Beyond Willpower

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Introduction

Success in life often seems elusive, regardless of how much effort we invest through willpower and determination. Traditional approaches to achievement frequently leave us frustrated, as they rely on conscious effort to overcome subconscious programming that works against our best intentions. This fundamental disconnect explains why so many self-help methods fail despite our sincere commitment to following them. What if success depends not on trying harder, but on understanding the internal mechanisms that govern our thoughts, feelings, and actions? The greatest principle for achieving success requires us to recognize that our subconscious mind is exponentially more powerful than our conscious will. By addressing the core programming of our internal states—particularly the contrast between fear and love—we can transform our approach to achievement. Through energy-based tools that reprogram our cellular memories and spiritual heart, we gain access to a method that goes beyond traditional willpower. This approach aligns with cutting-edge scientific discoveries about brain function, cellular memory, and the physics of energy while honoring ancient spiritual wisdom about the power of love to overcome fear in all areas of life.

Chapter 1: The Failure of Traditional Success Approaches

The self-help industry represents a $10 billion annual market in the United States alone, yet it carries a staggering 97% failure rate according to industry insiders. This statistic raises critical questions about the fundamental approach most success programs advocate. The traditional three-step blueprint—focus on what you want, develop a plan to achieve it, and use willpower to execute that plan—has dominated self-help literature for over six decades. While this formula seems logical, it actually contains two components that guarantee failure for most people. First, expectations of external end results inherently trigger stress responses in our bodies. As Harvard psychologist Dr. Dan Gilbert's research demonstrates, "expectations are a happiness killer." When we focus on future outcomes, our bodies enter a state of chronic stress until that outcome is either achieved or abandoned. Medical science has established that up to 95% of illness and disease is stress-related, but what's less recognized is that stress also undermines our cognitive function, drains our energy, promotes negative thinking, and ultimately sabotages our performance in virtually every area of life. Second, relying on willpower alone to achieve our goals is fundamentally flawed. Dr. Bruce Lipton, former Stanford Medical School cell biologist, states that trying to create success through willpower when your subconscious programming opposes it represents a million-to-one long shot. This is because the subconscious mind is literally one million times more powerful than the conscious mind. Our subconscious beliefs and programming determine our thoughts, feelings, and actions at a level far beyond our conscious awareness. The tragic outcome of this traditional approach is clearly visible in three common scenarios. When people achieve their external goals, they often experience temporary elation followed by a swift return to pursuing the next thing, creating an endless cycle of stress and brief satisfaction. Alternatively, they might achieve their goals only to discover they feel empty or disillusioned rather than fulfilled. Most devastating is the third scenario: when people invest years or decades pursuing goals they never achieve, often falling into hopelessness and despair from which they never recover. What we truly want isn't the external circumstance itself but the internal state we believe it will provide—feelings like peace, joy, security, or love. The external is never capable of producing lasting internal states; rather, our internal state creates our external reality. When we understand this principle, we can focus on cultivating the internal state directly, which ironically becomes the most effective path to achieving external success as well.

