The Dormant Power of the Ancient Arts

The Dormant Power of the Ancient Arts

Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

If we look back to a time when medical science and technology was still in its primordial state, we will find that our forefathers relied mostly on arts and not on science..

Experiments were never heard of at that time. Some viewed the world through myths and stories while some saw the world through metaphysics. Back then, answers to their innermost questions came from within their souls and not from a conclusion based on isolated observations of the outside world..

Echoing Henry Ward Beecher's, "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures", the ancients back then drew answers from their own soul which was who they naturally and truly were.

The ancients believed that everything in nature is interconnected and none is totally isolated from the whole. This belief is reflected in almost all of the world's diverse cultures such as Hinduism, Buddhism,Taoism and Jainism.

The ancient artists were believed to have done 'supernatural' things like healing the sick by just 'channeling' the flow of 'chi' or 'chakra' in their bodies. Still some others received spiritual revelations and prophecies about the future. Not surprisingly, most of the masters of these arts were solitary beings who spent most of their time alone in deep meditation.

Today, along with the rise of reliance on scientific discoveries coming from empirical observations came the gradual and subtle perversions on the power of these ancient arts. For example, the spiritual art of the Kama Sutra is now obviously reduced to a set of sex positions which is quite contrary to what it taught about the sacredness of the union of male and female elements in the universe. Another example is the labeling of ancient arts healers as quack doctors for lack of scientific evidence to back their practices.

There are four underlying principles which led to the perversion of these ancient arts:

The assumption of perception as a fact
The conventional thinking about facts as of today is "To see is to believe." This assumption of perception as a fact is the same as the proclamation of the infallibility of the observers. This principle negates the significance of the bias in the observer's perception.

Physicist Jeremy Hayward states otherwise, saying "We perceive what we already believe to exist and we perceive it in the way we believe it to exist". This perversion of the arts is contrary to what the ancient artists believe that perception is not a fact but a reflection of the belief of the believer whose mind keeps him from seeing what doesn't fit.

The fragmentation of thinking
The Newtonian science aims to reduce everything into its smallest component part in order for it to make sense. This would lead to the next step which is regarding of those parts as discretely separate entities. An example of this was the mindset at a time when people believed that electricity and magnetism are two different and unrelated forces until Michael Faraday discovered the electromagnetic lines of force. As Jeremy Hayward points out, "The tendency to regard the world as made up of separate entities, things, having their own separate existence and identity and only accidentally related to other "things" is perhaps one of the most deep-rooted characteristics of human thought." This fragmentation of thinking is quite contrary to the wisdom of the old that says all things are related and interconnected to one another.

The reliance on empirical ordinance
Empirical evidence reduces the facts about the world - behavior and its causes included - into things which can be observed and measured.. This consequently negates that which is not observable or quantifiable. For example, concepts like "mind" and "thought" have been reduced to no more than those chemical and electrical components of the brain which can be measured and observed through an apparatus. This led to an apparent denial of the power of the mind to influence body behavior which is the bread and butter of most ancient arts of meditation. This denial of the ancient wisdom is demonstrated by strong resistance of most doctors to the whole concept of psychosomatic illnesses.

The reliance on objectivity.
The ultimate goal of the Cartesian philosophy is to create an objective description of the world based from external observable facts which are divorced from the subjective opinions. Once an assumption of an "objective evidence" is accepted, regardless of its validity, it becomes true because it shapes the way we think. One example of the pervasiveness of its influence is when Hitler succeeded in convincing many of his people that there was scientific, objective evidence of the superiority of the Aryan race. This assumption successfully found its place in psyche of Hitler's people that led them to think that it is 'truth'.

In the ancient wisdom, however, objectivity is only half the truth because according to them, the universe expresses itself from itself subjectively as an artist expresses his art from his soul in a subjective way. Only an observer who separates himself from the subjective expression of the artist can make an objective description of what was brought out from the whole.

The Marriage of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science


Fortunately, as the world is round, the more we go far from the ancient wisdom of the old by embracing  modern science, the closer we get to the point of the end which is also the beginning. It is because today, one of the conclusion that fires up new researches in quantum physics is that the way we perceive the universe is in some fundamentally significant way, a reflection of our collective minds. The notion of the physical reality in which matter "out there" is composed of basic elementary particles is now starting to dissolve, returning to the same fundamental stand of the ancient wisdom as Jeremy Hayward puts it "Mind and the universe are found to be tangled inextricably after all". Furthermore, he adds, "To think that there is a real, objective and external Universe, independent of mind and observation is no longer an acceptable attitude with which to approach science, or reality."

Physicist Fritjof Capra calls our attention to this 'marriage' of the times: "Today we live in a globally interconnected world in which biological, psychological, social and environmental systems are all interdependent. To understand this world appropriately we need an integrated perspective which Cartesian thinking simply does not offer."

