The 5 Step Neuroscience Framework To Shift Your Reality

This is the ultimate neuroscience-backed reality-shifting framework. When you use this framework, it's not going to be an if it happens for you, it'll be a when. I have personally used this framework to completely change my life and build the life of my dreams, and I have had clients that use this framework see shifts in their reality in just one week. In this video, I'm going to break down the 5 neuroscience-backed steps to do this, and by the end, you are going to be operating from an entirely different frequency. So let's get straight into it. But first, if you're new here, hi, I'm Emily. I'm a neuroscientist by training. I've got 2 degrees in neuroscience as well as many years of research experience in the lab. I am now an author, speaker, and coach to people in over 55 countries all over the world, and I'm here to help you rewire your brain, level up, and live your best life. live your best life. So let's dive straight into step 1. Step 1 is really all about just setting the intention that now is the time. Now is the moment. This is the video that will be the spark for you, that will be the catalyst for you to completely changing your life, starting your new era, leveling up, and being the shift. Intention is so, so, so important. If you've never heard of priming, it is a topic in psychology and we study it in neuroscience as well. There is actually a really cool study to paint the picture of how important priming is, and it happened on a college campus. What they did was they had a random person go up to students on a college campus and say, hey, can you hold my drink? And it was either a hot drink or a cold drink, an iced beverage, hot or iced. And the person would be like, okay, yeah, sure. And they would like tie their shoe or whatever and be like, okay, yeah, thanks. And they'd leave. And then another person that was a part of the study would go up to that same student and be like, hey, I am running some sort of study. Can you read this story and rank the character in the story as either having a warm personality or a cold personality? Like, did they come across as like a warm person to you or a cold person to you? And what they found was that when these students held an iced drink before reading the story, they were more likely to rank the person in the story as being cold. When the students held a warm or a hot drink before reading the story, they were more likely to rank the person in the story as being cold. to rank this person in the story, the character, as being warm. They had a warm personality. They were nice. They were kind. And so this is the power of priming. Okay? We are being primed all of the time. And if you're not doing it on purpose, something random in your environment, something random in your programming is doing it for you. So prime your brain right now. Set the intention, write it down. Like I would honestly even just be taking notes or write it in the comments, drop it in the comments. Write down, This is the moment. This is the shift. This is the beginning of my new era. When you do this, you will have primed your brain, and now your brain will begin to filter your reality for reasons behind why, yes, oh wait, this is my new era. Now watch, you're gonna walk down the street later, you're gonna be in your living your day-to-day life, something's gonna be happening. Whoa, that must be a sign that this is a new era for me. Watch. That is the power of priming. So set the intention. Step 2 is all about rebranding yourself and choosing your character. Who do you want to be in this next era? Who is the version of you who is living this new era in your reality? What do they believe? How do they dress? How do they walk? How do they talk? Who do they show up as? Like, how is, what is their energy like? What, how do they feel? How do they talk to themselves? What are their thoughts like in their own head? Understanding who you want to be and consciously choosing who you wanna be is so important. In identity-based motivation theory, they have shown that your identity essentially is your destiny in this life. Your identity determines the model that your brain uses to predict your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Okay? So your identity determines the direction in which you are heading in this life and what your brain will even allow into your awareness, what your brain will motivate you to do, which thoughts your brain will activate inside of your head. Your identity is so powerful. It also determines the filter that your brain uses to decide what comes into your conscious awareness and what is filtered out. In case you didn't know, over 99% of the information that arrives to your brain is filtered out. Before the image is constructed that you see, over 99%. They've actually shown that around 11 million bits per second of information arrive to your brain every second, but we are only thought to consciously perceive around 40 to 60 bits per second. So this is 10.99999 million bits of information per second being filtered out. Think about it this way. I am somebody who loves the brain. I love talking about neuroscience. And so wherever I go, my brain is filtering my reality through the lens of who I am. If I was at a fair and there were 2 booths and one was a brain booth, people talking about the brain, and another one was some random sport that I don't care about at all, which one is my brain going to motivate me to move toward? The brain one, because that's the one that aligns with my interest in who I am. So take a moment, consciously decide Who are you in this next era? Like, you get to decide who you want to be. Your past does not determine who you are. You get to determine who you are. You get to choose that. And I love this practice, this activity of sitting down and be like, who do I want to be? Like, who is this version of me? And there's a fun