A Quantum Life Blog

What the Bleep Do We Know – about Preventing Earthquakes!?

Several years ago I attended a religious service with a friend of mine. On this particular Sunday the sermon was about the movie What the Bleep do We Know!? The minister lambasted the movie, which is about the mysteries of quantum physics. He found it to be a groundless piece of hooey and ended his sermon with the words, "You can't prevent earthquakes."

Naturally I disagree with him most vehemently!

Of course you can - if not prevent earthquakes entirely - at least mitigate them and lessen the damage they can do. With quantum physics nothing is impossible, and everything is possible. Everything! Quantum physics demonstrates that we create our own realities as we experience them, so of course anything and everything is possible.

For those of us who live in California and other places where the earth shifts sometimes, earthquakes are often a consideration if not an actual concern. Years ago I learned a wonderful technique for preventing earthquakes and it's imagery I've adapted and used regularly for nearly 20 years. First I personify the earth as a woman, understanding that she gets uncomfortable from time to time and needs to readjust her position. It's like when your shoe hurts and you move your foot around inside it to get some relief. I picture foam made of white light - it looks like shaving cream - and I see it going into all the earth's fault lines and plates, filling in any and all open spaces. The foam works like shoe pads and makes everything comfortable.

I start by picturing this image beneath California, and then I see the foam spread all over the world. While the foam is filling in all the cracks and crevasses, I think the words, "Calm, comfortable and safe," and it's my intention to keep the earth comfortable - so she doesn't have to make any adjustments!

Although I can't prove it helps, no one, including that minister, can prove it doesn't help, either.

Quantum Physics, "Bull Durham" and Matters of the Heart

In the movie Bull Durham Kevin Costner (playing Crash Davis) tells Susan Sarandon (playing Annie Savoy) that he doesn't "believe in quantum physics where matters of the heart are concerned." Crash may be a disbeliever, but that only shows he's not aware that quantum physics has everything to do with matters of the heart - and it concerns every single part of what exists in our physical reality, too!

You are creating your reality at the moment you observe it, combining secrets from quantum physics and what's in your own subconscious mind. To change anything in your reality then, what you need to do is change what's in your subconscious mind. That's not difficult - it just takes a decision to change and some steps to follow. The first thing to do is to recognize who's responsible for what you have right now. Are you pleased with everything in your life? If you are, congratulations! It's you who is creating things to your liking. If you are not satisfied with some area of your life, all the power to change it is yours, since it's you who is creating it in the first place!

Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?

The one question I have been asked many times goes something like this: "... if God loves us so much, why does He allow such awful things to happen? Earthquakes, tidal waves, other natural disasters, children stricken with terrible diseases, war, crime, the bad economy ..." the list goes on.

Although we are all children of God, He loves us as responsible adults, not as children. If we were loved as children, God could treat us the way a good parent does, swooping in to solve problems and teaching us how to deal with them when we grow up.

As adults we are responsible, however, and God gives us the choice of what our lives are like. If we say we want to struggle and suffer, God does not step in and make changes so our lives will be easier. He allows us to learn in whichever way we choose. We are responsible for creating our own safety, our own happiness - and God is right there to help us do it, but He wouldn't deny us the choice to make of our lives what we will. Responsibility for our lives is a gift!

Creating Your Reality in a Frightening Economy

Knowing that you create your own reality does not mean that it always feels as if you are creating it - in fact, when distressing things happen, it doesn't feel as if you are doing it at all. That's normal - and that's also when it's important to remind yourself that, using your subconscious mind and the way the world works at the subatomic level, you are indeed creating it. As long as you are the one doing it, though, you have the power to change it.

But what about major world problems like the economic crisis happening in the United States and all over the world? Is each of us creating this economic crisis?

Yes, we are - that's the good news, since that means it's in our power to heal it, correct it and change it completely.
The first thing to do is remind yourself is that this is your reality, and decide that no matter how it looks - regardless of what you read in the headlines or what the news anchor says on the evening news - it's not real. This economic crisis is serious, of course. But it's not real. The world is invisible waves of energy until we manifest it by observing and experiencing, so therefore nothing is real until you pay attention to it.

You get what you focus on, so if you need more money visualize yourself receiving more money. Don't think about the bills and don't focus on what you don't have ... focus on what you do have and see it growing.