This means that we are now moving closer and closer to the point of the full circle where the 'supernatural' powers of the ancient arts and the artificial ways of modern science meet.

The video below is an example of the meeting of two worlds and times. Had they met at a time when all the barriers between empirical notions and ancient wisdom are broken down, what great discovery for the healing of all diseases would that be, including diabetes!

Embracing and Being Embraced by All Things

Embracing and Being Embraced by All Things

Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

Fear.

We all know that it is the main culprit of stress in our lives.

The fear of hunger gives rise to stress in finding food to eat; the fear of death gives rise to frantic search for security; the fear of rejection disables an individual from loving; and the fear of facing one's own soul pushes one to inflict violence on others.

Some say we don't fear that which we know; we only fear the unknown. However, some may say that they know of death but still fear it. If it is so, then the antidote to fear is knowledge. But knowledge alone is only half of it.

King Solomon said "The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both". Indeed, both the wise and the fool were given birth naked and neither can escape the grave. The same thing is true to the well and the sick, the rich and the poor, the buyer and the seller, and the young and the old.

The womb gives birth to both wise and foolish, so also the grave accepts both rich and the poor. The sun rises to both righteous and wicked and sets also for both. The reason why the womb fears neither the wise nor the foolish, why the grave does not respect social status and why the sun always does undiscriminating virtue is that they embraced both extremes as though they are the same things to them.

When you embrace all things, you ceased to become a foreigner to anything. Being a part of one side makes you hostile towards the other. From such hostility comes out all the stress and fear and lack of harmony. 

There may be atrocities and violence done on earth, still the earth is earth. There may be kindness and peace given among the people living on earth, still the earth is earth. The earth is neither a violent earth nor a kind earth but the earth welcomes both violence and peace to take place in her.

One way to know something is to make it a part of you. And most of the times we  feel secure when we are in control of things. However, when we see that things are starting to get out of control, fear starts to take its place. Because of this fear, people start to begin their quest for control, but we can only control that which is inferior to us.

If the antidote to fear is the control over many things, then those who are seeking this antidote will stress themselves out to rise up and make many entities inferior to them. But this is a vain attempt because if to them there are still inferior others, there are always others also that are more superior to them. 

Even though a powerful man takes full control over a nation, he is still not in control of the universe, much less the weather. There are still many things that are beyond his control.

So overcoming all fears through making everything a part of you and being in control of all things will be in vain until you also embrace making yourself a part of everything and be yielding to all things.

The Power of Solitude

The Power of Solitude

Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

Just two days ago, I was invited to join an activity which was aimed to show something about an essential human tendency. I didn't know what it was at first but because most of my friends decided to attend, I decided to give it a try.


When we arrived, I was surprised to find that there were many participants. While waiting for the activity to start, we spent our time waiting by talking with each of our circle of friends. Moments later as we were about to forget the reason why we were gathered, one of the participants stood up and and asked for our attention. I noticed him earlier but didn't know he was the moderator because he appeared to be just like the participants.


Then he gave us the instructions. He would call some of us and ask each of us the same two questions. He said that anyone who would mention the first question or the answer to it or anything related to it will ruin the whole activity. However, he encouraged us that we talk about our answers to the second question while he was still calling us one by one.


So he began to call us one by one. There was that certain urge to ask about the first question from those whom he had called. I also learned that the second question was about what we think would be the single rule that all people from different point of views and backgrounds would follow in order to promote peace for all.


It was indeed an interesting question. It sure made us have a great deal of discussion while waiting. Some said that the single rule would be to love God above all.  Some said it's the Golden Rule which says "Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you". Still some others said love one another as you love yourself. Three participants were starting an argument among themselves that their rule is much more supreme than the others.


I was beginning to be enticed to join their argument when I was called by the moderator to enter the room. The room was very quiet. I can only hear the voice of the moderator. The room was also very dark and I ccouldn't see a thing. The moderator told me to render myself alone and enter into a state of total solitude before answering his first question. He told me to return to my basic form so that I would not base my answer from what other people think or what my teachers or influential persons told me. He told me that the answer is already in me and that I already know it. He also warned me that the correctness of my answer is based on my projection of solitude.


And so his question was:"Where did you come from and where are you going?"


I thought the answer to that question was very easy. When I was a child, I was taught that I came from heaven and to heaven I should return if I live a good life. But then, it was something that was taught to me. It took me quite a long time to answer that question.


After the moderator was finished calling all of us, he told us to have two hours break. During the break, we talked just about anything: school, work, family, business. Some shared some laughter. Others still haven't finished arguing about the second question. And not even one mentioned anything about the first question.


Later after the break, the moderator returned and gathered us once again. He told us that he would ask us the same two question not in the room but in the assembly. He began asking the last one he called, down to the first. I noticed that our answers varied in many ways. After that, he asked for another short break.


