So they've been doing "studies" again on the mind-body connection.  That connection has only been demonstrated successfully for thousands of years across many cultures, but hey, knock yourselves out.  Because, you know, scientists are smarter now than they ever were in the past.  That's why they're having to rewrite the history of the universe.

I watched a great video by a guy talking about how genes are blamed for diseases.  He described how genes produce proteins in response to signals from the brain, and how the signals your brain sends to genes are causing production of proteins that cause disease, and how changing the signals from the brain had been proven to change the proteins produced and reduce and even eliminate disease.

This all was based, yet again, in the attitude, the thought patterns, and the emotional state of the person.  By now, this is becoming a very familiar theme.  It's no secret that when we're stressed or unhappy, we produce cortisol, the stress hormone.  But that's the extent of a lot of people's understanding, and it starts getting into medical-speak, so I'm gonna put it a different way.

Every thought you have creates chemical reactions in your body.  Even thoughts you're not really aware of.  When you're thinking negative, worried, or angry thoughts, you're creating a chemistry that causes your body to produce certain hormones and types of cells that you would need if there was a real threat.  Since the threat is in your mind only, in the past or the future, you don't need all these chemicals and all this adrenaline and cortisol and whatever.  And now that it's there, if you don't use it, it ends up feeling uncomfortable, and if you do this a lot, eventually it can actually do damage.

When you get your thoughts out of the negative, out of the rehashing the past and worrying about the future you can't control anyway, it's calming for the body.  Different chemical reactions happen as soon as you get out of that hamster wheel of negative thoughts.  The more you can stay out of the hamster wheel, the more you can heal yourself.  The body starts making repairs right away.  But you have to do your part.

Your body doesn't know it's only a thought.  There's an immediate reaction in there, and your brain sends information everywhere in your body, telling it to get ready for battle or to run for your life.  As soon as you break the cycle, and break that stream of thoughts, the messages from the brain are different.  Now the brain is telling things to stand down, red alert is over, at ease everybody.  The more you stay out of the past and future and negativity in your mind, the more you get back in balance inside.

CONNECTED BY OUR BRAIN WAVES

 You wonder why there's a mental health crisis?  How thoughts become contagious?  How we can end up with mass insanity?

The human brain is an amazing device that science only wishes it could replicate.  AI may be impressive, but it will always be inferior to the brain.  The brain functions as both a transmitter and a receiver.

The wavelengths of your brain activity are long enough to span the planet.  That's a lot of what the "we're all connected" people are talking about.  That's how.  That's how telepathy works, but of course we lost that eons ago when we starting building societies.

So your brain, awake or asleep, sends out your thoughts and feelings to distances of literally thousands of miles.  This goes out in a field - picture a cone shape getting larger as it goes away from you.  It's not linear.  Meanwhile, everybody else on the face of the Earth does the same, and your brain receives it.

We may have lost the ability to communicate directly via telepathy with specific others upon demand, but we are nonetheless affected by what we receive, and we affect others with what we send out.

There is something called the Law of Attraction, which basically says that what you send out is what you receive in return.  So if your thoughts are all negative, hate, anger, fear, you establish that as sort of your base frequency.  That becomes your resonant frequency, and other people's stuff that's in that frequency is what you'll pick up.  Not necessarily the actual thoughts or any words, but concepts, images, feelings.

If your thoughts are positive, optimistic, caring, kind, empathetic, loving, etc., that's the energy you'll send out, and that becomes your resonant frequency, so that's what you'll pick up in return, of the infinite stuff from other people you're bombarded with all your life.

For me, it's easy to see how this leads to a society full of depression, fear, worry, anger, hate, mistrust, negativity in general, especially after things like the pandemic, and in the midst of so much political division.  People also are exposed constantly to the social media presentations of others, and have their thoughts and feelings about what they see there.

The contagion mechanism isn't actually the social media itself.  You could get to where you walked away and got a life and left the impact of that behind.  Your thinking would shift once you disengaged.

People don't think they can control their thoughts or their feelings.  Your feelings don't just happen.  There's always, always a thought first, however fleeting, and you chose to engage and entertain that thought, whether you're aware of it or not.  You ARE responsible for what you think and feel.

