Authors: Pam Grout
Tags: #ebook, #book
E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality (18 page)
“I hate my body.”
“I am strong and powerful.”
Lab Report Sheet
The Principle:
The Superhero Principle
The Theory:
Your thoughts and consciousness impact matter.
The Question:
Is it possible to affect the physical world with my attention?
The Hypothesis:
If I focus my attention on a row of green-bean seeds, I can make them sprout faster.
Time Required:
Seven days
Today’s Date:
__________
Time:
__________
The Approach:
I will focus my attention on a row of green beans. I will send those seeds positive vibes and expect them to be influenced by my energy.
Research Notes:
________________________________
______________________________________________
“People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.”
—B
RUCE
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H
.D., A
MERICAN CELL BIOLOGIST
“Your body is simply a living expression of your point of view about the world.”
—C
ARL
F
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,
AUTHOR OF
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The Premise
The environment in which you live responds to your thoughts and emotions. To prove this in a very observable fashion, you’re going to use your bathroom scale. Yes, this is the experiment where you offer your body up to science. But don’t worry. It’s just for three days. And the end result is something 90 percent of us, at least according to a study at Cornell University, are actively trying to do anyway: lose weight. For those two or three lucky devils who are hoping to
gain
weight, well, you can expect an increase in your health and vitality.
Your food, like everything else in the world, is infused with energy, and by working with it instead of fighting against it (as most of us do in our obsession to lose weight), you’ll easily drop a pound or two without changing a single thing.
The specific premise for this experiment is that the energy provided by your food is affected by what you say and think. Those items on your dinner plate are not static lumps of nutrition, but rather morsels of dynamic energy that eavesdrop on every one of your intentions. And while nutritionists can’t exactly quantify your thoughts to include them on food labels, they probably should if they want to make an accurate assessment of what that can of pork and beans or that package of pasta means to your health. The energy of your thoughts is being ingested right along with the calcium and vitamin D.
If you haven’t already seen it, rent the documentary film
I Am
by Tom Shadyac. The whole movie is amazing, but for the research purposes of this experiment, pay careful attention to the scene where Shadyac, a famous Hollywood director, visits the Institute of HeartMath, a nonprofit research organization that studies stress and human energy. First, Rollin McCraty, the institute’s longtime director of research, hooks electrodes to a bowl of yogurt.
Although yogurt is widely regarded as an inert blob, McCraty uses the electrodes to demonstrate that it responds to Shadyac’s thoughts and emotions. The needle on the bioresponse meter oscillated wildly when he was asked about an earlier marriage. It flew off the charts when he mentioned his lawyer, with whom he confirmed he had unfinished business. The yogurt, without being attached to Shadyac in any way, was able to read his emotions. When he brought his attention back to the present, back to the room, the needle went still.
“We don’t exactly know how this works, but we have irrefutable proof that human emotions create a very real energetic field to which other living systems are attuned,” McCraty says.
So think about it. How many times have you said or thought something like the following?
It’s really hard for me to lose weight
.
I just look at a piece of chocolate cake and gain weight.
I have a slow metabolism.
Not only do thoughts like this make you feel like warmed-over dog doo, but they radically affect your body and what you put into it.
In the 1960s, Cleve Backster, a former CIA agent, made headlines when he discovered that plants perceive human intentions. In 1966, after retiring from the CIA, Backster started what is still considered to be the world’s largest lie-detection agency. One night, while sitting in his New York office, he decided to attach a galvanometer to a houseplant. It was a fluke, just something to kill time. What he discovered was that the dracaena that his secretary had brought in to decorate the office reacted not just to physical harm (he dunked its leaves in hot coffee and burned them with a match), but to his very thoughts and intentions. He was shocked and felt like “running into the street and shouting to the world, ‘Plants can think!’” Instead, he plunged into a meticulous investigation to establish just how the plant was reacting to his thoughts.
Using highly sophisticated polygraph equipment, he was able to prove that plants—all kinds of plants—react to human thoughts and emotions. He tested dozens of different varieties, ones we humans eat on a daily basis. He discovered that plants respond to sounds that are inaudible to the human ear and to wavelengths of infrared and ultraviolet light, which are invisible to the human eye.
Viennese biologist Raoul Francé, who died in 1943, before such intricate instrumentation was available, had already suggested that plants constantly observe and record events and phenomena of which humans—trapped in our anthropocentric view of the world—know nothing.
So why is this relevant to our bathroom scales? Of the average ton of food we consume each year, the bulk comes from plants. Granted, it’s often processed and beat and spun so as to be almost unrecognizable, but much of our food starts as living, sentient plants. The remainder of our food comes from animals, which—guess what?—also get their energy from plants. So nearly all the food, drink, intoxicants, and medicines that keep us alive are derived from plants, which Backster and many scientists who followed have proved are able to read your thoughts.