Bitesize Biohack: The Neuroscience of Goal Achieving with John Assaraf

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Your brain as an automatic sensor. That's going to bring to you something to be aware of, and then your decision determines what happens next.

So there are people that have inspired me along the way in my journey from leaving corporate law to creating this podcast and my coaching practice. And one of those people is John Assaraf. You've probably heard of John Asaraf. You definitely will have done if you've watched the movie the Secret. And he is incredibly inspiring. He also specializes in the neuroscience of behavior. And in this short little teaser, this is a little clip of the upcoming episode that I recorded with John, which releases on Friday. So enjoy this short teaser clip and then make sure you hit the follow button so you get notified as soon as this episode lands this coming Friday. Enjoy.

There's a couple of things that come up there because two questions, really. One is around those thoughts and the negativity, I think because of so much information online, some people then feel nervous. They're like, oh my God, I'm not on the right vibration. I'm attracting the wrong things to me. This is why it's such a bumpy road, because my thoughts are not in sync. Right. They're not matching up. Sometimes I wake up and I'm really, really positive and I do my affirmations and I go to work out and I'm in a really positive mindset and I take inspired action. Then other days I'm kind of down. That that's kind of one thing where I'd really like you to clarify for people. And then the other thing is just how you do program that new neurological pattern in. Because with affirmations, again, I see different thoughts around this. Some. Some individuals will say you can reprogram exactly what you want and repetition is key. And that was definitely something that came up in Bob's program. Whereas others will say, well, actually, no, your subconscious mind isn't going to accept it. You know, if you try and say you're a multi millionaire when you've got 2 cents in the bank, your mind's not going to believe you. So you're going to need to have a kind of continuous tense, a sort of on the way to affirmation. And I'd really love it if you could clarify that for listeners.

Sure. So let's talk about what is an affirmation? A lot of people think an affirmation is a sentence of something that is true. It's not.

An affirmation is affirming in one's mind. So it's what I want to be true. That I'm affirming in my mind. And so sometimes I remember when I was 19, I started using affirmations, and I would say, you know, and I'll use a Bob Proctor line. I'll just modify. So I'm so great, happy and grateful for the fact that I'm earning $10,000 a month. There used to be a voice in my head that would go, that's not true. I would hear this voice go, that's not.

Like, where's that coming from? Because, listen, we know the truth. I mean, we know the truth. We're not stupid. We're brilliant human. We know the truth. I'm not driving that car. I'm not traveling first class. We know the truth. But what if I. What if I said, okay, critical voice, I understand it's not true. Okay, I am putting this into my bio computer, the subconscious, to make it true right now and to reinforce this. Please help me do this. Here is the thing that we have to understand. I have a brain. I'm not my brain. My brain is like an orchestra. Think about, you know, your job is the conductor of the orchestra, and we all have this critical voice in our head member of the orchestra or the band. Your job as the, as the. As the orchestra leader, the conductor is to quiet down that musician. Okay? When you want her to be quiet, I understand you think that's negative. Just be quiet. Now, here's what I want to play. So your job is to take the different facets of 19 different parts of the brain and conduct like an orchestra leader.

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And when we understand, for example, that there's a part of our brain, I call it the. The Frankenstein's monster. Frankenstein's monster. This member of the band, okay? Or the orchestra. Her job is to always do this. What if that doesn't work? What if you fail? What if you lose money? What if you lose time? What if you're embarrassed? What if you're ashamed? You tried this before. This is the part of the brain it's supposed to do this for what? Or do you remember earlier I said our number one priority of the brain is security, safety, survival. Number two is avoidance of pain or discomfort. This part of the brain works by going into our memory bank every billionth of a second to check and balance. Is there any information in this memory bank that would suggest this isn't true? Or this could cause pain or discomfort, and anything that it finds, it brings to your consciousness in the critical voice that you have that you and I hear. Now, let me shift aside for just a moment, ask you a question. Would you ever get into a car on the highway or freeway with somebody who told you, I don't have brakes in my car. It's just the gas. Let's go.

No, probably not. I don't.

Why? Oh, so you actually like the fact that they have brakes? And what about the cars today that have sensors? There's cars behind you, you're low on gas, there's a car to the right of you, you're down windshield wiperfield. Oh, the back doors open, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. You like those sensors, right? Well, what if you just treated that part of your brain as an automatic sensor that's going to bring to you something to be aware of.

And then your decision determines what happens next. So if you listen to this voice and you panic, right? And you get into this emotional state that disempowers you, this critical voice is using your past to predict your present and your future. So when we're talking about, you know, affirmations, I am just embedding into my memory bank something that I want in there as a new reference point for me to lean upon instead of all the old negative stuff. I am deliberately and consciously programming my own subconscious memory bank. And if the brain works the way it does, and that's anything that I repeat, I reinforce. So if every day I'm affirming these new ideas, these new concepts, this new self image, these new beliefs that I want to be true, then my brain says, okay, based on the third hierarchy of how the brain works. Safety and security first, Avoidance of pain or discomfort second, but conserve energy third. Now, let me share with you how this works. Now, if my brain wants to conserve energy, how does it do that. It does it by automating my thoughts. It does it by automating my emotions. It does it by automating my behaviors so that I can conserve energy from conscious effort to subconscious control. So if I repeat something, 1 day, 3 days, 10 days, 30 days, 90 days, my brain's saying, you're putting a lot of energy into this. You're overriding all the old systems. You know what? Let me just take this damn thing you want to believe, Let me automate that. And all of a sudden, everything just changes.

And how long does it take? So in your example, where you're looking at the $10,000 a month, for example, your affirmation, presumably as you're saying, I'm so happy and grateful now that I'm earning $10,000 a month, initially your brain.

My brain was like, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. But 10 times bullshit, 100 times bullshit, a million times.

And you kept saying it regardless.

And maybe it's possible, right? So I could say, you know what? I know it's bullshit right now, and how can I make this my reality? So I'm having self talk.

So I'm not fighting, okay, the. The critical part, you know, the little person on your shoulder that's talking negatively to yourself. I'm not fighting the emotion that's being triggered because of my old subconscious beliefs. I'm not fighting that. I am managing it and then I'm mastering over it.

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