I’m happy to announce that shortly after the contest was posted, Gregorio Keiser got it right: Feel first, think second. Many of you guessed being emotionally honest and the importance of vulnerability, but these are both roots of his main motto. Congratulations, Gregorio! Here’s a lovely image that Helene Ramøy created for the motto.
This next topic is one that is dear to my heart because in my youth, I tended to be very sensitive to criticism. There’s still some of that, but for the most part, life has snuffed it out of me. When you go through hardships along with the humbling experience of raising five kids, judgments from others just seem silly. Don’t let the brevity of this post fool you. It’s a powerful message, at least for some.
Me: How does someone who is very sensitive become more like a duck and let stuff roll off their backs?
Erik: They learn to get powerful by using their other strengths that sensitivity normally shuts down, like usually when you get sensitive you stop talking, cuz if you’re sensitive and you feel like you’re being attacked, what you’ve been taught is to defend yourself, but if you’re sensitive, you don’t want to defend yourself and you don’t want confrontation. So, you shut up, and you take it because you think that’s your only other option, but really the best option is learn how to speak up without confrontation. Learn how to speak up without defending. Resort to nonviolent communication.
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Erik: You can have a big ass voice without it taking a bite out of or hurting anyone. So if you learn to strengthen the tools that sensitivity shuts down, then you can let it roll off your back. Another thing is knowing really, really to the core of your being what is yours and what is somebody else’s. You do that through experience and practice. What are you responsible for? You’re only responsible for your actions and words and how you present them. You’re not responsible if somebody misunderstands these. You’re not responsible if somebody reacts or feels a certain way because of your words. You’re responsible for your clarity and fixing your actions if you didn’t approve of them in hindsight. If we can stick to those things and tell sensitive people to stay in the moment—sensitive people do this weird thing where they think five steps ahead or five minutes ahead, like, “Oh, how would that person react if I did that?” They live in this “what if” world which really sucks. Not helpful whatsoever.
Me: Yeah.
Erik: If they can stay in the Now, they won’t have those issues. They won’t look back and realize that they’ve behaved in a way that they didn’t recognize or did unknowingly because they’re too focused on what was or what might happen. So, stay in present, speak up, know your responsibilities. Ding.
Me: Awesome. I like that.
Elizabeth Redd sent me the most fascinating article today about biophotons and how they relate to our cells, nervous system and even our thoughts. In essence, they’re what we’re made of. Erik has always said that it’ll be science that will bring spirituality to the masses by making the intangible tangible. Skeptics, brace yourself!
A biophoton or Ultra-weak Photon Emission, (UPE) is a kind of light particle that is emitted by all living things. Though it exists in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum, in order for us to see it, our eyes would have to be about 1,000 times more sensitive.
While we can’t see them with our eyes alone, technology has given us a glimpse and what it’s shown us may have a profound impact on us all.
Biophotons were first thought to be merely the byproduct of metabolic chemical reactions. That idea is being challenged with an exciting theory that claims biophotons have a much larger role to play when it comes to our physiology and quite possibly our consciousness as well.
Experiments are showing that biophotons (UPEs) can be captured and stored inside of cells and can even travel through our nervous system; suggesting that biophotons might provide a way for cells to transfer energy and communicate information. It’s has also been suggested that UPEs might even have properties which help us to visualize images.
This makes sense considering how we’re creating computers. All computers are is silicon crystal chips which we pass light through to relay 0′s and 1′s. (Light on, Light Off). The first computer was literally built with a lightbulb and these punch-cards which had holes in them, which is how we would program computers.
Today, our computers are far more advanced, and yet at the core, the electrical information we are passing through computers today is still a form of light. Now our sciences are revealing humans work the same way, and Light carries information through our brain, nervous system, and even our DNA.
Yep! Scientists are finding that our DNA is a strong source of UPEs, it communicates with and is created from light itself! It’s been observed that DNA produces extremely high biophoton emissions and has excimer laser-like properties. Excimer lasers (or exciplex lasers) are special lasers consisting pseudo-molecules that only exist in a highly excited state and emit light in the ultraviolet range.
If that wasn’t cool enough already, scientists have also discovered that not only do we emit light, we have the ability to effect it with our thoughts alone. In a recent study, participants were placed in a darkened room and asked to visualize a bright light. When they did this, they were able to increase their levels of biophoton emissions significantly, showing that our intentions have an influence on light itself!
In conclusion, Light appears to be a fundamental part of our being. It’s hard-coded into our very bodies to function directly with, and through – light. On top of that, the fact that we can affect light with our intentions alone… outstanding! It would appear those new age hippies are right when they say we are all beings of light.
