In this short motivational video, Rene Deceuninck of The Body Language Company uses a strawberry‑ice‑cream metaphor to illustrate how thoughts, subconscious processes, and the brain’s reticular activating system shape our reality. He describes four ways to obtain strawberry ice cream – physically buying it, delegating the purchase, synchronizing with the thought (synchronicity), and manifesting it – and links these to how the conscious mind, subconscious mind, and reticular activating system operate. He explains that the conscious mind transmits about 40 bits of information per second, while the subconscious mind transmits roughly 40 million bits per second, the latter encompassing non‑verbal cues such as body language (55% of communication) and intonation (38%). The reticular activating system acts as an internal filter that makes us notice what we focus on, exemplified by seeing many BMWs after thinking of one. Deceuninck concludes by promoting an online training program on non‑verbal communication, encouraging viewers to subscribe and learn how to harness these subconscious mechanisms.
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Hey, ordering strawberry ice cream and body language. What has strawberry ice cream to do with body language? Well, a lot. Hi, my name is Rene Deceuninck from The Body Language Company in London, IPBLTD, The Institute for Personal Development and Body Language. I remind myself sometimes the story from Wayne Dyer, the late Wayne Dyer. About ordering strawberry ice cream. Now there's 4 ways to order strawberry ice cream. Now the first way to order strawberry ice cream is to get out of your chair and you go out and buy it. The second way is that you send somebody else out there to buy it for you. For example, your children. The third way is that you synchronize with the thought. You synchronize with the thought like, hey, wouldn't it be great to have some strawberry ice cream? And all of a sudden somebody taps you on the shoulder and they said, hey, is this your strawberry ice cream? It's called synchronicity. Ever had that, uh, thing that happened that you think about a person and they live on the other side of the country, you didn't hear them for 5 or 6 months and you can't stop thinking about them. And then the evening the phone goes off and it's them on the phone. It's called synchronizing with the thought. The fourth way of ordering strawberry ice cream is manifested. And that's when things go far more faster. You synchronize with the thought, you manifest it, and within a very short period of time, things are happening. Now that is connected with our brain, with our thoughts. What we think about on a daily basis is what we get. Would you agree on that? Now there's a couple of things responsible for that. We have a conscious mind, a subconscious mind, and a reticular activating system that are responsible all of this. Now, the conscious mind is what we think about in the moment. What happens in the moment, what you think, what you say, what you hear, what you, what you touch, what you taste is in the moment. The subconscious mind is the hard disk of your brain. What you think on a daily basis, what you touch, what you— it will be stored on that hard disk. So all the things that you experience in your life, they are on that hard disk of your brain called the subconscious mind. Now, when you talk to somebody, when you speak to somebody, when you have a conversation, a communication, whatever you wanna call it, what happens is that your conscious mind will transfer 40 bits of data per second towards that other person. The subconscious mind will transfer 40 million bits of data per second towards that other person. Now, in the subconscious mind is also included nonverbal communication and body language is a big part of it. 55% is body language, 38% is intonation. So for more than 90% goes through the subconscious mind, 40 million bits of data. Would that make sense to say that what goes through the subconscious, the nonverbal communication, that is very important to understand how it works. Now, the reticular activating system is the third part, is that part of the brain that is that internal, uh, system that looks for things. So I mean, don't think about a BMW. You're on the road, you'll see BMWs everywhere. Don't think about a Mercedes. You're gonna be on the road, you're gonna see Mercedeses everywhere. Ever had that experience? That's the reticular activating system. Where focus goes, energy flows. And strawberry ice cream, think about it, synchronize with the thought, manifest it, and it will come your way far more faster. And then you got the conscious brain, the subconscious, and the reticular activating system, That will be the reason why you get the things you get on a daily basis. So I'm going to leave you with this. And we created an online training, an online training where you can learn where you want, how much you want, uh, the time zone doesn't matter. Whenever you have a device and Wi-Fi, you can study, you can learn, uh, nonverbal communication. Um, I urge you because things are going to change, uh, pretty soon. So thank you for watching this video, and I'm looking forward to share with you on the inside of the online training. You take care, bye! Please subscribe to my YouTube channel as well. Thank you for that.