When we were gathered together again, he revealed to us that he has been recording everything that we said in the room and in the assembly. He played each participant's answer in the room and then in the assembly. We all noticed that we almost have similar answers for the first question while we were in the room but we varied when we were in the assembly. We also noticed that we were calmer in the room than in the assembly. Another disturbing observation is that, we seemed to forget what we said in the room because we answered differently in the assembly.


The moderator told us that solitude is as essential as unity because we seemed to have understood one another more deeply when we were alone in the room than when we were in the assembly. He further said that if we treat others as who they are in solitude, we can get rid of all the classifications we make about ourselves which would start some factions, divisions and wars.


So as I have been writing about searching first for the peace within before the healing of the physical body, it is of the same importance to seek first the unity that comes from solitude.


Finally, Kahlil Gibran poetically says,


There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.
The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.
And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.
In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.

Living and Dying Moment by Moment

Living and Dying Moment by Moment

Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

She was lying there with a smile on her face as I entered her private room. Jessica, my childhood best friend had just given birth to a bouncing baby boy. I noticed her color had come back to her. Finally I had seen the last of her horrible ghastly paleness she had from her massive blood loss. She had survived a Cesarean delivery at a very young age of nineteen.

I decided to come to her to tell her something very important, while at the same time try my best not to tell something she would regret or be thankful of for the rest of her life. I had hoped I could have the chance to tell her the 'secret' of her survival in a way that would build her up.

The secret I was trying to keep from her until the right time was my encounter with a man of courage and honor who I believed has seen the very face of the Light of Life. I dare not mention his name, so I would just refer to him as Nameless.

It started when I received a call from Jessica's husband Mickey who at that time was rushing through a tough traffic along the highway. Jessica's waters had broke and he was no less than a two-hour trip away to get to Jessica. So I got up and rushed to Jessica's apartment which was only two blocks away from mine. As I was frantically helping my best friend walk through the hall, a scrawny young man found us and carried Jessica on his arms with such ease and at that moment, Jessica lost consciousness. 

I managed to get Jessica to the nearest hospital thanks to the young man who suddenly looked like he had grown mature since he carried my laboring friend.

My heart pounded like a thousand marching bands as I looked at my best friend through the delivery room window. The doctor had just told me that since she was unconscious, they would perform a Cesarean delivery for Jessica's baby. My heart sank even deeper into the abyss after the doctor said that she would be needing a lot of blood or else she or her baby would die-- and worse, I didn't know anyone who had a blood type AB.

Suddenly I found myself sitting down on the hospital floor with my heart filled with anguish and hopelessness until a rough hand took hold of my shaking right hand and stood me up. It was the brave young man who helped me.

"Don't worry, miss" he said, "I have a sufficient supply of blood type AB running though my arteries".

My soul was overcome with joy. The young man had helped us a lot and he was even willing to donate his blood! But when I took a more careful look at him, I thought he was too thin. He insisted though. Surprisingly, he passed the test and was eligible to donate his blood.

I had no idea that the next hours would possibly the most enlightening moment of my life. As Nameless' blood was siphoned to the blood bags, I had a chance to ask him a few questions.

"Why have you decided to help my best friend with so much?" I asked.

He just laughed. "I'm not helping anybody but myself alone", he said. His answer had me asking more questions about him.

I learned that he had been a member of a very rich family but he had decided to live by his own in the streets, feeding only on what is free. He never had any money since he left his previous life. Despite that, I only saw a radiance of pure joy and freedom in his eyes as he relayed his story to me.

I also learned that he once had Type 1 diabetes while he was living with his family. He had fallen into a deep coma for three days until a miracle happened on the third day when after being at the brink of death, he suddenly sat up fully healed.

When I heard he once had diabetes, a part of me was disappointed at him for not telling the nurses of his medical history. But why tell me at that time?

As though he knew what I was thinking, he smiled at me saying the words that would go on and on in my mind.

"People are so afraid of death because they are bound to their lives. What they do not know is that the life they are currently having is not the only life they have. You may see that one man's death is another man's life but the truth is more than just heroism, because each and all of us dies and being born moment by moment".

I was so mesmerized by the depth of his words that I never thought those would turn out be his last. First, I noticed twitching, then a mild seizure, then difficulty in breathing. The next thing I knew, his breathing stopped. I frantically called the nurses to the room. They rushed over to attend to Nameless but it's too late. His heart had stopped beating. It was a heart attack, a very rare and isolated case in the history of blood donations. 

Just as they were taking Nameless' body out of the room, another nurse ran into the room taking the blood bags. Jessica had given birth and was losing a lot of blood, fast.

I was in a state of shock. Things were happening too fast. A man had just died in front of me and my best friend was at the brink of death. I was about to break down until I heard a baby crying from the delivery room. 

