How to Break Cell Phone Addiction

Cynthia Sue Larson and Justin Riddle

Have you noticed signs of cell phone addiction in yourself or others?

Maybe you’ve tried to get someone’s attention, and found they were so deeply ensconced in their cellphone that they were completely oblivious to you and pretty much everyone and everything around them.Or perhaps you’ve noticed you’re spending just a bit too much time on your phone when you dozed off with cellphone in hand, texted someone standing next to you, or grabbed your phone before doing anything else when you woke up. Cell phones can do a marvelous job of helping us stay connected with friends, family, and colleagues, but they can also be a bit addictive.

Good news! You can break the addiction to constantly check your cell phone by utilizing the concept of the Quantum Zeno mechanism for mental control over bodily action. Dr. Henry Stapp describes a little bit about how this works in a paper he presented at the 2014 Foundations of Mind conference, Mind, Brain and Neuroscience, about a way of better understanding the role of free will. Dr. Henry Stapp, a colleague of Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg, emphasizes the significance of our choices in influencing the realities we experience:

The central problem in quantum mechanics is that the basic dynamical equation, the Schroedinger equation, generates not the evolving physical reality itself but only a smear of potentialities for the future. But then how does what actually occurs get picked out. It is not picked out by nature acting alone. According to quantum mechanics, some subject/observer/agent must pose a question: “Is my immediately to appear experience Experience X?” Yes or No? Nature immediately answers, and in the “Yes” case delivers Experience X. In either case it changes the entire physical world by eliminating all features that are incompatible with the answer it has just chosen.

What this Means for You

When you recognize how you are engaging in a constant dialogue with the world through your questions and your focus of conscious awareness, you can see useful ways you can influence habitual behaviors. One of the benefits of dialogue is that it’s not a one-way conversation. This means there’s absolutely no reason that you need be a victim of old patterns or habits–you really do have free will. Your free will comes into play when you observe your surroundings and decide to do something; and your decision makes an imprint on your brain in such a way that makes it easier for you to follow that mental pathway again.

Breaking Cellphone Addiction in 3 Easy Steps

You can break a habit of checking for cellphone text messages every few minutes by first getting an idea of the underlying emotional reasons for checking your phone so often. Many people check for text messages because they want to stay in touch with people, so in addition to replacing the action of reaching for your cellphone with a different action, you an also do something to stay connected besides activating your phone.

Instead of reaching for your phone every few minutes, you can:

(1) Pat your leg,

(2) Look around, and

(3) Engage with your surroundings.

Justin Riddle, Dr. Henry Stapp and I discuss the Quantum Zeno mechanism for mental control over bodily action in this short video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/siJRYT1rbEU

Foundations of Mind

If you enjoy learning about new ideas in the fields of cognitive science, neuroscience, quantum physics, philosophy, and consciousness, I’d love to see you at this year’s Foundations of Mind: A Dialogue of World Views conference. This year’s speakers include Fritjof Capra, Stuart Kauffman, Jacob Needleman, and many more in Berkeley, California August 13-15.

To learn more about Foundations of Mind, please visit:
http://www.FoundationsOfMind.org

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Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of six books, including Quantum Jumps. Cynthia has a degree in Physics from UC Berkeley, and discusses consciousness and quantum physics on numerous shows including the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, the BBC and One World with Deepak Chopra. You can subscribe to Cynthia’s free monthly ezine at: http://www.RealityShifters.com

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How to Set Quantum Jumping Goals

How can we set attainable goals when we’ve not yet experienced success?  

While we might hope that we can simply “power through” with whatever goal we have in mind, it is helpful to know what kind of results are realistic when facing new, uncertain situations since some of the things we’d most like to experience can feel the most out of reach.

Since any kind of quantum jump is theoretically possible, and quantum jumping is completely natural, how can we tell which quantum jumping goals are realistic? While most of us deem some kinds of instantaneous transformation to be more believable than others–tending to expect smaller quantum jumps, while considering some larger jumps to be impossible–the truth is that Nature operates with discontinuous ‘jumps’ occurring on a regular basis, as quantum biologists are beginning to realize.

Listen to Many Minds

Instead of being of just one mind, each and every one of us is a multitude. For example, each of our minds includes numerous different overlapping memory systems, though we are seldom aware of just how we reconstruct our memories of specific events each time we recall them. Our many minds establish a naturally redundant and highly resilient system that we can trust even when “life happens,” and things occasionally go “wrong.”

