#70 - Power vs. Force: Unlocking the Invisible Patterns That Shape Your Life

In this episode we are exploring David R Hawkins’ book Power vs Force. 

You will walk away with a clear understanding of how the invisible is truly shaping your visible, how the actions you take, the words you speak, and the thoughts you think are shaping your reality. Then what to do to change it.

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Hello Everyone! Welcome to The Game of Life Podcast; I am Alexandria Burek and I am your host.

Thank you for picking my show out of the millions to choose from; I am honored and excited to share this time with you! If you’re new here, welcome aboard, and if you’re a regular, thanks for coming back—I appreciate you all so much.

In this episode we are exploring David R Hawkins’ book Power vs Force where we will uncover how invisible forces connect to everything—from personal growth to world-changing breakthroughs like the four-minute mile. We will dive deep into the idea that Power, driven by compassion and positivity lifts us up, while Force, driven by judgement and negativity drags us all down. And most importantly, how every improvement we make as individuals improves the world because the universe is interconnected. 

Before we dive into the heart of the episode, I will kick it off with a little personal update. 

Personal Update:

My goal with the personal update is to put my money where my mouth is and lead by example. I’ll share three personal wins, sprinkle in some gratitude, drop a new original thought and leave you guys with a song I love (link will be in the show notes). 

Wins: 

First, I began a new chapter in my life. I completed a project that was what I hope will be the beginning of a fulfilling and rewarding career. 

Second, I got a raving review at my w2 which has resulted in more freedom, and soon the opportunity to hand off tasks that I’ve outgrown which will free up my mental capacity to do impactful projects. 

Third, I have been experiencing a lot of synchronicities in my life with situations, and opportunities, and themes. Which Carl Jung suggests could reflect the interplay between the inner world (our thoughts, feelings, or unconscious) and the outer world (events or circumstances), potentially hinting at a deeper order or connection in the universe. EEEEE. So happy and excited about this. Good things are happening. 

Gratitude: I am so grateful for the people in my life. There is my family, my best friends, new and old, co-workers and people that fit somewhere in between. Either way, I am thankful for these people in my life. 

Original Thought: Courage precedes confidence. Simple as that. You have to have the courage to get started or to suck or to fail before you can feel confident about anything you do in life. 

Feature song of the week. This week's song is Key of Love by Anomal, Dr. Leonard Horowitz– This song came to me sometime in the last year, and I chose it because it has to do with vibration and frequency and that's exactly what we are talking about here today. I hope you enjoy.    

Food For Thought: Power Vs Force

Book & Author: 

Book: Power Vs Force

Author: David R Hawkins

How I found it: 

I kept hearing about the Hawkins scale of consciousness and I felt drawn to explore this. I am glad I did. 

Who It's For: 

This book is for the person who is interested in levels of consciousness, physics, and expansion. This book is for the person who wants to elevate and expand their consciousness, creating a life of harmony and joy. 

The Takeaways: 

Before I go into any of the takeaways I selected for you guys, I want to kick it off with a little question that will set the tone for the rest of this episode. 

What if the way you feel about yourself–good or bad–isn’t random? What if it is actually tied to these invisible patterns of energy you are aligned with? 

Sit with that for one second before we begin. {PAUSE - deep breath}

My goal is that today's episode will leave you with a clear understanding of how the invisible is truly shaping your visible. How the actions you take, the words you speak, and the thoughts you think are shaping your reality. AND how you can start to take action to change it. In spirit of this episode, I launched a little experiment I am doing and I would ask you to join me! For one week, track your actions to see if more or less of them are in support of the life you want to create, or cementing in the life you already have. Get the full details on instagram using the hashtag #voteforthenewyou or via my profile (unapologeticallyalexandria). I am so excited to see how this goes and I would love to hear about your experiments and I will be updating mine via instagram stories.  

Diving in. First we must understand the core of this book. Power vs Force suggests that failure, suffering, and sickness comes from weak patterns while success, happiness, and health come from the power we all have inside of us. We are constantly using our words, beliefs, and actions to either transcend or regress. The book states that we calibrate at different levels in different areas in life–you would calibrate at one level in your career, and another in your relationships, and a different one in your health. This is why someone who may be in a loving, wonderful relationship still struggles with money or their career. They calibrate higher in relationships than in career or money. Knowing this, allows that person to evaluate and change their beliefs, words, and actions to transcend their level in the lacking areas of their life.   

Now that the stage is set, I want to tee up the three key concepts we are diving into today! 