"Life", I thought. I was so preoccupied on thinking about death that I forgot to think about life. Nameless had been living a life that everyone else in this world is running away from. He managed to live through the hardships and being alone. To him, life here is not only about surviving longer until the day of death, it is living life in abundance as it truly is. That's what enabled him to more than just conquer his diabetes, he conquered death itself as feared by many. He conquered death so emphatically that offering his blood is nothing to him, even if it meant death. He had said that the life he currently have is not the only life he had. He has the Life.

I went out from the room with much empowerment. I learned that Jessica had lost so much blood that all the blood that Nameless donated was nothing short of 'sufficient' as he confidently said. Had Nameless kept his blood to himself, it wouldn't be enough for Jessica to live. He risked it all, up to the last drop for my best friend and her baby to live.

Now her baby boy grew up to be a good soccer player, a virtuoso pianist, and a happy youth. I still haven't told Jessica about Nameless, but sure I told her about Life.

Just three days ago, I witnessed an accident. A boy playing on the street was hit by a speeding car. I ran to help the boy. A street sweeper who was passing by also ran towards the boy. As we helped the boy up, I accidentally hit and took off his hat. And I could not believe my eyes.

It was Nameless.

Self-Transcendence: The Highest Need

Self-Transcendence

Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

Resounding from the wisdom of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, self-transcendence is sitting at the top of the pyramid. Being at the top of the pyramid means it is of highest importance but only attained by the least number of surviving organisms. 


But what really is self-transcendence? Why is it more important than physiological needs, safety and security, love and belongingness, and self-esteem?


Before delving deeper into those questions, first we must know what we need them for. 


We need physiological needs for our perishable bodies to maintain itself. 
We need security and safety for our minds to be calm. 
We need love and belongingness for our emotions to be in tact. 
We need self-esteem for our will to give reason for our wisdom to push us to move into action. 
And we need self-transcendence to realize we don't need anything because we are everything.


Self-transcendence has been subtly praised, taught and emphasized in all of the world's religions. In Christianity, one who has attained self-transcendence is called a Christ; in Buddhism, a Buddha; in Taoism, one who has seen the Tao; and in Islam, a Pure Muslim. However, most of the great personalities in those religions did not achieve self-transcendence by following a strict observance of religion. In fact, Lao Tzu even stated in the very first sentence of his classic writing Hua Hu Ching "I reach the Integral Way of uniting with the great and mysterious Tao. My teachings are simple; if you try to make a religion or science of them, they will elude you". 


We need things to reinforce the existence of our accepted selves. For example we need food to prolong the existence of our physical bodies because we consider our bodies as our very own selves.  Then we go up to a higher need because we have known ourselves to be more than just physical bodies, but also electromagnetic minds. So if we know ourselves more, we climb up to a higher step in the pyramid until we reach its peak-- knowing who we really are or self-actualization.


When we have come into self-transcendence, we immerse ourselves into the harmonious song of the universe which is self sufficient. The universe at large still exists in its beauty no matter how chaotic the minds of the people on earth are. The stars remain beautiful in space even though we can't see it in a cloudy night or in a bright city. They all stay in their orbits along with their planets in with great order and harmony.


With such oneness and harmony of your existence, it replenishes your will, set your emotions free, calms your mind and aligns your body to a perfect health. Your DNA will respond to the harmony you have attained will themselves become harmonious, ever looking for the unity of all the parts of your body. But then again, one who has attained self-transcendence does not worry of having anything else. He has become an immortal and thus he will not die or perish.


And when you have come to self-transcendence, you will know that it's not at all the highest need for there is no hierarchy at all.

Pushing Stress Out of the Way

Pushing Stress Out of the Way
Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

If we look back to the past, our great ancestors had their fair share of horrors and tragedies. Just think of the holocaust, the Inquisition, the crusades, and incessant wars, not to mention the plagues and other calamities and disasters that have befallen mankind throughout history. Those were certainly more stressful times compared to what we have now, but at that time, coping with stress was furthest from their minds, if they ever heard of such. 

According to the director of CESAMES (a specialized research center), the main culprit for the dramatic increase in our modern times’ mental and social distress is the individualization of the human condition. “My hypothesis is that,” says Alain Ehrenberg, “as values of self-ownership of personal accomplishment, and of personal initiative have gradually become rooted in contemporary societies, a new type of social being has emerged.” Indeed, time has paved the way for this social being which fashioned “individualism”, gave it a form and enthroned it. Gone were the days of brotherhood, collective efforts and great ideals, where the achievement of one was the achievement of all. Society has disintegrated, and along with it, its values. So the individualist is left to fend on his own, but his enemies have multiplied. How then is one expected to cope with stress and its ensuing problems?

