"Possibilities!"
DOUG BENCH'S
NEUROSCIENCE SELF-MOTIVATION NEWS
Volume:01 Issue:05
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Teaching You the Science of Permanent Self-Motivation
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SELF-MOTIVATION SCIENCE NEWS!
Last time we talked about creating Super-Success Highways of neuron
patterns by using a Science for Success Technique called “Innerstates” or
self-talk affirmations. Don’t forget that these must be a POSITIVE
positive statement!
This Newsletter we will take a look at how these “Innerstates”, biologically effect your nonconscious brain-power, how your brain physically changes as you practice the “Innerstates” S4S Technique and how this creates PERMANENT self-motivation changes within YOU!
As you now know, your brain is firing neurons (thinking) on many (apprx. 6) levels at all times, and only one of these is your conscious level.
Therefore, about 5/6th of your brain-power comes from your non-conscious thoughts and memories. To reach tremendous levels of success, you must learn what is happening at these other levels of neurons, and you must learn to control these non-conscious thoughts and ideas, since they are automatic, and therefore permanently going to keep firing!
“Innerstates” when repeated correctly for a period of 3-5 weeks, will cause new synaptic connections to be made at the non-conscious levels of your cortex. The words of your Innerstates will become “truthful” over that 3-5 week period, and the statements will become the guiding force for great efforts by your nonconscious thoughts and neuron firings, to bring about at the conscious, reality level exactly what you have ‘wished for’.
The Limbic System portion of the lower brain, contains what is known as the Reticular Activating System, or the RAS for short. Your RAS performs a fantastically important function! The RAS is like a “switching station” for neuron impulses that arrive at the threshold of the cortex for interpretation.
If the ‘message’ is important to you, the RAS sends the message to your top floor (conscious level). If the message is not important to you, the RAS sends the message to the basement (nonconscious levels). How does the RAS know what is important or unimportant?
YOU CONTROL THIS WITH YOUR INNERSTATES! You create new synaptic connections every day, via repetition, association, and emotion! Look at it this way. We have in our RAS, a friend, Mario, who comes to work each day to run your RAS toll booth. He sits down in the booth and waits for message impulses to arrive for interpretation.
Along comes a sound impulse for example and Mario will send it to the proper part of the brain for sound interpretation. If the sound is on your daily IMPORTANT LIST hung on the wall of the tollbooth, then he will send it to the top floor and you will consciously ‘hear’ it. If it’s not on our daily important list, he sends it to the basement (nonconscious levels) and you don’t ‘hear’ it or you miss that sound!
How does Mario get that list each day? You give it to him! By your “Innerstates”, your dominate thoughts, your repeated thoughts! What is important to you gets put on that list!
Remember our example of buying a new car, and once you did, you started seeing that car everywhere; everyone had one! That’s because your new car got put on your daily important list! Mario now sends you a message to your top floor, of every car like yours that he sees! Automatically!
You don’t even have to ‘think’ about it anymore! You created new synaptic connections of that car that will last for years! The more you repeat thoughts of that car; the more you associate with that car; the more emotional your experiences with that car, the more important it becomes and the more synaptic connections you have on your important list and the longer they will last. (Nearly permanently!)
I experienced this in a very real way recently. I spent several years as a trial attorney handling large numbers of personal injury cases. During my career, we handled several cases involving serious injuries from unsafe escalators.
One such case was a very emotional experience for me! (Remember, the more emotional the experience, the more neuron synaptic memory connections are formed!) Twenty-six years ago a young 7 yr old boy lost 3 fingers from his left hand, when they were traumatically torn off after being caught between a loose hand-rail and the escalator pulley system at the bottom of the escalator.
That was a horrific injury and certainly a memory experience filled with emotional synaptic connections. But admittedly I had not consciously thought of that experience or trauma for many years, and I certainly had no conscious thoughts about it several months ago as I was buying new suits at the Florida Mall. I had picked out two suits that I liked and was looking at a table of shirts to match the colors of the suits. Suddenly, as I was talking to the sales clerk, I could hardly breathe, and my heart started pounding nearly out loud and out of my chest!
My first conscious reaction was that I was having a heart attack! “Something” drew my eyes over to the right, and there I saw at the top of the ‘up’ escalator, a young girl, about 7 yrs old, facing the escalator, in a sun dress that was too long, with the bottom of it hitting the escalator steps, pushing on both hand-rails as if to try to speed up the escalator!
Still without conscious thought, I ran and pulled that young girl away from the escalator! Now I don’t know if I saved anything tragic from happening, probably not! But that is not what is important!
