The Magnificent MindThe Magnificent MindHow the latest Scientific Research on the Brain

Can Help You Rediscover the Magic in Your Life

Dr Bill Davison DC. DO.Chiropractor, Osteopath

The Magnificent Mind

How the latest Scientific Research on the Brain Can Help You

Rediscover the Magic In Your Life

Dr Bill Davison DC.DO.Chiropractor, Osteopath

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One How the Mind Heals

Chapter Two Sydney to Melbourne Marathon

Chapter Three Believing is Seeing

Chapter Four Turning Back the Clock

Chapter Five Creating a New Body

Chapter Six The Space Within

Chapter Seven The Chemistry of Thought

Chapter Eight Exhilaration - Oh What a Feeling!

Chapter Nine Never Judge a Book By Its Cover

Chapter Ten The Challenge

Chapter Eleven What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Conclusion

Introduction

Exhilaration, When was the last time you felt it?

How often do you feel it?

Are you aware of just how much it affects your body – and your life?

Exhilaration releases brain chemicals called Endorphins that amongst other things also strengthen the Immune System.

Exhilaration also feels fantastic.

It’s the ultimate “high”.

The objective in providing this valuable information is to provide you with POWER. Power to change your life!

It is to increase your awareness of your possibilities – to change the way you think.

It can also teach you how to use your mind to heal your body, your emotions and your life.

Just reading this will assist all of that – but if you take action and apply this knowledge on a gradual ongoing basis and re-read this information regularly, I promise you, your life will improve dramatically.

Chapter 1

How the Mind Heals

Here is an interesting statistic for you. Incurable terminal diseases have a spontaneous remission rate of one tenth of one percent. You cannot name a single disease known to mankind that someone at some time has not completely recovered from. The truth is that many people have recovered from every disease. If just one person recovered from a terminal disease and went into spontaneous remission that means that you and I know it is possible. So, what we hope to do here is to share with you some ideas of why that is true and what you and I can do about raising that percentage.

UCLA, French and Israel researchers have identified three main types of opiate receptors (delta, mu and kappa). Researchers in Scotland were the first to identify naturally occurring substances (Encephalins and Endorphins) as opiates that bind to specific receptors in the brain. This is an attempt to explain how these opiates are a product of the mind and how the mind and body produce them. Examples are given of the effect the mind has on our bodies. We conclude by giving a philosophical outlook on life based on the principals here we’ve discussed.

Physics and the Mind

Physics came to us originally under the name of Newtonian physics. Newton was a guy who sat under a tree and an apple fell on his head and he discovered that there was such a thing as the law of gravity. Most of our scientific endeavours today are based on Newtonian physics. Newtonian physics means that everything is made of particles. You can break a substance down into smaller and smaller particles, but that concept is giving way to a newer type of physics called Einsteinium Physics. Einsteinium physics says that everything is not made of particles but rather everything

A snake can see infrared. A snake can identify a living object by the heat radiating off it. Perhaps you have seen waves, under the right conditions, coming off the iron when you are ironing clothes is made up of vibrations. Einsteinium was quick to let us know that light was a vibration and that everything in the universe vibrates at a different rate. What we think of as solids is just another vibratory rate. In fact, we find the whole universe is made up of a substance called cosmic root substance, and according to what philosophy you follow you may identify that by your own terminology. We find everything made of the same substance and at one end of the spectrum we have matter, a dense substance, as you and I know it. The definition of matter is something that occupies space and has weight (or mass). Matter comes in three forms, solids, liquids and gases.

The difference between these three forms is the temperature. Take water for example; if you raise the temperature of water it becomes a gas known as steam. So if you go to the opposite end of the spectrum of matter you have spirit. What we are saying is that spirit and matter are made out of the same substance, or you can say that matter is the most condensed form of spirit. Or you can say that spirit is the most attenuated form of matter. We go to great lengths to make all kinds of distinctions about what a substance is. In reality it is one big master plan made up of the same substances appearing at different vibratory levels.

Did you know that the only difference between one element and the other is the number of electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom? Actually it’s more correct to say the number of proteins in the nucleus of the atom. This is usually the case but it’s not always the same. Hydrogen for instance has 1 protein and 1 electron. Helium has 2. Scientifically this is described as the electro magnetic spectrum. The electro magnetic spectrum has very large wavelengths such as sound waves, radio waves, television and microwaves.

Then we get into the visible light spectrum. On the other end of this light spectrum we have x-rays, gamma rays and cosmic rays. As you go up the wavelengths get smaller and smaller. What is interesting about this electro magnetic spectrum is that only one percent of it is visible to the human eye. You are only seeing one percent of that spectrum with the human eye, and that one percent that we see runs through a range of the colors of the rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. If a wavelength gets longer than red we call it infrared. If a wavelength gets shorter than violet we call it ultraviolet.

