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“No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It’s the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.” — Esther Hick
After setting (and writing down) your goals for your future, you may think that there is no way you could get there soon or the journey is way too grueling, unattainable, or you "don't have enough time" to commit to the steps to get there. You have time for whatever you prioritize and make time for. So what's really holding you back?
Steps for Neural Improvement
Set Your Intention
Initiate your process of up leveling by writing down your overarching goal that underlies everything you want to establish in your future.
Creating your intentions will motivate you to see the bigger picture, the grand goal you want to achieve in life, and should promote excitement!
Examples:
"Master the confidence and courage to develop a business or career"
"Develop a more active lifestyle by working out 5 times a week"
"Enhance financial stability to promote ease and happiness in everyday life"
Adopt an Abundant Mindset
Positive thinking and generosity with the belief that there is enough out there for you will accelerate your path to success
This nourishes our confidence and self-worth to promote a flourishing environment around us
"Like attracts like" so enforcing this mindset will attract positive, like-minded individuals that will expand your thoughts, allow you to think more abundantly, and pull you out of your comfort zone
Another aspect of this includes unblocking limiting or "lackful" beliefs that you may have picked up throughout your upbringing
Visualize It
Seeing something happen in our "minds-eye" is one of the most powerful techniques employed by athletes, artists, entrepreneurs, and many successful public figures.
One study completed by Guang Yue at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio found that people who imagined themselves flexing muscles and completing an "imaginary workout" displayed evidently significant physical increases in muscle mass compared to the control group who did not complete the mental exercise.
Visualization mends physical and mental trigger within your brain that will generate double the reinforcement for the desired outcome. This primes our brain to recognize something though we may have never experienced it before.
Use abstract thinking while visualizing, which is the ability of the brain to construct representations of things that are not present or definitive. Through abstraction, we can identify patterns of our behavior and re format our responses to fabricate new steps forward towards our manifestations.
Trust your intuition- "gut-brain connection"
We "sense" the truth of things by tuning into energy that our conscious thoughts may not be completely aware of.
The gut encapsulates the "enteric nervous system" which is part of the autonomic nervous system that works unconsciously like your heart or lungs. There is a complex communication system between the neurons in the gut walls and limbic brain, which controls our emotional expression.
The limbic brain is important for storing habits and behavioral patterns, therefore the gut-brain system stimulates proper functioning of our digestive system and complex brain functions like motivation and access to deeper wisdom.
Take aligned action
This step requires moving away from your "default" pathway or everyday routine. If you are working to change a habit, complete actions that move closer to where you want to be.
Some examples of my default tendencies include; sleeping in to 12 pm, lounging around all day, daydreaming, binge watching new or sequel Netflix series, or consuming unhealthy meals high in sugar to supplement my cravings at that moment. What is your default pathway?
To begin stepping out of these habits, try "The Five Second rule" coined by Mel Robbins or "Atomic Habits" by James Clear
“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” – Geena Davis
Examples Of Easy Everyday "Risks"
Asking for a raise at work after working consistently and strenuously, pulling more weight than what your job description implies. Never accept less than you deserve, especially if you are contributing your precious time to a company that requires 8 hours of work each day. You DESERVE it, step into your worth.
Set a boundary with your coworkers, boss, significant other, family, or anyone that you believe is contributing to your unhappiness. One huge aspect of this is being able to say NO to something that does not align with your most authentic self. For instance, staying late at work, over scheduling your day, or accepting negative reactions from your significant other could correlate with negative thinking and saying no may eliminate these feelings.
Detriments of "Lackful" Thinking
Living in lack allows fear to outshine confidence, positivity, and all aspects associated with abundance. Through thinking negatively, we are highly aware of what we do not have and tend to approach situations through black and white thinking. This may cause many to shrink or hide in fearful or new situations, retreating to a default comfort zone. However, many times there is NO actual evidence that bad things will happen if we take a risk and most times, life may teach us an important lesson and allow us to learn for the next experience if bad things do end up occurring. Take a step back when you are making a risky decision and re think if your emotions are SUBJECTIVE or OBJECTIVE based on the situation. For example, one self-limiting belief that I hold based on my experiences and upbringing is that I am unable to start my own business because I am a "science nerd" and do not know much about marketing, computer science, or finances and accounting. To reprogram this limiting belief, I look for "expanders" or successful women in business who can provide me with background knowledge and their own stories and obstacles while beginning their businesses. I also remember that this belief is subjective because there are plenty of successful woman who have made highly profitable businesses.
