown that brains synchronize when sharing information. When one person speaks while another listens, the brain regions active in the speaker light up in the listener too.
When we observe others being touched, our brains light up in the same way as if we were being touched (Schaefer, Heinze, & Rotte, 2012). That’s because our brains contain mirror neurons that echo the sensations we’re observing. These mirror neurons even fire in sympathy with facial expressions and tones of voice, indicating that we are very sensitive to both verbal and nonverbal emotional cues provided by those around us.
This study found that one person’s happiness can boost that of another for time periods as long as a year. When a person in the Framingham social network became happy, the chances that a neighbor, spouse, sibling, or friend would become happy increased up to 34 percent. Living within a mile of a friend who became happy increased a participant’s chance of happiness by 25 percent.
2013). When the frequency of our consciousness is love, we naturally connect with others who resonate with that shared energy field.
Matter is changed by mind. Many studies show that meditators have higher volumes of brain tissue, better sleep, fewer diseases, increased immunity, enhanced emotional health, reduced inflammation, slower aging, increased intercellular communication, balanced neurotransmitters, greater longevity, and less stress.
When you practice mindfulness meditation for just three months, you start to grow your telomeres (Jacobs et al., 2011). Research I’ve done at Joe Dispenza’s advanced workshops shows that thousands of people are routinely able to increase their levels of delta and gamma
During my EcoMeditation retreats, on the first morning, we teach people to attain these peak states. It isn’t hard if you have the right combination of signals to the body. At first, it takes about four minutes to drop into the recipe. By the afternoon session, participants can do it in 90 seconds. They feel wonderful and think they’ve arrived in heaven every time they close their eyes and start meditating. Yet that brain wave state is just the beginning. We then train them to evoke the magic recipe with their eyes open, at first in the meditation room. Once they become stable in the EcoMeditation state in that safe location, we start sending them into the environment outside.
Smile at strangers today. Thank people who help you in stores. Do an unexpectedly nice thing for someone close to you. Write a brief letter or e-mail to someone you love and send it to them. Listen to EcoMeditation on your mobile device as you walk, run, or exercise. The Extended Play version of this chapter includes: Brain scan videos The database of energy healing research Audio interviews with EEG neurofeedback
That’s the double bind in which we live. Our inner critics give us hell regardless of which choice we make. When I was writing inside the condo, my inner critic savaged me for not enjoying the beach. As soon as I went outside, it began lambasting me for not writing.
A study of psychologically normal people found that they had about 4,000 distinct thoughts each day. Of those, between 22 percent and 31 percent were unwanted and uncontrollable intrusive thoughts, while 96 percent of them were repetitive thoughts about daily activities (Klinger, 1996).
We measured their levels of psychological distress before and after a one-day EFT tapping workshop.
As I watched clients sigh and relax after EFT tapping sessions, I wondered what might be happening invisibly, inside their bodies, to their stress hormones.
Mental coherence is similar. When our brain waves are coherent, the quality of thought they produce is focused and efficient. We can turn our attention to problems, focus on them, and solve them.
When our brains are not coherent, we aren’t able to think clearly. We’re afflicted by “brain fog,” and our wooly brains can’t think clearly. When we’re upset, problems seem opaque, we’re easily confused, and our cognitive abilities plummet.
Come into coherence, however, and your resources come online. Like the laser pointing at the moon, you’re able to perform inspired long-range planning. You think clearly about problems, you focus on your goals, your imagination is unlocked, and your creativity soars. That’s the power of a coherent mind.
These 50 separate experiments showed that Dr. Yan could lower the radioactive decay rate by 11.3 percent and raise it by up to 9.5 percent in the 20-minute course of the experiments. It normally takes 432 years for americium to decay, a rate of only 0.0006 percent per day, so the passage of time could not explain the results.
This research suggests that at least two of the four fundamental laws of physics—electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force—can be altered by a coherent mind holding healing intentions.
If you expect something to happen, you’re more likely to perceive it happening.
replication didn’t make much of a dent in their confidence in science. Their belief remained strong. Most still trust published papers. They’re much more optimistic than they might be expected to be, based on the data: “Seventy-three percent said that they think that at least half of the papers in their field can be trusted, with physicists and chemists generally showing the most confidence”
Scientists are believers, especially in their own work. They cannot separate mind from matter.
matter. Change mind, and matter changes right along with it.