So the human eye just sees in this very narrow range only. Red is about 700 nanometers, violet is about 350 nanometers. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, so if you see 350 billionths at a time you will see the length of the colour violet. The human eye therefore sees a very narrow spectrum. If you are not used to nanometers and are used to light being measured in angstrom units you add a zero to this; 3500 and 7000. As a result of this we are missing 99% of what is out there. Everything that you can see with your physical eyes is limited between these wavelengths.

. Those wavy lines you see coming off the iron are infrared waves. A snake can see those. A snake cannot see the other end of the spectrum but it can see that end of the spectrum. A honeybee, on the other hand can see ultraviolet.

When the flowers are blowing and the aroma is escaping from the blossoms, they emit an ultra violet light that the bee can see. The ultraviolet rays that it can see help guide it to the nectar in the flowers. A honeybee can see that end of the spectrum, but it cannot see at the other end of the spectrum.

How much of the electro Magnetic Spectrum that we can see is how much we understand about the world in which we live. There is much more of the world out there that we are missing.

Chapter 2

Sydney to Melbourne Marathon

How a 61 year old farmer beat the world’s best runners

Several years ago in Australia every single newspaper and every single magazine was running stories about a man called Cliff Young. Every year in Australia they have a foot race from Sydney to Melbourne. This is an internationally, recognized race. It is about 1000 kilometres long and world-class athletes come from all around the globe to run and participate in this race every year.

This particular year Cliff Young shows up to run in the race. He caught the eye of the reporter covering the race, because Cliff Young was wearing Oshkosh Bib Overalls, galoshes, and he was 61 years old. The reporter asked Cliff what made him think he could run this race with world-class athletes and how did he train for this race. Cliff said, “Out on the station ranch where he worked they didn’t have any horses and he had to run down the sheep, goats, pigs, and cows on foot. By running them down on foot is how he got in shape for this race.”

The reporter did not believe him, and when the race started he also had a funny run. He ran kind of stiff-kneed and did not pick his knees up very high. It turns out that he was conserving energy doing this. The world class athletes who come to run this race every year know that you cannot run 1000 kilometres in one day so the race takes several days. They know that the human body cannot run 24 hours a day so their game plan is to run 18, sleep 6, run 18, sleep 6…

Cliff didn’t know that because there was probably no television were he worked and he probably never saw a world-class race. Cliff was ahead but he definitely was not the fastest man out there,

so when he was in the lead the reporters were really following him close. When he was getting near the finish line in Melbourne the reporters said to him, “Why don’t you stop and rest and time it so when you cross the finish line it will be on prime TV?” Cliff said, “No way.” Cliff crossed the finish line at 2 a.m. hardly anyone was there to see him win the race. The second place winner came in 1 ½ days behind him.

The point of the story is that the other runners had some preconceived notions about running that Cliff did not have. Their performance was affected accordingly and Cliff’s performance was affected according to his ideas. The next year Cliff didn’t run and his record was broken. It was broken because the other runners caught on to some ideas that Cliff pioneered. What the other runners were guilty of was something called Premature Cognitive Commitment. They had their minds made up in advance which limited them, Cliff didn’t have that.

Chapter 3

Believing is seeing

There is another true story recorded in the writings of Charles Darwin. He was doing his explorations of remote portions of the globe in a sailing ship called the ’Beagle’. He and his men sailed up to the island of Patagonia, dropped the anchor in the bay and lowered the lifeboats over the side. The men got in the lifeboats rowed to the shore where there were some natives who lived there. These natives had never seen ‘civilization’ before. They were friendly and rowed out in their dugout canoes and met the men rowing the lifeboats.

Charles Darwin made the observation that the natives could not see the “Beagle” that was anchored in the bay. They looked out there and it didn’t exist in their eyes. Not until Darwin’s men took them on board and explained that it was a ‘big canoe’, could they see it. The point is the reason they couldn’t see it was because they didn’t think a thing like that existed. This is another example of Premature Cognitive Commitment. We edit out everything we don’t think exists.

We are all guilty of doing this. That is, we limit our world that we see according to what we believe exists. The truth is that we believe what we see and see what we believe. The saying “Seeing is believing.” should be “Believing is seeing”. We see what we believe in.

How do you know if there is a person of spirit standing next to you right now? He doesn’t happen to be in his physical body, he is in a different body. If you don’t believe in spirits and think that they don’t exist, you are never going to see that being standing there. When you get ridiculed enough about your belief system of what

you are seeing eventually you stop believing and seeing, yet another example of Premature Cognitive Commitment.

Premature Cognitive Commitment is probably the major factor in the process of ageing. Dr. Leaf from Harvard went on an expedition to investigate longevity in remote places of the world. He went to the Himalayas, Hunza Land, Russia, Georgia, The Andes, South America. He visited and studied people who were reputed to live for long periods of time in an attempt to find out what they had in common. Some of them lived at high altitudes. Some of them drank glacier water. Some were vegetarians. Some of them also smoked. But they were not all vegetarians or drank glacier water and it was hard to find out what they had in common because the locations where they lived were so vastly different from one another.