To attempt to address this predicament, let us go down to our body’s molecular and cellular level - the microcosm of our society.

Unlike this modern society of decaying morals, the cells and molecules of our body continue to work as one unit – they communicate and understand each other through electro chemical signals and electrical impulses. Sensory neurons from the outer parts of your body for example, send electrical signals to your central nervous system if you touch something hot. In turn, your central nervous system will send motor neurons to your fingers, telling them to remove themselves from the hot object. Imagine what would happen to you if each cell that comprised your body decides to become an “individualist social being”.  Thankfully, majority of your cells are working in harmony and unity with each other. On a bigger scale, so should you.

Every atom in every man’s flesh (if not in the whole universe) is made up of identical electrons - the same mass, the same spin, the same everything. The same electromagnetic force that holds you together is the same force present in all others. You are made up of the same invisible form of light, the same energy present in everyone. You are made up of light in its invisible form, therefore you are Light, as everyone also is. This is you. That means you are actually one with every person at a deeper level, that you are also in one and the other. Once you begin seeing yourself in others and seeing every person as yourself, your attitude towards the people around you will begin to change – you will be more forgiving, more compassionate, more considerate and more loving towards other people. Such an attitude is very stress-relieving.

Emotions are forms of energy that can be measured in terms of frequency. Once your mind harbors negative emotions, electrical currents are sent through your neural pathways and trigger the release of destructive chemical proteins. This action creates a physiological response throughout your body – your immune system is compromised, thyroid function is suppressed, the brain’s thinking ability is impaired, your blood pressure rises and your blood sugar levels shoot up.

On the other hand, benevolent thoughts towards others, the desire to help and good deeds can trigger the release of feel-good neuro-peptides that would counter depression, lift up your disposition and relieve you of stress. Among these positive emotions, unconditional love has the highest frequency – equivalent to that of the ultraviolet rays. Unconditional love has no “ifs” but only “in spite ofs”. Conditional love says “I will love you only if…”, while unconditional love says “I will love you in spite of…”

Unconditional love - treating others as you would want to be treated – is the key to live a stress-free and very healthy lifestyle, and this can only be achieved if your mind is one and in harmony with all of creation. 

As Marianne Williamson eloquently said it, “Just like a sunbeam cannot separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we cannot separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.”

Albert Einstein could only agree. “Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty,” he wrote a century ago.

Think how much distress you would save yourself from if you listen to the wisdom of the wise.

Using Mind Power to Cope with Diabetes

Total Recall

Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

In the beginning, your level of consciousness was that of a single stem cell - a zygote that resulted from the union of your Dad’s sperm cell and your Mom’s egg cell. Inside you was your entire genetic blueprint, complete instructions on how to form your body. Out of those instructions, you proceeded to create the body you have now. First, you said. “Let there be light!”, and lo, the invisible light called electromagnetic force was there at your disposal. Using this power, you replicated yourself by division, creating daughter cells in your exact image. These stem cells also learned to replicate themselves. It took you four days to travel from the uterine tube to your mother’s uterus, all the while replicating yourself. By the fifth day, you were able to produce yourself into 100 cells. You divided these cells into two groups, a firmament above, and water below. You assigned the 50 cells in the outer group to form the placenta, while you prepared the other 50 cells for their specialized tasks.

On the sixth day you started to make a nest in the wall of your mother’s uterus. It was during this time that you told your daughter cells, “Let us create a human body in our image”. This was your most significant obstacle. At this stage, one half of developing embryos die because they fail to implant themselves successfully, but you are one of the victors who made it. Considering your size by that time, you have already performed an extraordinary feat. You have travelled extensively, multiplied yourself to several hundreds, fashioned yourself, given yourself a form and found permanent home for the duration of your gestation period.

On the seventh day you rested from your labors. That didn’t mean you stopped working. That means from that time on, you stopped working on your own and started depending on oxygen and nutrients from your mother’s bloodstream for your survival.

Soon, you started to assign specialized functions to your daughter cells. The original 50 that belonged to the inner group gave rise to the 200 different types of cells that made up the tissues, organs and systems of the infant that you became. Come to think of it, you accomplished all these things with amazing precision and complexity.

Then you crossed the threshold of another consciousness when you left your mother’s womb and entered this world. Once you were exposed to another environment, you forgot who you were, and you forgot what you are capable of doing. You were brought up to believe that you have many limitations, that you are powerless against fate and that you are at the mercy of the forces around you. Truth is, you still hold the power to create your own destiny. You did it once before. There’s no reason why you can’t do it again.

Back then, you didn’t have the aid of an outside force, so this time should work better. The only difference then and now is that your consciousness has been detached from the individual cells that used to be subservient to your will. It’s time you remember.

