Today we're going to talk about the brain science of setting intentions.
People sometimes think
setting intentions is something esoteric or mystical.
It's not.
It is scientific.
Put in
the comments if you've ever experienced this.
You decide to buy a certain car.
You set the
intention I'm going to buy a red Ferrari for example.
And suddenly you see that car everywhere.
You see that model everywhere.
And before you didn't.
Or you're in love with a certain person
and you hear that person's name everywhere.
You hear that name mentioned everywhere.
Or you're studying a language.
You're trying to learn a new word.
You learn that new word.
And suddenly you see that word everywhere.
You see it in articles.
You hear people say it.
And
you didn't even.
You feel like you've never even heard this word before.
So comment what your
experience was.
Your brain has a filter called the reticular activating system or the RAS.
And your RAS has a very important job.
It has to decide in real time what information is allowed
to enter from your unconscious mind to your conscious mind.
So your unconscious mind basically
is aware of everything.
Your conscious mind is aware of a very limited number of things.
So this is why your logical mind actually has fewer tools to work with than your unconscious.
Your unconscious expresses itself in the body.
So your unconscious picks up on everything.
And
then when you're like very tense around a person who with your mind you're like this person is
perfectly nice.
They seem perfectly lovely.
Why do I feel nauseous or tense or uncomfortable
around them?
That's your unconscious taking a lot more information.
So let's look at how does the
RAS decide what criteria does it use to let things in and block things out.
There are only four
things that automatically get past the RAS to enter your conscious brain.
The first the sound
of your name being called.
You're going to react to that.
The second is anything that threatens your
safety.
This is why abusive relationships are so dangerous.
You're always going to be thinking about
that person.
It's your conscious mind is always going to be flooded with what is this person
going to do next if you're with someone emotionally abusive or physically abusive.
And a disproportionate
amount of your attention goes to that person and your attention isn't on yourself your wishes what
you really want.
You disconnect from yourself.
The third signals that someone is sexually interested
in you or sexually attracted in you.
That always gets past your subconscious mind into your
conscious mind via your RAS.
And then the fourth thing.
So safety sexual advances your name.
And then the fourth is your intentions.
Whatever you tell your brain is important to you.
The RAS will let in all the information connected to that.
So as soon as you tell your brain this
is what I want.
This is where I'm going.
Your subconscious mind will start putting those pieces
together.
This is because your RAS was just blocking them because they weren't important to
you.
As soon as it's important to you,
You let it in.
So if you tell your brain very specifically
this is my intention for this year.
This is my intention for the next five years of my life or
even this is my intention for my day.
Without you knowing it your subconscious will start moving you
in that direction.
It'll start putting pieces together as you're sleeping and it'll start
taking all the information that's around you and helping you understand how to achieve it.
This is
why when you set an intention the impossible sometimes becomes possible.
There's always at
least 10 or 20 ways to make something happen and your logical mind will come up with one or two.
But if you really prioritize it and your RAS starts working on it maybe you'll discover
five or six ways to do it if not all 20.
And a lot of times we tell our minds the wrong tasks.
A lot of times we tell our minds things like how do I make this person like me please mind make
this person like me or we're trying to control someone's emotions.
These things are just not
within our circle of control and it's a waste of your brain energy.
Instead tell your brain things
like mind brain I want to be happy healthy and joyful that is my intention please make it happen
and your brain will work on that.
We just often don't assign the brain the right tasks but
everything that has to do with you that's not other people everything that has to do with you
is within your realm of possibility and if you tell your brain to do it it will and it'll pick
up on all the little pieces of information here and there to achieve it.
So I wish you a year in
which all your wishes come true.
Make sure you give your brain the right tasks and I hope that
all the useful pieces of information that have to do with your happiness,
Your health,
Your thriving,
Your joy,
Your happy relationships,
Your creativity,
That all of that gets past your RES.
Set the right intentions and this is a science of intentions.