Chapter 2: Understanding Cellular Memory and Internal Programming

At the core of our success challenges lies a remarkable scientific discovery: our experiences are stored not just in our brains but at the cellular level throughout our entire bodies. These cellular memories constitute the true source of both our internal struggles and external circumstances. In 2004, Southwestern University Medical Center published groundbreaking research confirming that "scientists believe these cellular memories might mean the difference between a healthy life and death" and that "cancer can be the result of a bad cellular memory replacing a good one." This research suggests that addressing these cellular memories "may provide one of the most powerful ways of curing illness." Our cellular memories don't merely influence physical health—they govern our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. When current circumstances trigger these memories, they automatically send signals throughout our body, activating either fear or love responses that determine our experience in that moment. If a memory contains fear, it immediately sends a stress signal to the hypothalamus, triggering the fight-or-flight response and flooding our body with stress hormones like cortisol. This not only affects our physical health but also dictates our thoughts, emotional reactions, and behavioral choices. The phenomenon of cellular memory explains why willpower alone fails to create lasting change. Dr. William Tiller of Stanford observes that "when the conscious mind is pitted against the subconscious mind, the subconscious will win every time." Research from National Geographic reveals what they call "the illusion of intention"—brain scans show that decisions are made by our subconscious a full second before our conscious mind believes it has decided, meaning our conscious "choice" is merely a rationalization of what our programming has already determined. These cellular memories originate from multiple sources. Our first six years of life, when we operate in a delta/theta brain wave state without the ability to filter information, are particularly formative. During this period, innocent comments or experiences can create lifelong programming. Even more remarkably, our programming can include generational memories passed down like DNA, explaining persistent patterns and cycles within families. One client discovered that her current symptoms traced back to trauma her great-great-grandmother experienced during the Civil War, even though she had no conscious knowledge of this event. True healing requires addressing these memories at their source. Most therapeutic approaches focus on the conscious mind or teach coping mechanisms rather than true healing. Repression of painful memories may temporarily disconnect emotional responses, but these memories continue filling our stress barrel and affecting our physiology. The solution requires specific energy-based tools that can directly access and heal these cellular memories, replacing fear with love and falsehood with truth. When successfully executed, this healing manifests as dramatically different responses to the same external triggers—the signature of true transformation.

Chapter 3: The Physics of Spiritual Energy and Transformation

Everything in existence ultimately consists of energy patterns, as Einstein's equation E = mc² demonstrates. Even our most undeniably physical symptoms and challenges have their source in energy patterns within our cellular memories. The key to transformation lies in understanding and applying what might be called Spiritual Physics—the intersection of spirituality and science that explains how love and fear operate as distinct energy frequencies with measurable effects on our biology, psychology, and life circumstances. The state of our overall health continues to decline despite advances in both conventional and alternative medicine. Cancer, once the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, is now the leading cause worldwide, with cases expected to increase by 50% over the next decade. This alarming trend suggests we're looking for solutions in the wrong place. While both traditional and alternative approaches focus on physical interventions, the true source of healing is found in the spiritual realm—the world of energy. Love and light represent two sides of the same positive healing frequency, while fear and darkness similarly represent negative frequencies. These frequencies directly affect our bodies at the cellular level. When our heart screen—the internal screen where our spiritual heart displays memories and images—shows fear-based content, cells throughout our body receive this signal and close themselves to healing, while the hypothalamus triggers the stress response. Conversely, when our heart screen displays love-based content, cells open to healing, and our physiology shifts into regeneration and health. Scientific evidence increasingly supports this understanding. An MRI machine doesn't actually take photographs but creates images based on energy frequencies it detects. Dr. Caroline Leaf's research confirms we have no mechanisms—physical, emotional, or spiritual—that produce negative effects in our body. All our systems naturally promote health and happiness when functioning properly. Every destructive feeling we experience is based in fear, which results from an absence of love, just as darkness is always an absence of light. When we introduce love and light frequencies, they naturally and inevitably dispel fear and darkness. Neurological research from Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. Mark Robert Waldman provides compelling evidence that prayer and a corresponding belief in God or a spiritual source improve brain function and health even more effectively than exercise. The spiritual heart—accessed through our image maker or imagination—functions as the creative force behind everything in existence. Albert Einstein famously stated that imagination is more powerful than knowledge, as it was the source of all his discoveries. Though science cannot locate the screen where we see internal images, its effects are undeniable. Heart rate variability testing reveals that over 90% of people experiencing significant physiological stress report feeling fine—they've adapted to living in chronic stress as their normal state. This adaptation explains why many people resist the paradigm shift required to embrace Spiritual Physics. However, evidence for this new paradigm continues mounting, with prestigious organizations like the American Psychological Association finally approving energy medicine conferences after decades of skepticism. This isn't merely a theoretical concept—top athletic coaches like Penn State's James Franklin and Alabama's Nick Saban have achieved extraordinary success by teaching their players to focus on internal states in the present moment rather than external scoreboard results.