In The Intention Experiment, her book about large international experiments that gauge the effect of human intention on physical matter, Lynne McTaggart states that the observer effect implies that “living consciousness is somehow central to this process of transforming the unconstructed quantum world into something resembling everyday reality,” and that “reality is not fixed, but fluid, and hence possibly open to influence” (McTaggart, 2007). According to Bill Bengston, “This suggests that human consciousness, individually and collectively, produces what we call ‘reality’”
We explore the potential of our lives found in the expansive awareness of nonlocal mind. We perceive ways in which the world can change that we simply don’t see when stuck in a noncoherent personal reality field. The observer effect demonstrates that reality is plastic. Bringing the power of coherent mind to our experience, our perception creates events that are extraordinary. In my own life, I find it easy to get sucked into the conventional view that “facts are facts” and that the outside world just is the way it is. To correct this tendency, I practice framing my experiences, good or bad, in ways that support my goals. When I’m acting with awareness, I use my mind to create and maintain a “reality field” that is congruent with what I want.
Activities to practice this week: Continue to practice EcoMeditation for at least 10 minutes each morning and evening. Touch the people in your household every day deliberately. This can be: An encouraging squeeze on the shoulder A pat on the back A longer hug than usual
In your journal, take a look at the entries for the past few weeks. Do you notice any synchronicities? Mark them with
Human emotions, behavior, health, and cognitive function are all affected by solar and geomagnetic fields (Halberg, Cornélissen, McCraty, Czaplicki, & Al-Abdulgader, 2011). Earth’s field is hypothesized to be a “carrier of biologically relevant information that connects all living systems” (McCraty, 2015).
Rollin McCraty, director of research at HeartMath, says, “We’re all like little cells in the bigger Earth brain—sharing information at a subtle, unseen level that exists between all living systems, not just humans, but animals, trees, and so on” (McCraty, 2015). Information is flowing throughout this living matrix of the “Earth brain,” synchronizing the activity of all life-forms, down to the level of cells and molecules.
These pioneers perceived energy, space, time, consciousness, and matter not as separate entities but instead as interacting in a vast synchronistic dance.
Max Planck, a founding father of quantum physics, said: “All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter” (as translated in Braden, 2008). The deeper scientists delve into the workings of matter, from subatomic particles to the enormous scale of galaxies, the more they notice the synchronous coordination present in the whole.
features of a messianic prophecy” (as cited in Dossey, 2009). There is, on the other hand, plenty of evidence that consciousness exists outside the brain. The mind does not behave as though it is confined to the brain, and there are many experiences of nonlocal consciousness that cannot be explained by a local mind trapped inside the confines of the human skull.
Once people come back from an OBE or NDE, they are changed. They are not afraid of death, and they believe in a loving and compassionate universe. They have a sense of certainty about what they perceived.
The consciousness of each person exists in this all-knowing state of infinite perception, which is characteristic of OBEs and NDEs. That infinite mind is then filtered by the brain into a manageable experience in order to exist in a physical body (Beauregard, 2012).
Such people were believed to “travel between the worlds” of local awareness and nonlocal mind, bringing back wisdom and healing from realms beyond those of ordinary consciousness (Eliade, 1964).
The brain is also capable of bridging local and nonlocal reality. As well as providing the biological anchor through which we participate in nonlocal mind, it is constantly processing information from our surroundings.
A human experience that is focused only on local awareness and phenomena is an impoverished one, partaking in only a tiny sliver of the consciousness available to it.
We can choose the frequency to which we attune our minds. Like a streaming music service with millions of choices of stations, there are millions of competing nonlocal signals to choose from all the time.
Research into the brains of people in elevated spiritual states tells us that they are processing information very differently from the way they function in ordinary consciousness. The ratio of delta, beta, alpha, theta, and gamma waves changes drastically as the brain functions in an entirely different way.
Sir John Eccles, who earned a Nobel Prize for his work on the brain’s neural synapses, says that “We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world” (Popper & Eccles, 2012). When we live as though we are spiritual beings with material bodies and orient our consciousness in that way each day, the matter we create with our minds is very different.
We can deliberately entrain our local minds to the nonlocal consciousness of the universe in which the spontaneous coordination of nature is ever present. With practice, living synchronously and in harmony with the unfolding patterns of the universe becomes our minds’ default setting.
That doesn’t mean that I can magically create anything I want like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. It’s a process of nudging reality consistently rather than manifesting something out of nothing immediately. It’s using the principles of nature rather than defying them.
Researchers at New York University found that romance-minded students who believed they would get a date were significantly more likely to do so.
Best-selling author Tim Ferriss says, “The most fulfilled and effective people I know—world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more—look at their life’s journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves” (Ferriss, 2017).
COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS In my live workshops, I’ve noticed that generally people seem to be effortless masters of one aspect of life. We work with five life areas: Work (including career and retirement) Love (including all close relationships) Money Health (including weight, diet, and exercise) Spirituality
When you read his books, Light upon Light and Love Is a Secret, you share the energy field he inhabits, and you feel uplifted.
In reality, synchronicity represents the coordination of all life, from the most distant nonlocal reaches of space to the most intimate local environment of our thoughts. All are synchronized by resonant fields, and as we make choices with our minds, we set up resonance patterns that extend to infinity.
So the first thing I do is attune my thoughts to the highest possible state. I tap away my worry and stress, and sit calmly in meditation. I know what my body feels like when I’m in that state of attunement to the infinite, with my brain producing high amplitudes of alpha, theta, and delta waves, and get in touch with that frequency. Once I’m attuned, I bask in that state for a long time. My thoughts escape from the swirl of confusion in which I woke up.
walk outside, stand barefoot in the dew, and ground myself in Earth’s frequencies. I might listen to an inspirational audio to give my thoughts direction. If I’m home, I look at my vision board and affirm my goals. I write in my journal, recording positive intentions for the life journey ahead. I fill my mind with gratitude for the blessings of my life. I savor the anticipation of the synchronicities that will appear to delight me in the hours ahead. Then, centered and inspired, I walk into my day.
Sometimes, right in the middle of an ordinary day, the beauty of life hits me like a cloudburst. I stop in my tracks, overwhelmed, tearful, too stunned to be able to take it all in. I stop what I’m doing and allow the feeling to expand. I open my heart big enough to stretch around the full extent of my blessings.
Activities to practice this week: As you practice EcoMeditation morning and evening, hold the intention that you align your life with synchronicity. Notice emergence when it appears in your personal world. You might observe this in: Colonies of insects Flocks of birds Schools of fish The flow of traffic in cities In your journal, write down three or more big synchronous events that have happened in your life. Also in your journal, make a brief note of any experiences of emergence you’ve witnessed in the past few days. The Extended
This is the transcendent state that has been experienced and described by mystics throughout the ages. It is the state of flow that elite athletes experience at times of peak performance. It is the state into which artists enter when they create their most inspired work. It is the state children naturally inhabit when they lose themselves in play. It is the state we’re meant to live our lives in all the time. It’s been perceived as a special, occasional exception to the grind of daily life. Yet it’s actually meant to be the way we start and end each day. Each day is meant to flow in an unfolding of synchronous possibilities.
When you wake up every morning, simply align your consciousness with the highest possible frequency of which you are capable. Sit quietly, read the words that inspire you the most, and enter a contemplative state. Before you begin your day, before you begin to think or create, align yourself. Align yourself to the highest possible vibrational frequency that you know. Align yourself with the most elevated energy field of which you are conscious.
As you do this, you will feel a shift in your body. You will feel a physical sense of shifting to a new plane, of moving into an altered state.
Perceiving yourself as one with this synchronized universe, you move into your day with a sense of equanimity, power, peace, joy, love, and exuberance. You align with creative genius, and you shape the world outside of yourself based on a sense of high vision drawn from the reality field of that universal mind. Suddenly, you are no longer an isolated individual bumping into this or that problem or challenge. Instead, you are part of an orchestra of synchronized movement. One with the universe, you are one with everyone else who is one with the universe. One with the universe, you are one with every force and phenomenon in nature that is also one with the universe. One with the universe, you dance to the tune of the natural harmonics of creation.
You cannot help those you love by moving out of attunement and into the place of non-attunement in which they live. You can only help them by being vibrantly attuned to universal self. You are then a beacon of invitation, welcoming them to the possibility of joining you in the dance of attunement.
creates a new brain and body. It builds cells. Regenerates DNA. Creates a field of connection. Generates coherence in your thoughts, words, and deeds. Opens possibilities in your sphere of influence. Co-creates with you at the level of your material reality. The material reality you create when one with the universal mind is completely different from the material reality you create when cut off from universal mind. You think these thoughts in alignment with universal mind and they become things in alignment with universal mind. The matter of your body is shifted and changed. The matter of your material reality is shifted and changed. And after moment after moment after moment of alignment, you live in an entirely different material reality from the one you would have created had you remained locked in the prison of local mind and local self.
Take a walk in nature and practice walking slowly. Feel each footfall. Walk or stand barefoot on sand or wet grass for a few minutes each day. During your EcoMeditation practice morning and evening, consciously tune your local self to nonlocal mind.
Ask nonlocal mind, What is your highest vision for me? and write whatever pops into your head down in your journal.
When you choose not to think that negative thought, and you replace it with a positive one instead, you aren’t just shifting your own reality. You’re shifting reality for the whole human species.