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How Quantum Physicists Build New Beliefs

How Quantum Physicists Build New Beliefs

by Greg Kuhn 2013 130 pages
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Key Takeaways

1. Your Beliefs Shape Your Reality

You are, literally, the creator of all that you see and experience.

Top-down creation. The material world isn't a pre-existing entity waiting to be discovered; it's a reflection of your inner beliefs and expectations. Your observations and, more precisely, your expectations command the unformed field of energy to manifest into concrete, distinct material objects. This is a top-down process, where your consciousness interacts with the quantum field to create your unique reality.

  • The quantum field is an infinite ocean of energy, representing the potential to become anything.
  • Your beliefs dictate your expectations, which in turn command the quantum field.
  • The quantum field doesn't care if a manifestation is "good" or "bad," only that it matches your expectations.

Subjective truths. Beliefs are not universal truths; they are simply thoughts you've repeated so often that they've become your personal reality. What you label as "good" or "bad" is subjective and optional. You always have the choice to label your life's events and circumstances however you decide.

  • Your judgments are always personal and unique to you.
  • There is no event or circumstance that negates your option of making your own personal choice about how to label it.
  • You can change any belief you choose if you want to align a belief with a desire you have.

Change your beliefs, change your reality. If you want to experience a material reality more aligned with your desires, you must change your beliefs. This is the most important step in deliberate creation. Your current reality is simply the result of your previous beliefs and expectations.

  • Your expectations are created, unconsciously, by your beliefs.
  • Your beliefs are your most practiced, habitual thoughts.
  • By changing your beliefs, you change your expectations, and thus, your material reality.

2. The Subconscious Brain: An Emotional Decision-Maker

Instead, we use our subconscious, or Paleomammalian, brain almost exclusively to make any decision.

Three parts of the brain. The human brain has three distinct sections: the Neomammalian (logical), the Paleomammalian (emotional/subconscious), and the Reptilian (primitive). The Paleomammalian brain, or subconscious, is the primary decision-maker, relying on emotion rather than logic.

  • The Reptilian brain is primitive and doesn't consider consequences.
  • The Paleomammalian brain considers consequences but uses emotion, not logic.
  • The Neomammalian brain uses logic but only to justify decisions already made by the subconscious.

Emotions drive decisions. Despite our belief in our rationality, humans make decisions based on emotion, not logic. The logical part of the brain is only engaged after the emotional, subconscious part has already made a decision.

  • Logic will never engage your subconscious brain.
  • New emotions (or feelings) are necessary if you want to affect any change upon your subconscious brain.
  • Your subconscious brain is where your beliefs are stored.

Retraining the subconscious. To manifest your desires, you must "trick" your subconscious into believing new things. This requires a process that engages emotions and feelings, as logic is ineffective. The process you're about to learn will retrain your subconscious brain to align with your desires.

  • Your subconscious brain ignores logic and only cares about emotion.
  • New feelings are necessary to change your subconscious beliefs.
  • You must "trick" your subconscious into adopting new beliefs.

3. Retraining Your Brain: A Gradual Process

Building a belief is very much like training a dog.

Beliefs as neural pathways. A belief is simply a thought you've repeated so often that it becomes a dominant neural pathway in your brain. These pathways are created through repetition and consistency, much like training a dog.

  • A thought is a firing of electricity along a pathway of neurons.
  • Repeated thoughts create dominant neural pathways.
  • These practiced pathways become beliefs, which are truths you hold about life.

Childhood influences. Many of your beliefs were formed during childhood, when your brain was a blank slate, absorbing the beliefs of your parents, teachers, church, and media. These beliefs, often fear-based or limiting, can hinder your adult life.

  • Children are belief-building organisms, readily absorbing beliefs from trusted sources.
  • You assimilated both overt and covert lessons from your influencers.
  • Many childhood beliefs are limiting, fear-based, or unnecessary.

Beliefs are not set in stone. Most adults live as if their beliefs are unchangeable, but they are simply your most practiced thoughts. You have the freedom to change any belief that is not serving you well.

  • Your internal "rulebook" was created by flawed humans during your childhood.
  • You can change any belief you choose if you want to align a belief with a desire you have.
  • Your beliefs always, and without fail, subconsciously create your expectations.

4. The Emotional Reference Chart: Your Guide

The chart is designed to guide you up a scale of emotions, so you have concrete direction as you build the new beliefs that will align you with any desire you have.

Ascending emotional scale. The Emotional Reference Chart is a tool to guide you up a scale of emotions, from negative to positive, as you build new beliefs. It provides a concrete path for aligning your beliefs with your desires.

