The Energy Consequences Of Belief Patterns

taken from anatomy of the spirit by Caroline Myss

Regardless of the truth of familial beliefs, everyone of them directs a measure of our energy into an act of creation. Each belief, each action has a direct consequence. When we shape belief patterns with groups of people, we participate in energy and physical events created by those groups. This is the creative, symbolic expression of the sacred truth all is one. When we say support for a candidate running for office and that candidate wins, we feel that our energy and physical support helped. Further, we have some sense that he or she represents our concerns which is a way of physically experiencing the power of unity in the truth all is one.

Call Yung once remarked that the group mind is the lowest form of consciousness because individuals involved in a negative group action rarely if ever, except responsibility for their personal role and action. This reality is the shadow side of the truth all is one. It in fact unwritten tribal law holds that the leaders accept responsibility, not the followers. The Nuremberg trials following World War Two are a classic example of the limitations of tribal responsibility. Most of the Nazi defendants on trial for masterminding and in conducting sorry conducting the genocide of 11 million people, 6 million Jews and five million others, stated that they were only following orders. No doubt at that time, they were proud of their ability to fulfill their tribal responsibilities, but they were completely unable to accept any personal consequences at the trials.

Given the power of unfilled beliefs, right or wrong, it is difficult to be at variance with one’s tribe. We are taught to make choices that meet with tribal approval, to adopt its social graces, manner of dress and attitudes. Symbolically, this adaptation reflects the union of individual willpower with group willpower. It is a powerful feeling to be in a group of people or a family with whom you feel spiritually, emotionally and physically comfortable. Such a union empowers us and energetically enhances our personal power and our creative strength and it continues as long as we make choices consonant with the groups’. We unite to create.

At the same time we have within us a relentless congenital desire to explore our own creative abilities, to develop our individual power and authority. This desire is the impetus behind our striving to become conscious. The universal human journey is one of becoming conscious of our power and how to use that power. Becoming conscious of the responsibility inherent in the power of choice represents the core of this journey.

From an energy perspective, becoming conscious requires stamina. It is extremely challenging and often very painful, to evaluate our own personal beliefs and separate ourselves from those that no longer support our growth. Change is the nature of life and external and internal change is constant. When we change inwardly, we outgrow certain belief patterns and strengthen others. The first belief patterns that we challenge are tribal because our spiritual development follows the structure of our energy system. We clear out ideas from the bottom up, starting with the earliest and most basic.

Evaluating our beliefs is a spiritual and biological necessity. Our physical bodies, minds and spirits all require new ideas in order to thrive. Some tribes have very little awareness of the importance of exercise and healthy nutrition, for example, until a family member develops an illness. A new physical regimen and more appropriate diet might be prescribed for the ill person’s. As a result, other family members will have an entirely different reality introduced into their minds and bodies concerning the need to make more responsible and conscious choices in the personal care, such as learning to appreciate the healing power of nutrition and exercise.

Seen symbolically, our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate or all greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change, whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.

Many of the people are encountered in my workshops I’m stuck between two worlds. The old world that they need to release and the new world that they are afraid to enter. We are attracted to becoming more conscious, but at the same time we find it frightening because it means we must take personal responsibility for ourselves, and for our health, career, attitudes and thoughts. Once we accept personal responsibility for even one area of our lives, we can never again use trouble reasoning to excuse our behaviour.

In tribal consciousness personal responsibility does not exist in well defined terms, so it is much easier to avoid the consequences of personal choices in the tribal milieu. Travel responsibility extends mainly to the physical areas of our lives, meaning individuals are accountable for their finances, social concerns, relationships and occupations. The tribe does not require members to take personal responsibility for the attitudes they inherit. According to travel reasoning, it is acceptable to excuse one’s prejudices by saying everyone in my family thinks this way. It is extremely difficult to give up the comfort zone that accompanies such excuses, just think of how many times you have said everyone does it, so why should I? This dodge is the crudest form of the sacred truth all is one and it is commonly used to evade responsibility for all manner of immoral acts, from tax evasion to adultery to keeping the extra change from the sales clerk. Spiritually conscious adults, however, can no longer utilise tribal reasoning. Taxi evasion becomes a deliberate act of theft, adultery becomes the conscious breaking of a marriage vow and keeping extra change becomes equal to stealing from the store.

Often one needs to examine one’s attachments to travel prejudices before healing can begin. A man called Gerald contacted me for a reading, saying that he was exhausted. Is asking his energy, I received the impression that he had a malignant tumor in his:. I asked him if he had been through any medical tests. He hesitated for a moment, they said he had just been diagnosed with cancer of the colon. He stated that he needed my help in order to come to believe he really could heal. Part of him was trying to unplug from his tribes attitude about cancer because everyone in his family who had ever developed cancer had died, neither he nor his family believed cancer could be healed. We talked about a number of ways you could get assistance, such as the many therapies that help this help people develop a positive attitude through visualization. Most significantly, Gerald had already intuitively recognized that is energy connection to this travel attitude was as serious a problem as the physical illness itself. In his healing process, Gerald enlisted therapeutic support to help him break free of his tribal belief patterns about cancer. He was willing to try every option open to him.