The reticular activating system (RAS) is located at the base of the brainstem and is responsible for alertness, consciousness, and serves as a filter for information entering and not entering your brain. You and other people in your life program the RAS, and it helps you to react and respond to situations based on your filters. For example, when you look at your Facebook page, and you see ads on the sides, pictures, and loads of different information coming at you at the same time. Most of what you see, you're going to ignore, except for certain items. Your RAS picks what you'll be responding to and how you'll respond to it. So, if you keep telling yourself your boss doesn't like you, then your RAS is going to look for experiences that support that idea and allow those ideas into your brain so it reinforces what you're thinking. This is why negative self-talk is so self-destructive and why being around negative people can be damaging to you. So your thoughts will form negative or positive confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the habit to search for, favor, recall, and interpret information in a way that confirms one's preexisting ideas or beliefs. It is a cognitive bias and allows you to taint the way you understand things with your thoughts, instead of being open-minded and looking at new things differently. This is why you need to reprogram your RAS to see success and what you need to see to achieve your goals. Once you start reprogramming, you'll begin to see the opportunity, evidence, coincidences, and things that support the vision of your goals. What you choose to focus on, will become your reality.
Once you write down your daily, weekly, and yearly goals, take thirty seconds once a day in the morning to visualize achieving your goals. Close your eyes and see yourself smiling, confident, feeling proud, happy, taking better care of yourself, leaving bad relationships, and achieving the goals on your list one by one. When you do these visualization exercises each morning, your mind will also show you other possibilities for reaching the goal. This will help you uncover other ideas for achieving the goals you hadn't thought about. Remember your brain doesn't know the difference between what is real and isn't real, so if you're thinking good things, your mind is going to be programmed for good things, and what you're going to be able to see in your life is the opportunity. The more you visualize and think about your goals, the more you'll be able to improve and actually do it. Because you start believing it, you become confident about doing it, and then you'll start doing it. The more you reprogram with positive information, the more you'll help clean out the garbage and negative self-talk in your brain as well.
The Olympics are the greatest human show on Earth and one of my favorite events to indulge in. The athletes represent the apex of human execution, discipline, tenacity, dedication, and motivation, all the traits that we aspire to master in our lives. Among the many heroes, Lindsey Vonn and Michael Phelps, two of the greatest Olympians of all time, used to stand before their races moving their bodies as if they were already racing, focused, and visualizing their victories. This ritualistic behavior is common amongst world-class athletes in many sports. The athletes set goals, visualize them, and execute. Follow the methods of world-class thinkers, athletes, musicians or whatever you aspire to be, and make it part of your daily training.
Visualization Techniques
Nighttime routine, play hypnosis music in your bedroom while you sleep. This will help retrain your subconscious mind with success-oriented thoughts. YouTube has hundreds of low frequency and restful hypnosis music recordings. Some of the recordings last eight hours, so they match your sleep time. The music programs you for health, happiness, wealth, success, and much more. I find that, when I listen to these, I go into a deeper sleep and feel much better the following day. I also play music from YouTube for increasing vibrational frequency during the day. I play this music in the background while I work. It's very soft like elevator music, but it has subliminal sounds mixed in to help stimulate mental clarity and focus.
Morning routine, train your mind with positive statements, also known as positive affirmations. Make a list of affirmations to use daily such as “I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me;” or, “I am smart, I am healthy, I am skinny, I am successful, I am motivated, I am attractive,” Make a list and repeat them in front of the mirror every morning. This can help you change and overcome self-sabotaging and negative thoughts. These affirmations can also help reprogram your RAS; when you repeat them often, they build up and inspire your subconscious mind which can help you overcome internal barriers and self-doubt. Overcoming these barriers kicks off the law of attraction which is the ability to attract into our lives whatever we are focusing on. This reprogramming will cause a manifestation into a physical reality, the things that you are focusing in on, which means, whatever you train yourself to believe in, you can bring into a reality.
Sometimes success may be unlikely, but you can still succeed because you believed you could. You made it happen, when the possibility may not have existed. So your focused attention created the outcome you wanted.
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