What is your RAS set for?
I’m not into whoo-whoo and hairy fairy stuff!!
I like facts!
And a huge part of creating changes in your life and to get from where you are to where you want to be, is pure science! And a lot of this science is related to brain science!
The RAS, Reticular Activating System, is a function in our brain you might call the “Search Engine” of the brain!
Let me share two stories to illustrate how it works.
My first car ever was a Daihatsu Charade. When I bought it, I had never heard of Daihatsu before, neither had I ever seen this model! I thought it would be cool to be the only one driving around in a Charade! From the very day I bought it, I began to see Daihatsu Charades everywhere!! Like someone had thrown hundreds of thousands of them down from the sky!
When my wife was pregnant with our daughter, I realized, that almost every single woman I saw was pregnant, too! I thought: Wow, this is a serious baby boom!! I had never seen so many pregnant women in my life before. When our daughter was born, all the pregnant women dissappeared, and suddenly every woman I saw was driving around with a baby carriage! Just like us!
Now how come?
If you see the RAS as the search engine of the brain, you should see your thoughts and inner pictures as the text you write in the Search Engine Field. The function of RAS is to filter all the impressions from the outside world, and just let in what you are focused on.
To make your inner world harmonize with the outher world!
Now, this is interesting. Take a look at your life! It is the search engine result from what you have put in the search field! Perhaps a bit scary!!??
One thing is cars and baby carriages. More important: If you have beliefs like: “I never succeed in anything”, “I can never afford this”, “I’ll never find the love of my life” etc., then your RAS will affirm this for you in your life!
The good news is, that if you don’t like what you see, you can change what you are searching for! By changing habits of thought and action!
A powerful way of doing this is reprogramming your conscious and unconscious mind using Powerful Affirmations. If you use Powerful Affirmations, and you add visualization and the feeling of how it would be if it was already true for you, you have started the process of making changes in your inner world, and as a result of this, your outher world will change, too!
Your RAS will start to show you new “search engine” results!!
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview
of life’s coming attractions.”
- Albert Einstein.
Great post Claus. And here I just thought that everyone else owned a van like mine
LOL!!
I couldn’t agree with you more. Branding myself as “the intellegent guide to woo-woo”and having written much about the myths and misconseptions of the Law of Attraction, there is much to be found in science that validates the principles that lead to a richer and more joyful life.
GREAT JOB in this post.
Kat~
Hey Claus,
Great post. The RAS IS an amazing system, and once someone can learn to harness it’s power in a positive way, there will be no stopping them.
Thanks for sharing,
Trap
You are so right, Trapper!
Hi Kat,
Thank you for your comment,
and your kind words!
Claus,
Fantastic post! It reminds me why I turned off the TV. Also great Einstein quote.
Elaine
Hi Elaine,
Thank you so much for your comment.
Turning off your TV or at least choosing carefully what you watch,
is not a bad idea!
Claus
Thanks Claus,
reminds me of the people
in AND out of my life…..
It’s all about the journey
We never get it done
Therfore we can never get it wrong
(not my quote,from Abraham-Hicks)
-Bald headed carpenter from Ohio
Hi Blair,
Thank you for your comment. That’s a great quote! Thanks for sharing..
Thank you very much for sharing the Powerful Affirmations. I have already used affirmations i years. This affirmations is realy powerful.
Great. My life is sooo good.
Many thanks from Monika
Hi Monika,
Thank you for visiting my blog and for your kind words
Great post Claus. I agree with you 100%. Affirmations, visualization, and feelings are how I was able to realize my dream of moving from California to Morocco two years ago.
Wauw, Congratulations!
Hello from Venezuela Claus, excellent
post,I have a question for you. English is not my native tounge but I can understand your affirmations, it will work for me anyway?
Best Regards
Hi Marcos! Thank you for visiting my blog! Nice to meet you!
Yes the affirmations will work! The most important thing is to practise feeling the feeling of what iyou would feel if what is affirmed was the truth. And, if you in the beginning feel discomfort, just allow it to be there and accept it. It will change in time. So if you understand the essense of the affirmations even if there are words you don’t understand, they WILL work!
Warm greetings,
Claus