Chapter 4: Three Tools to Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind

Achieving lasting success requires addressing all dimensions of our being—physical, mental, and spiritual. Three powerful tools have been developed through decades of clinical practice and testing that directly access and reprogram our internal state at each of these levels. The Energy Medicine tool addresses the physical dimension, the Reprogramming Statements tool works with the mental dimension, and the Heart Screen tool transforms the spiritual dimension. When used together, these tools create comprehensive change that willpower alone could never accomplish. The Energy Medicine tool applies healing energy to specific points on the body to restore optimal functioning of our control mechanisms. By placing hands on three key positions—the heart, the forehead, and the crown—we stimulate the cardiovascular system, thymus gland, brain centers, and major energy points or chakras. This infusion of usable energy allows our body to heal cellular memories and properly balance our physiology. This technique has roots going back to Sigmund Freud, who used a similar approach when all else failed in his psychotherapy practice, noting it "scarcely ever left me in the lurch." The Energy Medicine tool activates the control centers for every cell, thought, emotion, and belief in our body. The Reprogramming Statements tool addresses our mental programming through a series of carefully structured questions and statements that systematically transform our beliefs about twelve key areas. These statements take us through a chain reaction that begins with our current programming and progresses through interpretation, decision-making, security, significance, pride, control, reaction, and action. By consciously working with these statements, we identify internal blocks to success and replace fear-based beliefs with love-based alternatives. This tool is particularly effective for those with an analytical learning style and serves as both a diagnostic and treatment approach. Users report profound changes in their internal state, relationships, and external circumstances after consistently applying these statements. The Heart Screen tool engages our spiritual dimension by consciously activating and utilizing our internal screen—the mechanism where we visualize memories and images. This tool harnesses the most powerful creative force on the planet: our image maker or imagination. By visualizing our heart screen with conscious and unconscious sections, we can observe negative content, invite healing light and love to transform it, and spread this transformation to related memories. The Heart Screen tool differs fundamentally from traditional meditation, which often seeks to empty the mind. Instead, it hyperfocuses on the mechanism controlling our problems, engaging our mind's self-healing program rather than temporarily disengaging from issues. These tools can be used individually or in combination depending on personal preference and learning style. They allow us to systematically deprogram fear-based memories and reprogram love-based alternatives without relying on willpower. Our heart screens are also connected to everyone around us through what might be called "spiritual heart technology"—a phenomenon verified by experiments demonstrating instantaneous physiological connections between separated individuals and even separated cells. By consciously choosing to tune into love frequencies, we not only transform our own experience but potentially influence those around us in positive ways.

