The largest nerve in our body is the vagus nerve, which means wandering in Latin. This nerve has multiple branches which diverge from two thick stems rooted in the brainstem and cerebellum that reach to the lowest viscera of your intestines, touching the heart and most other organs along the way. Scientists have found, that feeling elevated emotions such as compassion and empathy arouses this nerve, creating higher levels of coherence between all the organs it touches in the process. In a nutshell; feeling empathy for others can heal you.

It is a scientific fact that fear-based states, if overindulged in, breaks the body down and creates disease. When we live via the hormones of stress, we activate the survival gene and the constant arousal of this gene weakens the immune system, depleting our energy in the process. Elevated emotions such as love, on the other hand, the opposite of fear, which compassion, empathy and gratitude are a byproduct, restores and repairs the body.

Take a look at the map of the energy centres in the spine below. Each chakra is related to a gland in the endocrine system and has an intelligence of its own. Our energy is constantly moving up and down our spine depending on our state of being. For example, when you feel love, compassion and empathy, you’re operating from your centre, which is the heart chakra. When you express that love via your words, then you’ve moved up into the throat chakra, directly linked to the way we communicate with others and Mercury (the planet of communication and perception in Astrology).

Conversely, when you live from the lower three centres, which are the survival centres, you deplete your energy. As a result of your low energy, you’re only going to create more of the same, which means your subconscious programs, habits take you over because you don’t have enough energy to create anything new. To create something new in your life, you need to maintain an elevated state of being. The lowest three energy centres represent fear, survival, our sexual nature (propagation of the species), eating and digestion (which also depletes our energy) and so on.

When people are stressed, they’re more likely to act out of habit. To feel secure from the threats you believe are outside you, then it’s safer to do what feels familiar. This survival mechanism is why change is difficult for most because the moment they embrace the unknown and step out of their comfort zone, their brain allures them to falling back into the familiar.

“Many struggle with their habits because they lack motivation. Even though they say they genuinely want change, they don’t seem to want it enough. I know change can be difficult and even scary at times because to change, one must step outside the comfort zone of their familiar feelings to embrace the unknown. The option of reverting into the same patterns, into the comfort zone is always there, but let me tell you that life truly begins where your comfort zone ends.“

─The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind

Now that you see how living from the three lower centres depletes your energy let’s discuss how living from your heart centre repairs your body.

Compassion is fundamental to any spiritual outlook on life. Without the steady foundation of empathy and compassion, one is not going to get very far on their journey. In a compassionate state, there’s no room for racism, homophobia, nationalism, segregation. You can’t express kindness for one set of people and shun another because they’re skin is a different colour, or they’re sexually attracted to the same gender. Empathy is an all-encompassing state; it has no object; instead, it is the glue that binds us as one cosmic family, united by consciousness.

“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”

– Albert Einstein

When we live from our centre and express our appreciation and compassion through our actions, we trigger the autonomic nervous system (ANS) to begin to restore our body. Dr Joe Dispenza said that feeling gratitude for just ten minutes triggers over 1300 chemicals in the limbic brain that restores and repairs the body. Higher vibrational states also strengthen the immune system. Have you noticed that people who laugh alot, are naturally kind and easy-going rarely get sick?

Forms of bacteria don’t make us sick; they are known as opportunistic bacteria because they wait until the hormones of stress compromise our immune system. We permit them to attack us when we live in fear-based states. If one is living from their centre the majority of the day, however, and the vagus nerve is creating that coherence throughout the heart, the brain and other organs then we’re more likely to be immune to them.

Many in spiritual communities believe they always need protection from something─some spirit, demon, an energy vampire, or what have you. They don’t understand, though, that the belief they need to be protected is a fear-based state of being. If you believe you need protection, then the universe aligns you with forces you in which you require protection. The best form of protection out there is to live from your centre with love at your core. Nothing of a lower vibration can touch you if you’re in an elevated state.

In this day and age, such division exists between nations and continents due to the limiting beliefs in the various religious, political systems and the media reinforcing the division via movies and the news channels. Be a shining light in a very dark world; go beyond the surface differences you perceive with your senses; attune yourself with the aspect of your nature you share with every form of life on this planet and in the entire cosmos; your consciousness.

 “Christ taught that we should love our neighbours as ourselves; this is because our neighbour is our self. We are one consciousness, the same spirit occupying different bodies. The separation we perceive with our five senses is strong, but still an illusion fundamentally.”

