Key Takeaways
1. Awareness is the Key to Unlocking Healing
The quality of your awareness determines the quality of your life.
Awareness is fundamental. Awareness, not the mind, is the most important aspect of life. Without awareness, experiences, relationships, and even existence itself cease to have meaning. It's the electricity that lights up the mind, and its quality dictates the quality of life.
Impaired vs. vibrant awareness. A dull reflection of awareness in the mind leads to confusion and suffering, while a mind bright with awareness is calm and present. Factors like overwork, poor diet, and negative emotions can dampen consciousness, impairing our ability to perceive the world without threat.
Awareness as sunlight. Awareness lightens emotions and enlightens the mind. By becoming more aware, we can expose perceived threats for the ineffectual ropes they are, transforming a fearful world into one filled with light and understanding.
2. Understanding the Material and Mental Models
Pure awareness is one, without form.
Creation and awareness. The book introduces two models: the Material Model and the Mental Model. The Material Model illustrates the hierarchy of creation, from molecules and atoms to sub-atomic particles and waves, all originating from pure awareness. The Mental Model shows how thoughts arise from pure awareness, expand, and eventually reach consciousness.
Form and formlessness. Pure awareness is formless, unbounded, and undifferentiated, unlike the phenomenal world of created things, which are defined by their unique forms. Because pure awareness has no form, it cannot be recognized or controlled by the mind.
Energy and order. Everything in creation expresses two qualities: order and energy. The more tangible the order of a thing, the less energy it expresses. Pure awareness is the source of energy without being energy itself, representing perfection waiting to express itself.
3. Thoughts: Energy Originating from Pure Awareness
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Thoughts as energy. Thoughts are not merely abstract concepts but forms of energy that influence our actions and experiences. Each thought originates as a point of energy at the doorstep of pure awareness, expanding to encompass emotions, logic, and sensory information.
The journey of a thought. As a thought separates from pure awareness, it becomes weaker and more susceptible to distortion. Negative thoughts are not inherently negative but become misshapen by internal pressures of misconception and fear.
Contacting the source. By expanding our consciousness to contact thoughts closer to their origin in pure awareness, we can diminish the likelihood of disharmony and create a more harmonious and productive life. This involves experiencing pure awareness directly, beyond the mind's grasp.
4. The Gate Technique: Opening to Pure Awareness
The power of the Gate Technique is in its simplicity and innocence.
Deepening awareness. The Gate Technique is designed to deepen and broaden the experience of pure awareness. It involves sitting comfortably, closing your eyes, and observing a positive word that draws your attention.
Observing without interference. As you watch the word, it may change in various ways or even disappear. The key is to observe without controlling or interfering, allowing the mind to wander and gently redirecting it back to the word when necessary.
Benefits of the technique. Regular practice of the Gate Technique can lead to greater energy, relaxation, improved relationships, and increased resistance to stress. It teaches reliance on observation and aligns with the wisdom that created the body/mind.
5. Quantum Entrainment: Healing Through Awareness
Quantum Entrainment wakes us up to our own inner awareness.
QE defined. Quantum Entrainment (QE) is a method that reduces pain and promotes healing by creating immediate changes in the body. It works by waking us up to our own inner awareness and enlivening a healing awareness in both the initiator and the receiver.
Order and energy. Symptoms of illness indicate a breakdown in order within the body/mind. QE works by infusing pure awareness, the source of order and energy, into the disorderly system, resulting in perfect order without side effects.
Awareness, not technique. It is not the healing procedure itself but awareness that does the healing. The QE technique is a process to become aware of pure awareness, with healing being a side effect. This means the initiator is not the healer; pure awareness is.
6. The Three P's: Intention for Effective Healing
Intention gives direction to pure awareness.
Intention's role. Intention gives direction to pure awareness, informing the formless what form we want it to take. The QE intention has three parts, each starting with "P": Present, Precise, and Positive.
Present, precise, positive. "Present" means right now, "Precise" means identifying clearly what is being healed, and "Positive" means approaching the condition as if it were already healed. A negative intention is counterproductive.
Example intention. For a sprained ankle, an intention might be: "A normally functioning ankle, free of pain and swelling." This simple intention provides pure awareness with the framework within which to heal, focusing on the finished product.
7. Triangulation: The Three-Step QE Process
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Triangulation explained. Triangulation involves placing the tip of one index finger (Contact A) on a tight muscle and another (Contact B) on any other muscle. Then, focus attention on both fingers simultaneously, becoming aware of what each is feeling.
Adding Eufeeling. While holding awareness of the two points, notice the Eufeeling (peace, quietness, stillness) that arises. Holding these three points—Contact A, Contact B, and the Eufeeling—in your awareness is called triangulation.
Signs of healing. Continue to be aware of all three points until you feel a change in your partner's body, such as a softening of muscles or a general relaxation. This indicates that the body is reorganizing to eliminate the disorderly pain and tension.
8. Emotional QE: Healing Psychological Pain
Emotional QE stops the mind in its tracks.
Addressing emotional distress. Emotional QE is a tool for quieting psychological pain, removing emotional discordance instantly. It works by taking us out of our movie mode and placing us in the audience, where we can observe disharmonious emotions with calm and clarity.
How it works. The initiator does not need to know the cause of the emotional distress. The partner thinks about the incident creating the distress, grades the emotional discomfort, and then the initiator proceeds with QE as usual.
Permanent healing. Emotional QE is safe and permanent. It floods fear with fullness, returning ego to mother's arms. The memory remains a ripple of awareness, but the debilitating emotion is merged into an ocean of bliss.
9. Remote QE: Healing Across Distances
The entity that is Maria is made of the same stuff as the entity Frank.
Overcoming distance. Remote QE involves performing Quantum Entrainment on partners without physical touch, across the room or across the world. It works because pure awareness is not confined by time or space.
Methods for remote QE. Several methods can be used, including using a surrogate (a physically present person or pet), imagination (conjuring a mental image of the partner), or "air QE" (physically moving your body as if the partner were present).
Entanglement. In quantum physics, this instantaneous interaction at a distance is called entanglement. Remote QE works regardless of belief, making it a powerful tool for healing across distances.
10. Extended QE: For Chronic and Deep-Seated Issues
When Extended QE is performed awareness is held in the depths of pure awareness and the common world of cars, stars, people and even space becomes supersaturated with pure awareness.
Addressing chronic conditions. Extended QE is valuable for chronic, long-standing, or life-threatening health concerns and deep emotional conflicts. It involves extending the usual time of QE, profoundly increasing the benefits to both partner and initiator.
Tangible awareness. When Extended QE is performed, awareness is held in the depths of pure awareness, and the common world becomes supersaturated with pure awareness. Pure awareness becomes almost tangible, a healing salve of vibrant renewal.
The power of sustained practice. The regular and sustained practice of quantum wakefulness has benefits for the initiator as well, fostering more peace and compassion and awakening to a kind of immortality free of the fear of death.
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Review Summary
The Secret of Instant Healing receives mostly positive reviews, with an average rating of 4.04 out of 5. Readers praise its simplicity, effectiveness, and potential for personal growth. The book introduces Quantum Entrainment, a healing method based on awareness. Some readers report successful experiences, while others find the concepts confusing or difficult to implement. Critics question the scientific basis and healing claims. Overall, reviewers appreciate the book's unique approach to healing and meditation, though opinions on its practicality vary.