An Insight on Faith as Certainty of a State of Being

The Nature of Faith Beyond Words

Faith isn’t blind—it’s felt. In this entry, I am going to be exploring the meaning of faith, the connection between faith and belief, feelings or emotions, and brain states, exploring how the feeling of faith can be created within ones own body as a knowing as opposed to feeling hopeful. Faith as a knowing as the true foundation of manifestation and the Law of Assumption.

Faith is a word we use often, I never really liked it, always seemed vague and when I used the word I fail to even convince myself of the power of the word I speak. As i said used often by many but rarely define clearly. For most of my life, “having faith” sounded vague af, you know that hollow—like advice you give someone when you’re fresh out of logical explanations and just want them to lay off you a bit

"Just have faith Nigel, things will all work out.. you'll see". So In this entry, I will be trying to understand faith and not as the blind trust in God we have all been asked to get loads off when in need of hope, but as a state of being, as a feeling place—a tangible emotion that signifies an inner knowing that links consciousness, science, and spirituality with a nice ribbon on it.

Yes ladies and gents it is indeed a very common thing to hear someone say, “Have faith,” or “I have faith in God.” I hear you but it is easier said than done no?

My whole life I had difficult with the idea of faith. I honestly just couldn’t grasp how to “have faith” (full-on blind trust) in something that I couldn’t see, am unable to measure, or prove it even exists. People toss around the word like a closing to a very uncomfortable conversation and didn't want you questioning things anymore. That's how God wants it, here why not have a little more faith. It felt like being asked to believe in an invisible bridge and step onto it without checking if it was there i.e with a blindfold on. That level of trust didn’t come naturally to me. I triple check my locks just to be extra sure.

Faith as a feeling and emotional State

Recently, I have been consuming quite a lot of Manly P. Hall lectures and with that being said I have been entertaining a different thought: see most of the time when I didn't get something right is usually an indication there was a perception problem, maybe something exists that’s better than the 'faith' as I used to understand it maybe I just needed to take a step back and define things for myself. Words and Mr. Hall said are just sounds we have given convinent meaning. Perhaps faith itself has been misunderstood by me and I was the onlyone who didn't really get. That I needed to do a bit of homework.

See I always liked to experiment with ideas in the same way a scientist would experiments with stuff in a lab — I would observe, test, and all that. Science had always felt grounded to me; I liked substance something I can lean on that is universal and understood by all. Science demands evidence, a structure, and repeatability. Organised Religion says “just believe.” but Science says “hey, look - see for yourself.” Somewhere between those two options, guys lies the truth about faith and what it truly means to a co-creator.

I won’t claim to know much about faith, so I did what anybody would do, I looked it up online and reference a couple places to get a real read on the various meanings out there, here is the gist; Faith - to trust in somebody's ability or knowledge, trust that they would do what they promised. Faith on other sites was simply a strong religious belief. As I said I was no expert on faith but I do understand a thing or two about belief. A belief is the exact moment whereby a thing happens and suddenly becomes real enough to you that you stop questioning it. When we believe something it has proper context, substance, and personal evidence. This has become a solidified fact in one's psyche. 2 + 2 = 4 When you believe, you’re no longer hoping it true — you know its true verified by your senses and environment.

The Science of Belief

From a scientific point of view, the act of belief activates particular brain states. It has a physiological signature that one can measure and are able to see the difference between skepticism and certainty in brainwaves. So this made me begin to wonder... if belief can be measured, faith should be the same— All I need to do was to be certain of what I was having faith in. I mean it felt delusional but that was sort of the whole point... Trust an invisible power and feel it before evidence appears?

Belief, after all was kind of a fact—not an external one, but an inner one. Nobody can tell why a person chooses to believe what they do... I can try to narrow it down to the idea that it just made sense to them. They wanted it to be true and it was easy to grasp. See it’s a personal knowing born from experience and feelings, I’ve come to realize, are the body’s language for belief or most anything for that matter. The body speaks emotion as the the mind speaks thought.

So here is the thing, every state of being we entertain throughout the day has its own feeling tone. When your brain is in an alpha state, you will feel calm, euphoric, sleepy and open, think of this as bed time vibes and you just found that comfy spot and will not move; in beta, alert, awake and full aware of things and the logical mind is in drive; in delta, dreamy, detached from the rapid flow of thoughts things are more felt that thought about in this state. What we call “faith” might just be the emotional counterpart of a certain state of consciousness — a neurological signature of inner knowing.

