Think Your Way to Success: How to Develop a Winning Mindset and Achieve Amazing Results by Mark Rhodes

Author:Mark Rhodes [Mark Rhodes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2012-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

Part Two

BEING THE BEST YOU THAT YOU CAN BE

7

HOW YOUR BRAIN MANAGES EXPERIENCES

As mentioned in Part One, the brain has a conscious part that controls your logical reasoning, your current thinking and your awareness – your five to nine things going on at once. This is also the part where you start thinking it would be really great to do something.

The other part, the subconscious, is absolutely amazing, you don’t have to think about breathing, you don’t have to think about pumping the blood round your body or your heart beating, this is all taken care of every second of every day.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of other things the subconscious does automatically without you having to really think about it – like playing back your fears and phobias automatically. It tells you that you can’t do something for example in a particular situation, giving you that fear or negative emotion.

I always think of the subconscious as a Sky+ machine, which allows you to pause, record and rewind the TV.

So, why do I think of the Sky+ machine being like the subconscious? At an early age, if something happens that has a degree of emotion attached to it, the brain stores what happened away like a little movie and can play it back for you whenever it feels you are in a similar situation. It gives you the same emotion now that you felt when the original experience happened.

In fact, everything you do has an emotion attached to it. So, for instance, if somebody, a family member or anyone, put a spider on you to scare you when you were young, you’re likely to get a bad emotion attached every time you see a spider later in life.

Your brain wants to help by putting as much as possible on autopilot. It spots a problem and puts it on autopilot for you, so you won’t ever have to decide about being scared of that particular thing again. This is good for some things, but it isn’t good for others. So, every time that person sees a spider, they get the emotion and panic related to the original event, which is stored in the Sky+ memory of the brain.

To the onlooker, it seems like the panic is instant when the person sees the spider. There is, however, a very small window – milliseconds – between when they see that spider and then panic. In that small window of time, they run a little program, what we call their strategy, the way they react and then behave in a given circumstance. This is their strategy for dealing with spiders, so they may run a little movie in their head, which they may or may not be consciously aware of. They might see a spider run towards them and run up their leg, or hear someone scream or panic and then that gives them their strategy, that’s how they deal with “spiders”, so it just replays itself.

When you start to look at things, this autopilot can be very useful.

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