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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.
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Mind to Matter by Dawson Church presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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