─The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind 

Lynne McTaggart, author of the book The Power of Eight, is the founder of the intention masterclass group. She connects and trains groups of individuals from around the world in the art of sending their intentions to places where war is predominant and where healing is desperately needed. McTaggart has found, via her intention experiments that the act of sending healing and loving intentions in groups of at least eight people not only heals those targeted by the group, but it has a transformative effect on the senders’ lives as well!

“The outcome of both the groups and the experiments, amazing though they were, paled in comparison to what was happening to the participants. The most powerful effect of group intention, an effect overlooked by virtually every popular book on the subject, was on the intenders themselves.”

– Lynne McTaggart, The Power of Eight

As Lynne and others are finding, the best way to heal yourself is to enter the state of self-forgetfulness and focus on loving others. When you become no-thing, you merge with all that is.

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Rewriting the subconscious is something most struggle with, mainly because they don’t truly understand how it functions. The subconscious operates very much like the hard drive in your computer; it is programmed via the repetition of certain experiences and behaviours. However, the subconscious is hundreds of times more powerful than the conscious mind and until you do the inner work to become conscious of what’s inside of it, then it will continue to control your life.

According to Dr Joe Dispenza, by the time we reach 35 years old, 95% of who we are as a personality is controlled by our subconscious mind. This means the conscious mind only has 5% of your energy to work with each day. This is why just thinking positive thoughts doesn’t work for most people, as their emotional state often contradicts their thoughts. To rewrite the programming of your subconscious, you have to change your emotional state on a consistent basis, not just your thinking.

Your state of being consists of how you act, think, feel, and believe to be most true, at any given moment. Our beliefs are the foundation of all our behaviour. Perception is power; it is essentially the blueprint for our personality and physical reality experience as a whole.

“Your personality creates your personal reality.”

─Dr Joe Dispenza

Your current life is a reflection of the energy you put out on a consistent basis. The external world, for the most part, is a mirror of your internal state. What you experience is your subconscious programming made manifest into form.

Defining your mental and emotional patterns as a program can help you more easily make the changes you desire. When you realise that most of your automatic thoughts and emotional reactions aren’t personal but habitual, then you won’t take them personally. You’ll begin to observe them impartially, separating yourself from them. The moment you observe a thought without allowing it to define you is when you liberate your consciousness from it. This is known by neuroscientists as Metacognition; you prune synaptic connections in the brain when you no longer believe in them.

According to neuroscience, the average person has around 80,000 thoughts per day and 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts they had the day before. When one becomes conscious and lives in the meditative state for some portion of their day then the number of thoughts decreases as they embody inner stillness. The conscious management of your state of being is one of the keys to rewriting the program in your subconscious.

If you have fear-based beliefs hijacking your perception then you’ll attract, not only circumstances reflective of those beliefs but also signs and synchronicities as well. Responding differently to these signs which try and reinforce your conditioning is key to going beyond being defined by the program. I touch on this in my book, The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind.

“Every time you respond differently to a circumstance or synchronicity attempting to reinforce an old belief; you’re dissolving the old self. Repetition rewires the subconscious; the more you react correctly to these illusions, the quicker you’ll dissolve your unconscious associations with them. Also, please remember to stay light-hearted throughout this process; it’s simply a game you’re playing with yourself. When you reach the point where you can laugh at the synchronicities trying to reinforce your old self, you’re on your way to blessedness.”

─The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind

The majority of these programs were installed into your brain during the first seven years of your life. This is because the brain is in theta brainwaves during our first seven years, which are literally hypnotic. By observing our parents and siblings, watching the way they reacted, responded and behaved programmed us to mimic them.

One way of getting into the operating system of the subconscious and changing the blueprint is meditation and visualisation. I have a blog on mental rehearsal on my site, click here to read.

The state between sleep and waking is where the magic happens; in that state, you enter the quantum field; that timeless domain where all potential realities exist. If you’re capable of imagining another version of yourself or an experience you wish to have then what you’re imagining already exists in some reality in space-time. All you have to do is change your energy (your state of being) to match that reality and eventually, the outer world will bend to the changes you’ve made within yourself.

Here is another technique that’s also in my book. Neville Goddard, the Christian mystic who taught the Law of Attraction in the United States during the mid-twentieth century, often taught this to his students.

