‘The most valuable skill or talent that you could ever develop is that of directing your thoughts toward what you want.’ - Abraham Hicks
Your brain has a Reticular Activating System (RAS) which is a network of neurons in your brainstem. It is a sophisticated filter system that allows certain information to your brain and filters out other information.
Guess who programmed that filter?
You did and so did the people from your past.
The RAS seeks data that validates your beliefs. It screens the world through the parameters you give it and your beliefs form those parameters.
‘You tend to find evidence of what you believe.’ - Gregg Braden
Everything in your life is a reflection of your inner state.
If you constantly feel unlovable or you think people don’t like you - your RAS is going to point out every single piece of evidence that confirms that negative belief all day long.
‘Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.’ - Napoleon Hill
Why do we have a RAS?
If your brain let in everything at equal value – 14,000,000 bits of information at any one time – your brain would go into melt down. The RAS protects your brain by filtering information and only lets in stuff it agrees with - your confirmation bias.
This is the scientific reason and mandate for why you have to take control and reprogram your RAS to create what you want - through visualisation, affirmations, meditation, gratitude, and forgiveness……
‘The power of focusing on what you want.’ - Marie Forleo
Without clear goals, our Reticular Activating System is similar to a confused professional assistant with no clear instructions from the Boss – you.
The mind believes what you tell it. So take charge of it.
‘The Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel.’ - Abraham Hicks
The RAS supports you when you set goals.
Your mind needs goals.
The RAS helps you see what you would like to see and in doing this, influences your actions.
Your Reticular Activating System enables the Law of Attraction.
‘Mastering others is a strength, mastering yourself is true power.’ - Lao Tzu
You are what you believe yourself to be.
This is very exciting because it means if you get your thinking correctly aligned you are practically limitless.
‘Whatever good things we build end up building us.’ - Jim Rohn
Use visualisation in order to start to reprogram the RAS in your brain so that your brain starts to notice opportunity – your brain starts to notice evidence that things are working out..........it starts to notice coincidences so you can build momentum……
‘We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can’t see what we can see.’ - Simon Sinek
Go to each one of your goals and do a visualisation exercise.
This is a 2 step process based on science. Close your eyes and have a specific picture of what your life looks like when your self worth has improved.
See yourself defining boundaries, consciously think of manifesting the life of your dreams and the positive emotions you will feel………feel being the operative word.
If your goal is to improve your self worth – see what you life looks like and how you will feel about yourself when your self worth has improved..........see yourself taking care of yourself…….
I would also include your affirmations of ‘I am’ or ‘I have’ during the visualisation exercise to give this process an extra positive charge.
Practice this visualisation process on a daily basis of 5/10 minutes a day.
Repetition is the key to reprogramming your RAS for a positive outcome.
This way you can train your RAS to have a totally different filter system.
Our brains don’t know the difference between the bad things that happen to us and an imagined experience that you are creating.
So visualise yourself going to the gym and saying no to unhealthy processed foods.......visualising how happy you are now that things are working out for you; the business you’re creating and evolving…….
The key is to realise that the opportunities RAS shows you are relative to your efforts. It won’t show you the big opportunity right away. You have to follow its trail. Follow the small ideas - self-education, learning through small-level opportunities - that need you to work on them. Then once you start working, the big opportunity will be revealed…….
‘When you are looking for solutions, your problems disappear.’ - Brene Brown
Visualisation helps you build skills.
Simply visualising yourself creating a skill actually develops the skill and helps you improve just as if you were actually doing it. It encodes the skill as a real memory which changes the filter system.
Repetition is the key because the more you visualise your positive future the greater confidence and security you will have and the more you are going to create a great life.
You are reprogramming your brain to visualise and feel how it feels to have conquered your goals for the year. When you believe that something is possible, you will see more opportunities in front of you.
‘A person is just about as happy as they make up their mind to be.’ - Abraham Lincoln
September is a great time for a re-start – if you relax and give yourself permission to improve 1% each day - then you can gradually increase your sense of aliveness and well-being thereby creating a wonderful life for yourself.
Have fun and a wonderful month ahead!
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‘If we did the things we are capable of we would astound ourselves.’ - Thomas Edison