Chapter 5: Setting Success Goals Instead of Stress Goals

The distinction between success goals and stress goals represents a critical factor in determining whether we experience happiness, health, and achievement in our lives. Most people unknowingly set stress goals—focusing on external circumstances they cannot fully control—which inevitably activate the stress response and sabotage their chances of success. Understanding how to set proper success goals requires recognizing the fundamental difference between desires and goals, and learning to channel our energy appropriately. A desire that leads to success must meet three criteria: it must be in truth (aligned with objective reality), in love (creating positive outcomes for all involved), and in harmony with our ultimate success goal (the internal state we most want to experience). Desires typically involve future outcomes and provide direction for our journey. However, the critical factor for success is giving up all expectations of receiving the specific external result we desire. This surrender to God/source/love is essential for keeping our stress response deactivated. A success goal, by contrast, must be in truth, in love, 100% under our control, and typically performed in the present moment. This distinction is crucial—our goal cannot be to achieve a specific external result, as that result depends on factors beyond our direct influence. Instead, our success goal must be to do whatever we do from an inward state of love, focusing on the present moment. This means that for any thirty-minute period, we commit to acting in love regardless of external circumstances or outcomes. After being deprogrammed and reprogrammed, this becomes natural rather than forced. The easiest way to identify whether you've set a stress goal or a success goal is through your emotional state. If you experience anxiety, anger, irritation, frustration, or similar emotions, you have undoubtedly set a stress goal. These emotions indicate that your real (often unconscious) goal is to achieve a specific end result through willpower. Conversely, if you experience joy and peace regardless of circumstances, you likely have a success goal. While you may still feel disappointment when things don't go as preferred, you bounce back quickly without falling into despair. Research has consistently shown that pursuing instant gratification (versus delayed gratification) produces negative outcomes in every area of life. Stress goals always orient toward instant gratification, while success goals naturally involve delayed gratification. However, this delay should happen easily and naturally, not forced through willpower, which would create additional stress. By deprogramming fear and reprogramming love, we can naturally give up our attachment to immediate outcomes. Consider the example of calling a phone company to set up a business line. Most people become frustrated and angry when navigating the inevitable maze of automated systems and hold times. This anger reveals their real goal: getting the business line quickly and easily. By shifting to a success goal—making the call in love for the next thirty minutes—we remove the source of stress and transform our experience. This approach doesn't mean ignoring organizational details; in fact, we'll complete necessary tasks more effectively when our stress response isn't sabotaging our performance.

Chapter 6: The Greatest Principle Success Blueprint

The Greatest Principle Success Blueprint offers a comprehensive, step-by-step process for creating success in any area of life by addressing both internal programming and external actions. This blueprint has consistently produced extraordinary results for clients across diverse backgrounds, worldviews, and circumstances. By following this process exactly as outlined, you establish a foundation for inevitable success based on living in love in the present moment. The blueprint begins by identifying your ultimate success goal—the internal state you truly desire, such as peace, love, or joy. This state represents what you genuinely want more than any external circumstance. Next, you determine a specific success desire to work toward, ensuring it aligns with truth, love, and your ultimate success goal. You then vividly envision this desire coming to fruition, allowing yourself to experience in detail what achieving it would look and feel like. As you envision your success desire, notice any negative thoughts, feelings, or beliefs that arise. These negative reactions represent your human hard-drive viruses—the specific programming blocking your success. Rate each negative on a scale of 0 to 10 based on how much it bothers you. Apply the Three Tools—Energy Medicine, Reprogramming Statements, and Heart Screen—to systematically deprogram these negatives until they no longer bother you (rating below 1). Once you've deprogrammed the negatives, use the same tools to create a supersuccess memory, reprogramming your spiritual heart with a positive vision of your success. Continue working with the tools until you can rate your positive sense of achieving your desire at 7 or higher, indicating a genuine belief in your capability. This process establishes new programming that supports rather than sabotages your success. With both the negative deprogramming and positive reprogramming complete, begin a forty-day period focused on maintaining these levels: negatives below 1 and positive sense above 7. Each day, check your ratings and use the tools as needed to maintain these scores. After forty days, most people are fully reprogrammed regarding their success issue, though some may need additional forty-day periods for complete transformation. The heart of implementation involves setting specific success goals using the Greatest Principle. These goals must be in truth, in love, 100% under your control, and performed in the present moment. Your success goal for any thirty-minute period becomes doing whatever you do in love, focusing on the present moment. This approach removes the stress of expectations while ensuring you still complete all necessary practical steps toward your desire. As you walk in the direction of your desire by living in love moment by moment, remain open to changes in direction. Your actual end result may look exactly like your original vision, nothing like it, or somewhere in between. The blueprint allows for flexibility and organic development while maintaining focus on what truly matters—your internal state. Once you establish this process with one success issue, you can repeat it for additional desires, systematically transforming every area of your life.