The Human Mind

You have probably heard of Hypnosis, Meditation, Visual Imagery, Prayer, Alpha State of Consciousness, Neuro-Linguistic programming, Law of Attraction and other terms that people use to label this phenomenon. I dare to be different and call it the Natural Mind. You see, the supernatural only exists for those who do not know nature.

                                                                                                                                 

It is common knowledge that man is using only 10% of his mind, but once you know the secret of unleashing the power of the mind of your better self within you, then you can achieve whatever you can conceive. “Your better self?” you might ask. Yes, you read that right - your better self. This better self of yours is the sum of all the consciousness of your parts. This is the side of you that makes every single cell, tissue, organ and system of your body work, without you making a conscious effort of doing so. Some people call that the unconscious; I call that your spirit, the inner you.  

Every single cell that comprises your body is you. Each cell contains the very essence of your being, and can be cloned to make another you. In fact, if every single cell of your body is cloned, there would be tens of trillions of you in this world. Because every cell is you, they think as you do, albeit in a different language. Day to day, every single cell of your body works together for your well-being, but are you aware that it is you who influence them to do so? It is your will to live that spurs them on. Ever wondered why very few can survive cancer and other so-called incurable diseases? The reason is that the afflicted person’ mind is already conditioned that cancer is incurable, and so the cancer cells get stronger and the body’s soldiers just give up on their job. 

Every day, your mind is influenced by the environment and stimuli around you. Without you being aware of it, your mindset greatly influences your body’s functions. Why and how? Your spirit - the inner you - is directly affected by your thoughts and emotions. Your state of being outside is also your state of being inside.

As you probably already know, psychology has categorized the brain into three levels of consciousness: the conscious, the subconscious, and the unconscious.                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

The Conscious Mind:

The mind that you are using right now to process all information, analyze, think, perceive, observe, learn, plan and respond to all experiences that can be perceived by your five senses is your conscious mind. Simply put, it is your awareness of everything.

The Subconscious Mind:

Your subconscious is your storehouse of memories; it contains the files of all that you have ever seen, heard, smelled, touched, perceived, felt, thought of and even dreamed of – whether consciously or unconsciously. For your subconscious, there’s no barrier between reality and fantasy. Everything that you believe becomes an integral part of your subconscious’ reality. This part of you holds much more power tsciousness. The wisest man who ever lived – Solomon – must have known this long before, that’s whan your conscious mind, so be careful about the thoughts that you allow to enter your conhy he said, “Guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life”. Another wise man, Paul of Tarsus, also echoed this sentiment, “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things.” According to the Silva Intuition System, human beings operate from the subconscious mind 95% of the time.

The Unconscious                                                                                                                                                                                        

This consciousness of yours is the same consciousness present in all things, unlimited by time and space. This is the consciousness that created your body from a mere single celled zygote and sustains your whole physiologic system. This Unconscious Mind of yours is omniscient – you actually know the past, the present and the future. Psychologists call this the “collective unconscious”, because it holds not only knowledge about yourself, but all information about all places, times, and the experiences of all humanity since time began. Otherwise called the Universal Mind, this consciousness is all powerful, all knowing, and present everywhere. This mind connects you to everyone and everything. You can tap into this collective thought and draw from its powers by meditation or as others view it, through prayer.                                                                                                    

For a mental programming to succeed, all three levels must be aligned. Ever wondered why the Law of Attraction seems to work for some but also fails to deliver in many? This is because there is something in the subconscious or in the unconsciousness that’s blocking the conscious intention.

Again, you are your own creator and in the same manner that you created the body that you have now, you can also create your own destiny.

Meditation

Meditation is the art of harnessing and tapping into your Universal Mind by reaching deep down into the inner state of mind and bringing it out to the conscious level.  This can be achieved by focusing internally and letting go of the outside world.

So come and take the journey with me as we bring out the Creator in you.

After doing this once, you will find that you would want to do this every day, not only as a means of managing stress but also for the benefit of your whole being. You can both internalize the following script and quote it by memory or you can make an audio out of it and play it while you meditate.

1. To start off, find a comfortable place. Sit in a comfortable position or any position where you have your spine straight, your chest relaxed and not pressured, and your throat, nose and mouth unobstructed.
2. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and imagine the number. Fashion it, give it a         form, color it, and position it up in the sky. Make it large and bright. 
3. Now direct your focus on different parts of your body. Think of the surrounding skin     
   around your head. Focus on the roots of your hair, and then start to relax them, 
   moving slowly from the scalp down to the base of your skull. The relax your forehead,  
   your eyes, the surrounding tissues  around your eyes, your cheeks, your nose, your    
   lips, your mouth, your tongue, down to your throat, inside and out. Now slowly move to your nape, your shoulders,  your arms, your hands. Then relax your torso - internally and  
   externally; your hips, your butt, down to your thighs, knees, legs, calf and feet. You have just entered a healthier and more peaceful mindset.
   