The one thing that he did finally find was that these people had in common was the way that older people were treated in their communities. They were looked up to, honoured and had a glamorous lifestyle. The attitude in these communities was that the older person, the more wisdom and experience they had. They were looked up to as authorities and full of wisdom and were treated like royalty. Contrast that treatment, to the way the older people are treated in other countries, where they’re often put into nursing homes and their lifestyle is anything but glamorous. What motive would you have to keep living? That was the common link that he found among these people that lived to be a “grand old” age.

So how can we use that to our advantage? You could pursue a profession, hobby or interest that as you get older makes you more valuable to family & society because of the service you can provide to others. Look at the examples of Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa etc. who as they age receive even more recognition.

Chapter 4

Turning Back the Clock

A Dr. Ellen Langer also from Harvard conducted an experiment in 1985. She put an ad in the newspaper asking for 100 volunteers who were 70 years of age or older to participate in her experiment.. She easily got her 100 volunteers and they went on a 10 day retreat out of town to a remote location. Their instructions were to bring with them clothes and memorabilia from 30 years ago. The retreat had been prepared ahead of time. There was no television, radio or telephone these were replaced by newspapers and magazines from 30 years ago. The papers and everything present depicted the 1950s. The instructions were to pretend it was 30 years ago. They listened to old music, watched Candid America and old movies. They talked about Elvis Presley, Kruchev and Castro. It was ten days of pretending it was 30 years ago. Before she took the 100 people out she did numerous biological markers on them. She measured their height, weight, blood pressure, percentage of body fat, range of motion; flexibility, handgrip test and she repeated this at the end of the experiment. She found that in average they had got 7 years younger in just 10 days. The sad news is that when they went back to Boston they lost their 7 years. It does not change the fact of what happened to them in those 10 days.

Now if that is possible, you and I should capitalize on it. Not by escaping the present but by cultivating the good feelings of the past by whatever means possible. Whether it be music, movies or whatever. These are examples of premature cognitive commitment.

Cats Eyes

There was an experiment done with newborn kittens. They were divided into 2 groups.One group was placed in a room with

nothing, but vertical stripes. The other group of kittens were out into a room with nothing, but horizontal stripes. They did this before the kittens had their eyes open. They were raised in these rooms. After they had grown up they took them out of the rooms and let them out into the real world.The group of cats that had been raised in the horizontal striped room would walk into table legs. Did they not see the table legs? Did they exist? The other group of cats that were raised in the vertical striped room would walk into the baseboard. They could not see things horizontal. These cats were obviously programmed. The lesson here is, how are you and I programmed? Do you have a self-image of limitation that you cannot see; an imaginary ceiling to your limits of achievement? How much of that accounts for our premature cognitive commitment.

Something Fishy

Another experiment was done with fish in a large fish tank. It had a plastic transparent partition and the fish on one side could swim up to the partition and back again. They had fish on the other side of the tank that could swim up to the partition and swim back. After the fish had spent a number of days in this tank they took the partition out so the number of fish would have access to the whole tank. You know what happened? These fish swam up to where the partition used to be and swam back. They were programmed that that was the extent of their area. What is your imaginary barrier?

It’s a Circus

In India they will train an elephant by taking a young elephant and tying a key large chain around its leg and attaching the chain to a very large tree. The elephant is unable to get away. As it gets

larger they reduce the chain to a smaller rope. By the time the elephant is fully grown they can tie the elephant with a tiny rope about as big as your finger around its leg and tie it around a tiny 3 foot high evergreen and the elephant believes that it is imprisoned and that he cannot get away. Are you a small or big elephant chained by small chains?

Zig Ziglar says that to be successful you have to be a good flea trainer. What he is referring to is that you can put fleas in a jar and put a lid on top and the fleas would jump up and hit the top. After they have done that for a few hours then you take the top off the jar. The fleas could easily escape but they jump as far as they could before and back down. They are programmed now that that is as high as they can jump.

The Chicago zoo got a new polar bear. The enclosure was not ready when the polar bear arrived and they had to place it in a large cage about 20 feet long. The polar bear would pace back and forth in this cage. When the enclosure was finally finished and they put the polar bear from his cage into the new, fancy natural habitat he paced back and forth 20 feet. That was the extent of his world. He was programmed.

I am giving you these examples to show you that this happens to you and I and we don’t even realize it. We get programmed and we don’t even realize it. We get programmed and it affects our lives and our ageing. There is a seer in India that says the only reason people get old and die is because they see other people getting old and dying. They expect that to happen. We all have to die, but not prematurely.

In our clinic we see examples every week of people who say that their grandfather got hemorrhoids when he was about 55 years old and their father got them also at 55 years old. They say that they

will probably get hemorrhoids when they are 55 years old, and you wonder why they are not disappointed.

We see what we believe.When you don’t see something it is less likely to manifest for you. If you don’t believe in it, it will be also less likely to manifest.

