realm; we become less spiritual, less conscious, less aware, and less
mindful.
Put another way, we grow to be “materialists”—that is, habitually
consumed by thoughts of things in the external environment. Our identity
becomes wrapped up in our bodies. We are absorbed by the outer world
because that is what those chemicals force us to pay attention to—things we
own, people we know, places we have to go, problems we face, hairstyles
we dislike, our body parts, our weight, our looks in comparison to others,
how much time we have or don’t have ... you get the picture. And we
remember who we are based primarily on what we know and the things we
do.
Living in survival causes us to focus on the .00001 percent instead of the
99.99999 percent of reality.
Survival: Living as a “Somebody”
Most of us embrace the traditional notion of ourselves as a “somebody.”
But who we really are has nothing to do with the Big Three. Who we are is
a consciousness connected to a quantum field of intelligence.
When we become this somebody, this materialistic physical self living in
survival, we forget who we truly are. We become disconnected and feel
separate from the universal field of intelligence. The more we live impacted
by stress hormones, the more their chemical rush becomes our identity.
If we fancy ourselves solely physical beings, we limit ourselves to
perceiving only with our physical senses. The more we use our senses to
define our reality, the more we allow our senses to determine our reality. We
slip into that Newtonian mode of thinking, which locks us into trying to
predict the future based on some past experience. If you recall, the
Newtonian model of reality is all about predicting an outcome. Now we are
trying to control our reality instead of surrendering to something greater.
All we’re doing is trying to survive.
If the quantum model of reality ultimately defines everything as energy,
why do we experience ourselves more as physical beings than as beings of
energy? We could say that the survival-oriented emotions (emotions are
energy in motion) are lower-frequency or lower-energy emotions. They