Archive for September, 2009
Health, Quantum Psychology
Natural Childbirth/Unnatural Death
Heads/Tails, Life/Death, Two Aspects of the Same thing.
By Jean Boyd
I was supervising some student nurses, caring for Joseph, an old man in his eighties, when the doctors stopped by on their rounds. We had to keep the head of Joseph’s bed upright so he could breathe and stick a tube down his throat to suction out copious amounts of brown liquid from his lungs so he wouldn’t drown in his own secretions. Joseph’s eyes were full of dread, his 
face tight with fear. The doctors looked at his urine bag, which was hanging from his bed frame; his urine was also brown. “We better get a urology consult,” one of them murmured as they left.
This experience was the last straw for me. In my career as a medical-surgical nurse I have cared for many patients like Joseph, who suffer while their dying is prolonged by medical procedures and good nursing care. My objection was ethical: no one had asked Joseph, or his family, what they wanted. “I’m no different from the Nazis who excused their behavior by saying, ‘I was just following orders,’ ”I thought. In my case, I was following doctor’s orders. Shortly thereafter, I left medical-surgical nursing for good and entered the mental health field where dying patients were rare. That day, before I left Joseph’s bedside, I did something we nurses sometimes do in such circumstances. I held his hand and silently, in my mind, I gave him permission to die: “Joseph, it’s all right to let go now.” He died the next day.
Quantum Psychology, Survival Instincts
Jaycee and the Survival Instincts
By Jean Boyd
Why did Jaycee Lee Dugard, held captive for 18 years, not leave, or even use the phone, when she had the chance? Why do battered wives keep returning to the husbands who beat them? Kidnapped by domestic terrorists, why did Patty Hearst help them rob a store? Why did Stalin’s brutal dictatorship produce good Communists and the Inquisition produce good Catholics? Why did so many people cooperate with the Nazi’s? Why do people who are taken hostage by terrorists quickly identify with them, a phenomenon known as the Stockholm Syndrome? All these events have a common denominator: our human nature.
We are primates, and like other animals we have survival instincts that tell us how to find food and shelter, reproduce and compete for survival of the fittest. They also tell us how to respond to dangerous situations: physically, we can flee or fight; psychologically, we can get control of the situation or 
seek the approval of those who have control. If you are the one with a gun, then you control the situation and decide who lives and who dies. If you don’t have the gun, but get the approval of the man with the gun, he may shoot the person next to you, but maybe not you. These powerful instincts are unconscious and are not moral or immoral, but amoral; our normal human nature allows us to do anything to survive.
Physically weaker, confined, isolated, dependent and brutalized, Jaycee’s only survival option was to seek the approval of her captors and accept her life as “normal.”Just as Muslim women, who live in similar circumstances, accept their lives as “normal.” Just as, when Western Europe was a brutal theocracy, from the Pope on down, people came to accept the burning alive of people in the village square as “normal.” Just as, for centuries, we accepted slavery as “normal.” Just as the “bad cop” creates fear in a suspect, who then bonds with the “good cop” and cooperates. Just as today, politicians attract supporters by warning people of imminent terrorist attacks or losing their health insurance.
Quantum Psychology
Where Eastern philosophy and Western science meet
Philosophy begins where religion leaves off; science begins where philosophy leaves off.
By Jean Boyd
As a child, you may have played with a puzzle, the pieces of which consist of the individual states that make up the United States. As you put each piece in its proper place, a picture of the whole country gradually emerges. So also, a new psychology has emerged, Quantum Psychology, which puts together “puzzle pieces” from philosopy and science, in particular quantum mechanics. From this synthesis emerges new insights into our behavior and our ability to transform ourselves, our society and our planet. For example:
Zen Buddhism teaches us that, living in a universe that ultimately consists of enery and information, being able to perceive reality, “just as it is,” requires a mind that is free of preconceived ideas and emotions. Einstein tells us that in the realm of energy, the realm of photons, atoms and subatomic particles, the presence of an observer influences the event being observed. Quantum Psychology tells us that in the realm of enery that exists inside our heads, we have a psychological function of pure awarness, an Observer, who is as objective as a TV camera. As your go about your daily life, your Observer, who is free of all preconceived ideas, beliefs and desires, observes you, and influences immediate changes in you, at the level of transformation.
Our bodies are a lot smarter than we have previously imagined and our expectations of what is possible have been way too low. Encoded in our DNA, and hard-wired into our brains, is a brilliant learning program that knows how to produce rapid change — with a little help from us. This program gives us a simple way to heal our psychological wounds, free ourselves from the past, enjoy life, have satisfying personal relationships and evolve to higher levels of consciousness, including achieving spiritual enlightenment.
What has long been known in the East as the Tao, with the addition of Western science, has become the Quantum Path of personal growth. Following the Quantum Path involves the practice of two techniques that are simple, but not always easy. Quantum Technique #1 frees us from the past, not by talking about problems, but by communicating with our unconscious mind in the language it understands – pictures. When we do, the brain responds immediately. Quantum Technique #2 gives us the open mind we need to accommodate an expanding consciousness by freeing us from the preconceived ideas we acquired from our cultural indoctrination, which is really a form of brain washing. Both techniques wake up Observer.
If you should choose to follow the Quantum Path, after you get over your initial surprise that rapid personal growth is possible, you would soon come to accept the new abilities that emerge as normal - which of course they are. Quantum psychology views such abilities as courageousness, individual power, creativity and thinking for yourself as characteristics of a healthy, mature, adult consciousness. Equally normal is that you would transcend the illusion of separation that characterizes everyday life and experience your connection to all things. At some point, you experience the tree in your back yard, the bird in the tree and the person who stands in front of you as being both you and not you. When your awareness expands to include the whole, holistic, holy realm that exists just underneath the surface of our ordinary lives, you would discover how you are a piece of the biggest puzzle of all – the universe.
Testimonials
Testimonials
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ult of my practice of quantum techniques was that I responded differently to situations. I was more calm, relaxed, and easy going, and didn’t worry about things the way I used to. I was more in control of my feelings and my reaction to certain things. In my relationships with people, I could look at the situation and determine if it was worth getting upset about it or not.
Michael Sawyer (high school student)
Over the years, I have taken many courses concerning physical disease and how our thoughts affect not just our bodies but our whole lives. Jean Boyd’s book gave me the final “piece of the puzzle” that was missing for me. I learned how to transcend the past and stop repeating the behaviors that no longer worked for me; every day I become more authentic.
This book is perfect for the Healers of the World. Now, I can help my clients at the time of their visit, instead of referring them to counseling. With practice, they too can master the techniques and teach others—and so on and so on. To the seekers of the world, seek no longer. This book truly is The Greatest Escape.
Janet Anderson (massage therapist)
Before Jean worked with me using quantum techniques, I was a big worrier. I worried about everything—my kids, money, my job. I was judgmental of other people, and when someone had a problem, I felt it was my duty to make it right. After my work with Jean, I became an observer. Instead of trying to change anyone, I accepted that people had their own lives that had nothing to do with me; I began to react with calmness to the actions of other people. Another change was that I no longer felt that work was my life; other things, like more time with my kids, were also important. I learned that the only changes we can expect in our lives have to do with ourselves; we cannot change others; we can only change ourselves. Boyd tells us how.
Louis Hamilton (electrical engineer)