Other people don't "make" you anything - mad, sad, happy, whatever.  YOU do.  Your thoughts about how they act and how they treat you are what creates your feelings about them.  Other people only have the power over you that you give them.

It's not easy to take charge of your thoughts and your feelings.  It's brutal hard work that never ends.  But it's the only way to break negative patterns.  And remember, if you keep waiting for external circumstances to change, or for other people to act better, you'll be waiting forever, and you'll be thinking and feeling the same stuff you are today.  And you'll be putting that negative broadcast out into the world, affecting others who'll never even meet you, adding to the mass negativity.

Yeah, I know, I know.  I hate inspirational quotes and "morning" people, too.  I'm not about that.  I'm not saying you have to get all positive and upbeat and happy.  All I'm saying is stop wallowing in the constant negative, because insanity is doing the same things expecting different results, and years of wallowing in negative thoughts all the time has brought nothing but more negativity, right?  So it just doesn't work.

Start with just not getting involved in the drama in your own mind anymore.  Don't grab onto that thought.  Let it pass by.  Don't fight it off - just don't embrace it and let it take over your day.  Once you start doing this, it'll seem like your mind has a mind of its own and fights back, and in a way it does, because YOU created the normal a long time ago, the energy frequency normal, that produces chemical reactions in your body, with your thought patterns.  When you go to change your chemistry and your frequency, it won't feel right, and your brain will try to restore your "normal" state.

Given time, as you don't get trapped in the negative thoughts, as you stop living in the past and the future, your chemistry will change, and your resonant frequency, and your broadcast frequency. You can't fix the world, but you can fix you.  And stop being part of the larger problem.

Stop rehashing stuff.  Stop the what-ifs and the yeah-buts.  Stop the if only this, if only that.  Enough.  Not only are you keeping yourself and your body chemistry trapped in a certain groove, you're radiating that out into the world.  If you picture the world as a huge invisible web created by all the overlapping thoughts and feelings of all the people alive, you're on the right track.  You're part of that web.

You can only change yourself.  You can't change anybody else.  But the longer you stay negative, the more negativity you add to the collective consciousness - that invisible web of everybody's thoughts.  And because you're negative, well, that's your frequency, and the only thing that can be in harmony with it is more negativity.  If you want to be on a positive frequency, you have to put out thought energy that will be able to be in harmony with positive energy from others in that web.

Again, it's not about an attitude change where you get all positive and inspirational.  This is important, because I'm the one telling you this, and I'm someone who could never get to that kind of attitude shift if my life depended on it.  What I'm capable of is making the conscious effort, daily, to not grab on to the negative thoughts, the broken records in my head.  A lot changes just from not playing those same broken records over and over.

While you'll likely never make out any actual details of somebody else's thoughts, just know that you ARE affected by all that information and emotion passing through you all the time.  None of us can help it - we're built that way - our brains broadcast our thoughts and feelings within a certain frequency range and there's nothing we can do about it. What we CAN do is change what we broadcast.

If your experience is one of being more loving, kind, charitable, forgiving, accepting of others, then you won't find this hard.  Even those people have fears and worries about the future and things from the past they can't let go of and replay in their minds.  We all have bad days.  Some people have dark minds even though they put on a great persona in public.  If only they knew that their minds affect the world more than their public persona ever could.

If there were less people judging, hating, condemning, provoking, creating drama, plotting and scheming, constantly rehashing their grievances in their minds even if they hide it from others, the web of thought and emotion that we're all part of and all contribute to would feel a lot different.  This isn't the 60s - I'm not looking for a "love" vibe - it's not realistic to expect it from human nature.  But we could really shift the feel of things for the majority of people, if the majority of people could learn to stop amplifying the negative.  The balance would automatically shift for so many people if that shared web of energy that connects us all could just be less negative.

It's natural to worry about tomorrow and regret yesterday, but you don't have to live in it. And the fact that you do means you affect others with it, even though you didn't know that until you read this.  People generally aren't good about doing stuff because it's good for others - they're better at doing stuff that benefits them directly.  The point with this is that you directly benefit from getting out of all that negativity, and it's a huge bonus that you also aren't adding that negativity to the invisible web.  By taking better care of yourself, you end up doing something that's good for everybody.