Chapter 7: Practical Spirituality: Living in Love

The ultimate expression of the Greatest Principle is found in practical spirituality—living from a state of love that transforms both internal experience and external circumstances. While traditional religious approaches often emphasize rules and judgment, and impractical spiritual systems frequently focus on manifesting specific outcomes through positive thinking, practical spirituality offers a fundamentally different paradigm based on living in love in the present moment, regardless of circumstances. The key distinction between practical spirituality and other approaches lies in the difference between love and fear as energy frequencies. Fear-based approaches all follow natural laws of cause and effect, where specific actions produce predictable results. These include karma, the law of attraction, and stimulus/response principles—all of which create expectations that trigger stress. Love, by contrast, violates these natural laws because it doesn't operate on predictable outcomes. Sometimes love generates reciprocal love, but often it doesn't. Love represents a spiritual rather than physical principle, operating beyond cause and effect. Practical spirituality involves plugging into God/source/love as the source of love energy with sufficient amplitude to overcome our fear programming. Just as a penlight cannot illuminate a stadium while stadium lights can, our internal love energy often proves insufficient to overcome deeply rooted fear without connection to a greater source. When we connect to this source, we receive grace—unconditional love and acceptance that transcends what we deserve according to natural law. This connection doesn't require willpower but rather surrender of control in trust and belief. Evidence for the spiritual dimension appears in multiple forms. The heart screen and latest neurological research demonstrate that prayer and spiritual belief improve brain function more effectively than even exercise. The widespread belief in spiritual reality (approximately 97% of people worldwide) despite minimal empirical evidence represents a striking anomaly, as historically majority beliefs have aligned with observable phenomena. The existence of grace and love, which violate natural laws of cause and effect, provides further evidence of spiritual reality beyond physical laws. Living in practical spirituality means experiencing near-constant love, joy, peace, and nonjudgmental acceptance regardless of circumstances. The evidence of this state appears in forgiveness—the ability to completely accept others without requiring them to "pay" for mistakes. By contrast, unforgiveness indicates living according to law rather than grace, applying standards that ultimately lead to suffering for ourselves and others. Practical spirituality recognizes that 100% acceptance of the person doesn't mean accepting harmful behavior; it simply means not defining people by their worst actions. As society experiences increasing polarization between light and darkness, fear and love, each individual faces the daily choice of which path to follow. Those choosing practical spirituality represent perhaps 1% of people, while the other 99% follow various forms of fear-based approaches, often unconsciously. The path of love requires giving up unhealthy control, expectations, judgment, and comparison—replacing them with trust, presence, acceptance, and connection. Though imperfectly followed, this path leads to a life beyond willpower, expectations, and limitations—a life of true success.

Summary

The central insight of the Greatest Principle is disarmingly simple yet profoundly transformative: living in love while focusing on the present moment represents the only reliable path to genuine success. By addressing the root causes of our failures—fear-based internal programming that operates primarily at the subconscious level—we unlock a capability for achievement that willpower alone could never produce. This approach aligns cutting-edge scientific research on cellular memory, energy frequencies, and neurological functioning with ancient spiritual wisdom about the power of love to overcome fear. The practical implementation of this principle through specific energy-based tools offers a comprehensive alternative to traditional success methodologies. By deprogramming our human hard-drive viruses and reprogramming our spiritual heart to operate from love rather than fear, we eliminate the internal contradictions that have sabotaged our previous efforts. This transformation manifests as greater health, improved relationships, enhanced creativity, financial abundance, and a profound sense of peace that remains stable regardless of external circumstances. The Greatest Principle ultimately delivers what all success literature has promised but failed to provide: a systematic approach to achieving our deepest desires while experiencing genuine happiness and fulfillment along the journey.

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Alexander Loyd

Alex Loyd, PhD, ND holds doctorates in Pyschology and Naturopathic Medicine. His 12-year search for a cure for his wife's depression led to the discovery of The Healing Codes system to heal the source of virtually any physical, emotional, success, or relational issue."Like" the Healing Code on FacebookJoin the Group on FacebookFollow @HealingCodeBook on Twitter.

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