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The reason conscious intentions alone don’t bring permanent change is that they seek to overcome symptoms, not cure the root source. When that fails to make us happy, we usually move on to any number of negative behaviors that move us further away from peace and satisfaction.
Intentions — Conscious or Unconscious? Doesn’t it make sense to instead find and deal with the root causes? To begin to do that, we must first identify the things that are blocking us from life and health. Those stumbling blocks are our “unconscious intentions.” If those unconscious intentions don’t match the efforts of our willpower, we’re doomed to failure!
As Dr. Alex reports, scientific research has already proven that basing your future happiness on conscious intention almost never brings the results you desire. The key to lasting happiness in life is in aligning what we really want (our unconscious intentions) with what we say we want (our conscious intentions). Only then can all our energy be focused on improving our lives.
Dr. Tiller verified the importance and power of conscious intention, but went on to point out that we all also have an unconscious intention, and that if the two do not agree, the unconscious intention will win every time. Dr. Bruce Lipton has in essence said that it is almost impossible to change things by willpower. As important and necessary as willpower is, unconscious intention is one million times more powerful than willpower or conscious intention. That’s why so few people ever “break the cycle” of changing the negative patterns that run in their lives. Many experts conclude that people just don’t ever change.
Commit to discovering the deeply embedded roots that anchor you to unhappiness, and begin focusing your energy on healing that pain for good.
3 — Stress and Failure Come From a Physical Source Symptoms are a diversion What will it take to break the cycle of failure in your life? Many of us spend years, and substantial amounts of money, attempting to cure one of the five major areas in which problems occur.
As we saw in the first chapter, Dr. Bruce Lipton, a groundbreaking cell biologist, goes farther and concludes that ninety-five percent of disease is caused by stress, and that the other five percent that is “genetic” is the result of an ancestor experiencing enough stress to unmask a disease at the cellular level and introduce it into the family’s genetics.
Stress — How it works Let’s explore then, how stress actually brings about disease and failure in our lives. It’s important to know that stress actually does five things — it makes us physically ill, drains our energy, gives us over to a negative outlook, reduces our problem solving ability, and because of these other results, predicts our failure.
The cellular stress brought about by this reaction, “unmasks” the possibility of disease in individual cells. We literally “open the door” to the diseases that lie dormant in our body by reacting to stress over and over throughout the day.
Most people can identify 20 or 30 things that literally cause them to feel their stress level increasing. We suggest you take the time to make a list
AI Summary
The Healing Codes by Jerry Graham presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
Core Themes:
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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