Module 4 understanding your mind

Hint - it can help and it can hinder!

Understanding your brain and its role in success

Our typical willpower approach

Conscious brain is just 10%

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Understanding our brains

Conscious Mind

•Willpower•Analytical•Rational

Sub Conscious Mind

•Strategies•Habits

•Impulses/Emotions•Physiological control

Defence Mechanisms

•Hungry•Angry•Lonely•Tired

When you have conflict between any two you will feel stress. If all three are in conflict you will be

HIGHLY STRESSED

NLP model of our brains

It is your personality

It helps you survive

It’s strongest argument against change is you are still alive!

Gatekeeper to your belief systems

Ensures events prove that your beliefs are correct

“I know that”

Hello Ego

Hello Reticular Activating Systems (RAS)

A very important brain function

In essence it is a filter

It helps you find references

It is a key channel to the subconscious

RAS helps define consciousness You are aware of things in the room right now

Your brain has processed information

It has probably processed around 130 bits

How many bits of information do you think are in the room?

Millions!!

Awareness / consciousness You can see that “reality” is very personal process

Your perception is driven by what bits of information you are allowing to be processed

The rest of the information exists - you have just discounted it

RAS is the gatekeeper to your Subconscious - it lets in what you tell it is important

Your beliefs are stored in your subconscious

Are your thoughts + or -?

Up to 60,000 thoughts per day – what percentage is negative?

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A look at emotions

Emotions

They do not define you

You attach them to thoughts

You attach them to events

Sample negative emotions Aggressive

Agitated

Alarmed

Angry

Anguish

Angst

Annoyed

Apprehensive

Dr Masaru Emoto

Emotional baggage

In your workbook list any emotional baggage you are still carrying

List negative emotions that keep recurring

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A closer look at beliefs

Money does not grow on

trees

An idea gets plantedSubconscious looks for

references

References create roots

and the belief is fully formed

How beliefs are created

Roger Bannister The 4 minute mile

Believed to be impossible

Doctors said that the human heart would explode if running at that speed

In 1954 Roger Bannister ran the mile in 3 mins 54.4 secs

By end of 1957 16 other runners had broken the 4 minute “barrier”

The old belief was simply not true

What about the flat earth belief?

The ancient Greeks figured it out

However there is still a flat Earth Society alive and well today!

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Don’t keep beating the same drumOne simple approach to change a belief.......

Exercise - Part 1 List any beliefs that you think are holding you back

Where did that belief come from?

What has this belief cost me over the years?

What has it prevented me from doing/ having/ being?

Exercise Part 2 -

What does it mean to YOU?

What would it look like?

How would you “feel”?

What resources will you need?

What do you need to BELIEVE

Success

We need to examine our beliefs - what do we need to support our success?

Tools for changing beliefs

The good news is that beliefs can be changed!

EFT (emotional freedom technique) Mixes psychology with

acupressure

Primarily uses “tapping” to stimulate acupuncture points

Balances the energy system

Appears to relieve psychological and even physiological pain

NLP (neuro linguistic programming) A set of tools that marry

psychotherapy with behavioural change

There is a relationship between thought patterns and behavioural patters

Benefits:

Self -motivation

Behavioural change

State change

Dialoguing

Acknowledge the existence of the negative belief or feeling

Thank it you need to acknowledge its presence

Tell the feeling or belief that it is no longer required. It was then this is NOW - letting it remain takes you AWAY from what you desire

Think of the feeling or belief you DO WANT that leads to what you desire

Sedona Method

In a nutshell

Allow the negative emotion to appear

Examine it

“Could I let this feeling go?

“Would I let this feeling go?”

If so when?

Exercise

Just grip it tightly ........

The Power of Questions

They can be life enhancing They can be life detracting

The Power of Questions

Why me?

Why does it always go wrong?

When will my luck change?

Why does my life suck?

• Is this situation as bad as I am making out to be?

• What is the worst thing that could happen? How likely is it?

• What is the best thing that could happen?

• What is most likely to happen?

• What can I learn about this situation?

• Will this matter in five years time?

Tony Robbins - morning power questions

What am I happy about in my life right now?

What am I excited about in my life right now?

What am I grateful for right now?

What am I enjoying in my life right now?

Who do I love and who loves me?

Evening power questions What have I given

today?

What did I learn today?

How has today contributed to my future?

What did I feel grateful for today?

Transformance power thoughts “What if ......?”

“What else is possible?”

“How does it get any better than this?”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if...?”

“There is plenty more where that came from”

PHYSIOLOGY AND SUCCESSUSING YOUR BODY AND MIND IN A CYBERNETIC LOOP

Mind and body are connected

Breathing

How you speak

How you hold your body

Muscle tension

Head up

How you move

Act as if.....

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not” - William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Exercise

List the virtues you think you need to achieve your desires