Let's start with Newton's Third Law of Thermodynamics.

The laws of science exist as part of nature.  Sir Isaac Newton discovered and put into words a very important one: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Very simply put, we sow what we reap.  Because everything is made up of energy, any disturbance in that energy has an effect.  Even our thoughts have energy, and when we think them, they have an effect on the fabric of time, space and matter.  It is for this reason that we should be very careful about our thoughts, words and behavior.

If we throw a ball against the wall, it will bounce back at us with the same force that we used to throw it.  If we behave badly toward someone, they are going to respond to us with the same level of negativity that we gave them.  When we think a thought, the physical world around us responds to our thoughts with the same amount of mental and emotional energy that we put behind that thought.  In essence, we cannot disturb the balance of the universe without expecting some kind of reaction in the world around us.

This puts our destiny squarely on our shoulders.  There is nothing that can happen to us that we did not cause to happen or allow to happen to us.  There is no chance, there are no accidents.  Every event has a cause which initiated it.

Do you know someone who seems to have bad luck all the time?  Or someone who has had a very unhappy life?  It is true that negative thoughts and events attract other negative thoughts and events like a magnet.  A person has to change their thought life and by extension their daily routine in order to change the effects of those thoughts and actions.  For instance, if you are having financial difficulty, start to regularly give some money to a worthy cause or an individual who is also having financial difficulty.  The law of sowing and reaping, as it has been called, dictates that if you give to others, when you have a need you will also receive back and have your needs met.    That is
the equal and opposite reaction that should be expected.

If you have been told you have cancer, then you probably expect to get sick and die. Start to believe just the opposite.  By changing your thoughts and beliefs about the situation, you change the outcome.  Believe that you are healthy and whole.  Act as if you are healthy and whole.  Talk as if you are healthy and whole.  Spend some time visualizing your body working in such a way that it will eradicate disease.  Visualize your tumors shrinking.  Visualize your blood becoming healthy.  Scientists have proved that your body does respond to the thoughts you think.  Changes in hormone levels in the blood stream and changes in the immune system all happen as a result of our
thoughts and beliefs.

Suppose you need to buy another car.   Visualize the kind of car you want.  This happened for me.  I began to think about a purple car with grey interior.  I visualized this and started saying to myself that when we got another car, this is the one that would be offered to us that was in our price range.  When we went to the car dealership, they asked us how high a payment we could afford to make.  Then they brought out all the cars they had that we could qualify for.   They brought out three models of the same basic car: a Dodge Neon, a Dodge Stratus and a Dodge Intrepid. Guess what color the Intrepid was?  Dark purple with grey interior.  I test drove them all, but of course, the Intrepid had the smoothest drive and the most comfortable seating, and it ended up being our final choice.

How do your thoughts make this happen?  Most people do not realize that their thoughts have electrical potential and can change the fabric of space, time and matter. Here is an example I like to give that helps illustrate for me just how it works.  Have you ever stood at the foot of your bed and flicked the blanket to try to get it to straighten out over the whole bed?  Think of it as a blanket of electrons, which is true at the sub-atomic level.  Every object is made up of atoms, which have electrons orbiting them. Changes happen when electrons are passed from one atom to another.  So you stand at the end of the bed and flick the end of the blanket.  You have applied an energy source to the blanket, and this energy travels down the blanket until it makes the other end of the blanket move.  Actually what you have done is initiate a series of electron transfers from one atom to another so that the energy from your hand travels down tothe other end of the blanket and makes it move.

This is exactly what happens when you think a thought.  You initiate an energy transfer which eventually causes a change in your environment.  Its just that sometimes you don’t see the change happening.  You don’t see the transfer taking place.  When you flick the blanket, within a second or so you see the effects of your action.  When you think a thought, you won’t always see the results immediately, but it is in fact happening.

Here’s a concrete example.  On this website I sell health-related products.  One month we were desperately in need of money.  I looked at my inventory and saw that I had 4 boxes of short-range pH paper.  I said to myself, “I want someone to purchase those boxes of pH paper.  I have them in stock, and there is no reason why someone who needs them cannot get them today.”  I started to visualize this taking
place.  I laid down in a comfortable position, and I visualized another person sitting in front of their computer.  They were looking at my website.  I saw them click the “add to cart” button.  I saw the money going into my account.  I saw the person’s name and address printing out on my printer.  I saw myself taking their package to the post office to be mailed.  I saw myself withdrawing the money from the bank and spending it.  I spent considerable mental and emotional energy in imagining this thing happening. Then I spoke into the universe my need and my expected outcome, and left it at that.  I got up and went about my business without giving the situation another thought.

Later that night when I logged into my email account, low and behold what did I find?  I found three new orders for pH paper!  No other merchandise had been ordered except the pH paper, and it had come in exactly the time frame I had specified.

