The Power of the Positive Principle

“Letting go of the belief in the negative forces of guilt and fear, which is true forgiveness, is the most powerful way to transform your life, because all that is then left in your mind and heart is the wholly positive force of unconditional love from which miracles automatically flow into your life.” – Jonathan Quail, spiritual teacher, speaker, life coach and founder of Lifebuild


In a world where guilt, fear and the other negative emotions and tangible effects stemming from these twin demons are so rife, it may seem somewhat trite and clichéd to say that we just need to think positively to nullify these negative thoughts and emotions, undo their observed negative effects and replace these with positive effects that are truly empowering and life building. However, when we take the trouble to examine quantum physics, the science that has investigated the nature of reality and the relationship our minds have to it, one finds that there is a solid scientific basis for making this claim about the power of positive thinking.

The most widely accepted interpretation of quantum physics in the scientific community, known as the Copenhagen interpretation, is that there is no reality in the absence of observation, which implies that reality as we perceive it is really not ‘out there’ but within our minds and that our perception of something as real is what gives it its reality. This means that we are the creators of our reality and are in fact projecting everything that appears to us to be out there from a higher level of our minds, called the universal mind, and then perceiving and judging it as real to create a seemingly real experience of living the lives we apparently live in the illusion we have collectively created. So quantum physics is really pointing to the truth that it is our thoughts that create our perceived reality and our life experiences while apparently living in the ‘reality’ of the physical world and universe, which is in fact a mind-created matrix of projected thought.

This interpretation of quantum physics is supported by the accounts of many sages and mystics who have graced the planet with their presence through the ages and have had personal experiences of knowing they are one with the universal mind that created the universe (e.g. Buddha) and the Spirit that pervades and unites everything in the universe (e.g. Jesus Christ), as well as the testimony of literally millions of other more average people throughout history who have had experiences of unexplainable synchronicitous, serendipitous and miraculous events occurring in their lives.

If it is true that we really do create our reality and are not victims, but makers, of the world and universe in which we apparently live through our thoughts, then our thoughts and beliefs are clearly of paramount importance, as they create our whole perceived reality and all our life experiences within it. Most people are unconscious of the fact that they are in fact creating their own reality through the mostly unconscious paradigms or beliefs they hold about themselves and life and so continue creating the same, often painful reality over and over again without realising they are actually projecting their deep unconscious negative beliefs of guilt, unworthiness and shame about themselves out of their minds into the illusory world in which they apparently live, then judging their experiences as real and creating pain and suffering in the process.

Why would so many people cause themselves to suffer in this way, you may well ask? Simply to have an illusion or dream of a special and unique identity, which is called the ego, that in our perception separates us from other people, from other life forms on this planet, from the universe and ultimately, from God. In fact, it is their guilt at this apparent separation from All That Truly Is, which we commonly refer to as ‘God’, that keeps the whole illusion of a separate identity and existence going in their own minds, causing a continuous cycle of birth into and death of physical bodies with various painful and sometimes pleasurable experiences in between, a process known as reincarnation, until the mind having these repeated dream experiences wakes up and realises that the dream is not real and it is in fact one with All That Truly Is, which is the eternal and unchanging Positive Principle that dwells in all of our minds.

It is through this At-onement that the seemingly split mind that created the duality of positive and negative and all the consequent opposites stemming from this primal duality finally lets go of the guilt at its apparent separation from its true Source, the fear of punishment this seems to require and the erroneous and vicious defences, including the projection of thought into an apparently externalised form we call matter constituting the universe, required to perpetuate this hellish state of suffering, the sole purpose of which is to continue the mind’s dream of being separate from All That Is or God.

