I grew up in the church, and I do not suggest you change religion, but I think you should look closely at what is taught. When I say taught, I mainly refer to what is taught unconsciously, the things absorbed by osmosis.
I know each church is different, and possibly most churches are not like the one I grew up in. (There were some wonderful things about that too. It wasn’t all bad.)
I’d like to discuss the mindsets I picked up at church. Recently I realized this way of thinking was negatively affecting my life.
Many churches believe in healing. I believe in healing, but I grew up focusing on the problem(s) that needed healing (the negative) instead of focusing on the healing (the positive).
I occasionally went forward when sick and hurt people were called to the front of the church for healing prayer. Still, I was so focused on the negative, fixated on the problem, that I didn’t have much room in my mind and heart for the belief that anything was going to happen.
Most of my prayers focused on pleading with God to heal me with desperate neediness and hopelessness.
I do believe in healing, and I have seen people healed. I just never figured out what they were doing differently from me.
(I am not going into detail here about the theological questions of why a good God doesn’t stop bad things from happening and make everyone well. I’m assuming that God wants to make everyone well, and we can accept or reject that gift.)
As a teenager, I felt that not getting healed proved something was wrong with me. I wasn’t good enough. I didn’t believe enough. I didn’t promise God enough. I didn’t listen to God perfectly, I wasn’t worthy of being healed, etc.
I concluded I was doing something wrong.
The problem here was that all my negative thoughts made me increasingly negative, and I focused more and more on sickness and problems and tried harder than ever to figure out what I was doing wrong.
The flip side of focusing on the negative is simply believing that I received healing when my friend prayed for me and deciding to have faith that it would manifest at the right time. I should have been repeating, ”Thank you for my healing!” and focusing on the positive because positive thoughts, words, and emotions attract more of the positive.
”Creation is always happening, Every time an individual has a thought or a prolonged chronic way of thinking they are in the creation process something is going to manifest out of those thoughts.”
Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith D.D.
Did you know when you believe a negative thought, you unconsciously put a pair of negative glasses on and filter information through them? Your subconscious tries to prove your beliefs to be true. In other words, if you believe your boss dislikes you, your brain will look for info that proves your negative theory is correct.
On the other hand, if you go through life with a positive mindset and a pair of positive glasses, these glasses will look for knowledge and experiences to prove your positive beliefs are true. Then what you find is positive. Our brains want to demonstrate our preconceived ideas are true.
I’m suggesting that healing is a lot like ‘Quantum Entanglement.’
”Quantum Physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can’t have a universe without MIND entering into it, and it’s actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.”
~Fred Alan Wolf Ph.D. Quantum Physicist
Einstein noticed an effect in quantum physics that he dubbed ‘Spooky action at distance.’ Today we know that ‘Quantum Entanglement’ is real, although we don’t fully understand how it works.
If two particles come together and become bound or entangled, one particle must be in state A and the other in state B. They can’t both be in the same state, which the Pauli exclusion principle explains.
The exciting thing is that if you change the state of the first particle from A to B, then the second particle will automatically adjust, so they are never in the same state! It doesn’t matter if the particles are on opposite sides of the universe!
It’s as if these particles have mind-reading capabilities or can magically send information faster than light speed! Which is mind-blowing!
It’s this principle that can radically change how we perceive healing. You change something in you, and it automatically changes something out there. If you change your mindset from negative to positive and believe you are healed, you changed your particle from A to B, and the other particle has no choice but to change from B to A and start manifesting healing!
God created the world, and he put these principles in place, and they work. It’s a bit like gravity, and gravity works whether you believe in it or not, and God’s principles work whether you believe in God or not.
Like things attract like.
I know when I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, things tend to get worse all day. Maybe the kids miss the bus, I forgot to get out snacks, clothes for Physical Education Class are in the wash, and everything snowballs downhill from there. I have to drive everyone to school, I am late to work, and my bad attitude and negative mindset continue as I spiral downward all day! I continue to attract negative experiences when I am in this negative state.
I’ve had mornings like this several times, but it makes a world of difference if halfway through the day, I notice I’m in a negative spiral and chose to change my attitude.
Annie eklöv
Do you know what happens? Things started going right for the rest of the day!
Like tends to attract like! If you have a good attitude toward others they will feel positive toward you. If you give off a vibe that you don’t like someone then they will feel that and probably reciprocate!
