Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives by William R. Miller & Janet C'De Baca

Author:William R. Miller & Janet C'De Baca [Miller, William R. & Baca, Janet C'De]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychology, mental health, Medical, Clinical Psychology, Religion, Counseling
ISBN: 9781462504367
Google: FkADt_UNG0wC
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2011-10-21T23:55:09.148265+00:00

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A VOICE IN THE FIREPLACE

In 1960 we had an old freestanding fireplace in the kitchen of an old farmhouse. You could walk around it, and I was walking around it when all of a sudden I heard a voice call my name and say, “All you have to do to be happy is to do what you believe.” It was a strange man’s voice, nothing that I recognized. Had I believed in God at that point in time, I would have become a born-again Christian. There’s just no question about it.

I knew the voice was in my head. My wife and children were there in the family room, but I couldn’t say anything to them about it. After all, I’m hearing voices, I’m nuts.

All of a sudden I dropped about ten stories in tension. I felt a quiet, relaxed world, a way of being. I had never realized what a tension-free world was about. My wife lived that way, but I never understood it. I was always a driving, pushing individual. I couldn’t have been more surprised. I wondered what had happened.

Now, from that point on, I didn’t want to go back to that tense world. I couldn’t for anything go back to being the way I was before. The peace and quiet that I had found, there’s no way that I could go back, so I started looking at what I believed. I came up with a physical tension signal that told me when I wasn’t doing what I believed. The pit of my stomach told me. Then I either followed my belief completely or I changed my belief. A lot of times I didn’t want to change my beliefs, and I found some of them I couldn’t change. Even if I didn’t like the consequences, I still had to follow my belief totally.

Everything revolves around belief, to a major degree. Fact is, I feel that the only difference between animals and humanity is belief. Animals think in a lot of ways, but none of them form thought in a way that it becomes true, or can transfer that trueness to another individual so that it produces similar motivation.

That led me within a very short time into, I call it meditation, but really it’s closer to relaxation. I’ve been meditating or relaxing for forty years now. When I was still working (I’ve been retired the last twenty-three years), it took me half an hour every morning and night to get down to a low level of tension. Even after doing it at eleven o’clock at night and then sleeping, the well of tension had built up by the next morning. Since I retired, I found that I can drop down to a low level in three to five minutes any time I want to. There just isn’t any conflict in my life. That’s the whole secret of it. You cannot have a responsible job or raise a family and not have conflict.

What really happened is that the lowered tension level allowed my conscious and unconscious to become totally integrated.

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