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Often we are searching far and wide for things to change our internal emotional state. We are looking for one big switch to flip and feel better. This switch is closer than we realize.
There are many small actions we can take on a daily basis to shift our state and raise our vibrational frequency.
Two such practices, when done consistently, rewire your brain to be more aware of what you have and how good you have it.
Gratitude is an immensely powerful medicine. The more you practice it the less separation you experience and therefore the more whole you feel. Of course we are conditioned and programmed to look for what’s missing.
But if we consistently train our mind to be grateful and see the positive in our life situations, our brain will implement the new program and we will see our world through a different filter.
Being grateful most of the time requires us to be more aware of the story we tell ourselves, of our perceptions and the meanings we assign to things.
Practicing gratitude and training your awareness muscle on a daily basis rewires your brain and installs a new program.
Here is an example of how you could do that:
Every morning, ask yourself the question: What am I grateful for in my life right now? Answer with feeling. Some example answers might be: I’m grateful to be able to study, I’m grateful for clean water and food every day, I’m grateful to be alive, etc.
We take many of these things for granted, but remember that there are billions of people who don’t have these privileges.
Practicing awareness can be done by focusing on the present moment, on the NOW. Go for a walk in nature. Sit and observe the trees, listen to the birds and feel the support of the earth beneath you. While eating, taste and enjoy your food thoroughly.
These are simple things but require you to be present. Naturally your mind will wander. It will nag you not to waste time with these practices because you have too much to do. This is a normal behavior of the mind; it's not used to you taking time for yourself, it expects you to spend your energy on others.
Be kind to your mind and help it grow.
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Many people I work with tell me that their brain is always focusing on problems that don’t exist and forever creating worst-case scenarios.
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They feel like they’re often generating thoughts that anticipate undesired possibilities; creating negative feelings and emotions in order to prevent bad things from actually happening.⠀⠀⠀
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Can you relate? Even with no imminent danger in sight, does your brain have the bad habit of planning for bad scenarios?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Well, if you are experiencing this too, there is NOTHING wrong with you. The human brain is simply NOT designed to make us happy: it is designed to make us survive.⠀⠀⠀
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Your brain will always naturally look for what can go wrong, what you don’t have, etc. It does this to anticipate outcomes and implement control mechanisms -- all in an effort to protect you.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
So actually, it’s doing a great job and we can be grateful for its tireless work.⠀⠀
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But at the same time, it’s pretty annoying to have such a negatively-focused friend in your head!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The issue here is that if we let it run its worst-case scenario movies all the time, the habit only becomes stronger and more automated.⠀⠀
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How can we shift this?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We have to build new neural pathways for what CAN go well, what we DO have and what we ARE grateful for.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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A simple practice is to write a positives list every morning for 10 minutes and visualize these desirable scenarios for another 10.⠀
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You need to help your brain see the positive and this can only be done with your conscious mind.⠀⠀
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Remember that your brain is like a muscle and it only gets better at things when you train it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
And don’t forget: your brain doesn’t know the difference between a real experience and an imaginary one.
Even though most of our parents had the best intentions, our brain probably didn’t perceive it that way. Whenever something hurtful happened that from an adult perspective really wasn’t so bad, the brain began to create coping mechanisms.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I see it today with my daughter and even though I know that I must never dismiss her feelings, sometimes I catch myself doing it anyway. For example: My daughter is playing an online horse game but she wasn’t admitted to enter a certain contest. She said, Why don’t I get to enter the contest? Life isn’t fair!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Me: Oh come on, it isn’t the end of the world. It's only a game.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Immediately afterward though my alarm went off, telling me that my response didn’t acknowledge her feelings. Even if it isn’t the actual end of the world, in that moment it felt like it to her.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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These types of situations happen to us often and that’s when the brain begins to create coping mechanisms leading us to dismiss our own feelings and lose trust in our internal guidance system.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The ego takes over.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Ongoing confirmation of such experiences leads to disconnection from our internal guidance system, low self-confidence, and insecurity. Do you feel insecure about your own decisions, direction, and goals? Do you often seek approval for your behavior and feelings?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If yes, this practice can help you restore your trust self-trust. Prove to yourself that you do what you say you will and that your feelings have the right to be felt.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The practices in the graphics probably seem banal at first sight but have a huge impact on the development of new neurological patterns.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
What do you do to regain your self-trust?
Who here has these kinds of thoughts or self-talk? Have you observed yourself for a while?
Speaking for myself, I have had many of these thoughts and I have to admit that sometimes even though I have a daily practice for training my subconscious mind, these thoughts and narratives still appear.
Your internal self-talk and the story you constantly repeat has a direct impact on the programming of your subconscious mind.
Spend 15-30 min a day thinking strategic thoughts that create a new story about what you desire. Use all your senses to build the image in your mind until it becomes crystal clear. Remember that the mind works like a GPS: if you plug in thoughts and emotions related to what you don’t want, your mind will produce a reality that looks and feels like what you focused on.
The best time to create these rewiring thoughts and stories is in the morning upon waking up and in the evening before sleep.
