TRANSFORMATIVE NEURAL NETTING

I am often asked how does one maintain the level of awareness that keeps faith and fulfilment alive, and keeps fear and anxiety at bay. This is my theory for now:

What happens in your thinking mind is quite profound and it can alter your brain in lasting ways because neurons that fire together, wire together. You can use your thinking mind to change your brain structure in ways that benefit your brain, your thoughts and behaviour.

Small, positive ACTIONS every day, will gradually build new, beneficial neural pathways that becomes imprinted in the brain. This has amazing implications for developing reality/healthy based thoughts instead of fear/catastrophic based thoughts.

The same process applies to developing healthy, self-regulating behaviour, such as self-soothing, being active, intercepting self-defeating thoughts, instead of self-sabotaging behaviours such as addictions , apathy, judging and suffering.

Suffering is a choice, while pain is part of life:

Suffering is experienced like a background of anxiety, emptiness, unfulfillment, and an absence of peace and gratitude. The (ego/lower self) attempts to link our identity with suffering, this is how it survives. If we are not awake and mindful, this condition of struggle and suffering can be an unconscious, automatic existence that we are not even aware of. A blind spot that can only be identified by another who can listen, observe and be objective.

In essence, human beings are connected to one another in this world, and separation is an illusion. Our attempts to separate and isolate only perpetuates this distortion by the judgmental chatterbox in our thoughts. Our brain struggles to keep everything in place, to find and maintain fixed patterns, resisting the very nature of life’s changes. Our brain is always chasing the moment that has just passed, trying to control it. It does not want to BE HERE NOW.

It is built more for avoiding than approaching other human beings because it is fearful of experiencing the pain from the past. Tragically, it also loses the opportunity for love, joy, passion, and all the aliveness and magic that appears when we are connecting to others.

Throughout the last 70 million years, our limbic (primitive brain) has created a survival strategy to dodge lions, snakes, and danger. At that time, vigilantly looking over our shoulder, ready to bolt, freeze or fight was understandable. However, we have forgotten that presently, for the most part, life is relatively safe, full of possibilities and much to be grateful for.

Albert Einstein once stated that "The most important decision you will make in life is whether you choose to see people and life as generally safe or malicious"

Einstein knew the impact of quantum energy that we exude, whether it is mistrust or trust. Whether it is approach or avoidance, whether it is fear or faith. Human beings can sense the molecular energy that we transmit in our energy field. Therefore, seeing people and the world as generally safe and beneficent will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Like begets like.

This perspective can become a new part of our brain’s neural netting permanently!

Happiness is a choice to be made every day by becoming mindful of the inner monologue of the ego-based suffering story. It is inherited in early development and is no longer serving us, it must be deleted.

Instead, replace the past monologues with present-based, authentic dialogues that feel genuine and full of possibilities. Time and life are precious and not to be squandered on often skewed stories from the past, that have long expired, and do not enhance our experience of a loving, joyful life.