Authors: Dr. Mark Mincolla
In order for your life to be fully lived with authenticity, you must open the eyes of your soul. To do so, you must be willing to see the absolute truth. The soul's vision sees only the unedited truth. Its vision begins with the end of your life and works back to where you are. The soul's vision is the only thing that separates those of us who are destined for greatness from those of us who resist our greater destiny.
I have had the good fortune to have worked with a great many patients whom traditional medicine practitioners had given up on. They were sent home to make their peace with themselves, their
families, and their lives. Yet, paradoxically, it was because they walked right up to the edge of no return that they were somehow able to generate an uncommon force of will capable of rescuing them against all odds.
I shall never forget one woman I worked with who was sent home to die with stage four breast cancer. She had three young children who inspired her to remain steadfast and determined to beat the dreaded disease. She did, and as she walked out of my office victorious on that glorious day, she turned to me, broke down in tears, and said, “I thank cancer for teaching me how to live.” The disease of cancer has
taken
the lives of many, but the experience of cancer has also given life to some.
Living life backward provides you with a very different perspective. It reveals a vision of who you really are and what you really need. It reminds you that life is precious and fading fast. It beckons you to stop pretending that you have forever to postpone all that is most meaningful. Thanks to my terminally ill patients, I have come to believe that deep within all of us there resides a soul that generates life energy to the spirit that resonates through to our hearts. It is not a prerequisite that we walk the tightrope of near-death in order to be given the opportunity to be made whole. We need only learn the art of living life backward. When you get to the end, you'll find that . . .
There is no denial.
There is no pretense.
There is no illusion.
There is only naked truth, and a new beginning . . .
TRANSPECTANCY
Transpectancy
is a word I created by combining
transformation
and
expectancy
.
Transformation
refers to a radical change of form.
Expectancy,
according to recent neuroscience, represents thought power that can actually change life-and-death outcomes. It implies the kind of thinking that fuels both placebo (“I shall heal”) and nocebo (“I shall harm”) potential. Thus, “transpectancy” is meant to describe
positive expectation with the power of drastic change
. Limiting belief is the primary obstacle that stands in the way of the power and potential of transpectancy.
Belief is merely thought that is empowered by mental and emotional states. Therefore, if I empower a negative belief with a negative mind state or emotion, I turn off the positive life-changing potential of transpectancy.
The Three Disablers of Transpectancy
There are three mind states that empower limiting beliefs and disable the potential of transpectancy:
In the most primitive sense, the unconscious mind was designed to protect us by remembering and reminding us of all the negative experiences we have ever had, whether real or imagined. Whether dominantly programmed to trigger fear, shame, or doubt, the subconscious mind never forgets. It continues to believe in every trauma, nightmare, and negative thought. If a child never burned his hand on a stove, but his mother did when she was young, that child will likely be programmed to fear stovetops through the mother's negative subconscious programming.
Your most emotionally charged and repetitious thought patterns always shape your reality and, in the case of fear conditioning, it's a reality that binds and limits growth and prosperity. Those
thoughts that fire through your nerve networks most often ultimately wire corresponding nerve networks together, reinforcing the same repeated thought patterns.
The key with transpectancy is to initiate new positive thought patterns until you become more willing to expect positive outcomes. The best way to begin establishing new, positive thought patterns is through neuro-associative conditioning.
Neuro-associative conditioning (NAC) is a well-studied technique that has proven that you can actually reshape your reality by reprogramming your nervous system through positive thinking.
It's quite simple. Your nervous system is neurologically wired to respond most dominantly to two variables: pleasure and pain. You can actually alter the reality dictating nerve network chemistry in your brain by replacing old pain-based thought associations with new pleasure-based programs. In the case of the child and the hot stove, as he matures, he might think of how much he enjoys certain favorite meals. As he begins rewiring his belief system regarding stovetops, instead of thinking about the negative experience his mother once had, he can begin thinking about the potential of that stovetop to produce the pleasurable meals he enjoys so much.
When you rehearse linking positive experiences with events once believed to be negative, you rewire your brain's nerve networks in a manner that initially allows for, and ultimately reinforces, a greater tendency for positive expectancy.
Three Transpectancy Exercises
1.
Erase and Replace Exercise
âAs previously discussed, the Erase and Replace exercise begins with making a commitment to living much more mindfully. Observe more consciously all that happens within and around you. Focus on your observations at a level of positive and negative. Note all the negative energy that comes from the minds and mouths of you and everyone around you. Edit out, or erase, all the negatives, and replace all
forms of negatives with positives. Every word you speak and every thought you think creates a matching chemistry! Your reality is your choice!
2.
Positivity Exercise
âTake four minutes twice daily to repeat a simple positive, shocking mantra such as “I am a genius.” Turn off your cell phone and don't listen to any music during your commute to and from work each day. This will likely ensure you the time required. In my ongoing neuroplasticity work with patients over the past ten years, I've discovered that by taking just four minutes twice daily for sixteen weeks, you can significantly develop the left prefrontal cortex (the positive, confident mind). Your brain and neurobiology do
not
know the difference between what you speak and imagine and what you actually experience. It's all processed the same way in the anterior cingulate cortex of your brain. This is why nightmares can increase your heart rate. Your brain takes your mind's thoughts and spoken words literally. Thus, your reality (including your physical health) is programmed by your brain, and is based on what your mind dictates. All the research indicates that our brain programs everything based on what is most frequently repeated in our thoughts.
3
Tibetan Manifest Exercise
â
This particular version of a 3,000-year-old exercise comes from the John Perkins book
Shape Shifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation
.