Take your time, do it every day and moreover, enjoy it. See yourself having already achieved your desire and feel the emotion of gratitude, joy and happiness.
I know, it is not easy at the beginning. Your mind will rebel because it does not see the sense in it and it is afraid. This is normal as you don’t have the neural connections yet to believe
and feel safe about the new story. You have to create these networks yourself!
Are you ready and willing to tell your mind what to do?
I’ll be honest. When I started my healing process I was looking for a golden ticket out of the prison of my mind. But I’ve come to realize that there are no free passes; no shortcuts or magic wands. The most influential practice we can do is to become aware of what our system is doing.
Simply by observing what’s going on, we change the way our brain processes information so that we can intervene and make new choices.
The observation points on the graphic are not absolute; there are many more options, but they are all similar to asking ourselves what we have eaten today or what activity we did to move our body, etc.
It doesn’t matter which ones you do. What's important is that you do them consistently.
Practicing this is as simple as writing down your intention for the day in the morning. For example: Today, I’m going to witness my thoughts and feelings and what I do based on them.”
You can carry a small notebook with you and whenever you catch your thoughts, note your observations.
What thought makes me behave like this? What does it remind me of? What was going through my head when I reacted?
Then, in the evening, review your notes and mentally rehearse the NEW behaviors you want to exhibit in these types of situations. Vividly see yourself doing these new habits and feel the good feelings.
Observe, write, read and rehearse. Together these actions will form a new and powerful pattern.
Remember, you have to change your internal patterns to be ABLE TO see the world differently, you don’t have to try and change the world!
Choose to focus on very few factors at a time and be consistent
Do you observe your thoughts? How so?
Simply by observing what’s going on, we change the way our brain processes information so that we can intervene and make new choices.
The observation points on the graphic are not absolute; there are many more options, but they are all similar to asking ourselves what we have eaten today or what activity we did to move our body, etc.
It doesn’t matter which ones you do. What's important is that you do them consistently.
Practicing this is as simple as writing down your intention for the day in the morning. For example: Today, I’m going to witness my thoughts and feelings and what I do based on them.”
You can carry a small notebook with you and whenever you catch your thoughts, note your observations.
What thought makes me behave like this? What does it remind me of? What was going through my head when I reacted?
Then, in the evening, review your notes and mentally rehearse the NEW behaviors you want to exhibit in these types of situations. Vividly see yourself doing these new habits and feel the good feelings.
Observe, write, read and rehearse. Together these actions will form a new and powerful pattern.
Remember, you have to change your internal patterns to be ABLE TO see the world differently, you don’t have to try and change the world!
Choose to focus on very few factors at a time and be consistent
Do you observe your thoughts? How so?
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This is an effective way to foster. your memory after learning.
Do you ever find that you forget something immediately after you’ve read it?
Or maybe you did remember it after studying, but when you needed to recall the memory in an exam situation you couldn’t?
You aren’t alone. There are many different techniques to improve your focus on learning and how to increase your memory about what you have learned.
But the number one obstacle is STRESS. If you experience stress while learning then your brain will lessen your ability to memorize information because it needs the resources to fight the stress response. The same applies when it’s time to recall the information. So it’s key that you learn to manage your stress level.
Additionally, I want to share this strategy for better memorization:
1. Study new things for a maximum of 30 minutes at a time.
2. Take a 5-minute break and then write down what you previously learned. You can also visualize the content. The goal of this is to build an additional connection that reinforces the same information. Look for information you already have and use it to make new associations.
3. A few hours later repeat point 2 and be kind to yourself if you don’t remember it all at first.
4. Before you want to absorb more new information, review your previous learnings and repeat the steps using the same techniques. And don’t forget to write and/or visualize what you are learning.
The brain learns through repetition and it is much more effective if you combine different downloading strategies like reading, writing and visualizing to memorize the same set of information.
It's like building a house, you need different materials to make it sturdy.
What is your most effective learning strategy?
This is an effective way to foster. your memory after learning.
Do you ever find that you forget something immediately after you’ve read it?
Or maybe you did remember it after studying, but when you needed to recall the memory in an exam situation you couldn’t?
You aren’t alone. There are many different techniques to improve your focus on learning and how to increase your memory about what you have learned.
But the number one obstacle is STRESS. If you experience stress while learning then your brain will lessen your ability to memorize information because it needs the resources to fight the stress response. The same applies when it’s time to recall the information. So it’s key that you learn to manage your stress level.
Additionally, I want to share this strategy for better memorization:
1. Study new things for a maximum of 30 minutes at a time.
2. Take a 5-minute break and then write down what you previously learned. You can also visualize the content. The goal of this is to build an additional connection that reinforces the same information. Look for information you already have and use it to make new associations.
3. A few hours later repeat point 2 and be kind to yourself if you don’t remember it all at first.
4. Before you want to absorb more new information, review your previous learnings and repeat the steps using the same techniques. And don’t forget to write and/or visualize what you are learning.
The brain learns through repetition and it is much more effective if you combine different downloading strategies like reading, writing and visualizing to memorize the same set of information.
It's like building a house, you need different materials to make it sturdy.
What is your most effective learning strategy?
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