Breaking Barriers

barriers similar to our own. Learn and mix with people who break barriers. Some of you may remember when the athletic world thought it was impossible to run a 4-minute mile. Nobody could run a four-minute mile and break it. The theories were that the human body was not capable of breaking the four-minute mile. What happened after that was a whole bunch of people started running the four-minute mile. It used to be thought that a man could not run 100 meters in less than 10 seconds. Earlier in 1992 when Carl Lewis did that, six men in the exact same race did it. When the barrier is broken down and people see that it is possible and can believe in it, then it happens.

Right now there is a barrier with the 20ft pole vault. People are only pole-vaulting 19 feet and some inches. No one has ever broken the 20ft mark. The rumors are among the athletes that it is not possible. You and I know that someone is going to do that. Then what is going to happen? Lots of people are going to do it. What are your barriers?

We can learn from the above by studying and mentoring what others have done to break

Chapter 5

Creating a New Body

The way we can make this work in our daily lives is to understand how the human body functions, because if we can understand the human body and mind we can acquire awesome power. This power is magical because it literally allows us to create new bodies that are more perfect, flexible, dynamic, creative, fluent and long lasting than we ever imagined. To do this, we have to understand the body and the mind. Unfortunately our traditional knowledge based on the body and mind are based on some obsolete notions. We think of the human body as being a frozen sculpture fixed in space.

So, our approaches are also in the form of magic bullets. People are always looking for this. The last fix me up and the fast pick me up. If you cannot go to sleep at night you take a sleeping pill. This is supposed to cure your insomnia. If you are feeling anxious you take a tranquilizer. That is supposed to give you tranquility. Now these aspects do work to some extent, but they are strictly treating the symptoms. Sometimes they interfere with the mechanisms of disease. We need to really understand what are the origins of these imbalances in our bodies that ultimately result in malfunction and aging and what scientists call Entropy. Entropy means running down like a spinning top gradually loses its momentum and it will rollover. The point is that the human body is not a frozen sculpture. It is a river of energy and information.

The Greek philosopher Hireius said “You cannot step into the same flesh and bones twice, because there is new water running by. The river you stepped in previously is gone by and now is new water”. In every second of our existence we are creating a new body. Take breathing for example. With every breath in that you take it contains 10 to the power of 22 atoms. That’s 10 with 22

zeros after it. That is how many atoms you take into your body with one breath. These atoms end up as your heart cells, kidney cells, brain cells, bone cells and DNA.

With each breath that you exhale you are literally breathing out bits and pieces of your tissues and organs and you are exchanging them with everyone else on the planet. In fact, radioactive isotope studies show us that we replace more than 98% of all the atoms in our bodies in less than one year. It used to be said that we replace every cell in our bodies except our brain cells. We were supposed to have the same amount of brain cells our whole life. That was a rational to explain how you would remember something for more than 7 years. Now we know that the cells in our bodies are replacing much faster than we originally thought.

You make new skeleton once every 3 months, a new stomach lining once every 5 days, new skin once a month. So if you think that you are your physical body you have a real dilemma. Which one are you talking about? The 1993 model is not the same model you had in 1992. It is not even the same body you had 3 months ago. There is a deeper reality to the body and it comes from the mind and body.

We need to come from that deeper level of existence, if we want to capitalize on this and make use of this information. So if we look at the body from that point of view and we ask the doctor what the body is made out of he will say muscles, bones and organs. Then you ask what they are made out of. He will say fats, proteins, carbohydrates and minerals. Then you will ask what that is made out of. He will say a nucleus that contains protons, neutrons, encircled by electrons that are orbiting the nucleus.

When you start breaking the particles down to smaller than electrons you get into vibrations. You can no longer call it a particle now, but you have to call it a vibration.

Chapter 6

The Space Within

Here is an interesting point. Imagine an atom in the human body. There is a proton and neutron in the nucleus and electrons in orbit around the nucleus. If you enlarge this atom so that the nucleus was the size of planet earth the electrons just happen to be proportioned to the size of the moon and the distance the moon is from the earth. What I am saying to you is that there is a lot of space between the nucleus and the atom and the electrons. How many moons could you put in line between Earth and where the moon is? Bodies are 99.99% empty space.

You may say that it doesn’t feel like empty space and that it feels pretty solid. That is because it’s measured by something that is made out of the same substance. If you could measure this physical body with something etheric, your etheric substance would just pass right through the atoms. These atoms or electrons emerge from a field of pure potentiality and pure energy. These particles that make up our body are fluctuations of energy and information. They emerge from a void and rebound and collide, disintegrate and go back into a void.

If you could see the body through the eyes of a physicist you would see a huge empty void with a few scattered dots and spots and some random electrical discharges here and there. Then you may ask, what is the nature of this void? Is it an empty mass of nothing or is it a fullness of some nonmaterial energy and information?

Einstein said that if you squeezed all of the empty space from your body you could put all of the solid material on a head of a pin.