The exercise was handed down to John from a European traveler, who learned it from Tibetan sages. The sages told the traveler that “it will most assuredly make dreams manifest!”
Begin by closing your eyes.
Keep your eyes closed until you complete the exercise. Next, envision your intention. Now envision the black void of space all around you. Then picture a bright, shimmering silver star at a distance out in front of you. Project your intention through your third eye (which resides in the middle of the forehead) out to the silver, shimmering star,
where it will then be absorbed by that silver star. Once the star has absorbed your intention, draw the silver star containing your intention into your mind through your third eye. Now, picture that the star filled with your intention explodes three times in succession within your mind. These are transformational growth explosions. They are expanding the power of your vision. Following these three growth explosions, direct the silver star containing your intention down into your heart. Once again, imagine three powerful growth explosions in your heart. Finally, draw the silver star filled with your intention up and out of your third eye, back out into the black void. Perform this exercise at least twice each day, three times per week.
TRANSFORMATIONAL VIBRATIONS
In January 2012, a team of astronomers from the University of Arizona reported that they had detected the actual original sound waves from the Big Bang, believed to represent the birth of the universe some 14 billion years earlier. Big Bang theorists postulate that the universe expanded from the size of a proton particle (smaller than a grain of sand) to macrogalactic proportion. Every bang creates sound, and some theorize that the Big Bang produced “the primordial” sound. The University of Arizona team of astronomers says that stars and galaxies actually formed along the ripples of those first sound waves, where the matter was denser. The important point is that sound waves were among the first natural vibrations that resulted from the birth of the universe. Sound produces a cosmic vibration.
Since the dawn of civilization, sounds, tones, and overtone harmonics have been considered sacred agents of healing. There is evidence of healing with sound, in overtone healing chanting traditions in Bulgaria, Central Africa, China, Japan, Native America, Romania, South America, Spain, and Tibet. Harmonic tones were
often combined with mantras, or “words of power,” for the purposes of attaining spiritual transcendence and healing. Buddhists, Celts, Christian Mystics, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Sai Babas, Sikhs, Sufis, and Taoists all had mantras and chants to elevate their spirit, balance their nervous system, and heal their ailing bodies.
Over the centuries, each culture established its own relationship with healing sounds. In all cases, overtones and words of power (mantras) are revered as sacred sounds with the vibrational potential to significantly relax our nervous system and elevate our energy. The Hindus embraced the mantra
aum,
believing it to represent the primordial sound. The Buddhists often employed the mantra
tat tuam asi so ham,
which translates as “thou art that I am.” The Taoists have employed five healing sounds for more than 5,000 years. Each is believed to have the power to heal a corresponding major organ of the human body when recited with frequency. The sound
ssss
(pronounced
shee
) is believed to heal the lungs.
Wooo
(pronounced
chwaaay
) is for the kidneys.
Whooo
(pronounced
whooo
) is for the spleen.
Shhh
(pronounced
hsuuu
) is for the liver, and
hawww
(pronounced
herrr
) balances the heart.
PERSONALIZED SOUND MANTRAS
We all produce our own unique energetic vibration. Our vibration is like our DNA. You can't change it, but you can decipher it and, once you do, you may then employ its extremely powerful energy-balancing and healing effects.
While reciting traditional sounds, words of power and mantras are effective ways to tune one's vibration. Whole Health teaches that we each have a specific sound of power that, once discovered and recited with regularity, will elevate our vibration response to a far greater level than ever before.
Whole Health has developed a system called the personalized mantra protocol. Over the years, Whole Health has tested and
calibrated sounds and has discovered that vowels have all the power. Consonants have nowhere near the vibrational energy that vowels do. Therefore, this system implements only vowel sounds. Whole Health has also established that, in order to increase the power of mantras by personalizing their vibration, the subject's individualized musical key must be determined.
We are all energetically and, thus, vibrationally unique. Therefore, the concept of dialing in the vowel sounds and exact musical keys from person to person with specificity is what makes the Whole Health personalized mantra protocol so very powerful. There is a simple EMT muscle testing exercise that will enable you to decipher your own personalized mantra.
Before beginning this EMT exercise, you must access a Personalized Mantra Assessment (Appendix D). You are also advised to perform this exercise with a partner. Next, assume EMT pass/fail posture. Then commence tuning and establishing reliability (for a review of these exercises, see chapter 4).
The practitioner and subject must set their intention to reverse the polarity. This simply means that when they arrive at the correct positive response, instead of strengthening, the subject's arm weakens and drops down. It is important to reverse polarity whenever there are many variables to be tested, as it will prevent arm fatigue.
Next, the practitioner must call out all the vowels one at a timeâ
A, E, I, O,
and
U
. Only one of the vowels will cause the subject's arm to fall. This establishes the subject's personalized mantra vowel.
Next the practitioner calls out the seven musical keys (one short of an octave) one at a timeâ
A, B, C, D, E, F, G
âmuscle testing the subject's strength response with each key called out. When the subject's arm falls at the practitioner's calling out of a specific key (and there will be only one), you have established the musical key (tone) of the subject's specific personalized mantra.
Now you can establish the amount of time that the subject's
mantra must be recited. The practitioner calls out time intervals from one to ten minutes. As always, when in reverse polarity, once the subject's arm drops, you will have established the recommended time allowance for them to recite their personalized mantra. The practitioner should also test the subject for the number of times the subject should recite their personalized mantras per day. Personalized mantras are generally never to be recited for less than one minute once a day, and for no more than ten minutes twice a day.