  • The chart is written in ascending order, with the most negative emotions at the bottom.
  • As you move up the chart, emotions become more positive and empowering.
  • The chart is inspired by the writings of Jerry and Esther Hicks.

Using the chart. The chart helps you identify your current emotional state regarding a specific desire and then guides you to move up one emotion at a time. This gradual approach is crucial for retraining your subconscious brain.

  • The chart provides a necessary guide to work this process.
  • It helps you identify your current emotional state.
  • It guides you to move up the emotional scale gradually.

Personalization is key. While the chart provides a framework, you can adapt it to your own needs. If other terms or emotions resonate more with you, feel free to substitute them.

  • The terms on the chart are not necessarily written in stone.
  • You may find other terms and emotions more suitable for your journey.
  • Don't feel like you're doing anything wrong to substitute a different word or term along the way.

5. Living Your Way Into New Emotions

You must slowly and gradually lure your subconscious into the new beliefs.

Gradual change. Retraining your subconscious brain requires a slow, deliberate approach. You must move up the Emotional Reference Chart one emotion at a time, never skipping steps.

  • Changing beliefs is a scary thing to your unconscious.
  • You must slowly and gradually lure your subconscious into the new beliefs.
  • You'll be "tricking" your subconscious brain into holding the new beliefs.

Writing and feeling. The process involves writing about your absent desire from the perspective of the next highest emotion on the chart. You must then live your way into that emotion, embracing it fully.

  • Write about your absent desire from the perspective of the next highest emotion.
  • Live your way into that next highest emotion over the course of one to three days.
  • Embrace the new emotional perspective, pain and all, with full-on honesty.

Small, believable steps. The new emotional perspectives won't feel radically different from the previous ones, and that's intentional. Your subconscious brain will only accept small, positive increments in your beliefs.

  • Each emotion is a little more positive than the previous one.
  • The uptick of positivity is relatively minor.
  • This will hold true each time you move one tick up the emotional perspective chart.

6. The Power of Storytelling and Games

Your stories about your life events and circumstances are, therefore, subjective.

Subjective stories. Your stories about your life events are subjective and optional. You always have the choice to label your life's events and circumstances however you decide.

  • What you call "telling it like it is" is actually "telling it as you're choosing to tell it."
  • Your judgments are always unique to you, personal, and optional.
  • You can choose to start telling better-feeling stories about any event or circumstance.

Telling new stories. To move into a new emotional perspective, tell new stories about your desire from that perspective. Start by prefacing your stories with "I currently believe (or feel)" and follow it with "But I believe that, with practiced effort, I can learn to tell better stories about (that thing or event) over the course of time."

  • Your stories are subjective and can be changed.
  • Start by prefacing your stories with "I currently believe (or feel)."
  • Follow it with "But I believe that, with practiced effort, I can learn to tell better stories."

Games and activities. Create games and activities to keep you focused on your alignment with your desire. These can help you stay engaged and motivated throughout the process.

  • Create games and activities to keep you focused on your alignment with your desire.
  • These games can help you stay engaged and motivated.
  • Examples include celebrating pennies or couples as reminders of abundance and love.

7. Manifestation is a Journey, Not a Destination

Moving yourself to the top of the Emotional Reference Chart doesn't end that game. In fact, in many ways it is just the beginning.

Continuous growth. Manifestation is not a one-time event; it's a continuous journey of growth and expansion. Even when you reach the highest emotional states, new desires will emerge, prompting you to continue raising your beliefs.

  • Achieving a milestone only opens us up to still greater desire.
  • You will always have the tools in hand to continue to grow and align with your new, greater desires.
  • The universe isn't a tease—no matter how much you align your beliefs with your current desires, you will always experience the awakening of still greater desires from their manifestation.

The game of "Grow a Greater You." Life is a game of continuous growth and expansion. This game is always available to you, even when your beliefs are at the top of the chart.

  • Each day you awaken, you are given the gift of engaging in the most beautiful and exciting game imaginable.
  • It's called "Grow a Greater You."
  • This game is always available to you—even when (or, more accurately, precisely when) your beliefs are at the top of the chart.

New desires emerge. As you manifest your desires, you'll find that new, grander desires awaken. This is a natural part of the process, and you can use the same techniques to align with these new desires.

  • As you manifest your desires, you'll always find that still greater desires awaken.
  • You can allow them to manifest by continuing to play the game of "Grow a Greater You."
  • You will always have the tools in hand to continue to grow and align with your new, greater desires.