Chapter 7

The Chemistry of Thought

Out of this empty space comes particles and they are not material objects but fluctuations of energy. In common language we say a quantum unit of light is a photon. A quantum unit of gravity is a graviton. A quantum unit of electricity is an electron. What is the quantum unit of your body; is it a thought? Not just any old thought or a simple thought, but thought plus emotion or feeling that leads to action. It is like an instinct, a concept, a desire, an idea and it may not be verbal. It can be that faint impulse that you experience all the time in your awareness, that motivates you to walk from here to there or to walk and get a glass of water. At a very primordial basic level of thought, it is just an impulse on information that comes from our own consciousness. So as we are thinking we are making molecules that are being generated not only in our mind but also in our whole body. In other words to think is to practice brain chemistry.

Ciro said that to think is to live. Emerson said that you are what you think about all day long and the bible says that as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

So we used to think that the way the nervous system worked was that an electrical impulse would follow the Axon or another Axon or another dendrite or nerve cell. Now we find out that is not true. When one brain cell wants to communicate with another brain cell it manufactures a chemical called a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides have been identified under the microscope. They look like a projection and they attach themselves to receptor sites of another cell. The receptor site looks like it can look into the neuropeptide. When that happens then the message is completed. That is how one brain cell talks to another brain cell. These receptor sites are coded.

This is not theory, but it is identified under anelectron microscope. It is interesting that some of the most promising research going on today in the field of AIDS is that the virus has to lock into a receptor site to get a foothold in the body. What they are doing is trying to make an artificial neuropeptide that will fill all of the AIDS receptor sites so that the AIDS virus would have nowhere to go. They have done this successfully with other diseases. This is a brand new concept of how our nervous system works. What is the origin for the generation of the neuropeptide? The answer is a thought. This is what causes the brain to secrete the neuropeptide. That is the whole notion. We are the thinker behind the thought. We are in control of the process. Even thought we do it unconsciously. This is not theory. This is a eureka type discovery in brain physiology.

Careful What You Think and Feel - Your Immune System is Listening!

If you think that is amazing listen to this. Our immune system is made up of monocytes, B cells and T cells. A monocyte is about 11 microns in diameter. There are 25 000 microns to an inch. So you can get an idea of how small 11 microns is. The monocyte was

the first cell that they found receptor sites on other than brain cells. These receptor sites were identical to the receptor sites of the brain cells. Do you realize what that means? It means that your immune system is eavesdropping on your internal dialogue. You can’t have a thought or a feeling or a notion without your immune system knowing about it. Do you think that will not affect your immune system? The immune system is eavesdropping on every single thought that crosses your mind. Even though your mind is wandering aimlessly, the immune cells know every single thought you have. The monocyte is the first place they discovered that. The monocyte has had identified 90 different receptor sites. The next startling discovery was that the immune system can not

only receive neuropeptides but it can generate its own neuropeptides. This is proven fact and not theory in the scientific world.

Your Other Systems Are Communicating Too!

Earnest Holmes told us 40 years ago that our thoughts had this effect on us. We didn’t have the scientific explanation behind it like we do today. So these immune cells are listening to our conversation that we are having every single second of the day. Now if that is not startling enough, the next discovery was that they found these receptor sites in other organs of the body. They were found in the liver, kidneys and intestines. They were also secreting neuropeptides. So, in other words we have a thinking body. If that is true that helps explain why visual imagery works. At the Carl Symington institute in Forth Worth Texas they have a good success rate with terminal patients going into remission using visualization methods. Neuropeptides helps to explain why this works. So when you say that you have a gut feeling about something you are speaking literally not metaphorically. Your gut cells might be a little more accurate than your brain cells because your gut cells have not yet evolved to the stage of self-doubt. When we say we have a sad heart or it is bursting with joy you are speaking literally. That is what’s happening at the chemical level. It is the most fundamental level of the cell.

Where is your mind located?

The mind is not confined to the brain. The brain is not the mind. The mind is in the whole body and is everywhere. It doesn’t matter that the brain cells get replaced every year. You can still remember longer than a year because that is not where the mind is.

The mind not only permeates our body but the mind extends out beyond the body. My personal belief is at that our mind is at the very centre of who we really are!

The mind is in every cell of our body. If we have an experience of tranquility whatever the cause of it might be; that’s when your body makes valium just like the one Hoffman Laroche makes except there’s no side effects. It doesn’t make you feel like a zombie. When you feel anxious the body makes Kittery molecules that are not just from the adrenal glands, they’re everywhere in your body.

Now it turns out when you feel exhilarated whatever the reason for the exhilaration may be your body makes very powerful immune modulators. In fact, there are anti-cancer drugs known as interlucons and interferon and they’re very expensive. A full course of interlucons may cost you something like forty thousand dollars just for one injection. But if you go to the space mountain at Disneyland you can manufacture yourself millions of dollars of interlucons provided that that is an exhilarating experience for you. Now, if Space Mountain at Disneyland is a horrifying experience for you then your body will make bad chemicals for you.

Chapter 8

Exhilaration - Oh What a Feeling!