“As you lay in bed at night, before you sleep, lay flat on your back, and close your eyes. Now, can you imagine how you would feel if you were already free of the habit? How would you feel if you were the version of yourself you desire to be? What is their state of being? Can you attune to it? Remember, that linear time is an illusion; all versions of you already exist. Embody the state; feel what it would be like to be the person you prefer; think the thoughts you’d be thinking if you were that version. Imagine a friend, visualise them before you; converse with them in your imagination, hear their voice. Tell them that you used to have the habit and that you’ve overcome it, and that you’ll never go back to it again. Imagine them congratulating you; shake their hand, hug them, smell their hair as they embrace you. Visualise what would happen in the outer world if you were to become that version of yourself.

Fall asleep in the feeling of freedom and do it every night until you are. If you desire to be free of illegal substances, alcohol, pornography, or anything else you feel isn’t aligned with your integrity, fall asleep as that version of yourself. When you’re in bed in that lucid state between sleep and waking where you get beyond yourself, you’re in the domain of the Quantum Field. If you persist in falling asleep in the assumption of freedom, it eventually rewires the subconscious; thus, your beliefs and motivations automatically change.”

─The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind

You can’t change your ego with the ego: or in other words, you can’t fix the subconscious with the limited 5% of the conscious mind. Consciousness is required and consciousness means self-awareness; be conscious of the thoughts, beliefs, emotions and habits which no longer serve you and modify them.

Once you change your energy on a consistent basis then your life will shift to reflect your new state. Make gratitude your heartbeat and appreciation your breath. Joy is your natural state, once you truly know this you’ll make the effort to embody it.

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Neuroscience has taken huge strides over the last couple of decades, especially in its studies on altered states of consciousness invoked by spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer. One thing scientists have discovered is that by focusing your awareness on the space around your body, you change your brainwaves by slowing them down. Doing this brings the brain and body into back coherence─into balance.

Ever been stargazing? The stars often make me feel at peace, at ease, no matter what kind of day I’ve had, and recently, I’ve realised why…

When you enter your living room, what’s the first thing you notice? Probably the couch, the coffee table, the television or maybe even the pictures on the wall. It’s natural for us to focus on the objects we perceive with our senses. But, what allows those objects to be? What gives them the platform to exist?

Space! The Final Frontier! These are the voyages─joking, let’s carry on.

Space isn’t empty; it’s brimming with energy and information that is around us at all times. Nikola Tesla, who’s highly regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the last century, said that space is filled with a primary substance, the essence of all things, which he labelled as prana or life-force energy. Atoms themselves are 99.9% space. This space is ultimately consciousness─the fabric of existence.

Convergent focus vs Divergent focus

There are two ways to focus our awareness. A convergent focus is when we narrow our attention on objects in the outer world or on a thought or emotion within ourselves. As a result of such a narrow focus, we live in separation from our timeless self as the smokescreen of linear time eclipses our awareness. A divergent focus, however, is an opening up of one’s awareness on the space around themselves, such as the room they’re occupying, for example.

Neuroscientists have discovered that when we’re living through stress response that we focus on the cause of what triggered us into survival (a convergent focus). Our brainwaves speed up into high-beta, and we get trapped in negative, fear-based thinking and feeling loops because we believe we’re in danger. When one sits down amidst the turbulent emotions they feel and focus their attention on the space around their body and in the room around them (a divergent focus), they slow their brainwaves down. As a result, they change their state of being and move back into alignment.

In laymen’s terms; you can change your state of being and switch off the stress response by focusing on the space around you.

Let’s go stargazing again. As you gaze at those radiant crystals shimmering in the sky, you hone in on the space between you and the stars which slows your brainwaves down. As you calm the electrical storm between your ears, you feel at peace, at ease within yourself. Stargazing changes your state of being and calms the stress response if you’re truly present as you do it.

“The Unmanifested is not only present in this world as silence; it also pervades the entire physical universe as space─from within and without. This is just as easy to miss as silence. Everyone pays attention to the things in space, but who pays attention to space itself?” 

─Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now

If during meditation one experiences, even if just for a few seconds, stillness, they’re tapping into space within their bodies. When they focus on the space without, they align with the space within. This is because the inner and outer worlds are fundamentally the same─stillness is space in the inner universe.

Learning how to broaden your focus, and making the practice routine enables you to maintain the state of being you prefer throughout your day. Stillness is your essence, your core-self. Living in this essence is the key to discovering joy, peace and happiness independent of outer circumstances.