• The map of consciousness and the practice of kinesiology 
• The idea that there are two universes existing in parallel: invisible and visible 
• How our neural networks determine what we attract and how M-Fields construct our beliefs about what is possible.  

So what is the map of consciousness and what does kinesiology have to do with it? The map of consciousness is a way to measure our energy patterns ranging from 20-1,000 and kinesiology is how we can actually measure this. Everything has an energy signature–books, music, food, art, countries, companies, clothes, people, plants–and the level of consciousness of an individual or item affects the transcendence of the whole–because the universe is interconnected. 

The scale of consciousness starts at 20. 20 is shame. Shame is considered proximate to death; shame is related to a certain level of resignation and can be described as failure to take steps to prolong life. 

Just beyond shame is guilt, coming in at 30. Guilt is closely correlated to victimhood. 

Moving up a level from guilt is apathy calibrating at 50. This is the level that poverty, despair and hopelessness exist. People who are in a state of apathy are typically dependent on and felt as heavy to those around them. 

Going up a level is grief. Grief calibrates at 75. There is a sense of despondency with grief. People in this state have this lingering sense that things won’t get better. 

Just above grief is fear. Fear comes in at 100 and according to the author is actually healthy to a certain degree. He acknowledges that fear runs much of the world, and that while it helps us survive, it limits our growth. 

After fear comes Desire, calibrating at 125. Desire motivates human activity. Desire is the level of addiction, because cravings become more important than life itself. Desire is accompanied by accumulation and greed. Desire is insatiable; once you achieve satisfaction, it is replaced by the unsatisfied desire for something else. This can drive people to living a life of seemingly never ending accomplishments, which never end up satisfying them.

Going up to 150 is anger. This is where it gets good. Anger can be constructive or destructive. In some cases, people’s anger is what drives them to freedom.

Following anger is pride at 175. The good part about pride, is that it allows self esteem to grow. Pride feels good, but only in contrast to the lower levels. The downside of pride is arrogance and denial, blocking growth.

The turning point is courage. Courage calibrates at 200. Courage is the key level where you transition from hopeless, sad, frightening, frustrated to empowerment, exploration, accomplishment, fortitude, and determination. Those who can calibrate up to 200, have a chance at expanding and transcending to the higher levels. 

One notch up is Neutrality coming in at 250. Neutrality is actually very positive. In the lower levels people take on rigid positions, but in neutrality people see dichotomies. Being neutral means someone can be nonjudgemental and unattached about outcomes. It's the beginning of inner confidence and a belief that life will generally be ok despite ups and downs.

Following Neutrality is Willingness, calibrating at 310. Willingness is a positive level of energy and is the gateway to higher levels. Below 200 people are very closed minded, but at 310 people experience a great opening of their mind. 

Acceptance is the next level of consciousness at 350. Acceptance is where transformation takes place; it's where we finally understand that we are the creators of our experiences and our lives, sound familiar? The thing is, we cannot confuse acceptance with passivity. 

As David Hawkins says, “Acceptance allows engagement in life on one’s own terms, without trying to make it conform to an agenda. With acceptance, there is emotional calm and perception is widened as denial is transcended.”

Next up the scale is Reason at 400. Reason represents intelligence and rationality, transcending the emotionalism of the lower levels. The author says “At this level it is easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees, to become infatuated with concepts and theories, ending up in intellectualism and missing the essential point.”

Finally, Love. Love is calibrated at 500. In the context of this book, love is not what is commonly portrayed as it is in mass media: intense emotionality with physical attraction and possessiveness. When we talk about love from the perspective of this book, we are talking about unconditional love that is unchanging and permanent. It is at this level that we can begin to discern the essence and true root of problems. Reason deals in particulars, but love deals with wholes. 

Beyond love is Joy. Joy comes in at 540. Joy stems from unconditional love. Joy is seen as omnipresent vs related to an event or experience. Joy is with us throughout each moment. Joy allows us to see exquisite beauty and inspires a sense of awe. Things for someone operating from this level happen effortlessly, by synchronicity. 

Following Joy, is Peace at 600.  Peace is very rare and is associated with self-realization. Peace is not rational, it is infinite silence in the mind because it has stopped conceptualizing. 

The highest level of consciousness is Enlightenment calibrating between 700 and 1000. Enlightenment is such a rare transcendence that only spiritual leaders have been known to calibrate at these levels. Enlightenment is recognized and experienced when someone no longer has perception of a personal self. This is peak consciousness in the human realm. It is undoubtedly incomprehensible for those of us on lower levels of the map of consciousness. 

