Building Your own Personal Logic Patch

     Following is a template that you can use to build a logic patch for yourself.  What sets this process apart from an affirmation is that here you're stating your own facts, based upon your personal experience, which lead you to a logical and inarguable conclusion.  Just as in the earlier examples, the key is to be clear, honest, and concise sot hat the patch will make sense to your mind.

     Key 1: State how you feel regarding your desired ourcome as if it has already happened.  For your own clarity, it's important to do this in once concise, brief sentence.
        Example:  I feel deeply fulfilled by the success of my new business teaching sustainable living.
      I feel____________.

     Key 2: State which passion you are choosing to express.
        Example 1:  I have passion to create and to share what I've created.
        Example 2:  I have a passion to help others.
      I have passion to____________.

     Key 3: State the limiting belief(s) that you have about yourself and/or filling your need.
         Example: My limiting belief is that my work is not worth the time it takes to create.
         Example: My limiting belief is that my work is insignificant.
         Example: My limiting belief is that my family demands don't allow me to fulfill this need.
     My limiting belief is that____________.

     Key 4: State the opposite of your limiting belief(s).
         Example: My work makes a meaningful contribution to my life and the world.
         Example: My work is valuable.
         Example: My family wants me to be happy and supports me in my choices.
     My____________.

     Key 5: State when you feel most fulfilled in life.  This will become your goal.
         Example: I feel most fulfilled in life when I think of writing a new book about sustainable living.
         Example: I feel most fulfilled in life when I'm creating workshops to teach "green" living.
     I feel most fulfilled when____________.

     Key 6: State the inarguable fact(s) that support your goal.
         Example: It is a fact that there's a demand for new books teaching sustainable living.
         Example: It is a fact that I've already practiced a green lifestyle for 25 years.
         Example: It is a fact that I'm already teaching other people about this informally.
         Example: It is a fact that new technology makes it possible to be more efficient.
         Example: It is a fact that I express myself well in writing and I've already written brief articles on the topic.
     It is a fact that____________.    

 Using the preceding examples, your finished logic statements will look like the following:

If: I have a passion to create and to share what I've created.
And: I feel most fulfilled in life when I think of writing a new book about sustainable living.
And: I feel most fulfilled in life when I'm creating workshops to teach "green" living.
And: It's a fact that there's a demand for new books teaching sustainable living.
And: It's a fact that I've practiced a green lifestyle for 25 years.
And: It's a fact that I'm already teaching other people about this informally.
Then it makes sense that: My work makes a meaningful contribution to my life and the world, my work is valuable, and my family wants me to be happy and supports my choices.

And I have all that I need to bring my dream to life.

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From the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief--P. 169 - 173
by Gregg Braden
Published by Hay House 2008

If We Were Living in a Simulation, Would We Know It?

     When as a scientist, I began to consider our world as a simulation and belief as the language of mastery, the first question that came to mind was: Why? What would be the purpose?  What end could possibly justify the effort required to create an artificial reality the size of the whole universe?  the first thing I did was to look up the terms simulation and virtual reality to know what they really mean.  Through their definitions, I found myself closer to answering my initial question.

     The American Heritage College Dictionary defines virtual reality as "a computer simulation of a real or imaginary system that enables a user to perform operations on the simulated system and shows the effects in real time."  In other words, it's an artificial environment of action and feedback, where we can discover the effects of our behavior and the consequences of our conduct in "safe" surroundings.  While this definition is interesting , when we combine it with the description of a simulation, it offers a modern context for some of the most mysterious religious traditions of the past--especially those describing our miraculous possibilities.

     The same dictionary's definition of a simulation is brief yet powerful: "the imitation or representation of a potential situation."  Doesn't this sound eerily similar to what our experience of Earth is in relation to heaven?  When we put these two definitions together and consider them within the context of our deepest beliefs and most cherished spiritual traditions, the implications are dizzying.  They describe precisely the same things that we've been told by millennia-old texts--specifically, that we're living in the temporary "representation of a potential situation" (heaven or a higher dimension) that allows us to learn the rules here before we get to the real thing.

     Maybe that's the best way to think of what's happening in our world today.  We're being given greater opportunities, under more extreme conditions, with more powerful consequences so that we can find out which of our beliefs work and which ones don't.  The intensity with which the opportunities seem to be coming our way suggest that it's important that we learn these lessons soon, before we find ourselves in a place where such skills are a must.

Did the Great Programmer Leave Us a Manual?

     Early in the movie Contact, the main character, Dr. Arroway (played by Jodie Foster), is part of a research team that receive an encrypted message from deep space.  Before they can decode it, the team must find a key that tells them that their translations are correct.  Rather than a hidden key buried in a text or complex mathematical formula, this code is found in a place where its programmers were certain that it would remain safe: It's in the message itself.  By translating a simple phrase within it, Dr. Arroway's team unlocks the secret of the Earth's first interstellar calling card.

     Maybe the same principle applies to uncovering the secret of how our beliefs work in a simulated reality.  The clue as to "who" is responsible may lie in identifying who it is that benefits from such an experience.  Who is better off by mastering the rules of such a practice world?  The answer is obvious yet mysterious.  It's those in the simulation itself.  It's us!

     We may just discover that we're the great programmers who have created this practice world for ourselves.  We may find that we've agreed to immerse ourselves in the feedback loop of a simulation to master our hearts.  What better way to learn hoiw to live in a realm that we've yet to inhabit?

     If this is the case, then it makes even more sense to look within the mystery of what we've created to find the rules of our creation.

     For the last 300 years or so, we've relied upon the "laws" of physics to tell us the rules of our world: both what's possible and what's not.  For the most part, those laws seem to have worked well . . . at least they do so in the everyday world.  As mentioned before, however, there are places where the laws of physics don't operate, such as the very small realm of quantum particles.  Where it would seem that this world plays such an insignificant role in our lives that we could just write off the failure of physical laws as a fringe effect, nothing could be further from the truth.  The very place where the laws break down is precicely where our reality begins.

     The fact that the laws of physics as we know thwm today don't appear to be universal tells us that there must be other rules that govern our reality.  If we can find them and learn what they mean in our lives, then the instructions for what's possible and what's not will become clear.  This is where the power of belief comes in.  Because belief is considered to be among the effects that aren't accounted for by conventional physics, they may just point the way to understanding how our simulation works.

     The user's manual to reality is reality itself.  What better way to show how a reflected universe works than to have the instant feedback of relationships, abundance, health, and joy--or the lack of all these things--so that we can see what works and what doesn't?  We can try this way of being (or that way of being,) and if we have the wisdom to recognize how our world changes when we modify our beliefs, we have our paperless users' guide as a lifetime of experience.  It all comes down to patterns of energy, how they interact, and how we affect them withour beliefs.

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From the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief--P. 191 - 198
by Gregg Braden
ePublished by Hay House 2008