9: How Your Reticular Activating System Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

Episode Overview:

In this podcast episode, I am talking about the Reticular Activating System, or RAS,  which is a fancy name for the lens in your brain that filters certain things in, while glossing over other things. When you understand how this works, and how to manage it, you can dramatically change your experience in life.

What I Cover:

• What is the reticular activating system?

• What your Reticular Activating System filters in impacts how you feel, the actions you take in your life, and ultimately the results you get in your life

• Your beliefs impact what your RAS will filter in and filter out. If you want to learn more about beliefs, how they form, and how you can create beliefs that serve you, be sure to check out Episode #1 of my podcast.

• Examples of the Reticular Activating System in action.  

• How you can make your reticular activating system work for you through visualization and creating mental movies. 

• Things to be aware of when programming your reticular activating system.

• Why gratitude practices work.

Let's Take Some Action:

• Think about a goal you have. It can be personal or professional, big or small.  Be as specific as possible.

• Spend a little time creating your visualization or mental movie as it pertains to this goal. 

• Set 2 alarms on your phone and change the word “alarm” to a word or phrase that reminds you of your goal and have the alarms go off, maybe the first one in the morning, and the second one late afternoon. Run your mental movie when the alarm goes off attaching as much emotion as is possible to your mental move.

• Keep doing this day after day and let your brain go to work for you.

Useful Resources:

Do you worry too much, overthink, assume the worst-case scenarios, spend a lot of time focusing on negative things that have happened, or discredit positive things happening? If so, you are dealing with the human brain we have all been given and you are not alone.

The good news is, you can change this and it may not take as long as you may think! If you want a free resource that will help you examine your thinking patterns, and change those that are not serving you, grab my 5 Common Thought Distortions Guide HERE.

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