The worlds secret pandemic - the virus we refuse to get a vaccine for

Marcus Matthews • 14 August 2020

Vaccines are made by taking viruses or bacteria and weakening them so that they can't reproduce (or replicate) themselves 

THE HIDDEN PANDEMIC YOU CAN’T GET AN INJECTION FOR

Let’s look at how the world is dealing with this global pandemic. Covering up, projecting fear, restricting residence to new ideas and formulas to help people build healthy minds.


Projection is the tool to either empower or dis-empower you and it has been happening all your life.

A vaccine is only as powerful as the body that can take it, so when we look at the projection of fear in the world right now, those with a healthy mind are more likely to thrive.


Whilst those who CHOOSE negativity, fear, rejection are more likely to be suffering, whether mentally or physically.


You see viruses spread when they are fed and accepted by their host and your mind is no different.


It doesn’t matter if that infection is Covid, a bad habit like smoking, maybe feelings of self-worth or you are in a job which is unfulfilling and gives you no pleasure or purpose. You stay stuck because you fear changing, often because of money or other peoples opinions, or maybe you just don't understand why you feel the way you do.

Whatever the issue good or bad, one thing is true, every thought creates a physical reaction and we then project that feeling outward – but have you ever asked WHY?



MAKE CONNECTION – AVOID REJECTION

Viruses want to replicate because they want to survive, we are no different.

Take our immune system: It protects your body from harmful substances, germs and cell changes that could make you ill. It is made up of various organs, cells and proteins.


If it stops working properly – because it is weak or can't fight back you get ill.


Without an immune system, we would have no way to fight harmful things that enter our body from the outside or harmful changes that occur inside our body.


We accept that and know that diet, exercise and feeding our body creates a health immune system to fight physical infection.

Whether you agree or not vaccines also help build physical immunity. So where is the vaccine for those negative thoughts, well a legal one anyway?

Mental Immunity

Any physical symptoms are either driven by or created by an emotional response. We look outwardly to find a fix, however, unlike a broken leg, a broken mind, heart, a feeling can’t be seen, it is felt. It is created and it is created by you and then you manifest that feeling, by projecting it into your reality.

The majority of therapist are empaths, they want to heal, but the answers to the healing can’t be found externally, a therapist, coach or mentor can only guide you based on their experience, they will project onto you their thoughts on how to deal, cope and manage with the emotion, thoughts and feelings you have created. 


You have the choice to listen and learn and then use what works for you. A good therapist will give you the tools but ultimately you are responsible for your mental immunity – Sorry you have to take responsibility!!!!!

WHAT ABOUT MENTAL IMMUNITY?

Mental immunity is the foundation of emotional resilience.


In the same way in which a cold or flu can derail the health of someone who is already ill, a small setback or troubling thought can do the same to someone who is not mentally immune.



Mental immunity is what happens when we condition our minds to not only expect fearful thoughts or external challenges, but to look for the lessons and understand where that story and fear comes from and investigating the truth in it. It is shifting one's objective in life from avoiding pain to building meaning, recognising that pain will be some part of the journey regardless. Very much like how we build physical immunity.

So if you accept physical immunity, why don’t you want metal immunity?

We project our thoughts to make connection and avoid rejection, often when someone is negative and hurtful towards us, we blame that person or situation for making us feel the way we do, when in fact no one can make you feel bad, you create that feeling based on your experience from birth to the present day.



No baby is born with anxiety, lack of confidence or the want to destroy their body, it is all learnt and so are the feelings.



Mental immunity is not being able to resist or deny negative thoughts, it is being able to observe them without acting on them, or automatically believing they represent reality.



When we have mental immunity, we are able to become a third party observer, a critic friend to our thoughts and feelings. We can identify what we need, what we don't, and what really matters to us. 
 

However before we can do that, we need to understand WHY those thoughts and feelings exist, because we don’t all act and react the same



How can one person fear flying whilst another throws themselves out of a plane for fun?
 

When we become more capable of tolerating the thoughts that scare us, through the understanding of their foundation, we become less reactive and fear based and we lean in, looking for the lesson. The more we can learn and move into the unfamiliar the quicker we move from surviving to thriving.


Frequently, there is an unhealed root association with recurring thoughts we have, or feelings that keep coming up.


Being able to process these uncomfortable sensations will not only help us overcome singular issues but progress our lives forward in other ways, too.

Are those pills helping?

Breakdown or Breakthrough

When I had the breakdown, I suffered with thoughts of lack of self-worth, being different, not being good enough, that somehow I was not worthy of even being here.
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The answer I was told was to take pills and talk about it, using the same tools to fix the physical to fix the mental,  but would you use a saw to hammer a nail in?
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Like many of my clients, the issue wasn’t the issue, it was the feeling that was created inside me, which was my decoding of what I believed was my reality – which in fact I manifested.

UNDERSTANDING IS POWER - SAY

1. I create my reality


2. Everything the good and the bad


3. I am responsible for my life


4. I am good enough right now


5. I am willing to face fear and smile

When I understood WHY I act and re-act in the way I do, when I accepted I am the only one who can change those feelings, when I stopped blaming others and projecting outwardly and I went inside and started to do the work, with no excuses, only then, when I did the work and found my way back to me could I accept these truths.


Only then did I started to bring people into my life those who supported my mental immunity

TOP TIPS - START TODAY

1.    Adopt an attitude of progress, not perfection.



Little changes in how you act and react to situations and choosing not to react in a way that doesn’t serve you, overtime you will manifest a happier life.

 

2.    Be careful not to identify with that which you struggle

 

When you say I have Anxiety, I am a smoker, I am stupid, I am ugly,  I am not good enough – Your mind will take that in and project and manifest everything to support that, so change the words and change the feeling.

 

3.    Stop trying to eradicate fear

 

No one is happy all the time, if someone says they have created the most perfect life and they are never sad, they are either lying or not growing and will at some point break. Own the fear, walk into it with a smile and look for the lessons. Your body and mind will support you.

 

 "A butterfly cannot become a butterfly until it goes through the painful process of transformation"



4.    Interpret "weird" “different “or upsetting thoughts as lessons



Be an investigator when you get that thought, ask “Where did that belief come from?” “Is it true?”

 

5.    Be willing to see change

 

Change doesn’t mean changing who you are, the real you – change and transformation is about changing the angle in which you view a problem or indeed yourself.



Take the mask off now and stop trying to fit in with other people’s projections of their reality and start to create the life you truly want, stop feeding the virus of perfection or needing to change who you are to fit into a life you don't truly want or need. 

Like the butterfly, that can be painful because it means you have to take responsibility for that change and many people aren’t willing to do that, but would you rather stay in your pain now or with help push through it and feel better

 

6.    Imagine what you would do with your life if fear were no object



Imagine the life you want, where does that fear come from which stops you achieving it?



Then decide to say “NO MORE - I DO NOT ACCEPT THIS AS MY REALITY”, say it now, out loud, believe it and see how your body reacts



"A Mansion starts it’s life by laying the foundations, then placing each brick in place, before furnishing it".



You can’t build an amazing life without understanding how to create firm foundations.



 7.      Be present.

 

Anxiety is projecting a future that hasn’t happened, depression is basing that future on the past.

 

 The past can’t be changed, and the future is yours to create 

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Who do you know who needs to hear this and what do you need to ditch the label and step into your own unique brilliance? Share this post with someone who needs to step into their truth and if you need further support then feel free to book a free call to find out how I can help you ditch the label and turn adversity into oppotunity. Why not watch my Positive Mindset Webinar where I teach you the foundations of stepping into your trueself. Book NOW
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