Having been through this very quick metaphysical explanation of the origin and purpose of the universe in which we apparently live, I hope that both the tremendous power of positive thought and the way to think only positive thoughts is now self-evident to you if it wasn’t before. Positive thoughts while we are apparently living in the universe, which is the domain of perception , affirm the Positive Principle, which is All That Truly Is beyond this universe where guilt, fear and all their pernicious negative effects appear to be real, and so automatically deny the reality of the negative principle. The Atonement or better, At-onement, is simply the awareness of our oneness with All That Truly Is , including everyone and everything that appears to be separate from us in the illusion of separation created by the split mind, an awareness commonly referred to as universal love.

So the ultimate and eternal Positive Principle is universal, unconditional love for all sentient beings, which automatically undoes guilt, fear and all other negative thoughts stemming from the apparently separated mind. Once a mind has returned to a state where all it is aware of is its true oneness with all apparently separated things and beings in the universe, we say that it has become ‘enlightened’, as it no longer carries a heavy burden of guilt and fear with it and it has seen the light of truth, enabling it to see only 'the Good, the Beautiful and the True' (as Plato called the Positive Principle) in everything and to abide in a state of continual inner peace, joy and even bliss, which is the true happiness that we all seek.

Because we are creating our own experience of reality while our minds are apparently inhabiting physical bodies in the universe, a law which is referred to as ‘karma’ in the Eastern philosophies and religions and the ‘Law of Attraction’ in the modern personal growth movement, an enlightened person who has released all guilt and fear from his or her mind and only thinks thoughts and feels emotions of love, peace and joy will create circumstances and experiences of loving and being loved by others and abundance in every aspect of his or her life that reflects this joyous inner state. Joy is the most powerful emotion for manifesting anything and so an enlightened person becomes a miracle worker able to channel the unlimited joyous power of the Positive Principle to transmute the ‘lead’ of negative circumstances and events in this world and universe created by the negative principle of separation into the metaphorical ‘gold’ of the Good, the Beautiful and the True that reflects the golden state of enlightenment or At-onement with the Positive principle.

”So how do I restore my mind to this state of unconditional love and joy and start living a miraculous life while I apparently am living here in the world?” you may well ask. It is only by forgiving the symbols of your apparent separation as they arise in your (dream) life experiences away by simply letting them go from your awareness and not giving them any reality in your mind, so preventing any thoughts that will inevitably cause you stress, pain and suffering and confirm your apparent separation from All That Is Good, Beautiful and True. So the key to experiencing unconditional love, peace and joy in your life and living permanently in the domain of the miraculous is true or radical forgiveness that simply denies that the particular event being forgiven and anything else that has appeared to happen in the dream of time, space and energy that we call the universe has ever really happened, which is very simple in concept, but rather more difficult to put into practice.

Unless you were born as a perfectly enlightened being, you almost certainly will have experienced difficulty in forgiving people and events that appear to have hurt or wronged you in your life. So, to help you to forgive away all past negative experiences you have had in your life and free your mind from to be in a constant and enthralling state of awareness of only the Positive Principle and All That Is behind it, which can create only positive results that benefit all life, I invite you to download a 10-step radical forgiveness process I have compiled with my compliments – click here to sign up to the Lifebuilder Community and gain free access to this powerful process now. You may also want to come to one of the  Personal Alchemy retreats and/or one-day 'Freedom From Fear' workshops I facilitate during which I will personally be able to guide you through the radical forgiveness process and the philosophy underpinning radical forgiveness that I have briefly outlined in this article, as well as teaching you some powerful practices for training your mind to see only the Positive that will lead you to the ultimate attainment of any human being – to realise that you are in fact, not human or a body at all, but pure Spirit, a state commonly known as 'Enlightenment'.

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This article was written by Jonathan Quail, a speaker, trainer, life coach, entrepreneur and the co-founder of Lifebuild. To download a 10-step radical forgiveness process created by Jonathan that will help you to make forgiveness a habit in your life, click here to sign up at no charge to the Lifebuilder Community and access other FREE life building resources. For more information about Jonathan and the work he does, click here to visit his web site or here and send the email that pops up. Also click here for more information about the upcoming Lifebuilder Events.