Our consciousness, mind, energy and body are a continuum where any intervention or disturbance at any level will create a corresponding change on the other levels of this continuum.
Imagine a trough with water with various barriers made from mesh separating the trough into compartments, but there is still a wave communication between them through the common medium of the water.
Wherever we make a disturbance, its effect is felt throughout all compartments in the trough. And, if at any point in this continuum of water we intervene with some type settling effect, this creates peace in all the other compartments.
In the continuum of our being, we tend to think of the body, energy, thoughts and beliefs as separate, but in fact they are all "compartments" of consciousness. Any intervention on any level affects all the other levels.
Thoughts are Energy Fields
Each thought itself is in reality an energy field, which, when charged in a certain way, becomes what we experience as an emotion state. This emotion affects our energy, thoughts and physical body creating health or psychosomatic illnesses.
When the charge of a thought is removed, then the same thought has no emotional dimension. Thus we can eventually have the same thoughts with less emotional charge.
We can change the energy structure of an emotional energy field by tapping on the acupuncture points, thus changing the energy flow and removing its charge the emotional disturbance.
Our Thoughts are Charged
Our beliefs interpret each and every stimulus (external and mental) assigning a positive, negative or neutral charge to that stimulus depending on what our belief system tells us about what is happening or what we are thinking about.
This "charge" is then associated with that event, situation or stimulus and when we think about it or confront it, we feel indifferent, secure, relaxed and happy or fear, pain, guilt or anger depending on our interpretation.
Our emotional reality depends on our beliefs about that what is happening, what has happened, or might happen.
We have Multiple Beliefs about the Same Stimulus
We seem to have multiple beliefs about the same stimulus. We can categorize them into the following categories.
a. Emotionally Charged Impressions - (ECI) - These are not so much beliefs as "impressions", which are imprinted on the mind during traumatic experiences. The mind then identifies this particular stimulus with this emotionally charged feeling. We do not go through thinking processes here such as analyzing, evaluating and coming to conclusions. This kind of "belief" has a strong "emotional charge" but no actual inertia or mass, because it is not based on observations and facts, but rather on one or two intense experiences - which of course are not representative of reality. Examples might be having been bitten by a dog, surviving a car crash or an earthquake, being raped or physically abused.
b. Mistaken Childhood Conclusions - (MCC) - These are usually mistaken beliefs about a reality in which we perceive ourselves as weak, wrong, unlovable and to blame for just about everything that happens around us such as our parents anger, absence, unhappiness, indifference, divorce, illness, death etc. We falsely interpret that we are not worthy or able and that others will always behave towards us in ways that we experienced in childhood. Later in life, we tend to create similar situations with our spouses, children and life in general.
These first two categories are usually repressed in the subconscious mind (or shadow, inner child - whatever you prefer) because of the pain and confusion they produce. These are repressed so that we do not feel the unpleasant negative emotional-energy charge associated with them. We also suppress them so that we can focus and function in our daily lives. They are encased in an "energy membrane" much as our body envelopes a sliver or cut in our skin in order to prevent it from poisoning the rest of the body.
They do, of course, continue to exist in the subconscious producing their corresponding emotional energy fields every time we come into contact with or think of anything that reminds us of that event or conclusion. A
These "Beliefs" are Stagnant and do not Evolve as We Do
Because of their repression and subsequent isolation from our conscious mind, these "beliefs and emotional energy fields" do not evolve as we do. They remain in their original state regardless of our evolving logic, reasoning, new experiences and spiritual faith. They receive no new data.
This fact separates them from the following two belief systems.
The third category of beliefs is our:
c. Evolving Conscious Belief System: (ECBS)
Our conscious system of beliefs processes new data, reevaluates its perceptions of reality seeking to make the adjustments necessary in order to understand the truths behind the phenomena we observe.
This is actually evolving in only some people. Many have stopped processing new data and thus have remained with the same belief system for many years and may even leave their bodies with it.
For many, this belief system understands that we are safe, secure, good, worthy and capable. It also realizes that we are not in danger from heights, cars, insects, dogs, cats, elevators, airplanes etc.
The facts available to it cause it to realize that its fears and self-doubt are unfounded.
