Mark Waldman explains how negative beliefs about money get hardwired in your brain through rumination and amygdala activation, which shuts down your frontal lobe reasoning. Interrupting that rumination loop is what stops the pattern from cementing into memory.
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Research shows that if you have a piece of negativity that comes up that's real in the world, you have between 12 minutes to 24 hours. And that if you focus on letting it go and not reacting to it, like breathing in peace, breathing out stress, that memory circuit won't form in your brain. And you have one of the newest pieces of research to show you how to stop building new crappy memories in your brain. Take a moment and bring yourself into the present moment. Breathe deeply and relax. So what we have here is a very special type of neuron. It's called an autopsy. If you want to know how self perpetuating negative beliefs operate, pay attention to this neuron. Each neuron has a piece of information and it passes that information onto other neurons. Now this particular one, it sends information about the world to itself. It's just believing in its own fantasy. So if you're focusing on negativity, I can't succeed. I'm filled with doubt, I'm procrastinating. The more you look at that procrastination thought, it's called rumination. And you're just building these autopsies that are believing in itself and it has no basis with reality whatsoever. And of course the biggest fear that our brains have is the fear of losing money. And what you're actually looking at is a brain scan study of an individual who is playing a game with a computer and all they were going to do is lose $1. And literally every fear center in that brain began to fire out. Unbelievable. One single dollar. Think about that. You're worried about money. Oh my God, I just lost $50,000 today. Whatever else. And I go home and I open the $12 bottle of wine. In reality, your life hasn't changed. It is your idea and attitude that you are in trouble. Because what happens is that when you are really in trouble and you ask yourself, is this a valid concern? Then deeper parts of your brain kick in that are problem solving. All you have to do is make sure you turn off those self perpetuating negative fantasies and the rest of your problem solving brain that operates behind consciousness takes over and you solve the problem. If we had an earthquake right now, 90% of you would not freak out. You'd simply look around, take care of yourself, take care of your friends, go to the table, get in the door, or whatever else you would do. 5% of the people are going to freeze. Like that ice cube we had that freezing is dangerous. It's not based on survival. So we have to learn how to trust all of those parts of our brain, that's not the things that we're consciously ruminating on at the time. So here is where self doubt and anxiety and lack of trust actually exist. They exist in your frontal lobes. And if you keep focusing on your problems, major or minor, what you'll see on one side of the frontal lobes, you begin to see that the activity begins to shrink. You're losing your logic, your reason, because it's being embedded deeply in the interior parts of your brain. The little thing that says fear here, that's your amygdala firing away. It's lighting up. And the amygdala is what really begins to burn these negative memories permanently into your brain. You cannot afford to do that. Whether it's a fantasy fear, a fantasy piece of crap, or a real piece of crap, a real problem in the world, there is no logical reason why you should go there.
Hey, this is John and I hope you truly enjoyed that short little video clip. There's many more coming just like that. Now remember, the brainathon is coming up soon and so tell your friends and your family and be sure that you click on the calendar below to schedule it if you haven't done so already. The six hour Brainathon is going to be something that you can watch and participate online. So we'll be doing Q and A as well. And myself and the other brain experts are going to show you how to release any of the self. Doubts, insecurities flow, fear, embarrassment, shame, procrastination, or anything that may be holding you back, causing you to feel a lack of confidence or uncertainty. Now, all of this is ingrained in your deeply rooted beliefs and neural patterns that are now crippling, or at least holding you back from really achieving financial success and shattering the financial glass ceiling that you and everybody in the world has. And. And so get ready for an amazing brainathon and look forward to more killer content from us.