As David Eagleman writes in Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain,

“Almost the entirety of what happens in your mental life is not under your conscious control, and the truth is that it’s better this way. Consciousness can take all the credit it wants, but it is best left at the sidelines for most for the decision making that cranks along in your brain.”

Our conscious mind is like the tip of an iceberg, with the vast majority of what goes on happening below what we can readily observe. Without support from our subconscious believing something to be possible, we can waste energy fighting inner battles that result in outer signs of getting stuck, delayed, or diverted. When we observe thoughts and feelings conflicting with our goals, we can gain insights into how to be more open-minded to new possibilities, as we revise our goals as need be to best ensure our success.

With regard to setting quantum jumping goals, best success comes from focusing attention on asking for what is truly best for on all levels of our being–not just what we think is best from our heads. Most of us do not go through life feeling fully aligned with a sense of one harmoniously focused intention, and instead are accustomed to feeling inharmonious conflicting desires as “normal” in our daily lives–yet happiness and life satisfaction come from experiencing harmonious alignment with all levels of awareness.

Examples of goals that look great to our heads, but might not feel doable to our hearts and guts could include things like: losing thirty pounds, finding a wonderful romantic partner, or starting a new business. There’s a degree of ongoing commitment to many goals, which can mean our internal areas of conflicting beliefs can wreak havoc if left to their own devices. Rather than unexpectedly experiencing worries, doubts, misgivings and fears, we can learn to thrive by listening to many levels of awareness (such as head, heart, and gut), while nurturing belief in positive possibilities associated with realities we’d most like to experience. Each of these levels of awareness has important information that can be most helpful, when we go through the various carrier emotions to tune in the information being conveyed.

In terms of quantum jumping goals, emotions of love, compassion, and enthusiasm are capable of transforming other emotional energies levels where we can more easily imagine how good things can get, without fixating on what might go wrong. Listening to levels of consciousness with these high emotional energies can thus help ensure we’re more likely to experience success, without succumbing to doubts, worries, and fears.

Recall Winning Situations from the Past

Peak results and experiences occur when we’re “in the zone,” free from various forms of stress and tension in our bodies, minds, and spirit that we sometimes become accustomed to feeling. Top athletes know the importance of experiencing being “in the zone,” because optimal peak performance is associated with achieving and maintaining a state of harmoniously aligned awareness. Remembering times when we’ve been “in the zone,” can be helpful to remind us of how good it feels when our heads, hearts, and guts are aligned with one goal in mind, providing a sense of moving through life experiences with effortless ease.

When preparing for success, it helps to remember success of any related experiences we can feel emotionally vested in. The stories we tell ourselves and others greatly influence our beliefs, since our subconscious listens to everything we say and think, and takes a great deal of it very literally. Just as researchers last year were stunned to discover the extraordinary positive effects of placebo sleep, in which people felt and performed better when they believed they slept well, even when they hadn’t–our bodies are much more willing and able to cooperate with our minds than most of us have ever realized.

We can help ensure future success by finding aspects of wins from the past that are related in some way to the reality we are now envisioning, while simultaneously experiencing that flow state of “in the zone” feeling. Telling ourselves such positive statements as, “Everything is working out perfectly” can do wonders!

Set Goals that Match Envisioned Future Success

Kathmandu’s “Kung Fu Nuns” sprang into action after an earthquake in Nepal even while the first earthquake tremors rocked and broke the walls, thanks to years of body-mind-spirit conditioning, dodging pieces of falling wall and escaping, despite never having practiced such an exercise before. One of the reasons martial arts masters train as regularly and heavily as they do has to do with conditioning their minds to becoming aware that their physical bodies often do extraordinary activities, while enhancing the smooth coordination between mental thoughts and physical actions. The subconscious thus becomes conditioned to be more flexible and agreeable when urged forward by the conscious mind, able to do first envision and then do extraordinary things for the first time, regardless of any prior specific expertise in those areas.

We can develop mind-body-spirit agility by considering what reality we’d like to experience in the future, while recalling joy and gratitude of the past. Imagine our future selves feeling overwhelmed with thankful happiness as we look back at this very moment. Feeling such waves of appreciation in connection to seeing ourselves doing whatever needs to be done, weaving a thread from an optimal future possibility through the web of all possibilities to this moment, now.

