I've always been interested in anything supernatural or metaphysical, which has led me to explore many a path; energy centres, Aura Soma colour therapy, organised religion, crystals, psychics, 'healing' or basically anything that was going to feed my curiosity about the more mystical side of life.
Being a logical person didn't help, as I struggled to understand how to internally reconcile the world of the tangible and 'matter' with my deeper belief that some sort of invisible 'force' existed as well. How could they co-exist? Life felt and can still feel like just one big paradox sometimes. What's helpful, however, is the advancement of science and the work of people like Dr Joe Dispenza, Dr Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden, who I'm off to share a week of learning with in the near future with other like minds and teachers. Quantum physicist I am not, but I hope my simplistic interpretations are able to capture something of the work they do.
It all needs to start from a platform of thinking, where fundamentally there is a belief that we are products of our own systems of thinking and feeling, and that every experience we have ever had has been processed by ourselves to inform our personal reality or our personality.
It is now widely accepted that our thinking affects us chemically, biologically and vibrationally, which means this can now be measured, and when we can measure something we can manage it better. Despite this, some of the information we have been accepting for years is no longer as accurate, as a large proportion of us haven't caught up to modern science yet. I can remember about 10 years ago a visiting neuroscientist to Whanganui said he believes the future of mental health will lie in neuroscience, and personally I have no doubt of that. Neuroplasticity and bioplasticity are here to stay, we can't un-know what we now know. It's taken me many years to get to this point of understanding and to be honest I attribute it largely because of my own experience with depression years ago, and only through doing this type of internal work did I find mental freedom and wellbeing. It's not something you do once — it has to become a way of life and the need to stay fully awake, reflecting on what frequency we are creating for ourselves. Easier said than done at times.
Ancient cultures intuitively knew about this and perhaps it will be modern science that could re-awaken some of us by giving us a new language of the mystical.