A consistent practice of meditation is essential in this day and age. Not only does it align us with the space within and around us, but it gives us a place to rest amidst the turbulence of everything happening around us in today’s world. Meditation wraps us in a protective bubble, so situations don’t disturb us. In my book, The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the maze of your Mind, I touch on this:

“The purpose of meditation is to transcend the old self, which enables one to become a conduit for wisdom. Emptiness is meditation; it’s a state of consciousness where one is free of thought and emotion while they’re anchored in stillness. In this state, one transcends the illusion of linear time, and the fear-based grip the old self has on their consciousness. All the lies, tricks and illusions of the mind are seen through instantly when the sun of pure consciousness rises within oneself. Meditation invokes clarity and the reinforcement of who you truly are.“

─The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind

As we awaken more of our true selves, we become aware of the fear-based programs hijacking our consciousness. We realise that our state of consciousness mirrors our perception of the world, and attune to the vast, cosmic intelligence all around us, effortlessly synchronising everything in the manifested universe.

In conclusion, space aligns us with our very own portable paradise. Gaze into the horizon at the beach, watch the sunset or the stars from your balcony at night─learn to consciously switch from a convergent focus to a divergent focus. Most do this without realising, but by making it a conscious practice by focusing on the space around you, you’ll be able to manage your state of being, which can only lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

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The enviornment signals your genes but for decades, we’ve taught to believe that genes create disease and that there’s no way of avoiding our so-called, hereditary maladies. We assumed that we’re doomed by our DNA and that there’s no escape. Misconceptions such as these, are being blown out the water by the latest findings in epigenetics. We’re living in exciting times, indeed, as we’re beginning to transcend the false notion of generational curses.

Genes create proteins, which in turn are responsible for the structure and function of our body. When we consistently feel emotions such as compassion and appreciation, our genes respond by creating healthier and stronger proteins that are equal to those emotions. The autonomic nervous system then begins to heal and restore the body. The immune system is also signficantly strengthened when we live positive states.

Conversely, when we live via the hormones of stress, the survival gene signalled by the state utilises all of our life-force energy because it believes that it needs to run, fight or hide to survive. As a result of indulging in the stress response, the proteins created aren’t of good quality because your genes have less energy to work with. This is how the overindulgence in the hormones of stress breaks the body down, creating disease, simply because the body is being fed weaker proteins, which aren’t capable of maintaining the basic functions and structure of the body.

Chronic forms of stress and anxiety break the body down due to the maladaptive inner environment they generate over time. Being conscious of one’s emotional state is the first step one must take if they prefer to live a life, full of joy, vibrant health and wellbeing.

A bit of realism is needed here, of course, as it’s impossible to feel joy all the time. Everyone has their triggers, those events, people and circumstances which take them out of their peace and consequently, the present moment. Triggers only pull us out of our natural state due to our unconscious reaction to them. We believe they pose a threat because of the way the mind automatically defines them. All circumstances, no matter how dismal, however, are rendered powerless without our reaction to them. The reason the stress response is called the stress response is that it’s our unconscious response to the environment, which signals the survival gene.

We’re human, we all get startled by life. What matters isn’t the fact that you’re triggered, but how long you choose to dwell in those fear-based emotions. Shortening the refractory periods of negative states is the beginning of the process of starving your blood cells of the addictive neuropeptides released in the brain the moment the survival gene is activated. The more you live in joy and appreciation, the more your body and cells can respond positively to the new, inner environment you’re feeding them. Your body can be an inferno of hellish, tumultuous emotions or a utopia of light, joy and bliss. The choice becomes yours once you become conscious of how to self-regulate your emotional state.

In 2017, I was diagnosed with hypochondria and panic disorder by a therapist because I kept having panic attacks. Losing my best friend of fifteen years, my dog, only compounded things on top of other issues, I was unconsciously suppressing for years. While growing up, Mother called me a hypochondriac and said I was just like her Father, my Grandfather, who struggled with hypochondria himself.

Knowledge is power. When I stumbled across the work of Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden and Joe Dispenza, everything changed. I realised that it wasn’t my genes creating the condition, but that the unconscious belief that I was a hypochondriac literally signalled my genes to express themselves in the same way as my Grandfather did. The only thing perpetuating the condition was my misaligned perception. What a profound realisation it was to learn that if I change my perception that I can control my inner state!

At first, it was uncomfortable. The moment I became fully conscious of that pattern, it got worse. Maybe that’s why they say; ignorance is bliss? The heart palpitations, sweaty palms, bouts of dizziness, sleepless nights seemed to get worse while I integrated the emotional pain trapped in my body due to believing that I was someone I’m not.