They now have proven that the feeling of exhilaration is what makes our bodies produce the immune modulators. This increases our immunity unbelievably, but you must understand that what may be exhilarating to you, may not be the same thing that’s exhilarating to me and vice versa.

I can still recall the “morning after feeling” from the previous nights’ activities whenever I just really had fun especially if mixing with youth. At first I couldn’t figure out why I felt so good. Then I saw the pattern. It explains why some like to do dare devil things. They call it adrenal rush.

Now I realize that for some of you propelling down the side of a mountain on a rope may not be an exhilarating experience at all, but the point is that whatever it is in your life that does exhilarate you, that is what you need to do. That’s how you’re going to get healthy, that is how you are going to stay healthy. The body can manufacture these chemicals. This is just one method we have of making it manufacture the chemicals we want it to manufacture.

Norman Cousins, the author of the book Anatomy of an Illness calls the brain the magic Apothecary. Apothecary is a Greek word that means drug store. To date they have identified over fifty different neurotransmitters that the brain can manufacture from scratch.

These are chemicals that are not normally circulating in your bloodstream but the brain can manufacture it on its own on demand. One of them is a painkiller that is fifty times more powerful than morphine. You’ve heard about soldiers on the

battlefields. A soldier gets his arms blown off yet keeps going as if he is in no pain; he doesn’t even know his arm is missing and the other soldiers have to come and get him and lay him down trying to stop the loss of blood because the man is in no pain. How is this possible? Put simply, it’s because the body can produce these immune modulators under those conditions of stresses that are encountered on the battlefield.

There is a story about a man who is driving his brand new car down the highway and another car sideswiped him going the opposite direction. It ripped off the left side of his brand new car including his left arm,when the police arrived on the scene of the accident the man in shock was sitting behind the steering wheel saying “Oh my poor car, oh my poor car.” The police said, “Oh your poor car, how about your poor left arm?” The guy looks down and sees his left arm is missing, he says, “Oh my Rolex, oh my Rolex.” That’s not true, but the battlefield story is true.

The Body’s Drug Store We have a complete pharmacy that is absolutely exquisite and it makes everything. It makes tranquilizers, sleeping pills, anti-cancer drugs, immune modulators and antibiotics. You name it the body can make it. In the right dose, at the precise time, at the right target, no side effects and all instructions are contained in the packet. The brain is capable of doing this on demand. “The brain is a magic Apothecary.” Have you ever wondered how people existed and survived before there were drug stores? How did our ancestors survive the saber tooth tigers? What if they got an infection in their foot, how did they survive?

Scientifically we are told that if the brain is the drugstore, the hypothalamus is the druggist. Medically we used to think we were pretty smart and we could trace the patient’s symptoms back to the

ovaries or we could trace the symptoms back to the adrenal glands. Then we got really smart, we were able to trace it back to the pituitary gland, which also tells the other glands what to do. Sometimes we could trace it back to the pineal gland, which can also influence the other glands.

Today we can trace it all back to the Hypothalamus. The Hypothalamus is what controls the pituitary gland and the pineal gland. Those glands are the ones responsible for activating the Crown Chakra and the Brow Chakra. We never used to have a test for the Hypothalamus and nowadays we have a test for the Hypothalamus. Dr Mike Allen made this discovery. He actually had a patient who had cold feet and he couldn’t figure out why the feet were cold. In desperation he breathed on the feet to create a breeze and found that the muscles went weak.

This lead to the discovery that the type of sensation called light sensation is carried up the spinal cord by a track called the spinalthalmic track, which goes to the Hypothalamus.

Neurologically that’s already been figured out in neurological anatomy. When they figured out what they were triggering during the light sensation they traced it back to the Hypothalamus. The point is that any light sensation like if I just barely touch the hairs on a patients arm it does the same thing to them. This won’t weaken everyone it will only weaken a person who has a Hypothalamus problem. The good news is that this can be fixed by a nutritional supplement usually green powder like spirulina or barley grass.

It is estimated that the average person thinks about 60,000 thoughts per day. What is a little disconcerting is that about 95% of those thoughts are the same as the previous day. This means that you keep creating the same energy patterns over and over again.

Chapter 9

Never Judge a Book By Its Cover

There was a Judge White Sides that made a brilliant discovery. He discovered that people who came in front of his bench who were charged with similar crimes had similar facial features. The conclusion of his many years of observation was the study called personology. Personology says that everybody today 40 years or older is completely responsible for what they look like. We are constantly expressing externally what our body is feeling internally. For example; if you’re skeptical your nose will turn down. If you’re gullible long enough your nose will turn up. We are creating our own bodies. The trick is to be neither skeptical nor to be gullible and to have a straight nose. You cannot prevent your thoughts affecting the way you look.

They found out that people who are predominately positive have a larger right nostril and people who are predominately negative have a larger left nostril. If you have a larger right nostril don’t be so quick to pat yourself on the back because we really need a balance. We don’t have right and left nostrils accidentally and people say, “Well you’d look funny if you only had one!” Well you wouldn’t look funny if God made everyone have one nostril. The point is the right nostril takes in positive ions and the left nostril takes in negative ions. That is by design and not accidental. If you witness this process that is going on and become conscious of it then you realize that you have choices here.

