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We have been born with a magnificent gift. It was something that was given to us free, and because it was free, we usually take it for granted (something we tend to do with things that are ‘free’ but priceless- families, health, mind, body, soul).
Our brains can help us to accomplish anything we desire. It’s capacity is unmeasurable and incomprehensible. Few of us really know how it works, but even if we’re not aware of how, it’s important to know that we can program our brains to produce the results that we really want in our lives.
Up to now, your brain has been operating on autopilot. It was conditioned- by circumstances, parents, teachers, experiences, etc.- to react in certain ways according to the stimuli. One example, is avoiding a hot stove because we know it will burn us.
But our brains also tell us how to act when our child is disrespectful, when someone cuts us off in traffic, or when someone shows us kindness. Each of this situations may cause us to feel good or feel bad, according to how our brain says we should feel. And our brain says we should feel a certain way because it has been unconsciously trained to react that way.
Now it’s time to consciously train our minds, to react in the ways that empower us and improve our lives, relationships, health and wealth. Our brains eagerly await our commands, and will carry out anything that we ask of it.
The Best Computer
As far as intricacy and power, the brain is more powerful than any modern computer that man has created. The brain can process up to 30 billion bits of information per second, and has equal to 6,000 miles of wiring capability.
There are also 28 billion neurons (the nerve cells that conduct impulses to our sense organs). Each neuron is like a self-contained computer that can process one million bits of information per second. Neurons act independently, but also can communicate with other neurons through 100,000 miles of nerve fibers.
Even the fastest computer can only make connections one at a time, but one bit of information in a neuron can spread to hundreds of thousands of others in less than 20 milliseconds!
A neuron actually takes longer to send a signal than a computer, but it can achieve the feat faster because, compared to a computer that does it step by step, the billions of neurons can all work together simultaneously.
So, if our brains are so powerful, why do we have so many problems in our lives? Why can’t we feel happy consistently? Why can’t we change our behavior, or overcome depression and frustration?
The answer is, WE CAN! We have the power already to do this. We have the most powerful computer available to our disposal- but no one gave us an owners manual. We attempt to think our way to change, when in reality our responses are rooted in our nervous systems. It’s called neuro-associations.
Our brain links either pain or pleasure to everything that occurs to us. Whatever causes pain, the brain wants to avoid. Whatever causes pleasure, we’re continually drawn to.
Unfortunately, without conscious ‘training’, the brain will link up pleasure to thinks that are not good for us- like overeating, over-spending, smoking- and link pain to any action that we might take to change those harmful habits. After all, we don’t like change, it’s painful. We enjoy eating our cookies and going on shopping sprees, why stop?
Anthony Robbins in Awaken the Giant Within, tells us the solution to creating lasting change is to:
1. Decide What You Really Want- do you really want those cookies, even if it means being fat? Or is what you really want is to be healthy and fit?
2. Associate Massive Pain to Not Changing Now and Massive Pleasure to the Experience of Changing Now!- This requires some imagination and some serious reflection. Imagine where you will be in 10 years if you do not change. Is that a painful thought? Good. Increase it’s intensity. Then think about how you will feel if you do change now? Do you feel good about yourself? Is your personal integrity in place? Intensify that feeling.
3. Interrupt the Limiting Pattern- If we keep doing the same things, we’ll keep getting the same results. When you start ‘reacting’ in your usual way, do something crazy to interrupt it. Jump up and scream “Hallelujah!” Start singing or doing jumping jacks. Do anything to get your focus off repeating that pattern, the important thing is to do it right when the ‘temptation’ is happening.
4. Create a New, Empowering Alternative-Once you break the pattern, you’ go back to it if you don’t find something to replace it by getting the feelings that your desiring- the ones you used to receive from your negative habit. Maybe it’s reading a book, going for a walk, watching a movie. Whatever you enjoy doing, that is healthy and empowering, use it to replace your old disempowering habit.
5. Condition the New Pattern Until It’s Consistent- You created the old habits by unconscious conditioning. It’s time to replace them with healthy habits by conscious conditioning. You can do this by using your replacement activity or habit, giving yourself special rewards for breaking patterns, and through visualization. The brain can’t tell the difference between something that is imagined and what you actually experienced. So use it to ‘recreate’ your life.
To receive in detail information about these processes, order Anthony Robbins Awaken the Giant Within
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