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What do Palm Sunday, Quantum Physics, and your brain have in common? Let's find out...

Your brain is the world’s most advanced Google filter. But instead of sorting cat videos or conspiracy theories about who shot JFK, it filters reality based on your beliefs and causes your world to change in front of your eyes...well...at least how you perceive the world around you.
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The best visual example of this is the movie The Matrix. Reality is not what it seems.

Quantum Physics is proving this to be the case.

What is quantum physics?

The branch of science that studies how the tiniest particles in the universe—like atoms and photons—behave in ways that often defy logic, such as being in two places at once or changing when observed.
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It shows that reality at its most fundamental level is not fixed but influenced by energy, probability, and observation.

Back in the early 1800s, a physicist named Thomas Young conducted a Double Slit Experiment where he shot tiny particles of light (photons) at a barrier with two slits, expecting the particles to go through one slit or the other and hit a screen behind it in two neat lines.

But something bizarre happened.

Instead of forming two lines, the particles created an interference pattern—a series of light and dark bands—like ripples in a pond.
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That meant the particles were acting like waves, interfering with themselves, as if they had gone through both slits at the same time.

Wait, what?

To solve the mystery, scientists set up a detector to observe which slit each particle actually went through.
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And the moment they started watching, the wave-like behavior vanished. The particles stopped acting like waves and started behaving like little marbles, going through just one slit and landing in two lines (they started acting like particles again). 🤯

Interpretation?​
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When no one watched, particles behaved like raw energy, full of potential and possibility.
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But when someone was observing, they “collapsed” into a specific location—as if conscious attention forced reality to make up its mind.

Wild, right? It's like the universe says, “I’ll only decide what’s real once you’re paying attention.”

How does this apply to your reality?

Your brain’s version of a particle detector is your belief system.
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If you believe people can't be trusted, your brain will zero in on behavior like thinking someone is cheating on you because they are late when they're just stuck in traffic.
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If you believe you’re “not enough,” your brain will highlight every mistake like a Netflix true crime documentary as evidence.

This is Selective Perception 101—your brain literally tunes out observations and opportunities that don’t match your core beliefs.

What does this have to do with Palm Sunday?

It’s the day Jesus rolled into town on a donkey while people waved palm branches, shouting, "Hosanna!" (basically the ancient version of trending on Instagram.)
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But just a few days later, some of those same people were yelling, “Crucify him!”

What changed?
Their beliefs.

Some believed He was their savior.
Others believed He was a threat.
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Their beliefs shaped their perception, which shaped their actions, which shaped history.

Your beliefs about Jesus are influencing your perception of the world right now. If you really believe in him, you'll find peace and joy.

If you don't, you probably won't.

So what’s the takeaway?

If observation changes reality, and your beliefs guide what you observe, then upgrading your beliefs upgrades your life.
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You’re not just seeing the world but shaping it one belief at a time.

This week, take inventory of your beliefs and notice what you adamantly repeat and defend. You get to keep what you argue for, so make sure it's what you actually want.

:) Tim Shurr

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