   
   4. Now go back to the number 3 that you have created. Imagine it hovering over the clear sky and make it dance. Then visualize yourself relaxing on a rubber float, with the tranquil sea beneath you. Feel the gentle breeze caressing your skin; the tang of the sea blending with the sweet aroma of exotic food brewing nearby. Take note of the colors around you,
   the clear blue sky, the orange tint near the horizon as the sun starts to set, the exciting hues of the sails, the flight of the seagulls. Listen to the rhythm of the distant drumming as the natives make their ritual dance. Now look at the number that you have created once again. As you keep on practicing this, simply visualizing the number 3 that you have formed and fashioned will automatically relax your body and bring you to this perfectly healthy and peaceful mind.
   
   
   5. Now take another deep breath and change the number three to number two. Make the number two bigger and brighter than the number three. Be creative. Improvise on the font, the color, the decor. You may make it metallic, cover it with sequins, gold dust or silver dust. Make it move any way you want it, and follow its movements. Play your favorite music and let the number two dance to the rhythm of the melody. Make it do whatever you want it to do. Send it to the moon, to the north pole, to the nearest star, or to the edge of the universe. Take time to play with the number that you have fashioned and formed. You have just broken the confines of space and time. In this state, you are ready to travel to different parts of the earth, or to different planets within the solar system, or different systems within the galaxy, or different galaxies within the universe. In the subsequent days, all you need to do is visualize this number and you can automatically enter this state.Keep yourself conscious during the entire proceeding; don't give in to the temptation of drowsing off.  
   
   
   6. Again, take another deep breath. In lieu of the number two, visualize number one,   and this time, you are looking at it not from an earthling’s point of view but from the aeon of someone who is viewing the universe as a whole. Make the number as large, as bright, as colorful, as exciting, and as alive as possible. Make it shine brighter than the sun, or make it larger than a supernova. Make it travel faster than light. There is no limit to what you can do. Give it a name, make it speak, give it feelings, change its form, do whatever you want to do with it – the floor is yours. The number one stands for the highest level of consciousness – the Universal Mind. You have just tapped into your Unconscious and you are now viewing the whole universe as its own Creator.        
   
   
   7.  Now it’s time to remember. This consciousness of yours was the same consciousness that created the body you have now from a mere zygote. This is also the same consciousness that created every single thing in the universe – seen or unseen. This is the part of you that is connected to everything and everyone – the same energy that can neither be created nor destroyed. This is you.
   
   
   8. Now go back to your body and assume the consciousness of your individual cells. Listen to them speak to you in a language unutterable by words. Let them feel your love and enjoin them to unite for the good of your Oneness. As the killer T cells, resolve not to destroy the pancreatic cells anymore, rather, be at peace with every other member of your body.  As the electromagnetic force, repair every single mutation in your DNA and set everything in order. 
   
   
   Do this every day. Don't allow negative emotions to affect you, rather, always forgive and give love, think well of others and always seek the peace within. In no time at all, your overall health will improve and you will be good as new. 
            

Song of the Universe

The Song of the Universe

Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

When Mandy Moore crooned, “There’s a song that’s inside of my soul; it’s the one that I tried to write over and over again,” no one probably saw the profound truth in what seemed to be just another highly embellished line. I’ve always loved the lyrics of this song, especially the lines that say, “Sing to me the song of the stars; of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again.”  Beautiful figure of speech, I used to muse. 

  

Little did I know that there is indeed such a thing as a song in our DNA and a song of the stars.  As unromantic as it may sound, scientists are now assigning notes to the different values of the amino acids in each DNA sequence to enable them to see the larger pattern. The result -music in the form of "protein songs”.   

Beneath the pale moonlight, there are also songs sung by beings much, much, larger than your DNA strand.   Since the advent of Radioastronomy, scientists have been listening to the song of the stars, echoing toward the earth in the form of radio waves.

The universe is composed of a succession of different levels of good, and this is in harmonic ratio with the good present in every man’s soul. The song of your DNA is supposed to be playing to the same rhythm as the song of the stars.

One of the greatest mathematician and philosophers of all time - Pythagoras  - has known this long before man ever heard of DNA. During his time, he cured many ailments: physical, spiritual and mental by playing his especially prepared compositions in the presence of the afflicted. He was also known to use songs to clear the mind of his students and inspire them.

The Syrian philosopher Iamblichus described Pythagoras’ therapeutic music thus: “And there are certain melodies devised as remedies against the passions of the soul, and also against despondency and lamentation, which Pythagoras invented as things that afford the greatest assistance in these maladies. And again, he employed other melodies against rage and anger, and against every aberration of the soul. There is also another kind of modulation invented as a remedy against desires." (See The Life of Pythagoras.)

