Insight No.1 - Get off your RAS!

Have you ever decided to buy a particular car in a specific colour and upon doing so, you begin to notice them everywhere? This is your Reticular Activating System (RAS) at work. Essentially your interest moves into a particular area and you only see what you focus upon and little else. This is the all important First Insight - You only choose to see what you want to see.

Your RAS is a filter system within your mind. A little bundle of cells at the back of your brain that edits what goes into your conscious and unconscious mind. At any one time, there are milllions of bits of information that you can allow into your mind, yet we all delete this data down to about 7 (plus or minus 2) chunks of data. Not only that, but we distort and generalise the information. This helps you to understand how a group of people can see and experience the exact same event, yet have totally different opinions of what occured. So how is this useful to improving your prosperity?

Just as a successful artist sees ideas all around them and an entrepreneur hears of opportunities everywhere, a prosperous person feels that something wonderful is just around the corner. The mere act of feeling this way programs your RAS to filter only good data and therefore helps you to identify a prosperous opportunity when it arrives.

This is how you program your RAS for prosperity - Make yourself feel like a kid just before Christmas, feel like something wonderful is about to happen and it will. This might sound like a strange thing to do because your logic mind may suggest you get real. Could you believe that getting real is marginalising your potential? Lance Armstrong, Richard Branson and Donald Trump among others were certainly not getting real just before their most major successes. So next week in Insight No.2, we explore why Imagination is more important than Logic (Getting Real).

So this week's practice is: Decide what you would like to see more of in your week and start feeling like its guaranteed and watch what happens.

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