8. Embrace Discomfort and Trust the Process

Until we agree to suffer, there will be no end to the suffering.

Discomfort is natural. It's natural to feel discomfort during this process, especially when you're at the lower emotional perspectives. This discomfort arises from the gap between your beliefs and your desires.

  • Any time there is a gap between your emotional perspective (your beliefs) and your desire, there will be discomfort and pain.
  • That is why you don't use this process on things about which you feel no discomfort.
  • The only way to remedy that is to move your beliefs higher to align with your desires.

Embrace your desires. Don't try to suppress your desires; embrace them. They are a natural part of your growth and expansion.

  • You were born to desire.
  • There is absolutely nothing wrong with desiring more for yourself.
  • Trying to sublimate or deny our desires is one of the most painful things we can do.

Trust the process. Even when you feel like you're paddling upstream, trust that the process is working. You are retraining your brain and aligning your beliefs with your desires.

  • You will only be using this process on topics about which you've been feeling pain.
  • You've been conditioned by society to dampen your desires as a way to ease the pain of that gap.
  • The only thing that really works to ease this kind of pain is to raise your beliefs to the level of your desires.

9. The Quantum Field Responds to Your Being

You are like a piano in terms of how you interact with the quantum field.

Vibrational communication. Your beliefs and expectations are like keys on a piano, creating vibrations that communicate with the quantum field. Like vibrations attract one another, so your beliefs attract corresponding experiences.

  • Your beliefs, and the expectations that unconsciously arise from them, are the keys on your personal piano.
  • You are creating notes every second of every day through the vibrations of your beliefs and their attending expectations.
  • Your vibrations, your beliefs and the expectations that naturally and unconsciously arise from them, are the medium of communication between you and the quantum field.

Energy coherence. Energy forms material objects when it becomes coherent with you. Your vibrations, your beliefs, and your expectations are the medium of communication between you and the quantum field.

  • Energy forms material objects when it becomes coherent, or in-synch, with you.
  • Your vibrations, your beliefs and the expectations that naturally and unconsciously arise from them, are the medium of communication between you and the quantum field.
  • Like vibrations attract one other.

Emotions as feedback. Your emotions are your primary feedback mechanism, telling you how aligned your beliefs are with your desires. Feeling good signals alignment, while feeling bad signals misalignment.

  • Emotions are your primary, direct feedback regarding how aligned (or unaligned) your beliefs are with your desires.
  • Your emotions tell you what your beliefs are.
  • Feeling bad about something you desire signals to you that your beliefs are not in alignment with that thing.

10. You Are the Creator of Your Universe

Everything in our material world is all the same thing, created from the quantum field.

Self-referral. Everything you experience is self-referral; you are creating your reality through your expectations. The illusion is that you are separate from the physical objects in your material reality.

  • Everything we experience is self-referral.
  • Everything in our material world is all the same thing, created from the quantum field.
  • Your life is all simply you experiencing yourself.

Timeless awareness. Through meditation, you can experience timeless awareness, where the observer, the observed, and the act of observation become one. This is where all possibilities are present.

  • When you are in the gap, you experience timeless awareness.
  • Timeless awareness is where the observer, the observed, and the act of observation become one.
  • During timeless awareness all possibilities are present, because you are actually in commune with the quantum field.

Unlimited potential. Your mind, or consciousness, is the real "you," and its powers are unlimited. The power to manifest anything you desire comes from the powers of your mind.

  • The powers of your mind are unlimited.
  • Your mind, or consciousness, decides your thoughts, decisions, and actions.
  • The power to manifest anything you desire comes from the powers of your mind.

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How Quantum Physicists Build New Beliefs receives mixed reviews, with an overall rating of 4.23 out of 5. Some readers find it one of the better law of attraction books, praising its focus on emotional change to alter perspective and manifest desires. Others criticize its length, suggesting it could have been a blog article. The book's method of changing beliefs through quantum physics is seen as potentially effective, but some readers feel it may be more useful for those new to coaching or therapy concepts.

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About the Author

Greg Kuhn is a professional educator, futurist, and author specializing in applying quantum physics to personal growth. He has written multiple self-help books, including the "Why Quantum Physicists..." series, which explores using quantum physics for weight loss and overcoming life's challenges. Greg Kuhn collaborates with Intentional Wellness, speaking about quantum physics' role in personal development. He has a background in education, serving as a high school coach, teacher, and administrator in Louisville, KY. Kuhn offers talks and presentations on these topics for both adult and youth audiences, tailoring his content to various groups. He lives in Louisville with his family and continues to write and speak about quantum physics applications in everyday life.

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