You always get what you focus on
Published on May 17, 2020
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"I’ll never meet the partner of my dreams."
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Are always unhappy, single, and lonely.
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"I’m terrible with money" ...
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And that people who say ...
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"I can’t control my appetite."
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Tend to be overweight?
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So, what’s going on here?
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There exists, in the base of your brain a complex cluster of neurons called ...
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Your RAS performs a number of functions.
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One of the most important is to act as a filter.
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Our brains are being bombarded by literally thousands of bits of data every second of every day.
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This data comes in the form of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures ... etc.
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Our brains cannot process all of this data at any one time, not consciously at any rate.
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And so it filters out what it thinks is unimportant.
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Only bringing to our attention what it thinks we need to know – everything else is filtered out.
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Clever, eh?
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But how does the brain know what is important to us and what is not?
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Our RAS brings to our attention what we choose to focus on.
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So, let’s say we focus on not feeling ‘good enough.’
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If we do than our RAS will bring to our attention all the times we are snubbed, criticised, judged harshly and rejected.
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If we focus on being a failure then every mistake we make is high-lighted and emphasised.
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If we focus on being a loser then every success and victory we experience will be ignored.
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We will only notice our mistakes and failings.
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We need to be careful therefore about what we choose to focus on.
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Because our RAS always finds the information it needs to confirm what we think and believe is true for us.
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And what we think is true for us informs what we believe.
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It becomes a vicious circle.
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If the thoughts and beliefs we have are empowering and beneficial ...
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then the process becomes a virtuous circle that serves us well.
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Our beliefs can work for us or they can work against us.
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Any beliefs we recognise as being unhelpful, unhealthy and unbeneficial can be challenged and changed.
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We can do this by choosing to focus on information that is working for us not against us.
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We can choose to focus on our strengths not our weaknesses, we can choose to focus on what is going well for us not what is not going well.
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We can learn to get better.
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Having established a more helpful, beneficial outlook …
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your RAS will then start to search out the information it needs to prove that what you think is true.
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And that information, you need to understand is out there.
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You need to train your brain to work for you not against you.
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Remember: you always get what you focus on!
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Thanks for listening!
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