Friday, June 29, 2007

Get the RAS on your side

The subconscious is your faithful servant. It is completely neutral and impartial. It will carry out any instructions you give it.

The problem is, we keep giving it conflicting instructions.

You see, many of us are still running negative programs we picked up as children when our non-conscious minds were totally open and impressionable. As we grew up we formed beliefs. Our RAS (part of the brain called the reticular activating system) seeks evidence that validates those beliefs. Our beliefs lead to habits of thinking, which, over the years result in reinforcement of the beliefs through repetition of our own negative thinking.

As it turns out, our own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the primary ways that our "mental computer" can be programmed on a sub-conscious level, which is the level of beliefs, habits and automatic behavior.

To change your results, you must overwrite old negative programming and install positive new programming into your subconscious.

This can be achieved through such techniques as written goal setting, positive self-talk (affirmations), and mental imagery (visualization).

You will meet resistance from the sub conscious however. One way to counter that is to use the EFT tapping technique.

If any change is to occur you must alter this programming so the RAS allows your world to change.

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