The air that you breathe is not visible to you, yet you know that it is vital for life.  Without fresh air every few minutes you will have difficulty surviving.  What is it about this acceptance of air in how vital it is to our life that may apply elsewhere?

Without taking breaths of fresh air inward and the release of used, stale air outward, the body cannot function.   The mind is similar in that it takes perceptions inward, creates thoughts, and lets emotions go outward.  Like breathing is to your lungs which oxygenates the blood, the brain receives inputs that are processed into signals that are distributed throughout the body.

Your body is constantly being bombarded with perceptions.  Your eyes see, your ears hear, your nose smells, your skin feels.  Those “instruments” take inputs that are ultimately interpreted by the brain.  The brain then figures out a course of “action” if any, to take.  For instance, when you touch a hot stove, it is only a moment before the brain sends a signal to remove the hand from the source of the heat.

Unlike the air that you breathe which is vital to your body, the perceptions that you perceive can be interpreted any way that you choose.  The “data” that is coming in through the source of “instruments” is interpreted based on your experiences and your beliefs.

A young child who has never experienced a burn from a hot stove, may not understand the burning sensation on their skin.  Eventually, the brain will send a signal to remove the hand, however, it may be much slower the first time a burn is experienced.

As time goes on, and your experiences grow, you begin to understand a little better about the environment around you.  You see a hot stove, and understand the ramifications of touching the burner as you remove the cookies from the oven.  Life is about experiences which help in the creation of our beliefs.

Your perceptual devices that take “inputs” are changing as you age as well.  Your eyes may not see as well as they once did, and your skin may not be as reactive to sensation as it once was.  However, since you have developed your inventory of experiences that are stored away in your “memory bank” that can often times make up for the degradation of your “instruments.”

Now, we ask for a moment that you think about the process for which we just spoke.  That being how the brain interprets “inputs” coming from a group of perceptual devices.   The mind then controls the brain.  Sure, some things the brain does is “automatic,” but in general the “mind” controls or influences if you will, the behavior of the brain.

That is why some people can walk over hot coals with bare feet, and not be affected.  The mind is very powerful and can change the way the brain reacts to certain things.   When you understand that your spiritual self, can help influence the body, you will begin to see how healing your body becomes a possibility.

Now we would like to challenge you with the development of other “perceptual devices.”  For example, your “intuition.”   Everyone has to admit that there have been times when you were thinking of someone and a moment later they called you, or contacted you through an electronic device.  Or, maybe, more “old school” they showed up on your door step.

Is that a “coincidence?”  Many of you would argue, “yes, absolutely.”  However, it is that sort of thinking that will limit you to the perceptual devices that you currently have.  That is okay, if you believe that those occurrences are nothing “special.”  However, if you could set aside your lifetime of beliefs and just for a day, believe that they are not coincidences.

If you could believe for a day or better yet, a week that your intuition is always “right,”  what would happen?  Maybe nothing – or maybe you will “awaken” a new perceptual device buried away within.  Intuition is the ability to “detect” things on the non-physical plane.

Maybe you “sense” your loved one is in a particular area of a large department store.  Maybe you “sense” your loved on is driving down the block toward your home.  Maybe you “sense” your child is in need and you give her a call to find she’s crying.  Maybe you “sense” your child is excited and you call her to find out she found a new job.

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We challenge you to put aside those traditional beliefs and open yourself up to just the “possibility” that anything is possible!  Open yourself up to anything and to anyone that enters into your environment.  Open up and “see” the world through a new set of “eyes.”

Written Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:13 – 7:32 AM MT