In order to determine what you, or a thought, or your partner, or a car, or a job, or a substance calibrates at you can use kinesiology. Kinesiology suggests that we have this sense of knowing within us which causes our muscles to go weak or stay strong when confronted with questions or near substances. 

Among professionals from different disciplines, Kinesiology is clinically accepted, however, it never made it mainstream. Kinesiology, or muscle-testing, is considered “quick, simple, easy to perform, and highly decisive” and is easily replicated according to scientific standards.

To demonstrate the success of this methodology, during one of his lecture circuits, Dr. Diamond sealed 1,000 envelopes with either vitamin c or artificial sweetener. For those audience members who received envelopes with artificial sweetener, all 500 went ‘weak’ vs the 500 with the vitamin c who tested strong during their kinesiology tests. 

When I got reiki, my practitioner used kinesiology to determine what we needed to focus on energetically and I was FACINATED by this. I later went to work and showed some of my co-workers this phenomena. To establish ‘stong’ response vs a ‘weak’ one, my practitioner would have stand face to face with her, holding my arm perpendicular to my body and have me say, “I am Alexandria” while she would apply downward pressure.  When I said “I am Alexandria” I would go strong, then I would have to say something like “I am Darlene” and I would go weak. 

Try it out with some fun things with your friends or your co-workers like I did–be prepared for a couple of confusing looks–but it really is fun and it works, then once you develop confidence in kinesiology you can start using it to guide more serious decisions. The key is to always pose it as yes or no questions. “Should I stay in the midwest? Should I move to the south? Should I move to the coast?” and you can just keep drilling down to connect with infinite wisdom locked inside of you, waiting to divinely guide you to exactly where you need to be. 

Now, we can move on to the idea that there are two universes existing in parallel: invisible and visible. David Bohm developed this theory that there are two universes; he uses radio waves and x-rays as examples of this idea. We can’t see radio waves but we can hear the radio. We can’t see our bones, but x-rays reveal they are in fact under the surface of our skin. The invisible creates the visible. We have been covering this a lot lately, probably because it is SO important. One of the things that really stood out, and is easy enough to apply to our daily lives is, choosing our words wisely. Crafting a new vocabulary will help you vibrate on a totally different plane. The author takes two pages to differentiate between adjectives that are either powerful (aka positive), calibrating at 200+, and weak (aka negative), calibrating at <200. I wanted to highlight a couple of examples of the positive and negative words. He says, “The ability to differentiate between high and low energy patterns is a matter of perception and discrimination that most of us learn by painful trial and error. Failure, suffering, and eventual sickness result from the influence of weak patterns; in contrast, success, happiness, and health proceed from powerful attractor patterns.” 

• Positive: Abundant Negative: Excessive 
• Positive: Candid Negative: Calculating
• Positive: Harmonious Negative: Disruptive 
• Positive: Noble Negative: Pompous 
• Positive: Observant Negative: Suspicious

You can feel the way these words genuinely give a whole different vibe as you say them or hear them. The other night I was having a conversation with my friend. We are always pushing the bounds on what is possible. Pushing to be better and grow. With the courage to face the challenges and obstacles, even as optimistic and intentional humans, we can find ourselves struggling. We occasionally help each other see things differently, choose different words to describe the same situation, and it’s the words we chose that makes the difference in how we feel about the things we are facing, and what we are capable of creating and attracting as a result. 

Hopefully you are going to join in on the Vote for the New You experiment, but if not, maybe you can at least spend a day or a week auditing your language, internally and externally, to see how it feels and or play with using different words to frame up your circumstances. 

Language is so key in so many aspects of life; the next topic we are sliding into suggests that our neural networks construct our beliefs which determines what we attract. I say that language is a great segway here, because our beliefs are all constructed using language. Choose your words wisely. 

With that, let's get into the neural networks. This idea that our neural networks function as attractors is one that is very detailed and intricate, and took me a minute to fully comprehend and be able to describe accurately, so bare with me. Said simply by Nobelist Sir John Eccles, the brain is a receiving set. The brain is only designed to receive energy patterns that currently reside in the mind itself. These energy patterns are expressed in the form of thought. 

