Early in my professional career, I latched onto the positive thinking bandwagon. I read books like "The Power Of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale and "Think And Grow Rich" by Napolean Hill. While these books certainly had value and gave me some motivation, negative thinking seemed to creep into my life.
I also saw that many positive-thinking gurus had relationships that dissolved. Others saw their wealth disappear. One particular individual and his wife were so obsessed with positive thinking, strangely, they went bankrupt. So what is at play here?
Some years ago, I attended a seminar conducted by Dr John Demartini. One of the attendees asked a question: "How do you manage to stay so positive all the time". The response was. "You're not meant to stay positive all the time". That floored me; someone would say that you can't have a one-sided life.
This revelation caused me to re-explore the field of Quantum Physics, which I had studied to some degree in my university physics course. This is the study of the sub-atomic world which has some weirdness associated with it. As you'll see, Quantum Physics can be applied to human behaviour.
When a particle and its anti-particle collide, they annihilate one another and emit a photon. This can also happen in reverse. A photon has no mass or charge—it is a particle of 'light'. This is also known as a quantum—a unit of energy. However, particles and their anti-particles have mass and charge.
In addition, through experimentation, it was found that everything behaves according to wave-particle duality. These experiments and mathematical equations result in nothing existing until we measure or observe it. I did say it was weird! Here is a video that demonstrates this concept.
Quantum physics becomes even weirder with the concept of non-locality. This means that two particles in the same quantum state are entangled no matter how far away they are from one another.
In the early 1980's French physicist Alain Aspect demonstrated experimentally that quantum entanglement is genuine. In the world of particles, space and time disappear. Two particles can interact no matter how far apart they are. Weird. Incidentally, for his experiment, Aspect recently won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022.
So what does this have to do with emotions and human behaviour?
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