hack that I like to use where I will visualize myself living my best life, visualizing myself, the version of me who has everything I could ever want? And then that is who I focus on trying to become. And it's not about, again, the material things. It's not about the physical goals. It's not about the things that you have. It's about who you are in that reality, because who you are determines what you attract. It determines, again, your behavior, your thoughts, your energy, And so much more. And so getting clear on who it is that you wanna become, getting clear and choosing your character, who do you wanna be in this next era? That is a game changer when you get clear on it. And then when you also decide to take action as them, when you embody them, and that is what the next few steps in this framework are all about. Step 3 is deleting The old version of you. It is clearing out the old so that you can make room for the new. So something that most people don't realize is that our environment is full of things called identity anchors— objects, clothes, people, digital environments like certain people's content. And what these identity anchors do is they act as cues to your brain to Activate a certain identity within you. So they've actually shown in studies that different environments, different people, different places, different behaviors, they actually activate different versions of who you are. When you are at a party, you are going to act in ways that you probably wouldn't act when you are, let's say, going to church or in the classroom at school, right? Your brain activates different versions of you depending on the context, depending on what surrounds you. This is really, really important to understand when you are thinking about shifting your reality, shifting timelines, quantum leaping into the life that you want to live. If you are still surrounded by cues that remind your brain of who you used to be, it is going to be so much more difficult to step into this new version of you because you have all of these identity anchors that are literally pulling you back to the old reality. I like to think of this step as doing a form of spring cleaning. Something that I always say is you have to clean out the closet before you can make room for new clothes. I think about this in terms of beliefs when we are investigating our limiting beliefs, when we are looking at habits as well. So you just got clear on who it is that you want to become. Ask yourself, are there bad habits that you have right now that that version of you that has it all doesn't have? Are there certain people that you keep in your life right now that the highest version of you does not keep around or would establish better boundaries? Are there certain environments or places that you go to now that the best version of you, they don't hang out at places like that? And maybe it could literally even be as simple as clothing. Are there certain clothes? Are there certain outfits that they just remind you of who you used to be? And maybe it's time to ask a friend if they want them or donate them, but it's really, really important to get clear on what in your environment is anchoring you to your past. Odds are, if you get super honest with yourself right now, there are probably things that you do, behaviors that you have, habits that you have, thought patterns, beliefs, maybe even it's energy that you feel that you reinforce now that that version of you, the character that you chose, they don't think that way. And so getting clear On what that is, getting honest with yourself, and then doing the work or making the choice that you're just not going to think those thoughts anymore. And when those thoughts pop up, you say to yourself, oh no, this new version of me, this version of me in my new era, they don't think that. That's not who I am anymore. And so when these things start to pop up, when behaviors or old bad habits creep in, you can literally respond to them by saying, that's not who we are anymore. That's the old era. That's the old self. That's not me today. You will be so surprised by how how fast your life can shift, your reality can shift when you cut the thing out that is anchoring you to your old self. It could be a person, but it could also be as simple as saying no to something that doesn't align with where you are going. Now, step 4 just makes sense. After you've cleaned out the closet, you can make room for new clothes. So step 4 is to bring in the new. Maybe there's a habit That your new character has that you don't have, or maybe there's a certain way that they dress, or there is a certain way that they feel, or there's a belief that this new character has that you don't quite have yet. Now is the time to wire it in. The science here is really just to focus on implementing new cues to anchor you to the new identity, the new character that you wanna be. Remember, Identity anchors exist in your environment everywhere. They exist in your reality everywhere. So if you can decide, all right, what are my new identity cues? What are the things that I'm going to implement that I'm going to bring in that show my brain, hey, yeah, we are a new version of ourselves. Like, I am a new character. This is a new game. We have shifted to a new timeline. It can be something as simple as this version of me, she goes to this specific coffee shop, or taking even a new route to work, like driving a new way. Like quite literally things as simple as that could spark your brain to wake up. This is where establishing a new routine that can really help you to wire in the new identity that you're trying to become will be so important. It may be a morning routine. Maybe this new version of you, they wake up and they journal and they do the 3 Ms. I have a morning routine video if you wanna go watch that. Definitely go check that one out. But maybe they do the 3 Ms: movement, mindfulness, and mindset. Maybe