How Your Thoughts Affect Matter
You are much more powerful than you think!
Raise your right arm. How did you do it? Maybe you believe you commanded your muscles. But you didn’t. Unless you are an expert in human anatomy, you don’t even know which muscles are involved in this movement. So how could you have commanded them? You knew you were lifting your right arm – and it went up. Your knowing was your only contribution. Your body did the rest.
Maybe you believe that your brain commanded your muscles. Could that be? Your body comprises an estimated 35 trillion cells. Every behavior arises from the perfectly coordinated cooperation of these 35 trillion cells. You can visualize this number like this: we are about eight billion people on this planet. On 4,500 planets like Earth, there would be 35 trillion people. How could so many people work together as perfectly as your cells do all the time? Your arm went up as soon as you had the thought. There was no reaction time between the thought and its execution. The very idea that the brain directs 35 trillion cells to execute a thought is absurd.
We also have no answer to the question: “WHO knew he was raising his right arm?” You are not your brain. And your brain is also not the source of your thoughts. I explain this insight in my article “Thoughts Are Not Products of the Brain.”
So why did your right arm go up? The simple answer is: your cells know what you know and collectively execute your knowing. To understand this answer, you need a new image of yourself.
Imagine a school of fish. The school behaves as a single organism because each fish behaves in the “interest” of the school. Traditional science cannot explain this ... and the answer cannot be found on the physical level after all. You can find it on the non-physical level that is ignored by traditional science. Some call this world mind or spirit; I avoid these terms here because they are not clearly defined. I explain and describe the non-physical world in my article “There Is More Than Just the Universe.” In the physical world, things are separate from each other, such as the individual fish in a school of fish. In the non-physical world, there is no separateness. In this world, all is interconnected; that is why I call this world EL as an abbreviation for ‘Entanglement at Large.’ In my article “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else”, I explain why everything in the universe participates in EL and how everything is interconnected.
EL is the world of knowing; besides thoughts, this also includes feelings, perceptions, programs, and intuitions. Your body is in the physical world; your knowing is in the non-physical world EL.
The fish in a school of fish are connected to each other through or in EL; they know about each other and form a “swarm knowing” and therefore a “swarm awareness” in EL. Swarm behavior arises from this. This applies to all groups. If you have a pet or a plant, you can observe this. You and they are a group. In EL, you are connected to each other. Your animals and plants know what you know; they know your feelings and your thoughts – and react to them; that is empathy. You also know what they know. But your thoughts and programs can distort or even block your empathy.
I once did an experiment with a cactus that produces a single flower once or twice a year. I chose the thought that it grows a flower – and held that thought for some time; and the cactus grew a flower within two weeks. As this could have been coincidence, I repeated the experiment: I knew it growing another flower; and in fact, it grew two more flowers ... as if to say: “do you finally believe it?”
Back to you. Your body is a swarm of 35 trillion cells. These cells behave collectively as your body. This includes collectively performing your knowing, such as lifting an arm. In EL, you are a “cell swarm knowing” and you have a “cell swarm awareness” and a “cell swarm consciousness.”
You could argue that your cells are physically connected and many behaviors come from programs encoded in the genes and nervous system. This is true and explains the automatic part of your behavior, such as metabolism and heartbeat. Behaviors such as raising an arm or speaking do not arise in this way.
This is also the case with a single fish. The fish is also a swarm of cells and part of its behavior comes from the programs in its genes and nervous system, ie it arises in the physical world. Its behavior as part of the school of fish arises in the non-physical world.
We can continue this reasoning: Why does the school of fish move the way it does? It is an element within a biotope, which also contains many other living beings. This biotope is a group in which there is an order and in which everyone fulfills their purpose as part of the whole. This includes countless predator-prey relationships.
In the non-physical world EL, there is an order to all things. This order is aptly named cosmos, because kosmos is the Greek word for order. The cosmos “ensures,” one could say, that everything in the universe functions and thrives together; for example, that
cells find food even though they have no sensory organs;
plants develop protective mechanisms when new predators appear;
animals find a new territory when the old one no longer provides for the livelihood;
migratory birds fly to warmer regions to spend the winter.
The cosmos urges everything in the universe to fulfill its purpose as part of the whole – a small whole, such as a living being or swarm, as well as a large whole, such as a biotope or the planet Earth. Intuition is the connection of a living being to the cosmos. Read more about it in my article “Intuition Is Much More Than Just a Sixth Sense.”