You can do wonderful things with this. You can invoke healing response from within yourself. You could restructure your perception of time, which would completely restructure the physical expression of the body. You could retard the ageing process. A person’s body is nothing but an expression of all the ideas that you have about the body.

The Face of Change

There was a movie, The Three Faces of Eve, based on a true story of a woman who had multiple personalities. Well, at that time it was a Eureka type discovery that this women had 3 distinct different personalities.. Today scientists have identified up to as many as 17 different personalities within the same body. When you have somebody that has 17 different distinct personalities (and this has been proven), one personality may have diabetes. If you draw blood from the patient at the time this personality is present the test for diabetes will prove true on this blood sample. Five minutes later there is a different personality present and you draw a second blood sample. Guess what? The blood sugar is completely normal. This is how fast a person can control the physical body. This is a fact.

If you have ideas that your body is a physical machine that is supposed to age in such and such a way; that it gets imbalanced from the environmental stresses and changes, then as we saw earlier it will translate into chemical changes in the body. The body that we experience normally is all our ideas of our body. All the ideas that we have had manifested in this point in time. That is what our bodies represent. According to the latest discoveries in science if those ideas are changed then the whole body will change, A change in the conceptual notion of that will spontaneously cause physical transformation in the physical body. A mutation in consciousness would cause a mutation in biology. You don’t have to brainwash that concept. Owning it is the prerequisite to make the changes come about. Take conscious control of it and don’t let 95% of your thoughts today be the same thoughts that you had yesterday.

Chapter 10

The Challenge

If this is so true and simple why is it a problem? The reason it is a problem is that we believe that our senses are the crucial test of reality. This is where we are hung up,we think our senses speak the truth to us but they don’t. For example, my senses tell me that railroad tracks come together but I don’t believe that. My senses tell me that the earth is stationary but I know that it is going through space at millions of miles per hour. In fact it is mostly quantum fluctuations of empty space.

This is not an emptiness of nothing. It is a fullness of non-material. If we can get in touch with that intelligence you will have a completely new reality of the body. Also a complete new experience with life. You begin to experience it as more fluid, more dynamic, more creative, and more changing. In fact you are changing your physical body more effortlessly, more rapidly, and more efficiently than you can change your clothes.

An extension of the consciousness will make the most unreal abstraction become a concrete reality. That means that ideas that were previously vague and abstract to us become real to us when we expand our consciousness. Have you ever had the experience of reading a book for the second time and feeling inspired, because of a certain passage in there? It comes out and hits you in the face but the same passage was in there 10 years ago. Ten years ago it didn’t rush in on your consciousness because you weren’t ready. This time when you read the book you were ready for it.

In philosophy we say when the student is ready the teacher will appear. We never need want for the teacher.

We never need to worry of being held back for lack of a teacher. So our goal is to first understand the real nature of the body as it really is.

That in itself is really exciting. The intellectual understanding alone will cause a transformation.

We don’t always need to have all of the affirmations. There is nothing wrong with affirmations, but they do not always work. Refer to my website www.empoweryou.com.au for a free report on how to reprogram the mind and/or read my two books “The Lord of the Genes” and “Biocybernetics”. The condition of our body is the result of our consciousness. The condition of the earth is the result of human consciousness. So we can do something about that. We can change our consciousness so that the earth changes. We are one human family tied so closely together that anyone of us can do something to uplift ourselves that would also uplift the entire human family. Anyone of us could do something degrading that would hold down the entire human family. We are that closely tied together.

Chapter 11

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

In 1980 scientists at the Ohio State University were doing a study on the effect of high cholesterol on rabbits. They were feeding them a high cholesterol diet. To the amazement there was one group of rabbits that was not getting the high cholesterol and hardening of the arteries. If they could figure out why that was true they may discover something new.

So, they started checking temperature, humidity, daylight, darkness, direction of the cage, gravitational fields, magnetic fields and they finally stumbled onto the answer. The technician whose job it was to feed the rabbits in that particular cage just so happened to be a rabbit lover. He would take the rabbits out of the cage and he would pet and hold them. He would kiss them, sing to them and give them the food. This caused the rabbit to secrete certain peptides in their brain cells so that they could shunt the cholesterol into different metabolic pathways and wouldn’t get the high cholesterol.

The moral of this story is if someone accuses you of being amorous, just say that you are trying to lower his or her cholesterol! This is an important study because heart disease kills more people in people in our society than anything else. Heart disease kills more that the second and third diseases put together.

Another experiment was done at the University of Miami with a group of premature infants. They divided these infants into 2 groups: a control group and an experimental group. In the experimental group an investigator would come over and reach out through a hole in the crib and he would stroke the baby 3 times per day for about 10 minutes at a time. These babies gained an average of 49% more weight per day while they were given the same formula as the control group. This led the investigators to conclude that this stimulation was

a cost effective strategy because it saved $3000 per admission since the babies could go home 5 days earlier.

