What you believe. it is therefore
By: Knockwood Institute
Tags: Guides And Tutorials, Education, Self Improvement, Self Help, Self-awareness

There are hints and symbols, road signs and guidepost that exist all around you, my friend, capable of aiding you in your own navigation through and past the twist and turns, the darkened alleyways and the cul-de-sacs of life. For all you know, you may be staring at one right now. If through the prism of your own thought patterns and belief structures you do not believe that it exists, so it will not exist for you. You will go on your merry way, none the wiser, not only never knowing the opportunity which passed you by, but never even knowing that such an opportunity existed in the first place. And so, for you, that opportunity for experience did not exist. It did not exist because your own beliefs and perceptions did not allow it to exist. You can not experience that which you do not believe. You can only experience that which your belief allows for.

Thankfully for nearly all individuals what their belief allows for exists within a range, although relatively narrow in scope, by their understanding through experience that there are things which they do not yet know and must therefore make an allowance for the possibility of. As they learn new things, therefore, the range of their belief can shift and grow to encompass these new understandings which over time may allow them to believe that which at another point in their lives they would have steadfastly denied. This is the process, in which all are engaged in whether consciously aware of it as it is occurring or not. This is also the function of propaganda, and why it works and has been utilized whether through simple advertizing in order to get you to purchase the latest gadget, or in war both to demoralize the enemy and to bolster patriotism and a sense of duty or cause in support of a campaign as right and justified both at home and in the field.

It has been determined and documented through research that the mind, for the most part, does not distinguish between thought and reality. Athletes, for example, who have engaged in the process of visualizing themselves performing their sport have again and again proven to show a marked improvement over those who have physically practiced alone and without utilizing visualization practices. This is also one of the reasons why, along with the reinforcement of repetition, positive affirmations work for those who have a predilection for believing in it. At the same time and to others this appears and indeed is experienced as total hogwash. These occurrences, in order to be experienced, must still participate within the range of ones underlying beliefs. It is the rare individual indeed who will achieve through visualizing themselves flying, actually taking flight. This is simply too far beyond their range of belief to experience. It must be noted, however, that there are certain practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, known as “flying monks” or “flying mystics,” who, although they have not yet achieved full flight, have reached a level through their beliefs and practices where they do indeed momentarily appear to defy gravity.

There are those who have and continue to resolutely hold to the belief that this, and all that we are telling you here and within these pages, is all a part of some elaborate game or work of fiction. To those individuals this will remain true until such a time as their experiences allow their perception to shift to such a degree that the range of their belief will allow for this to be recognized as otherwise. Only and until then will it be experienced as a game or fiction. It is not the function nor the position of the KNOCKWOOD Institute to judge you for this belief. What you believe, you will perceive. Any sense of judgment or criticism from or by the KNOCKWOOD Institute for this belief, therefore, is your own and as a result of your belief. At the KNOCKWOOD Institute of Higher Learning, we do not tell you what to believe. We simply allow you, through the information which we provide and therefore you are allowed to experience in relationship to it, to believe that which you choose to believe. We are a tool by and through which you can recognize and understand the nature of your belief and the where and why of it.

As the mind does not tend to distinguish between thought and reality, except as otherwise noted, it is important for you to understand that in having read these words and those within these pages, your mind has already begun to experience these truths. Even if only and at first in context as a game or work of fiction, the very act of engaging it as an experience in this regard has expanded and shifted your belief structure in such a manner as to allow for it to exist in some fashion within your reality. It is only, therefore, if you continue to accept it and engage with it as an experience, a natural and expected outcome that you will come to believe it in some form and as directed by your previously held beliefs. Through an understanding of this process, either inherently and unintentionally or with purpose and intent, your perceptions are being manipulated on a daily and ongoing basis by those around you and with whom you engage either directly or through and by any and all forms of media, social or otherwise.