Use the "flaws" of your brain to your advantage!

Hi!

Sometimes when I relax or have some extra time after working long hours, I watch some youtube videos about how to improve some parts of my life. I have the last year struggeled a lot with negative thougths, and I needed to change mindset.

Today I searched "How to reporgram your brain". And found a really interesting video that made a lot of sense to me at least.

Aaron Doughty started to talk about that the brain does not know whats really true, and what we are just visualizing. The positive side of visualizing is that we always control that part! We can visualise anything we want, it is our way to control our thougths.


So I started to dig a little bit deeper regarding the topic to make it even more clear to myself, and hopefully to others.

"That single ‘flaw’ is this: the human brain does not know the difference between reality and fiction. It doesn’t know whether or not something is actually real. In other words, it can’t tell the difference between something you’re thinking about and something that’s actually happening."

http://www.selfhelpgems.com/human-brain-flaw/

While I read this I started to ask myself questions, but what about day dreaming? Those are not always "great". To answer that question if someone else is wondering here is a answer:

"Have you ever experienced daydreaming, where you just let your mind escape from the task at hand? Most of the time you daydream about what could be. Well, this is similar to visualization –the only difference is that daydreaming just happens; it is you allowing your unconscious mind to do whatever it want. Visualization is more of a conscious action, with structure and intention. The secret to a successful visualization is to fuel your image with all your five senses to make your image come to life, where you are fully entrenched in your feelings. Visualization plays a crucial role in most of the processes that you can use to influence and reprogram the way your unconscious mind thinks because its primary language is images.

Research shows that thoughts produce the same mental instructions as actions; mental images impact many processes in your brain, such as attention, perception, planning and memory. In other words, the brain sees no difference between the thought of an action and a real action. When you perform an action, some specific neural pathways are being stimulated and specific chemicals are being produced. The same physiological changes happen when you visualize yourself performing that action."

https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/art...on-to-reality-using-visualization-for-success

I guess we will have bad days and good days without doing all this. But the important thing is that it can help to improve most of your days. If you struggel, I really hope this is something that can help improve your life.

I will try this myself, and I really think this makes perfect sense!