they do a new type of workout or a new type of movement every single day. Maybe they listen to different music. Okay? Music is also an identity anchor. Music and sound is actually closely tied to the limbic system in the brain and can activate emotion on a very deep level. And so the music that you listen to can be really profound for shifting that. Maybe there's old music that you want to cut out. You're like, oh, this doesn't really align with where I'm wanting to go. I remember when I was first kind of on starting this journey and wanting to shift my reality, reprogram my brain, regulate my nervous system, I got really specific about the music that I listened to because I recognized that it plays such an important role in the way that we feel in our energy, but also in neuroplasticity. Like the lyrics that we are singing along to, Those are affirmations that we are affirming. And so I used to be like really, really, really strict about it. Now, if I am listening to music and there's a song and there's a certain line that I don't resonate with, I will literally say, I don't claim that. But even still, I am very particular about the music I listen to, about the shows I watch, the content that I consume. These are all so important. What you do every single day, what you expose your brain to, what you consume, you become. And so recognize that neuroplasticity, shifting your identity, it can happen quickly with changes that you can choose to just drop certain things and it'll happen fast, but also it happens over time through the routines that you implement. So choose a new routine, choose, implement something new, and then create a routine that allows you to incorporate more of these new identity anchors into your life so that your brain actually has more proof and you continue to just see proof and build belief In the new reality that you are shifting into. And the last step, step 5, is to create a defining experience. Take some sort of action right now that will shift you, that will mark to your brain, hey, we are serious and we are doing this thing. An example that I have for that is very, very specific to kind of like reality shifting is going through Breakups. I have a very specific neuroscience-backed breakup plan, and one of the steps in that plan is actually to remove the cues that spark all of these old memories. And the way that I do that is through deleting the photos. Okay? Like you go through your photo album and you delete all of the photos, all the happy photos of you and your ex that are just gonna cue your brain to missing them and also over-romanticizing the past because our brains tend to do that after relationships. This is a great example. Maybe you want to go and take one action. Maybe it's clear out some photos that remind you of who you used to be that you don't wanna be anymore. And a lot of you might be resistant to that. You're like, no, I don't want— you have to choose to let it go. It has to be a defining experience. Do something that makes your decision to become this new version of you irreversible. Like you can't go back after you do this. Like it is literally impossible to go back after you take this step. And I love the deleting the photos idea and example because you can't get them back. All right. And you got to clear out, you got to clear the recently deleted folder too. It can be big or it can be small. You can travel somewhere. You can sign up for a class. I know I have a lot of clients that I coach that like to sign up for new classes. I mean, another example could be changing your hair. I personally have changed my hair color many times in my life, many, many times. And every single time it is an identity shift. It is shifting into a new character. You could host a ceremony to lay to rest the old version of you. Okay? These are just a few examples of defining experiences that really mark to your brain, okay, this is for real and things are really different now. Your new era needs its first memory. So create that first memory, take the action, and allow that action to build momentum. Do not sleep on this framework. I know it seems very simple, but honestly, that's life. Like, it is simple. It might not be Easy, but it's simple. Remove some things from your life that remind you of your old self, that anchor you to your old reality. Bring a few things in that anchor you to a new self, a new reality, that anchor you and cue you to your new character. And then take action toward doing that. Create a defining experience that tells your brain there is no going back. And if you are interested in diving deeper into the neuroscience of manifestation and how to actually reprogram your subconscious mind with neuroscience-backed tools, understanding what the subconscious even is from the neuroscience perspective, I am hosting a completely free masterclass to teach you step by step how to reprogram your subconscious mind, use neuroscience to manifest your dream life, and so much more. I am going to leave the link in the description so that you can sign up to save your spot, and I will see you there. It is a completely live class too. We always hang out and we do a Q&A at the end. It's really fun. I'm also going on tour very soon. And so if you are wanting to come see me live on tour, talk all about the neuroscience of manifestation and so much more, then definitely RSVP at the link in the description as well, because we are actually using the responses to decide which cities to come to on tour. So definitely RSVP using that link in the description. That is all I have for you. I am sending you So much love. Please do not sleep on this framework. Okay? I know it seems simple, but honestly, that's life. It's simple. It might not be easy, but it is simple. The keys are simple. All right? So implement these changes and please, please, please, please let me know how it goes. And I'll see you in the next video. Bye everyone.