~ Key takeaway~ if you are scared to take a risk, try going out of your comfort zone, just once, in an aspect of your life you are unhappy with and witness your immediate growth!
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” – Mark Caine
Manifest Your Most Magnetic Mind
Master Your Emotions
Controlling your feelings is one of the most important aspects of mastering your mind and truly is the key to changing lives. Modern neuroscience indicates that through improving and regulating emotions, we can change our "internal landscape" (Tara Swart, 2019)
"Emotion" comes from the Latin derivative "ēmōtus" to move out, move away, remove, stir up, or irritate
Being able to reframe passive emotional reactions is essential for up leveling and getting into the driver seat of your life rather than accepting a passenger seat to mediocrity
Vitamin D3 plays a crucial role in mood regulation, brain health, and nerve health
Though you may be excited about beginning this journey and want to write down your goals right away, consider these recommendations for success first:
Be specific when setting your intentions
Neurologically if we can visualize our goals and wire those neural connections in that direction from the start, the outcome is far more advantageous
Dig deeper into WHY you have these goals
Make sure your intended goals are authentic to what your true and best version of yourself looks like
For example, do not just write "I want more money so I can go party and blackout next weekend" or "I want a new Mercedes so I can impress my girlfriend"
Make a plan and stay consistent
Set a daily reminder of what you may want to achieve in your future
One thing that helps me stay focused and consistent is setting reminders on my phone or changing my lock screen to something I desire
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate"
-Carl Jung
Neuroplasticity
Neuroplasticity
"Your Flexible Brain"
Four Steps to Enhance Neural Pathways
Positive Emotions
The intensity of emotion and feeling is required to take an experience and make it a core habit. Using more emotion engages more neurons to activate and form new pathways. Emotions bind you to novel experiences and is the fuel that elucidates your memories, goals, and authentic manifestations.
Repetition and practice
Neural pathways are strengthened through daily habits by repetition of thoughts, feelings, and aligned actions.
Visualization
Your brain cannot tell the difference between something real or imagined. Anytime you are thinking, you are engaging and conditioning neural pathways. Therefore, if you are reminiscing about the past, thinking about the present or anticipating the future you are strengthening the neural connections associated with these thoughts. The most important part of using visualization to strengthen healthy habits is to engage your emotion. Emotion provides the fuel to enlist more neural power for creating powerful neural networks.
Meditation
When you meditate you slow down the nonsense, ungrounded thoughts of the hectic mind and access the calm wisdoms of your inner awareness and elevated focusing skills. Meditation is relaxing the body and quieting the mind. To tap into the benefits of neural plasticity, disengage the stress response and stimulate the relaxation response. When you are stressed your brain rigidly defers to the strongest neural pathways out of survival and the path of least resistance known as the default pathway. Consequently, during stress you do not have access to newly formed neural networks because they have not been tried and proven yet. Most people live in a chronic state of stress believing feeling tense, time pressured or overwhelmed is the norm.
The prefrontal cortex is the area of the brain that meditation activates, which helps the body shift from stress responses to relaxation responses. It is the mechanism that "releases the gas pedal and applies the brakes." Meditation increases gray matter in the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex of meditators is actually larger than that of non-meditators. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were the first to discover that meditation alters the structure and function of the brain and specifically the prefrontal cortex.
Data suggests that meditation practices promotes "cortical plasticity" in adults in areas important for cognitive and emotional processing and well-being.
Pomodoro Technique
Three Scenes and Mental Video Technique
E.S.P.
Gamma, alpha, theta, delta states of mind
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