Keep Your Heart Happy

In Massachusetts the Health Education Welfare Department did a study. This time they were looking for the risk factors for heart disease. The fact is that over 50% of the people who have heart attacks have none of the following risk factors: smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and overweight. Fifty per cent of the time the first symptom of heart disease is death. The person drops over dead from a heart attack and did not know that he had heart disease because he did not know that he had any of the risk factors. So, what is the cause of the heart attacks?

In the study they found out that there were two factors: Job dissatisfaction and self-happiness rating. Now you ask the questions are you happy and do you love your job? If you truthfully answer yes to both questions of the factors you are probably not going to have a heart attack. An astonishing fact is that more people die on Monday Morning in our society than any other day. Supposedly no other species know the difference between Mondays and Tuesdays. What is the difference? The difference is the idea. It is the thought. How we interpret Monday. How we interpret time, space and physical reality.

So, I would like to summarize our ideas about the quantum mechanical body. The particles give us the experience of matter through our senses but they are really fluctuations. Your body is 99.99% empty space. Empty space is really not empty. It is a reservoir of non-material intelligence and information that is ultimately responsible for the material expression of both the body and the mind. Scientists call this body by different names. They call it the Unified Field or the Morphogenic Field and the essential point to grasp here that the real you is not just material, the real you is not just subject to the laws of matter, which is in the sphere of time, space and causation.

Your basic consciousness, which conceives and governs your actions becomes the mind and the body. At first this may sound very strange and abstract but as you bear with this notion and understand you realize the most dramatic discovery. We are not physical machines that learn how to think. We are thoughts that learn how to create physical machines. You’re impulses of intelligence that have learned how to create both the mind and body. This is not our true home here. We are just here temporarily as if we are attending school here. The conditions here are very crude compared to our true home. We think we have modern convenience with dishwashers and garbage disposals. The truth of the matter is living here in the physical world is like camping out in the rough compared to our true homes where we come from.

Remember 99.99% of what we are is invisible so don’t be so quick to judge your neighbour. Remember you only see 1% of them. You might like the other 99%. The ancestor to every action is a thought.

Wayne Dyer tells us a beautiful story of a man who dropped his key in the house.

He can’t find it because there are no lights in the house. The electricity is off, so he goes out in the street under the street light, which is on, and he starts looking for the key under the street light. A friend of his comes by and sees him out there on his hands and knees looking on the ground and the friend says, “What are you doing?” The man says, “I am looking for my key.” The friend says, “I’ll help you.” The friend gets down on his hands and knees and starts helping look for the key. They can’t find the key. The friend says “Where did you drop your key?” The man says “I dropped it in the house.” He says, “What are you doing out here.” This Guy says, “Well there’s no light in the house and there’s light out here.” You see how stupid that sounds.

You and I are guilty of the same thing, if we’re looking out there; we think the guru is out there. It’s not, it’s in here. The lights are in here and the answers are in here. We have to turn within. We are guilty of looking out there under the streetlight. That’s not where the key is because the key is in here! The river of life runs between the banks of pain and pleasure. Don’t get stuck in either bank; pain or pleasure,keep flowing down the centre of the river. Did you ever notice that when your life is inspired about something that is when you’re life’s working? When you are inspired about something that is when your life is working in many ways. If you are not inspired then you see all the negative things in life. When you are inspired that is when you create endorphins from exhilaration. Get inspired about something. Have a dream. Make a contribution to life. Serve others in a great cause. Be less selfish.

Unfortunately science progresses by funerals. Ideas change very slowly in the sciences. Usually when the old guys die off the new guys get to express their ideas. Let’s you and I not be guilty of that, let’s not let our lives progress by funerals. You and I can catch on quicker than that. When we realize the world is round we can’t choose sides anymore. Choosing sides is not the answer. Putting one group against another group is not the answer.

Conclusion

As we reach the end of this book there are some qualifications that I would like to add.We have discussed a number of laws that govern the body and mind. Applying them will make a huge difference in your life and in the lives of those in your life. However there are many laws including so called spiritual or “values” laws. The more laws we know, understand and apply, the greater will be the results of the law you are living.

That is helpful feedback to keep us searching, finding and applying new discoveries that we make. To help you understand and apply what you have just learned; and to keep on learning we recommend the Biocybernetics Life Empowerment Course, the other information and optional coaching we provide.

So what are you going to do next?What actions are you prepared to take to really improve your life?You can start by listening more carefully to your inner communication- your conscience.

You can also manage your thoughts and feeling more efficiently.

You can control what you read, watch and do.

You can study more of the right information.

Try my website for more help, www.empoweryou.com.au or my blog www.drbillblog.com

My best wishes for your success and happiness

Dr Bill Davison DC.DO..

Taken from an article-The Chemical Architecture of the Brain by Dr Sheldon Deal D.C, ND, DICAK

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