I won’t list them all, but suffice it to say that I have this experience all the time.  I will wish strongly to talk to my girlfriend who lives in another state, and in a few minutes the phone rings and it’s her.  If I don’t have time to do the dishes tonight, I just express a desire to the universe for someone else to wash them, and pretty soon someone else in the family has volunteered (an occurrence that doesn’t happen often under normal circumstances, I assure you).  If I don’t feel well, I simply spend time telling myself that I am healthy and whole and feel wonderful, and very shortly it becomes a reality.

Now I know that everyone has had the experience of wishing for something, but not having their wish come true.  There’s a difference in what I do and in wishing: when you wish, you aren’t sure your wish is going to come true.  When I speak my need into the universe, I am positive the universe is going to respond to my need.  My mental and emotional faculties are oriented in that direction.  I put all my thoughts, feelings and words behind the statements I make.  It is very strong.  I leave no doubt that I am going to get what I need.  Since I know that the structure and design of the universe is such that I have been given the power to make this come true, I do not doubt that it will.

You see, God made the universe to respond to our needs.  When you pray to God for something, that is what you are doing.  You are activating the system he already put in place.  That’s how Jesus was able to say “I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20) and “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you” (Luke 17:6).  Also, “they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place
their hands on sick people, and they will get well” (Mark 16:18).  These are the kind of things you can do when you know that you have been given the power.  It’s called creating your own reality, and everyone can do it.  It’s not something special that only a few people can do.  This is the system God put in place for the answering of prayers. You activate the system so that you will get what you asked for by having the right thoughts and beliefs.

Some people might be bothered by the fact that it seems we are answering our own prayers by asking for something and then depending upon our own thoughts and beliefs to make it happen.  But this is no different from when your body heals itself. Your body has a complex set of instructions in your DNA which causes your body to heal itself automatically when something is wrong.  Every time you inhale a little
bacteria, you don’t have to pray for God to destroy that bacteria.  Your immune system does it automatically.  God put an automatic system in that would automatically heal you.  You don’t have to pray for him to heal you, it’s already done.  You don’t have to pray for God to give you what you need in other areas of your life either, it’s already done too.  There is an automatic system in place for the meeting of any need.  It’s called quantum physics.  Quantum particles are set up so that they respond to our expectations by changing form.  This has been verified by an experiment called the Double Gap experiment.

The Double Gap experiment uses a light source, a wall with two holes in it, and a screen on the other side.  Very simple.  When light passes through these two holes, you can see an interface pattern on the screen that is very predictable, given that light travels in wave patterns.   As the light travels down from the crest of one wave, the light traveling up from the bottom of the other wave cancels it out.  Now it has always
been believed that light is a wave, but that electrons are particles, and that they do not behave the same as waves.  So to test this, they changed from a light source to an electron source,  used one gap, and used Geiger counters to detect when and where the electrons hit the screen. The Geiger counters DO detect the electrons, which proves they are particles, because that is what Geiger counters detect.  They do not detect waves. So the experimenters found what they expected, that these electrons behave as particles. That is what they were testing for, and that is what they found.  However, when they decided to use TWO gaps, and shot electrons through both holes, they ended up with the same interface pattern on the screen which results from using light!  They scratched their heads and thought, well, maybe the electrons were bouncing off each other, which was causing the interference pattern.  So they shot just ONE electron, and guess what?  It made the same interference pattern on the screen that was produced when electrons were shot from both holes.  This interference pattern obviously did not result from electrons bumping off each other.  They decided that the only conclusion that makes any sense is that electrons are neither particles nor waves, but that they behave as particles or waves depending upon the situation they are in.  So the electron MAKES A CHOICE about what character to take on based upon the situation.  Each particle has a probability wave which says that the electron has many possibilities and because of our observation the electron must choose one of the possible ways.  But it could just as easily have chosen another way, and the reality of this choice only exists after we observe which way the electron went.  Electrons are not the only particles that behave this way.....all sub-atomic particles behave in the same fashion (1).  What this says to me personally is that the universe was set up on the sub-atomic level to respond to our observation of it and our expectations about the outcome.   If we expect a certain outcome, it will happen. Our presence in the equation changes everything.

Doesn’t the fact that all sub-atomic particles change form based upon our expectations simply make it undeniably clear that God,  who is a pure energy form, or some intelligent force, set this system up so that every particle of energy has intelligence and can understand complex sets of data and therefore choose which configurations are necessary in order to bring about what we need and want?  To me, this means that every particle that exists is a part of God, and responds in the way he specified.  Therefore, when I set my thoughts and beliefs on something I need, and it happens, I don’t have to feel bad because I supposedly met my own need....God DID meet my need by setting up the system in the first place, just as he is the one that healed me even though my body does it automatically.  Just as God gave your DNA the instructions of how to heal our bodies, he also gave quantum particles instructions on how to carry out our expectations.  It’s a wonderful system, we simply must learn to use it.
 

References:

1.  “Young’s Experiment.”  Available Online: [http://www.bservice.org/terri/young.html]
 

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