Long before man even theorized about the song of the stars,  Pythagoras already recognized the connection between the seven Greek modes and the planets. They knew how to neutralize the various modes and passions of man by keeping the song of his soul in step with the song of the universe.

Central to the belief of the Phytagoreans is that everything in existence has a voice but man fails to hear the melody because his soul is entrapped by materialism.  There’s a reason why ascetism offers much freedom and great peace of mind. Those who are in sync with the rhythm of the universe are the happiest people on earth – they know no fear and they radiate joy wherever they go. 

Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual imbalances cause a breakdown of cells which in turn cause illness or disease. Experiments and studies have proven the validity of the Pythagorean music-healing connection. Presently, music therapy is already a well-recognized branch of health profession that also has its own share of successes. 

Indeed, harmony recognizes its very own, and when one regains his true self – that is, his oneness with all of creation, he will not only hear the song of the universe but also become one with the One  Eternal  Good which controls its infinite number of selves in everything that exists.

How to Program Your Stem Cells to Become Pancreatic Cells
Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products

If you have been afflicted with diabetes for some time now, you know very well that there’s no known medicine that can cure your disease - only medications to help you cope. But the story doesn’t end there. In previous posts we have learned that thoughts and emotions can greatly influence how the body works. This is nothing new. Mind over matter used to be considered an art, but now it has become a branch of medical science that’s increasingly growing in popularity.

In one of my research projects, I stumbled upon this unusual practice by an anthropologist at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, – he talks to his medicine before taking them! “I say, ‘hey guys, I know you’re going to do a terrific job’,” says Don Moerman. This may sound strange, but it cannot be denied that our body responds to how our mind works. Studies have shown that a sugar pill or a simple saline injection can achieve remarkable healing effects on people who believe in its healing properties. How does placebo effect work? Simple. Experiments have shown that belief in the medicine’s healing effects triggers the release of natural painkillers, boosts immune response, alters neuronal firing patterns, relieves hypertension and lowers heart rate. On the other hand, belief in a certain medicine’s harmful effect, called the “nocebo” effect, can even cause death.

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that auto-suggestion is indeed a very powerful tool in taking full control over your body. No one can underestimate the human mind’s ability to accomplish whatever it wants – your grey matter is the most vital force that you can use to achieve healing.

Most of us have been conditioned since birth to believe that we don’t have much control over what happens to us. This mind conditioning is responsible for our inability to use our mind’s power to heal our body. But why doubt? We’ve been very good at bombarding our body with stress, worries, depression and other negative thoughts or feelings which result to illness. Why not use this power to improve our well-being? The time has come to practice what is good.

There is a great awakening going on around the world now – people are discovering this enormous power that they have not only to heal themselves but also to attract and manifest great opportunities and improvements into their lives. If you have heard about the Law of Attraction, then you know what I mean. If not, make a search about it so you can have a clearer grasp about these things.

The crux of the matter is that you need to learn to use your mind’s ability to control every single cell of your body. You walked this way once before, when, as a mere one-celled zygote, you created the body you have now by following the genetic instructions in the DNA strand inside you. If in that consciousness you were able to program your daughter stem cells into becoming specialized  cells such as blood cells, bone cells, heart cells, brain cells and so on, there’s no reason why in that higher consciousness you cannot do the same.

All you need is a little practice. But first, you need to believe that you are your body’s co-creator, just as your mother and father also played the role of being your co-creators. You need to believe that every single cell in your body is your microcosm; that they have their own consciousness and that they respond to your thoughts and feelings much more than you ever thought possible.

If you were a cell inside your body, you’d live and move and have your being inside that human entity that you are now. You wouldn’t have an idea how a human face or body looks like, much less hear and speak the way humans do. You won’t even have an idea what a human being is, nor would you know that you are also capable of becoming a human being if you are cloned. You communicate with other cells in the language that you know – electro-chemical signals and electrical impulses. But where are you getting these instructions from? How would you know that you are doing exactly what needs to be done? Plain and simple – you’re getting these instructions from the control center, the central nervous system. These instructions will be greatly influenced by the neural signals that the mind’s thoughts and feelings dictate, and as we have discussed earlier, the instructions can either be constructive or destructive, depending on what occupies the thoughts that your mind chooses to entertain.

It has been said that thoughts are things – we basically become what we think. With a little effort, you can train every cell of your body to follow your instructions.

So today is the first day of the rest of your life. Good news is, you have the power of choice. Choose life. All you need to do is be who you are – the sovereign master of your thoughts. Fill your mind with beautiful and happy thoughts; think greatly of others, be appreciative, be grateful and choose to see only that which is good always. Choose to forgive, to be patient, to be nice, to be understanding, to be kind, to laugh, live and love.

Before you know it, everything will fall into place. Like a puzzle that is finally completed, your life will become a beautiful picture worthy to be displayed for others to see – and emulate.