Yet we continue to experience fear and its resulting emotions due to our previous two categories of beliefs, (Emotionally Charged Impressions and Mistaken Childhood Conclusions) that are isolated from and usually stronger than our Evolving Conscious Belief System.
Thus we simultaneously fear and realize that we do not need to fear.
We simultaneously doubt our self-worth and yet know that we have proven ourselves over and over.
d. Spiritual Intuitive Faith (SIF) constructs our fourth category of beliefs. These beliefs are usually based on faith rather than proof. We intuitively feel that what we believe is true. In addition to being affected by others' spiritual beliefs, we also experience inner awakenings or revelations in which we just "know" that something is true.
Thus although we cannot prove it we might believe in the existence of a divine being, or life after death, in universal laws that allow only what is fair and beneficial to occur to each person.
We may have total faith in our immortality or in God's wisdom and justice, but when confronted with stimuli, which awaken our Emotionally Charged Impressions and Mistaken Childhood Conclusions, the power of these later two often temporarily overshadow our faith and logic.
Statistics and Inertia verses Charge
Many "emotions" are created by emotional charge rather than by statistics.
The term inertia describes the tendency of an object to stay in the state that it exists. It resists change. Thus if it is stationary it resists movement. If moving it resists stopping.
The inertia of a belief is the measure of its resistance to change either because it is the product of many experiences and conclusions or deep faith or because we have an invested need to keep that belief for some reason.
An example of the difference between charge and inertia would be the following.
If we drive a car every day for 30 years and then have an accident one day, that one accident can affect the mind more than the other 10,950 days we have driven. Thus we are more affected by the emotional charge of one experience than by the weight of the evidence of having driven 10,950 days without any danger.
If we have 30 years of a loving relationship with someone and then one day he or she leaves us for another, our 10,950 days of loving relationship is overshadowed by the emotional charge of the betrayal we feel due to one experience. Rather than feeling grateful for all those loving moments, we feel hurt and angry about the one experience.
Such beliefs that are highly charged and have little inertia (because they are based on only a few experiences) and can be easily healed by various forms of Energy Psychology. This is important.
Other types of beliefs with a higher inertia, are not easily dissipated - examples would as self-esteem issues and religious or political beliefs or our Evolving Conscious Belief System.
Belief Inertia
Each belief has a specific inertia or resistance towards change, which has to do with:
a. How many experiences have gone into its creation.
b. How man different kinds of experiences have contributed to this conclusion. (If we have only one experience, which is repeated then it does not create as much inertia as having different stimuli creating that belief.)
c. How much thought has gone into its creation.
d. The degree to which it is linked to other beliefs - creating a web of beliefs.
e. How much we depend on this belief for our sense of security, self worth or freedom.
f. How much psychological reversal we have in relation to this belief (such as being in the role of the victim or guilty one.)
In general, most phobias are not the product of processing various experiences and coming to a conclusion and thus have lower inertia and can be easily removed by Energy Psychology.
Our experience is that fear, guilt, pain and all other emotions can be easily dissolved by tapping on the energy field in this way.
However, general anxiety, depression, self-esteem and other issues often require more work on the various aspects which make up this more complex inter-linked system of beliefs in which our anxiety is also connected to fear, pain, guilt and anger towards ourselves.
All emotions, however, can be dealt with extremely effectively as long as we are adept at dealing with their complexity.
Thus, it is not the intensity (panic - rage) that obstructs immediate results, but rather the complexity of the issue and how many different beliefs and emotions are involved.
Multileveled Perception
Thus, when we are experiencing or thinking of any stimulus, we perceive it through a series of at least four filters, each presenting its own interpretation of what is happening and how that relates to our basic needs of safety, self-worth, freedom and pleasure. If any one of those filters is creating a stronger charge, then although we (usually) are unaware of how the other filters are interpreting this stimulus. Our emotional reactions will usually be the result of the most strongly charged interpretation.
By reducing the charge associated with the Emotionally Charged Impressions and Mistaken Childhood Experiences, and strengthening our Evolving Conscious Belief System and Spiritual Intuitive Faith, we become free from irrational emotional suffering.
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