A short transcript excerpt from a talk by Dr. Joe Dispenza explaining a neuroscience principle—'neurons that fire together wire together'—and arguing that repeated thoughts, behaviors, and emotions form personality which creates personal reality. He advocates mental rehearsal and intentionally installing neural circuits to realize a future vision (e.g., thinking and acting as an abundant or unlimited person).
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There's a principle in neuroscience that says that nerve cells that fire together wire together the most commonly fired neurologically wired set of thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that's acquired through frequent repetition. So then how you think, how you act, and how you feel is called your personality. And your personality creates your personal reality. That's it. And what if you then said, what is the greatest expression of myself that I can present to the world? What's the vision of my future? And you began to fire and wire those circuits in your brain, deciding what thoughts you do want to pay attention to, installing the hardware, sitting down and rehearsing the choices and behaviors you're going to make in one day. The act of mental rehearsal then begins to install the neurological hardware in your brain. And if you keep repeating it, the hardware becomes a software program. And all of a sudden, who knows, you may think like an unlimited person, you may act like an abundant person because you installed the circuits, did you not? You primed your brain for the future.