You see it!
My nonconscious brain, with the help of that brilliant Mario, had seen that incident taking place through my nonconscious neurons, and IMMEDIATELY sent a message to my top floor, “WARNING! WARNING! ESCALATORS! DANGER! ACT!” It was automatic, did not require conscious thoughts, and was based on a memory created some 26 years ago!!!
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Next time we will talk about how these new synaptic connections create perfect memories that are stored in your nonconscious levels of the brain, how the research has shown (proven) this, and how you can best utilize this scientific information to reach transcendent levels of permanent self-motivation and success.
It has even been shown by some research being
conducted at Ohio State, that our nonconscious thoughts or memories can
set goals for us, of which we are not even consciously aware! More next
time!
DOUG BENCH
BOOK REVIEWS
Each Newsletter we will review a few of the books and/or research articles and
studies that we have read. All of these books will have been published in
just the last few years, since about 95% of what science now knows about
the brain has been discovered in just the last 4-5 years! We will rate
these books on a scale of 0-10 with ten meaning DON'T MISS IT! and 0
meaning DON'T TOUCH IT! All opinions will relate only to the book's quality
and functionality as it relates to the FOCUS and MISSION STATEMENT of
Science for Success Seminars (see our website)
1. THE MEMORY SOLUTION, Julian Whitaker
Author puts together a very good review and summary of the physiology of
the brain, on his way to a so-so treatment of improving your memory.
Obviously we forget way more than we remember, but it was biologically
meant to be that way. Learning and forgetting, replacing old behaviors and
thought patterns with new ones, in the process called plasticity is what
makes us capable of high achievement. The second half of the book is the
author’s ten step plan for the “Mental Edge”! The good ones are 1. Feed
your Head. 2. Exercise for Peak Performance. 6. Sharpen your Mind with
Mental Workouts. 7. Reduce Stress. All of the others are “Yuck!” Rating:
4.0
2. THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING, Claude Bristol
This is an old classic from many years ago! Therefore, of course, it is
not science-based in its concept. However, it is filled with anecdotal
stories that exemplify the ‘magic’ and power of believing that with some
effort we can extrapolate into the brain-science realm. But it may not be
worth the effort, even though the stories are interesting.
RATING: 3.0 Historical value rating: 5.0
3. BELIEVE AND ACHIEVE, Samuel A Cypert
Mr. Cypert took the “17 Principles of Success” from the nearly saint-like
W.Clement Stone, and gives them an updated business/corporate and science
twist! Although the book contains many clichés, it is well worth a read or
two!
a. You can’t conceive how high ‘up’ is, except for the limitations of your
own mind.
b. A positive mental attitude is a powerful force that will allow you to
reach any goal! The secret is control!(over your thoughts) And it must be
practiced every waking minute!
c. If you practice enough, you can turn this into a habit(done
automatically), so that you free your conscious mind to focus on success!
One great quote from Clement Stone, “One problem with self-help books is
too often they tell you what to do. . .but they don’t tell you HOW or
WHY!” p. 183 RATING: 7.7 Historical Value Rating: 9.0
4. LEARNED OPTIMISM, Martin Seligman
Dr. Seligman takes a very up-to-date scientific look at the powers of
Optimism. So you know I’m gonna really like this book! He takes a “what
if” approach to success. What if the traditional view of the components of
success were wrong? What if there was a third component: Optimism! And
what if it could be scientifically explained and permanently acquired!
Holy Cow! Batman! We can’t want for more! This is nearly a must read!
Contains very good guidelines for using optimism. What are the costs of
pessimism to you? (See p 113) Disputation techniques of learning to
optimistically argue with yourself-and WIN are very good (p 220-228)
RATING: 9.0
S4SS FOCUS AND MISSION
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Each Newsletter we will highlight one phrase or segment of our focus or mission
in our newsletter.
"POSSIBILITIES!"
This month we have changed the name of our Newsletter to
"Possibilities!"
Have you seen the movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture, "A Beautiful Mind"? Rent the movie! One of the memorable lines from that movie is given by the wife of a very brilliant yet mentally disturbed Ivy League Professor:
"I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible!"
I just fell in love with believing in that sentence!
When you learn the scientific basis for how your brain works and the tremendous capacity that it has, this will greatly boost your confidence in being able to attack new and heretofore seemingly impossible tasks and help you believe that something extraordinary is possible! Before, many dreams would have gone even unattempted, let alone reached successfully! Possibilities! Once you know that you can, you will!
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