“Every uncomfortable emotional state, and many psychosomatic symptoms, are also states of trance. Trance is the ‘glue’ that holds the problem in the present moment.”
— Stephen Wolinsky, Trances People Live: Healing Approaches in Quantum Psychology
Deconstructing the Mind: Understanding States of Consciousness in Quantum Psychology
In traditional psychology, the mind is usually seen as a fixed collection of thoughts, memories, and personality traits that need fixing or improving. Quantum Psychology offers a completely different view. By blending Western psychology, quantum physics, and ancient non-dual philosophy, it views our inner experience not as solid, permanent problems, but as temporary, shifting states of consciousness.
From this perspective, what we usually call “myself” or “my personality” is actually a series of trance states and mental filters. By understanding how these states work, we can loosen the grip of old habits and connect with a clearer, more peaceful sense of awareness.
1. The Core Idea: Inner Experience is Just Energy
At the heart of Quantum Psychology is a simple idea: all thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and physical sensations are basic forms of energy.
When we feel difficult emotions like anxiety, anger, or sadness, we usually attach stories to them and try to fight them off. This turns a temporary feeling into a solid problem or a permanent part of who we are. Quantum Psychology encourages us to stop labelling these feelings and instead experience them directly as energy moving through us. When we do this, the emotion naturally loses its control over our lives.
2. The Trance of the “False Core” and “False Self”
Quantum Psychology points out that most people live in automatic trance states built around two main patterns:
- The False Core: A deep, hidden belief formed early in life (such as “I am defective,” “I am not enough,” or “I am alone”).
- The False Self: The mask or personality we build to hide or compensate for that painful belief (such as being a perfectionist, overachieving, or always trying to please others).
Because the False Self is trying to fix a belief that was never true in the first place, it keeps us trapped in endless cycles of stress and reaction. Realising that these masks are just temporary states—not who we truly are—is the first step towards feeling genuine freedom.
3. The Layers of Awareness: Surface Mind to Deep Unity
Quantum Psychology splits our experience into two main levels:
| Level | What It Is | How We Experience It |
|---|---|---|
| Surface Level (Explicate) | The everyday world of separate things and distinct thoughts. | Everyday thoughts, bodily sensations, emotions, and feeling separate from others. |
| Deep Level (Implicate) | The underlying web where everything is interconnected and whole. | Deep silence, pure presence, inner space, and feeling connected to everything. |
How Awareness Shifts
As we unlearn old mental habits, our awareness moves through several deeper layers:
- Everyday Personality: Feeling like a separate person reacting to an outside world.
- The Witness: Stepping back to notice thoughts and emotions without getting swept away by them.
- Pure Energy and Space: Experiencing feelings as raw physical energy or open space rather than solid personal problems.
- Simple Being (“I Am”): Experiencing pure presence without any labels, roles, or story attached.
- The Unnamed Source: The quiet, unchanged background behind all experience from which every thought and feeling arises.
4. How to Shift States in Daily Life
Instead of trying to analyse or fix thoughts, Quantum Psychology focuses on deconstructing them:
- Drop the Labels: Take away the words around a feeling. Instead of calling an experience “fear,” just notice the raw physical sensation of energy in your body.
- Remember You Are the Observer: If you can notice a thought or feeling, it cannot be what you are. You are the open space where that thought is happening.
- See the Wholeness: Notice that the observer and the feeling are not two separate things—they are both made of the same underlying awareness.
Beyond Fixed Identity
Quantum Psychology shows us that human suffering comes mostly from getting stuck in mental trance states and confusing temporary feelings with who we really are. By seeing that our state of mind is constantly changing energy, we stop being trapped by old patterns and rest easily in the calm awareness that sits behind it all.
Key Takeaways
- Identity as Energy: Thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are not solid or permanent truths; they are temporary, shifting states of energy passing through your awareness.
- The Trap of the False Core: Painful early beliefs (“I am not enough”) lead to protective personalities (“The False Self”). Trying to fix yourself based on a false belief keeps you trapped in reactive cycles.
- Deconstruct, Don’t Analyse: Instead of analysing or trying to fix negative emotions, strip away their labels and observe them purely as raw physical sensations and energy.
- You Are the Space, Not the Thought: Anything you can observe cannot be you. You are the quiet, unchanging awareness in which thoughts and emotions arise and dissolve.
- Unbroken Wholeness: Beneath everyday, separated surface thoughts lies a deep, interconnected web of pure presence and space (“I Am”).
Self-Reflection Questions
- What feeling or label am I holding onto right now, and what happens if I treat it as just energy passing through rather than who I am?
- When I catch myself striving or overcompensating, what deep belief or “False Core” am I secretly trying to prove wrong?
- If I step back and simply observe my current thoughts without trying to analyse or fix them, who or what is doing the observing?
- How often do my daily reactions stem from my true presence rather than an automatic, protective mask I developed long ago?
- What changes in my life if I stop viewing my mind as a problem to be solved and start seeing it as a space to be experienced?
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