Check Gut Feelings

After setting goals that match envisioned future success, we can take a check-point and listen to subconscious gut feelings. When we notice we are feeling relaxed, happy and expansive about our goals as we now envisioning them, terrific! Our goals are in place. If we sense any tension whatsoever, such as tightness or queasy feelings, it’s time to listen one more time, going through the above steps once again. Setting quantum jumping goals is a process, which always goes back to listening to our many levels of ourselves, getting ourselves into as much inner alignment as possible, and asking an integrating question such as, “How good can it get?”

You can watch the video edition of this post on YouTube at: http://youtu.be/8HCVZPMXP1k

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Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of six books, including Quantum Jumps. Cynthia has a degree in Physics from UC Berkeley, and discusses consciousness and quantum physics on numerous shows including the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, the BBC and One World with Deepak Chopra. You can subscribe to Cynthia’s free monthly ezine at: http://www.RealityShifters.com

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How to Overcome Money Anxiety

Cynthia Sue Lars at Abu Dhabi International Airport

One of the best ways to overcome anxiety, stress, or worries about money is by listening to and learning from your subconscious feelings about money. Personalized positive statements of affirmation can be created to help you increase positive feelings about and experiences with money. 

I love hearing from people who have questions about how to overcome inner blocks and barriers to prosperity, money, and finances, because addressing this area can immediately bring people to a place in which they can then feel better equipped to address other challenges that inevitably arise.

One reader wrote, “I have been struggling with my money inflow for quite some time now, I worked on it over the years and felt like I am getting closer and closer to a ‘breakthrough’ in this area. Still it is hasn’t happened yet. And I am suspecting that this is due to some subconscious belief or a blind spot. So my question goes something like that: What does it take to turn that around and have that breakthrough RIGHT NOW. Whatever I have to look at or have to do I am ready to face it, because I simply can’t go on like this anymore. I deserve abundance on all levels, and therefore also in the form of money, like everybody else does. NOW.”

When I read this question, I realized this question applies to more than just this one individual, and is actually a matter of great importance in many peoples’ lives. Lots of people notice stresses and strains from going through various life transitions, and when this happens, become suddenly aware that what had been working isn’t working any more.

High Energy Money

I can appreciate how challenging it can feel to overcome money anxiety and energy blocks associated with money, which is a big part of the reason why I wrote my book, RealityShifters Guide to High Energy Money.  High Energy Money contains a self assessment section that you can read through, to help you find what may be negatively influencing how you feel. These feelings often can be felt in the form of physical sensations in your body, that you can start listening to and learning from.

The key idea is to locate the statements about money that might be in that book or that you might find that “trigger” or activate a tightening, clenching, or anxious feeling in your body. You can tell when this happens, so when it does, you can take each of the statements you’ve reacted to and flip them around to their opposite–so you will end up with positive affirmations that are uniquely tailored to addressing your specific needs and issues.

This list of affirmations is your “energy medicine” and something you will benefit most from reading out loud so you hear your own voice speaking, as you say each affirmation–and then FEEL how your body responds. Your body’s response is the key to indicating to you exactly how you are genuinely feeling, and this response is your indication of how helpful your affirmations actually are.

For example, if you had an issue with money such as:

“I doubt my ability to achieve financial goals”

You can tell that is an issue if you feel a physiological reaction to it, such as tightening of your chest, or clenched muscles. With this indicator, you can then create a personalized affirmation such as:

“I feel a sense of excitement setting financial goals.”

The very best affirmations will be ones that inspire truly good physiological feelings in your body when you hear yourself say them out loud, and they are effective for as long as you feel such good feelings as: excited anticipation, relaxation, and joy. When affirmations no longer seem to produce much of any reaction, that’s how you know it’s time to create new ones that give you a fresh sense of invigoration.

When creating and saying affirmations, I find it helpful to envision and imagine what is in keeping with your more affluent possible future self. For example, you can envision yourself at the airport in the capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, waiting to catch your next flight to somewhere wonderful!

You can watch the video edition of this post, filmed at Abu Dhabi International Airport, on YouTube at:

 

You can watch the video edition to this blog post, filmed at Abu Dhabi International Airport, on YouTube at:

 

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Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of six books, including Quantum Jumps. Cynthia has a degree in Physics from UC Berkeley, and discusses consciousness and quantum physics on numerous shows including the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, the BBC and One World with Deepak Chopra. You can subscribe to Cynthia’s free monthly ezine at: http://www.RealityShifters.com

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Meeting People Who Weren’t There Before

It’s one thing to notice a statue, tree, building, or empty lot where you didn’t recall one having been before, acknowledging that yes, such things can happen, when we expect to see occasional macroscopic evidence of quantum effects. It’s quite another to notice a person who you’re fairly confident didn’t previously exist. While I have observed and written about people literally showing up as if out of thin air in my book Reality Shifts, I had assumed they were teleporting from one spot to another, more than actually appearing with a complete backstory and history out of the blue, as if they’d always been here.