So. This is the key to life right here. This is why we need to change the invisible to see results in the visible. We need to calibrate our minds so we can RECEIVE energetic patterns operating at a higher level of consciousness. AKA– We need to shift our mindset, and change our neural networks, if we want to receive and experience better circumstances in life. So, how do you put this into practice? You first take an audit if you are completely unaware of the words you speak. If maybe you’ve done that already, the next step is to make a conscientious decision about the words you DO want to use. For example, I chose to define 2025 as a year that would be fruitful–that I would start seeing visible results for the work I have been putting in over the last two years. When people ask me about my dogs being “friendly” instead of saying no, or not really, or it depends, I started saying they can be, or that they usually are, and this has resulted in a wonderful transformation in their behavior. So what words do you want to use to describe yourself, your life, your family, your pets, your children, your job, or anything else going on in your life, because it matters. Your words shape your mind, and your mind shapes your experience. 

Now we are ready to close out this episode with M-Fields and how they construct our beliefs about what is possible. The concept of M-fields was created by Rupert Sheldrake. The M stands for morphogenic; if you look up that word you will find it refers to the creation of form or structure, particularly with what we are talking about here, you can think of it as a kind of invisible blueprint or memory that influences patterns in the world. In the context of Power vs Force, M-fields act as organizing principles for what we believe is possible. Once an M-field is created, it then exists in the invisible universe as a universally available pattern, expanding what we believe is possible. One example the author provides is when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile. He created a new m-field and then from there, many runners began to break the four-minute mile records. Once an M-field is created, everyone who repeats the accomplishment reinforces the power of m-fields. 

This is yet another example of how our decisions and our behaviors really do matter. They have the power to open up the world of possibility to the entire universe. I remember being blown away when I read this. I like to think that M-fields can also shape those in your immediate circles. 

I was out to lunch over the weekend with someone who has inspired me, and in a way, mentored me. He recently joined a day trading group (this is one of those synchronicities I was talking about, we both were excited to tell each other that we both started trading, literally at almost the same time). BUT his group is made up of some MONSTER traders. I am talking traders who are making $100k a day, $400-$500k a week. It's INCREDIBLE. I believe this opened me up to a new level of possibility with trading. I thought it was wild that the woman I follow does $40-$50k trades every so often. And let's be honest, making $40-$50K off of a single trade, or even a handful, sounds amazing, but making $100k in a day sounds even better! This I believe, is an M-field for me. 

This is also why I will underscore and underline the importance of choosing your circles wisely. If I were to talk about this exact thing with some people I know, they would reject the notion all together calling impossible, they would have some level of jealousy or anger or fear about my remote interest in doing something like this, OR they could open me up to the possibility of earning $100k a day. Not to mention, it has taken me a lot of mental rehearsal and reprogramming to get to the point where, I am EXCITED to hear what other people are accomplishing, and that other people are PROOF of what is possible for me. There was this idea the author shares that, our inner work is like a bank account. One we make deposits to, but cannot draw from at free will, the universe waits to release it to us, until we are calibrated to attract what we are calling in. This gives me such optimism, and this is why I believe this year will be fruitful. I have been making deposits, I am ready for the universe to release my highest good. What about you? Have you been making deposits? Do you need to work on your calibration so you can attract experiences at a higher level of consciousness? Who are your immediate influences and examples of what's possible? Are they people who can’t even conceive a life of abundance, joy, happiness and health? Or are they people who would not expect less out of life? Choose your circles wisely. 

Before we close it out I want to give you a quick list of four things you can do today to take advantage of all the nuggets from today's episode. 

1- Join the Vote for the New You Experiment. Change your invisible to change your visible. 

2- Do a kinesiology test with someone you trust 

3- Audit your language, internal and external; choose your words wisely as you move throughout this thing they call life

4- Make deposits to your bank of good so the universe can unleash a wildly amazing string of events and experiences upon you.

Closeout

You guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope it lit something up for you.  I don’t know about you, but this one hit hard for me. I am so grateful to have been the one to share this book with you and go over these incredible topics. 

Remember, Power is associated with compassion and makes us feel positively about ourselves. Force is associated with judgmentalism and makes us typically feel bad about ourselves. Nothing out there has power over you–its not life's events but its how you react and your attitude about them that determines whether something is positive or negative. Consider someone reacting to a setback with the force of anger versus the power of acceptance. One spirals down; the other opens possibilities.

I’d love your thoughts on what I shared today—drop a comment, hit the fanmail link in the show notes to shoot me a text and tell me what’s landing for you! 

I would love you guys to join in on, #VotefortheNewYou experiment this week!

Thank you so much for spending this time with me—I hope it’s making your day, and maybe your life, a little better. If you loved this, or even just liked it, please share the show and or give it a 5 star rating! 

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