The Feeling of Knowing

Faith as I soon came to realise was not an act of imagination but a feeling of knowing, a deep conviction in something because you have certainty in an outcome before or after evidence arrives. It’s what happens when the body accepts a mental picture as already real.

I used to think faith required endless trust in something external—a God, a universe, a law. But now after my little bit of intentional research, some unlearning and reprogramming of neural links... I now choose to see faith as an internal frequency and it’s not just about hoping that life will delive... no dearest reader; it is about tuning yourself to the version of reality where it already exists. Let me explain: There is this thing called quantum theory which in a nut shell tell us all we know about physics is not as we thought it were... this is the equivalent of hearing one side of a story and making conclusions only to learn there are several other testimonies.

In that sense, time is not linear, matter is condensed energy and is 99.999% nothing, the human experience in literal terms is a soul - an energetic being embodied in a meat bag living on a rock that goes round a giant ball of fire in the middle of literally nowhere. All that was proven by science and boy it gets weirder but thats besides the point. The point here is that there are so many things that are going on that baffles the sharpest minds. With a little bit of research and self-exploration one learns that so many things are happening and they have little regard for the belief of the human organism nor its understanding to function.

Faith was one of those things, See I learned that faith as I knew of it and the Law of Assumption are the same thing. To assume something is to have faith in its existence right now, not later. Neville Goddard once said, “Faith is loyalty to the unseen reality.” which I no longer struggle with because Dr. Joe Dispenza confirmed this in a few of his work. I just needed proof, my mind needed that to grasp things. Neville Goddard's line never made sense to me until I experienced what he meant: when I assume something to be true long enough, I start feeling it as true—and that feeling itself becomes the evidence. You tell yourself something long and hard enough you start to BELIEVE it.

Experimenting with Faith

So I began experimenting again, not with techniques, but with states of being. This time I had a different approach instead of asking, “Do I have faith this will happen?” I asked, “What would it feel like if it were already done?” The difference was subtle but powerful. One question kept me waiting for proof. The other one created proof inside me first. See the issue had always been that I lack knowledge of a higher power over my silly human mind. I was refusing to see evidence due to past conditioning and once I learned to let that go. I was free. Seek knowledge to help create certainty in what you want to have faith in. Science did it for me.

Faith is not all about thinking positively, it is about the feeling of certainty. It is the same quiet conviction you have when you think of “2 + 2 = 4.” You don’t hope that it’s true; you know it’s true. You can check it to make sure it is true with methods at your disposal. There’s no emotional resistance, the answer is 4... no searching for signs. The feeling is complete nothing but a calculator app away.

That’s what I now recognize as the state of faith: the emotion of belief. The feeling of knowing with certainty right to the point of delusion... but not without self-awareness. Once you reach that frequency— that sweet spot where your thoughts and emotions are unified in the knowing of something—you’ve crossed from wishing into being and the universe, or consciousness, responds not to the words we say but to the frequency we occupy.

Faith as Frequency

Faith is not found in just seeking for evidence; but also in the creation of it. Faith was never about pretending or hoping. It was about remembering—remembering a version of yourself who already lives in that fulfilled state. We are talking about faith here folks.. it will require a bit of higher power in something other than self. Faith isn’t a task you perform; it’s a feeling you allow to flow through you. When I think of faith now, It doesn’t invoke the image of a distant God holding all the outcomes in his hand... No I think of an inner current of knowing that runs through every my being. Here I truly learned that faith is not blind at all—it’s deeply sensory. We see things with the eyes and believe them to be real, same for things we hear, feel and smell. Faith is no different except it is sensed or lets say felt internally and it feels like balance, calm, and quiet assurance.

See one doesn't lack faith. They lack the evidence needed to convince them to believe. Something that ushers one to the moment when one stops questioning if the manifestation of ones reality are indeed in sync with their state of being. Mind over matter. The mind stops searching; the heart stops arguing. And that harmony becomes the creative force itself.

So in the very end, faith is not about believing in something out there. No trust needed without proof (seek some...) It’s about believing from within yourself, creating your own certainty. It’s the steady pulse of awareness that says, “I know.” and when you know, reality listens.

Journal Prompt

What does the feeling of “knowing” feel like in your body? How can you bring that same feeling to a desire you haven’t yet seen materialize?