Rewriting Our Reality Code
How do we rewrite our beliefs to reflect our deepest loves, truest desires, and greatest means of healing?
To rewrite our reality code, we must give ourselves a reason to change what we've believed in the past. The message of this sentence is both plainly obvious and deceptively simple. . . But in the simplicity of what's so straightforward comes the catch.
Changing our beliefs may be the most difficult thing that we do in life. It's more than just a matter of making up our minds to change, or having the will to do so. Much more.
The reason is because of what we think our beliefs say about us. Geoff Heath, former principal lecturer in counseling and human relations at the University of Derby in England, describes the crux of our dilemma: "We are what we come to believe ourselves to be. To change our beliefs is to change our identities. . . That's why it's difficult to change our beliefs." What Heath is saying here goes a long way toward answering the question of why it's so hard for us to midify our perceptions.
For the most part we've grown comfortable with ourselves and the way we see our world. The proof is that if we ren't, we'd be constantly searchng for new reasons to change our lives. To upset our comfort zone is to shake the very foundation that allows us to feel safe in the world. so to make a change in something as powerful as the core beliefs that define our lives, we need a trigger that's equally powerful. We need a reason to jolt us from the complacency of one way of thinking into a new, and sometimes revolutionary, way of seeing things. In short, we need a different perspective.
The catalyst for a new perspective may be something as simpleas connecting the dots of newly discovered facts that lead to a novel understanding that simply makes sense. Or it may take something that blows the doors right off of everything we've believed in the past to catapult us into a greater possibility--something like a real-life miracle!
Both logic and miracles give us good reasons to see the world differently. While the latter have been used by the great masters of our past, the discoveries of today's science are opening the doors of entirely new ways of seeing the world without miracles. And that's why considering the universe as a computer and belief as a program is so powerful. Because we already know how both work, when we look for a way to change, it gives us a familiar place to begin.
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Regardless of how expertly a computer program is put together or how professional the programmers are, there's always the possibility that it will malfunction at some point. And when it does, the malfunction is called a bug, a hiccup, or more commonly, a glitch. If our world is really a simulation created by a sophisticated computer, then could the program that has created it ever have a problem? Could the consciousness computer of the universe ever have a glitch? And if so, would we know it is we saw it?
In his 1992 paper "Living in a Simulated Universe," John Barrow explored this very question, stating: "If we live in a simulated reality, we might expect to see occasional glitches . . . in the supposed constants and laws of Nature over time." While this kind of problem is certainly possible, it could be that we're already experiencing another type of glitch, perhaps one that even the architect of our reality never expected.
Having a glitch doesn't always mean that the program was written incorrectly. In fact, it may run perfectly under the conditions for which it was originally designed. Sometimes, however, a program made for one condition finds itself in a very different set of circumstances. Although it still does what it was always intended to do--and does it really well--in another environment it may not produce the expected outcome, so it looks as if the program has an error.
This leads us to a question: In the programs of consciousness, are hatred, fear, and war the result of a glitch in our beliefs? While the quantum stuff of the universe definitely reflects what we believe, is it possible that we were never meant to focus our beliefs on the things that hurt us in life? How how have we come to feel so alone in a world that we share with more than six billion of our kind? Where did we learn to experience so much fear, and why do we allow our fears to become so deeply ingrained in our beliefs that they ultimately make us sick? If these are the glitches in our consciousness, can we fix them in a way we would a program glitch?
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From the book The Spontaneous Healing of Belief--P. 158-162
by Gregg Braden
Published by Hay House 2008