I experienced what some call the dark night of the soul.

I realised, through meditation and shadow work that I had a plethora of fear-based beliefs hijacking my perception perpetuating the condition. Even though it was so painful and uncomfortable for me to stay the same, it felt just as difficult, at first, to leave the familiar and embrace a new set of feelings.

My mind believed I was going to die every day for years. As I look back, I’m thankful for those times, as stars can’t shine at their brightest unless they are encapsulated by darkness. Those so-called, dark days, showed me that I not only yearn to survive but also to thrive. 

The moment I ceased believing that I’m doomed because of my genes, my perception of myself and the world radically changed for the better. Unconsciously gobbling up those beliefs from my Mother, signalled my genes to function in the same ways as my ancestors; and who knows how long that pattern has been in my family? I’m proud to state that it ends with me─no more! I wouldn’t wish that hell upon anyone!

My book, The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind, is spreading like wildfire. I wrote it to teach people how to utilise honest methods of introspection and meditation to bring their unconscious programs into consciousness so they can transcend their habitual process and reclaim their energy from the old self:

“Repetition programmes the subconscious mind. You don’t have to think about how to open the refrigerator door, for example, as you’ve done it so many times that it’s become automatic. The subconscious is the habit mind, which isn’t a bad thing in and of itself. It also contains a host of mental and emotional patterns, that have a considerable impact, not only your behaviour but also the kind of people and situations you attract in your life.

The reprogramming of the subconscious becomes a challenge when a person develops a whirlwind of patterns that sabotage their experience of life. This book aims to help them transform these automatic processes.”

–The Labyrinth: Rewiring the Nodes in the Maze of your Mind

Our reaction to the outer world signals our gene expression. All circumstances are neutral until our mind defines them as either beneficial or life-threatening. The conditioned mind often defines situations automatically in a fear-based way because it’s desperate to survive; thus, it believes there’s a threat around every corner because it fears termination. This is no way to live; however, my friends. As I just wrote, you’re here to thrive, not only survive. None of us is getting out of this life alive. We might as well embrace the unknown, go ahead, take the dive!

The outer environment is powerful. The people we spend the most time with shape our personality. If we’re not careful and selective while interacting with others, we may take on certain traits, beliefs and behaviours which don’t benefit us. With this in mind, some good people aren’t necessarily good for you. If you spend too much time around them, their destructive tendencies begin to rub off on you. We all have family members and friends with such traits, and may even have some self-sabotaging habits ourselves.

I’m an open book about my past. I was a drug addict for almost a decade of my life. From the tender age fourteen to twenty-three, I was taking all kinds of substances to run away from myself. Why? Because I couldn’t cope with the emotions of the survival gene I was unknowingly switching on at the time. When my addictions dissolved, (over a decade ago now) I had to come to terms with why I was geared towards them in the first place.

“It is most important to know that sinners or saints are largely made through the company they keep. If a sinner is willing to mend his ways and decides to live in the company of saints, he is bound to change, while a careless spiritual man will deteriorate in the company of wicked people.”

─Paramahansa Yogananda

Even though I’ve overcome the addictions and don’t feel tempted in any way, if I spent time with people doing the drugs in front of me all the time, my genes would (my reaction to my outer environment) express themselves in the same way they did when I was an addict! The result is that my cells would start to crave the drugs once more. Changing your outer environment for the better is tremendously vital for creating a better life. I write from experience and the bottom of my heart.

As Christ once said to his disciples; you can’t put new wine into old wineskins. What he means is you can’t create a new life from an old state of being, and you most certainly can’t if you’re still surrounded by the same people, situations which created your current life. Changes must be made within and without!

Get away from negative influences. Even if you have to leave behind someone you believe is your best friend, they’re most likely only keeping you around to reinforce their own destructive tendencies. I had to leave many of my friends because their substance abuse wasn’t good for me to be around. You can always fall back into negative patterns. Be careful, as the more you advance on the path, the more darkness you’re able to perceive within and around you.

Become more conscious of your patterns and habits. Take an honest look at yourself and see where you’re self-sabotaging. Also, take note of your triggers and shorten your refractory periods by meditating and changing your state of being once you’re triggered. The more you starve the old-self who feeds off your survival gene, the more you’re feeding the ever-new-self who feeds off your thrival gene.

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