Everything intuitively knows what it needs to know in order to fulfill its purpose as part of the whole. An impressive example of this was the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Endangered animals moved to higher ground in good time. We humans are also connected to the cosmos. Why didn’t people flee?
We have a tool that sets us apart from animals: the mind. An animal follows its intuition unconditionally – unless it is prevented from doing so. Humans can choose not to follow their intuition, and often do because programs and thinking can block intuition. This can cost lives, as I explain in my article “Why 230,000 People Died in the Tsunami – but Almost No Animals”. But even without intuition, people could have saved themselves: anyone who goes through life mindfully and therefore observes their surroundings must have seen that the animals were leaving the shore areas; that would have been reason enough to follow them. By fleeing, the animals not only saved their own lives but also fulfilled a cosmic purpose for humans: they showed us that danger was approaching.
If you raise your right arm, you have changed the course of events in the universe. When a dog reacts to its owner’s thought, the owner has changed the course of events. This is the so-called butterfly effect: minor changes can bring about big changes in the long term. You may have heard the saying that the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can trigger a tornado in Texas ...
A person’s thinking changes the course of events. Thinking is the root of all creations. Thinking is, therefore, a person’s true power – but hardly anyone is aware of it.
However, you cannot break out of universal order with your creations. The cosmos is like a rubber skin that “covers” everything and “goes along” with every human creation. Therefore, every thought influences how the cosmos subsequently guides the course of events – both on a small and large scale. So one thought alone can lead to you meeting someone in two days – or not meeting this person!
It is easiest to recognize the power of your thoughts on a small scale, ie in your body. Your body follows some thoughts immediately, such as raising an arm or speaking. Some thoughts it follows slowly, such as changing your heartbeat. The latter takes longer because the thought combines with the automatic control of the heartbeat. Therefore, you have to hold such a thought longer and more intensely for it to have a material effect.
You also influence healing processes. If an animal gets injured, it heals according to the bio-physical laws. In addition, the animal will intuitively behave in a way that supports the healing process; perhaps it rests or feeds on herbs. If you injure yourself in the same way, your wound could heal in the same way and you would also intuitively know what supports the healing. However, your thoughts also have an influence on the healing process. Optimistic thoughts, such as believing in the benefits of therapy, accelerate the healing process, even to the point of miraculous healing. Pessimistic thoughts, such as doubt, slow it down to the point of incurability. These phenomena are known as the placebo and nocebo effect.
Constructive, life-affirming thoughts have a different effect than destructive, life-despising thoughts. Thoughts of love have a different effect than thoughts of hatred – no matter towards whom. I also reflect on the influence of your thoughts on your body in my article “Why and How You Have Much More Influence on Your Body Than You Think.”
By thinking, you create. Since you are almost always thinking when you are awake, you are almost always creating – both on a small and large scale; both for yourself and for everything else. You cannot not create! Therefore, everyone has a responsibility – whether they are aware of it or not. Everyone has responsibility for everything ... simply because everyone is connected to everything else. It is, therefore, useful to get into the habit of having a mindset of being connected with everything. That alone changes your thinking and, therefore, your behavior.
However, there is a catch: over 99% of your thinking comes from your programs. Over 99% of what you think is what you have learned to think. Schools and the media play a central role in this. Therefore, over 99% of the time, you create what you have learned to create. Optimism and pessimism are nothing more than programs.
When you free yourself from your programs, you become a master of your thinking – and thus you can be a more responsible creator. I explain how to do this in my article “How to Become What You Truly Are in 7 Steps” and in my book “Being Free – Get Out of the Box.”
Finally, three exercises:
Exercise 1: Imagine your body as a swarm of 35 trillion cells that you control with your knowing. What does this mean in concrete life situations?
Exercise 2: Analyze examples of placebo and nocebo effects that you have experienced yourself or observed in others.
Exercise 3: Analyze examples of social interactions where you or the other person knew more than what was physically communicated.
Further reading:
Article “Thoughts Are Not Products of the Brain”
Article “There Is More Than Just the Universe”
Article “Everything Is Connected to Everything Else”
Article “Intuition Is Much More Than Just a Sixth Sense”
Article “Why 230,000 People Died in the Tsunami – but Almost No Animals”
Article “Why and How You Have Much More Influence on Your Body Than You Think”
Article “How to Become What You Truly Are in 7 Steps”
Book “Being Free – Get Out of the Box”
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Book “Consciousness – Its Nature, Purpose, and How to Use It”
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