When we contemplate the relatively large number of first-hand accounts of having seen people alive again after previously having been reported deceased, we might suspect we would also occasionally notice people showing up who we’re certain weren’t there before. I am one of the 27% of the people recently surveyed who reported having “seen dead people and animals alive again” (Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity, page 98). I remember hearing the news of Nelson Mandela’s death when he was incarcerated many years ago, and again more recently. I also recall having heard news through the international news media of Jane Goodall’s passing away, shortly after Dian Fossey died, which struck me as such a senseless double loss of great primate researchers in such mysterious rapid succession–yet I was thrilled to learn she is still alive and well this past year, so I was able to see her give a talk in the San Francisco bay area when she came through on a recent book tour.

So if a person who we’re fairly sure has died can be alive again, why can’t a person we’ve never before heard of suddenly appear? There is a satisfying kind of logic to this phenomena, in the sense that just as one might suddenly find a lost item in an unexpected place, it’s just as possible to find a new person in our lives just when we need them most.

People Have Noticed I Wasn’t There Before

Over the past year, I’ve heard from two different individuals that I came into their lives as if out of nowhere. Both of these people separately told me, “If you had existed, doing what you’re doing, I would have known.” When conversing with me about the possibility that I hadn’t existed in previous realities, one person exclaimed last summer, “It may interest you to know that apparently you didn’t exist (at least not in your current version) in the timeline I came from;; because if you had, I would have heard of you A LONG TIME AGO!” I replied, “How fascinating that you hadn’t come across me, so I’d tend to agree with you that in previous realities you’ve come from, I didn’t exist as I do here. Cool!”

A second person told me she’d found me in January of this year, when she suddenly realized we’d been friends on facebook for quite some time, and had mutual friends. She felt certain that I’d popped up out of the blue, as it were, since she was positive she’d have contacted me much sooner. So now two people were both telling me within the last year that essentially they’re both fairly certain they’d been in realities in which I had not been writing books, publishing a newsletter, and conducting research in the field of reality shifts, quantum jumps, and consciousness.

One of My Favorite Quantum Cosmologists Appeared Out of the Blue

Part of the reason that these revelations from others that, “You didn’t exist before!” aren’t overly disconcerting to me is that I have had similar experience with this phenomenon. Even though I’ve heard trusted individuals, such as my daughters, or close friends, telling me they’ve seen me somewhere I know I hadn’t been (though typically I’d been daydreaming of being there), people showing up out of the blue seemed different. The difference mostly can be summed up as I can’t envision a world without me in it–or at least without a me who I’ve so come to know and love! I’ve had a similar experience with UC Berkeley’s Dr. Yasunori Nomura, who I first came across many months after having written my book, Quantum Jumps.

What’s so surprising to me about finding Dr. Nomura is that I did not come across any of his papers having to do with the Many Worlds of quantum physics being one and the same as the multiverse, despite my in-depth quest to find such papers while conducting research for my book, Quantum Jumps.  This is surprising to me, since I conducted a very thorough research search of original papers written in the field of quantum physics and quantum cosmology, and because Dr. Nomura is an especially prolific writer of top-notch papers in these fields that I’d been researching so extensively. Not only has he written an excellent paper on the subject of my greatest interest, but he is now shown to be the first to have published his ideas about the many worlds of quantum physics being the same as the multiverse, back in 2011. I appreciate his papers both for their clarity of presenting complex material, and for the way he utilizes graphics to help get his points across, and I loved interviewing him recently about his research work and ideas.

How Can this be Useful?

We can ask ourselves, “How good can life get when people show up out of the blue?” and discover the answer can be, “Very good, indeed,” since people are the true treasures in our lives. Finding a mentor, mate, friend, colleague, or partner just when you need them most can be one of the greatest blessings we could ever possibly receive.

You can watch the video edition of this post on YouTube at:

http://youtu.be/Nzzx6PmG0w8

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Cynthia Sue Larson is the best-selling author of six books, including Quantum Jumps. Cynthia has a degree in Physics from UC Berkeley, and discusses consciousness and quantum physics on numerous shows including the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, the BBC and One World with Deepak Chopra. You can subscribe to Cynthia’s free monthly ezine at: http://www.RealityShifters.com

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