Decoherence, Letting Go and Paul Selig
May 18, 2025
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{Body}
Decoherence creating illness
When an orchestra loses its timing, beautiful music collapses into garbled noise. Similarly, your body depends on exquisite synchronization between its many systems — when this harmony breaks down, decoherence (and chronic illness) occurs.
Consider a perfect crystal. When light passes through flawless quartz, it travels in perfect alignment — coherent, powerful and beautiful. But introduce even microscopic flaws, and the light will scatter in countless directions, its energy dispersed and weakened.
Your body operates as a living crystal of sorts. When coherent, its systems vibrate in harmonic resonance — heart rhythms, brain waves, hormonal pulses, and cellular oscillations all mutually reinforcing. But this delicate state is vulnerable to disruption from multiple sources:
Physical decoherence occurs when toxins, pathogens, or nutritional deficiencies introduce "static" into your cellular communication. Toxic heavy metals, pesticides, synthetic fragrances, chemical solvents, microplastics — these inflammatory compounds create cellular interference patterns that block coherent signal transmission between tissues.
Emotional decoherence happens when psychological stress generates chaotic heart and brain patterns. Research shows that anxiety, anger, and fear produce erratic, incoherent heart rate variability patterns that cascade through your entire system, disrupting immune function and neurological processing. Your emotions aren't just feelings — they're biological signals that either enhance or diminish coherence.
Energetic decoherence results from electromagnetic field exposure. Your cells communicate partly through subtle bioelectric signals. Artificial EMFs can override these delicate patterns, much like how a powerful radio station drowns out a weaker one. Studies increasingly suggest that constant bombardment by non-native electromagnetic fields contributes to cellular decoherence.
The medical manifestations of decoherence are what we call chronic disease: inflammation, hormonal dysregulation, and neurological dysfunction all reflect systems that have lost their synchronizing rhythm.
{Mind}
The anatomy of attachment
Why is letting go so hard? Because of attachment, of course. And why is attachment so entangling? Because it holds what you (falsely) believe is the essence of your Self.
Consider this thought experiment: You're holding a photo album above a raging fire and are asked to drop it in.
If the album was handed to you by a total stranger, filled with blurry shots of random plastic waste, you'd release it without hesitation. Let it burn 🔥
If the album was expensive but empty, you might feel a twinge of financial loss, but still — 🤷🏻♂️ c'est la vie. You'll manage.
But if that album contains irreplaceable polaroids of you and your parents before they passed? "All those memories, gone!? Impossible. I could never let that go."
The more something intertwines with your sense of identity — your possessions, achievements, relationships, and especially your memories — the more fiercely you cling to it. This isn't just preference; it's existential. To lose what feels like "part of you" registers as death to the ego.
Remember: all attachments are misery-producing and unnecessary. Not because the things we love aren't valuable, but because clinging distorts our relationship to them. You don't need to desperately grasp at your thoughts to live a fulfilled life. You don't need your age, your car, or even your child to exist forever to fully appreciate and love them now.
Attachment is sticky for another reason too — the fear of future dissatisfaction. "If I let this go, I might never experience it again."
But we’ll talk about that next week.
In the meantime, listen to the guided meditation below to practice the art of letting go. Not to become indifferent, but to love more freely.
{Soul}
To pick up an object and place it in darkness requires that you step into the darkness with it.
To judge an action means subjecting yourself to the same standard, tossed into the same pit of guilt.
To hate someone is to think about them constantly, sabotaging your peace of mind in the process.
If the world is indeed a mirror, you are only ever speaking to yourself. Tread carefully, then: you might actually end up believing what you claim.
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