Sunday, December 1, 2019
30 Second's trick to rewire your brain
30 seconds “trick” to rewire your brain for success, and a practical example
Your
brain is built to reinforce and regulate your life.
So let’s delve a little deeper
into this and then I’ll share with you a 30 seconds “trick” to rewire your
brain for success
This is an extract from our
book “Your Greatest Friend and Greatest Enemy”, get yours here
Your subconscious mind has something called a homeostatic
impulse, which regulates functions like body temperature, heartbeat and
breathing.
Brian Tracy explained it like this: "Through your
autonomic nervous system, (your homeostatic impulse) maintains a balance among
the hundreds of chemicals in your billions of cells so that your entire
physical machine functions in complete harmony most of the time."
But what many people don't realize is that just as your
brain is built to regulate your physical self, as does it try to regulate
your mental self.
Your mind is constantly filtering and bringing to your
attention information and stimuli that affirms your pre-existing beliefs (this
is known in psychology as confirmation bias) as well as presenting you with
repeated thoughts and impulses that mimic and mirror that which you've
done in the past.
It is also the realm in which you can
either habituate yourself to expect, and routinely seek the actions that would
build and reinforce, the greatest success, happiness, wholeness or healing of
your life.
So let’s take a “real life”
example: How to Break Out of Negative Thinking in 30 Seconds
Your brain is wired to focus on the negative.
Here's how to build a new, more positive, mindset anytime, anywhere
You just got off the phone with one of your most
important clients. The game-changing deal you were trying to close is off. They're
not interested.
You've just pitched 10 potential investors. They all say
they're "interested" but it's been two weeks. You refresh your inbox
hourly, and yet still no word.
How
do you react in these situations?
If you're like most people, your mind floods with
negativity. "Maybe our product sucks," "Why can't I just get a
break?" or "Maybe there's something wrong with me."
Neuroscientists have a name for this automatic habit of
the brain: "negativity bias." It's an adaptive trait of human
psychology that served us well when we were hunting with spears on the savanna
120,000 years ago.
In modern times, however, this habit of the brain leaves
us reacting to a harsh email or difficult conversation as if our life were in
danger. It activates a cascade of stress hormones and leaves us fixated on
potential threats, unable to see the bigger picture.
Neuroscientist Rick Hanson has a great analogy for this
strange quality of the mind. "Your brain," he writes in his
book Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness,
Love, and Wisdom, "is like Velcro for negative
experiences and Teflon for positive ones."
When you lose a client, when
the investors don't come calling, or when you face the hundreds of other daily
disappointments of life, you're wired to forget all the good things and to instead
obsess over the negative.
In
steps SNSR
The ultra-efficient
transformation of Notice-Shift-Rewire
How
can we reverse this hard-wired habit of the mind?
Four words: Stop-Notice-Shift-Rewire. This simple
strategy puts into practice the core insight coming out of the neuroscience
revolution of the past 30 years--the insight that, in the words of early
neuroscientist Donald Hebb, "neurons that fire together, wire
together." It's the insight that reminds us the brain isn't fixed. Its
habits aren't like plaster.
They're more like plastic, strong enough to resist the
occasional push but pliable enough to change in response to repeated effort.
That's
the magic of Notice-Shift-Rewire.
By taking a moment each day to bring our attention to
this practice, we build the habit of shifting out of negativity bias to more
useful mind states: remembering our past wins, celebrating our strengths, and
seeing life as a series of opportunities rather than a relentless slog through
setbacks and heartbreak.
How do you integrate the practice
of Stop-Notice-Shift-Rewire into the midst of everyday life?
1. Stop, what you are doing, step back
The first thing that you have to do is “STOP”. Stop what you are doing,
step back and…..
2.
Notice your negativity bias.
The second step is to bring awareness to this ordinary
habit of the mind. Catch yourself when you slip into self-doubt, rumination,
anxiety, and fear. Notice when your mind starts spinning out worst-case
scenarios about how it's all going to come crashing apart.
3.
Shift to a moment of gratitude.
Noticing opens the space for carving new neural pathways.
Shifting allows you to flood this space with a more productive focus of
attention. A few seconds of gratitude is the most efficient way to do this.
Think of one thing you're grateful for right now. Your home. Your job. Your
health. Your family. Your talents and strengths. Your drive.
4.
Rewire your brain.
Here's where the real work of begins. Hanson calls this
the simple act of savoring. It's taking 15 seconds to stay with this new
mindset -- to encode it deep into the fabric of your mind.
This last step is where we transform our ordinary habit
of overlooking the positive.
It's where we shift the brain's response to all
the good in life from Teflon to Velcro. We're flipping our evolved wiring on
its head -- taking just a few seconds to build stronger memories around all the
good things happening in life.
The best thing about this practice is that it's time
efficient, portable, and powerful. It takes less than 30 seconds, you can do it
anytime and anywhere, and you will begin to experience an immediate shift in
your mindset.
The moment you make this shift, everything changes. You
remember your purpose, look forward to new challenges, and face life with
renewed optimism.
Try it once a day, every day for a week, and see what
happens.
Go on, just do it…… and see the magic happen
Love to hear your feedback on this one
Ockert
1 comments:
I use the HALT principle, as I explained to you, but it works exactly the same.
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