Final BOLD LAW this week "What You Focus On Expands"

What you focus on expands....

Even if that focus is unconscious. And, as they say, there’s the rub!

Also – there’s the opportunity!

Here’s a quick mind hack to train your brain to focus more on the things you want. Two key points to keep in mind: 1. Thoughts lead to images lead to emotions. 2. All emotions are based in chemistry (neuropeptides) that are produced in your brain.

When you feel an emotion, it is the evidence that enough neurons connected in your brain, in the proper sequence, for enough time, to produce the chemical associated to that event – the emotion. Without the neural connections, no feeling will be had. Nothing happens without the involvement of your brain.

Feelings follow thoughts. Always. But, you say, what happened to “image” in that sequence? If you create an image in your mind that is intense enough, you’ll get the feeling associated to that image - whether it is from memory of something you want to create.

Think this through… to create the image you’d have to connect neurons – in a particular order – over a long enough time for the image to form, wouldn’t you ?And when you hold the image long enough, you feel the feeling. Simple: Thoughts – Images – Emotions.

How do you get the picture so it’s powerful? Easy.

Let’s pick motivated as an emotion you’d like:

Can you remember a time when you were motivated – a specific time?

Close your eyes and go back to that memory now…

Look through your own eyes as if you are there again…

See what you saw, hear what you heard, feel the feelings start to build

When you feel the feeling, you’ve connected the neurons and… guess what ?

You are training your unconscious mind to find more of this feeling (or related events that led to that feeling). Do this often enough and you begin to build a new, more dominant neural network which means… you are training  you RAS (reticular activating system) of your brain to seek out the data that supports this network.

“What you focus on expands” can also mean – you find more of what you’re focusing on. When your conscious mind and your RAS are focusing on the same thing…

I think you get the picture (pun intended)!

Contributed by KCN leader Don Aldrich & KW MAPS NLP Coach George Gillas