Like attracts like, and you chose what you want to attract!
I know there are some churches that teach and practice what I am talking about. It’s simply basic Bible teachings like forgiving, refusing to hold grudges, loving your enemies, praying for those who persecute you, being joyful, having faith, always hope, and the greatest gift is love!
Have you ever tried to pray for someone you dislike? Well, I’ll tell you that you can’t do it very long and continue to dislike them. You change particle A to B in yourself and something automatically has to change in the other particle!
When I’ve prayed for people I disliked or who I felt disliked me my attitude slowly changed and often I began to feel sorry for them because they were caught in the grip of something and didn’t realize how their actions spilled out over other people.
Changing my attitude towards them changed how I related to them, and when I began to relate to them positively, I started to get positive back!
And let’s not forget the Golden rule, ‘Do unto others as you want them to do unto you!’ There is a reason we teach our kids this and it’s because like attracts like!
Is there such a thing as God’s will for my life?
The idea of God’s will for my life was another sore spot for me, and I lived in fear that God would ask me to do something I didn’t want to do.
I felt controlled by fear. Fear that if I did the wrong thing, I would commit the unforgivable sin, go to hell, or get into Heaven and still be embarrassed on judgment day because I messed up! Well, everyone messes up! And Fear attracts more fear!
I had some years growing up when I was so afraid I couldn’t stand to be alone with my own thoughts!
At the time I was about ten and my parents were renovating our house. Often we all slept on the living room floor or on couches because the bedrooms were under construction. I was so afraid I couldn’t sleep and I was glad mom lay beside me. Her snoring comforted me even though I never told her I was living in extreme fear.
Most of my fears stemmed from sermons I heard about hell, death, judgment, the unforgivable sin, or fear that God would ask me to live a life I hated, etc. I was worried and afraid all the time.
I thought I was going to die, but all this fear and negativity was created in my own head. The reality was that God loved me, but somehow I missed that message in Sunday school.
The message of the Bible is one of HOPE and the greatest kind of LOVE. Sometimes I wonder how I could miss that, but we get stuck in a spiral and spiral downwards towards negativity or spiral upwards to positivity, hope, and love.
Annie Eklöv
Many of us don’t realize we can change the direction of our spiral!
We CAN! We can choose hope and Love! I believe God put a desire in each of us, and I think what he calls us to do was already in us from the moment we were born. Do what brings you joy!
If what brings you joy is something that’s legal and lines up with the Bible’s principles then do that and create a spiral of more and more Joy, love, abundance, and blessings!
I believe that that is what you are called to do. Your calling is not out there somewhere floating around, and only the lucky ones discover it. God put it in you! Do what brings you Joy!
Dorcus, in the Bible, loved sewing clothes, so that’s what she did she made clothes for the poor. David loved to play the harp and sing, and that’s what he’s known for today. Ester found joy in saving her people. Not every step is always joyful, but we always have a choice to return to joy and to focus our attitude on gratitude.
I think when we get to heaven someday, we’ll find that many churches made God sad. When we choose to focus on our differences, refuse to work with others because they don’t believe exactly the way we do, insist we are right at all costs, show hate, or feel obligated to tell everyone what they’re doing wrong before we even know them, we forget the message of love!
I think God wants us to work together and focus our energy on making the world a better place.
Think what could happen if we focused on working together instead of squabbling about how old you should be to be baptized. Or if we stopped focusing on the fact that we hate violence and war and focus on creating Peace. What would happen if we stopped judging others and focused on building each other up? Judging isn’t our job anyway.
We have the power to change the world. Choose Joy, choose love, choose peace, choose a positive mindset, and let like attract like. Let that particle in you change from A to B, and you just changed the world!
”There is a lie that acts like a virus within the mind of humanity, and that lie is…
Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith D.D.
‘There is not enough good to go around there is lack, and there is limitation, and there is just not enough!’
That lie has people living in fear, greed, and stinginess, and those thoughts of fear, greed, stinginess, and lack become their experience!
The world has taken a nightmare approach.
The truth is there is more than enough good to go around, there is more than enough creative ideas, there is more than enough power, there is more than enough love, There is more than enough joy!
All of this begins to come through a mind that is aware of its own infinite nature.
Copyright Annie Eklöv
(Sources)
https://www.livescience.com/33816-quantum-mechanics-explanation.html
https://www.space.com/quantum-physics-things-you-should-know