I learned early in my life to accept change as a normal way of living. I saw over and over how people that resisted change always paid a bigger price in the end, either with their health, their relationships, or their careers. Of course there were times when I still fought change, but now it occurs less frequently and for shorter periods of time. I eventually learned to allow the necessary changes to come forward into physical manifestation without resistance. This was enhanced by learning to trust my feelings, and then surrendering to what was best for the greater good and benefit of all. The phrase “going with the flow” became almost automatic.
After many years of working with patients as a chiropractic physician, I could see that a lot of their pain, both physical and mental, was due to them trying to control their body and their world from changing in accordance with their environment. By changing their outer environment (body and world) they thought they could alter their inner environment (mind). However, that is backwards. Change does not work that way. It always begins with a subjective, inner change, which then causes an objective, outer change. Mind is the cause. It is primary. And body is the effect. It is secondary.
While in professional practice, I also saw how resisting the inevitable psychological and physiological changes stressed a person’s mind and body just as much as a bad diet, lack of exercise, watching too much television, or any number of conditioned, negative habits. The mind and body were out picturing an abusive, dependent, stagnant, and in many ways, a dysfunctional relationship. The resistance to change, if held long enough, will ultimately be responsible for producing symptoms of mental depression that will eventually lead to a lack of physical energy and body fatigue. And when this mind-body conflict is acted out on a recurring basis it can lead to chronic fatigue and endless pain. The person will feel trapped in a prison of their own making, one created by their beliefs, and become a victim to their internal as well as their external environment.
The way beliefs act in the mind is analogous to the way clouds act in Earth’s atmosphere. Clouds occur in the mental atmosphere and block the full spectrum light from the sun much in the same way that beliefs alter the incoming light from the soul. Habits can be likened to the shadows cast on the ground below. The images/shadows cast from this physical light reflecting and refracting process give us a way to differentiate light from not light, sun from shadow. Beliefs and habits alter the free flow of energy and information available to the mind and body. They can also create a state of conflicting energy and information in the mind and body, which completely changes the choices available to affected individuals. My desire/process to decrease the light-altering beliefs I had accepted in my life initially came during my first semester of chiropractic school from learning kinesiology (muscle testing). However, muscle testing was not part of my chiropractic curriculum at the time. Instead I received my first kinesiology training from other chiropractic students who were further along in their professional training and had been exposed to other healing techniques and disciplines. During this time, I found out there were many different ways that our minds and bodies obtain information, experience and information. I also learned how this information can be routinely blocked from our conscious awareness and perception. I finally found a way to obtain information that I did not normally have access to. Since that time, I have used kinesiology throughout my professional chiropractic practice. The more I used muscle testing the more I let go of my personal subjectivity, which all kinesiologists learn to do at some point because it can negatively influence the objective results. The eyes are just an extension of the brain. When your eyes are open light enters the lens and is focused onto the retina where it then travels over the optic nerves (second cranial nerve), then crosses over at the optic chiasm to the optic tracts and then onto the lateral geniculate bodies. The light then registers a stereographic image onto the visual cortex at the occipital lobes at the back of the brain ?where it the image is recorded into memory via the limbic system?. That is why the right brain is associated with the left side of the body and the left brain is associated with the right side of the body. If the eyes are blocked for any portion of time (as in blinking or sleeping) then the information (perceptive images) normally taken in by the nervous system are supplemented by stored information already in memory. It is similar to an optical illusion. This is the same process that a magician uses to trick you into “believing” their version of reality. Memory fills in the missing information in order to maintain continuity of space and time.
Dr. Marn works as an alternative chiropractor and international speaker where he presents in-depth seminars and workshops dealing with mind-body dynamics and environmental consciousness. He is currently in the process of writing two books:
Clouds of Belief, How Programming and Conditioning Alter Your Consciousness
The first book examines the nature of light and the physics behind the formation and development of beliefs and habits. It unveils Dr. Marn’s Conceptual Model of Consciousness, which unites all areas of mind-body dynamics.
Healing…Beyond Belief, Reconnecting to the Power and Joy Within You
The second book explains the nature of light and its inherent connection to mind-body dynamics. It explores the evolution of consciousness, its role in the dissolution of beliefs, and its innate relationship to self-healing.