This is a guest blog by Christiane Alber
What you FOCUS on is what you get, to the exclusion of everything else, as explained in this example.
Let’s say you want to buy a red Volkswagen Golf. It’s a German car and is not very common in Australia. All of a sudden, as soon as you are focussing on wanting to buy this particular car, you see it everywhere.
Have you ever experienced a situation like that? Have you wondered why this thing you are thinking about is suddenly everywhere? It seems like it comes out of the blue but there is an explanation for it. The red cars have always been there, you just didn’t notice them. They were simply not in your focus.
The part of your brain responsible for you suddenly noticing the red cars is the Reticular Activating System – or RAS. The RAS is the automatic mechanism inside your brain that brings relevant information to your attention. It’s the best search engine, even better than Google!
- It plays a vital part in your ability to achieve goals.
- Your RAS is like a filter between your conscious mind and your subconscious mind. It takes instructions from your conscious mind and passes them on to your subconscious.
- You can deliberately program the RAS by choosing the exact messages you send from your conscious mind. For example, you can set goals, use affirmations, or visualise what you want to achieve.
- Your RAS cannot distinguish between ‘real events’ and ‘synthetic’ (created) events. In other words it tends to believe whatever you tell it.
Imagine going into a dark warehouse with a torch. Everything outside the beam is excluded and you won’t see it. It can’t pick up what it isn’t focused on. Our lives and how we experience our world is just like this. We will simply not be aware of things beyond our focus.
FOCUS is a choice…choose well! If you choose to focus on the things you don’t like in your life you get more of it. The great things in life are also part of your reality. It’s a matter of shifting the beam of light onto them so that you can see and experience them as well. It only takes a small shift in your mindset to see and experience things differently.
Feel Good Tip: Acknowledgement & Gratitude journal
Every day write down 3 things you are grateful for in your life and 5 things you can acknowledge yourself for, things that you’ve done well. This will assist you in shifting your focus from disempowering to empowering thoughts, from scarcity to abundance and from impossibilities to opportunities. It will help you see, experience and appreciate all the beautiful things that are already part of your life.
Find out more about what Christiane Alber, The Feel Good Goddess @ inSync Coaching & Development does and how she can help you at:
- facebook.com/bodymindspiritinsync
- facebook.com/FeelGoodGoddess
- www.feelgoodgoddess.com.au (check it out and receive the free powerful video, “The 5 Steps to a Feel Good Mindset”)
