Nothing determines your life more than your thoughts! Your thoughts about yourself and about the world are like the filter that covers everything that happens to you and all the people you meet.
Every second, countless impressions are raining down on us. Our brain has learned to filter them in such a way that we can process them and extract comprehensible information from them. This monster task is performed by the so-called reticular activating system, or RAS for short.
However, it is not objective. It is influenced by our very own convictions and beliefs. And that has consequences.
No matter if there are 50,000 or 80,000 (the numbers vary) signals per second that we receive from our environment: If we were to perceive them consciously, our heads would probably burst.
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) of our brain is actually supposed to ensure that only relevant information reaches the receiver. If, for example, you were not only to hear the ringing of your own telephone at work, but were to pay the same attention to the opening and closing of doors, the clearing of your colleague's throat and the rain on the window pane, you would have a problem.
The RAS thus helps you focus entirely on one thing, like an athlete who has his goal clearly in mind. But if your self-image is negative, it also helps you to focus entirely on that. So your RAS serves you for negatives as well as positives. So your brain is wired to seek evidence or confirmation for your thoughts.
Someone who thinks of himself as small and insignificant leaves out the counter-evidence, so to speak. So if you think you are a failure, you are afraid of new things. You will then most likely not apply for the new job. If you do and don't get it, you feel rejected and confirmed in your "truth", even if there were other reasons for it, you won't recognize them for yourself.
Therefore, you can actually say: you are what you think and you are always right.
What you think you are,
What you are you radiate
What you radiate, you attract.
The RAS also constantly sends you information about the thing you are prioritizing. Let's say you have decided to buy a certain car. Suddenly cars of that model keep coming to your attention, not because they weren't there before, but because you have now put your focus on them.
So it is indeed true that we often see only what we want to see, or perhaps more appropriately, what corresponds to our focus. This works with cars but also with flaws and good points about ourselves and others. With self-criticism and self-love, with condemning and uplifting words.
We always find what we are looking for!
It's time to update your mental software (thoughts) and install a virus protection program (new beliefs), you can achieve this with RTT!
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