Mind Body Harmonizer

The Deep Learning that Comes with Believing in Nothing!
**** Copyright Ian Faulkner Soutar ****

I find the principle of “Believing in Nothing” is a good way to move forward in life and for blazing new trails. There is no point of believing things just because everyone believes them. Everyone used to believe the world was flat. They believed that the stars and planets rotated around the earth. People used to believe that if someone was sick it was a good idea to remove a few pints of blood. People used to believe many strange things. In this modern age we still believe lots of strange things for no reason at all.

When I was young I “knew” many things because “everyone knows” many things. As an old timer approaching 70 I have come to realize that many of the things that “everyone knows” are nothing more than beliefs. 20 years ago everyone was sure fats and cholesterol in the diet were the cause of heart disease. Now we know these things are not a hazard. I am now enjoying butter on muffins and eggs. I am glad that belief has been abandoned.

Just because most scientists believe in something also does not mean this necessarily is true. I have a few friends who are professional scientists who complain about the “peer review” process which inhibits the introduction of any new idea if beliefs in other ideas are popular.

I have been an inventor all my life and most of my inventions have come from the approach of avoiding what is believed to be the best way to do things. It has been a fruitful approach and I have been called in to help out many companies to solve problems that their engineers were not able to solve. Although formal education helps you to “stand on the shoulders of giants”, it sometimes prevents you from standing on your own feet and discovering a simple unique solution. We need both types of inventors, those who ride on historical knowledge, and those who look at things in a fresh way.
I favour the approach which involves “believing in nothing” and seeing in a “fresh way”.

I call this approach to life the “Believe In Nothing” method or BIN approach.

About 7 years ago I decided to adopt a new approach to life itself based on my experience as an inventor. I quit believing in anything simply because everyone believes it. I started to read as much as possible about everything and decide what is probably true and what is possibly nonsense based on actual evidence and data.

At the age of about 23 I suffered from arthritis and by 2010 I had difficulty walking more than a few blocks. I was told by everyone that there was no solution to arthritis and that I would just have to suffer through life. Applying the BIN approach I started looking on the internet for a solution and discovered that the element #5 called “boron” may eliminate the arthritis. Actual studies had been done in Australia showing that it was true. Very few people had read the research because “everyone knows” that arthritis is a permanent disability which Western Medicine cannot help.

Almost all of my Elephant Journal articles so far are based on applying the BIN principle.

One of my Elephant Journal articles is about this miraculous and simple approach. Applying what I learned, I no longer have arthritis! You can read my popular Elephant Journal article about this subject here:

( https://www.elephantjournal.com/2017/09/most-arthritis-osteoporosis-is-preventable-curable-and-has-been-since-1968/ )

My wife recovered her personality in spite of severe brain injury which should have destroyed it! The neurosurgeon who did the operation told me her personality would be lost after the operation. He believed there was no solution. Fortunately my daughter and I discovered there was a solution and by the magic of Music Therapy we got her personality back!

I wrote an Elephant Journal article about the experience here:

( https://www.elephantjournal.com/2017/08/miraculous-brain-injury-recovery-using-music-therapy/ )

Without exception I use the BIN principle as a foundation for enlightening journalism. I don’t mean “enlightening” in the religious sense. In fact I don’t believe in “enlightenment” in that sense at all. Neither did the historical Buddha I feel, but that's a topic of an upcoming article which will be controversial.
Another example demonstrates that you can prove a popular belief and replace it with actual knowledge. For years I did not know if the energy centres called “Chakras” were real or imaginary even though I did bodywork healing. Everyone in my field believed in them but no one could come up with proof.

I do bodywork massage healing and it would be useful to know whether or not Chakras were real. One month I decided to explore this topic and with each client I asked if I could place my hands over a chakra center and wait for 5 minutes. I then asked them what they felt emotionally. When I got home each day I looked in a yoga book for the emotional effects of that chakra and the client's description of what they felt always matched the book! At the end of the month I “knew” chakras were real. This is a good example of replacing a popular belief with actual knowledge.

There is a huge difference between "believing and knowing"
People in my childhood used to believe that if you did not eat meat you would die. When I was 16 I was vegetarian and all the relatives were on my case about it. I was “going to die young” they all said! Clearly they were wrong because I am almost 70 and ride a bicycle everywhere and I can do intense “ecstatic dance” for over an hour every Sunday at the Dance Temple.

I once went into a Polish Deli at the age of 20, looking for seaweed. The guy behind the counter offered a sample sausage. I said “Thanks but I don’t eat meat”. He said “This is not good. You must eat meat to become strong like a Bull”. I pointed out that “The Bull is strong but the Bull eats nothing but grass”. He was astonished and changed his belief immediately. This is a good example of being critical about beliefs. Belief is not knowledge.

All of my Elephant Journal articles are based on dropping beliefs and seeing what I discover. Real knowledge comes from this approach. As I move forward into my 70s and beyond life is looking exciting. I’m a slow learner and wish I had discovered the BIN principle at the age of 30.

I highly recommend dropping your beliefs and see if your life opens up to new possibilities. This openness helps writers, musicians, artists and inventors to be more creative. It's a key concept that can help bring light into the world.

https://newatlas.com/electrical-brain-stimulation-memory-50-years/59210/

Electrical brain stimulation winds memory function back 50 years A new study conducted by scientists at Boston University has outlined a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that was able to restore working memory in 70-year-old subjects, so much so they functioned like a healthy 20-year-old.