To help heal the world's economic picture, focus on seeing positive new headlines and hearing the news anchors telling us that things are on the upswing.

We each have a hand in creating what goes on and we can improve our economic world!

Proof that Visualization Works?

Although quantum physics proves why visualization works, you'll never be able to prove it to anyone else. Even when you're successful, you won't be able to prove that you used secrets of quantum physics and your subconscious mind to create what you wanted. The reason you can't prove it is that it's not possible to show anyone what you are thinking. You know you visualized getting that new job or new house or whatever it was, and you can tell everyone that's what you did, but you won't be able to prove it to them.

There is no way to see a person's thoughts - which is a very good thing, as we recall from George Orwell's 1984 just how creepy and controlling it was to have someone else - in this case the government - inside Winston's head.

Here's an analogy I've used before: It's like when you're watching "Jeopardy" with your friends and when the contestant gives the right question, you say, "I knew that." Your friends may or may not believe you, and no matter how you try, you may never be able to convince them. But you know the truth - you know that you really had the right answer.

It's not that important to prove that visualization works, anyway, is it? Even though you won't be able to prove it, won't life be more fun if you visualize what you want and get it - even if you never can prove to anyone else that's what you did?

What’s the Difference between Attracting and Creating, Anyway?

Is it "just" semantics that separates the two words? A dear friend of mine once said that words are all we human beings have to communicate with, so we need to be accurate with them!

The difference between creating our realities, as opposed to merely attracting them, is that creating bears a much greater responsibility. When you create something you are totally responsible for it - whether it is a painting, a relationship with someone you love, a job - whatever it is. Attracting it is more passive, in that what you attract already exists somewhere and you are acting like a magnet, drawing it to you. Creating takes more courage! You are completely responsible for what you create - and that is indeed how we manifest our realities, on a subatomic level, and based on what's in our subconscious minds.

With responsibility comes authority - you can absolutely have what you want, and visualizing is an important part of getting it, but first you must be sure that you have a fertile field in which to plant the seed of your desire: your subconscious mind cannot hold any contradictory decrees or what you want won't appear. If you have a belief that you'll never fall in love or never succeed, or some other limitation, it will prevent your having that relationship or success ... and you need to change the belief first, so you can have it!

The Secret’s Law of Attraction sounds Wonderful, it's just Not Accurate

If you saw or read The Secret a couple of years ago, you learned all about the Law of Attraction. The way the Law of Attraction works is that you attract whatever you have in your mind. So that means you need to picture what you want, a new job, for example. You visualize the new job and it will be drawn to you because the cosmic Law of Attraction means that picture in your mind works like a magnet, attracting that new job, which will then show up in your life.

The only problem with the Law of Attraction is, based on how our reality is created, it doesn't describe the way the process of having what you want works. Quantum physics - specifically the wave/particle duality aspect of quantum physics - proves that you are creating what you want, not attracting it.

This cosmic Law of Attraction is not a law in quantum physics, the science that studies the subatomic world inside atoms - atoms that join together to form molecules. It's molecules that make up everything in our world. What we learn from quantum physics is that nothing in our world exists until we create it - at the very moment we observe or experience it. Therefore that new job isn't sitting in some warehouse, maybe in the Sahara Desert or some other low-rent warehouse district. There isn't a warehouse filled with new jobs, houses, cars, new husbands and wives - all just waiting to be drawn like a magnetized metal to your side.

In reality, until we observe it, everything in the world exists as an invisible wave of energy. It is our act of observation that gives it form. As humans, the way we observe - and what determines exactly what we experience - is based on what's in our subconscious minds. The subconscious mind is beyond your normal awareness, so you have to make a special point to access it. Once you access the subconscious mind you can make whatever changes you wish. So to get anything you want, you need to change what's in your subconscious mind. Once you make the necessary changes, you can have that new job or anything else you want.

But you won't succeed by attracting. We are much more powerful than magnets - we are magicians, conjuring up what we want to experience. That means if you don't like what's in your life right now, or you haven't had success "attracting" what you want, you can make changes in your subconscious mind and experience a different reality - one that is more to your liking.

For those of you who've had some success with the Law of Attraction, it's important to realize that you've done above and beyond what is described in The Secret. You haven't attracted what you've brought into your life, you've created it!