Your Brain - DESLONGCHAMPS METHOD

Your Brain

You have to want to change, almost as much as you want to breathe

Most people pass through their whole lives suppressing their best selves,
because they have old negative patterns that keep them low grade.

We take a deep look into what beliefs you are carrying with you that no longer serve a purpose,
which is more interesting than you may think right now.

The rare opportunity to know what you want in your personal life is a popular desire
by most people, but requires a rare willingness to do what that takes.

In fact, most people don’t dare to go inside themselves, so they live in complete isolation, even from themselves.
To be able to break the habit of being your old self, you have to know your reasons why,
and those reasons must be so big that they will float you through when your habitual self is fighting you to stay the same.

What are you thinking about?

95% of who we are by the time we are in our middle 30’s mostly consists of a rigid set of
automatic behaviors, beliefs, and emotional reactions.

Because your brain is a record of the past, reacting to life automatically keeps you trapped in the same loops.

Most of those daily thoughts are repetitive thoughts because the brain is stuck in a cycle of habitual thinking.

Do not expect to follow your thoughts. The average human has between 60,000 and 70,000 thoughts a day.

That’s 42 to 49 per minute, breaking it down to the second average of roughly one thought every 1.2 to 1.4 seconds,
running continuously through both your waking and sleeping hours. So, what are you thinking about?

The Science of Thoughts

When a thought occurs, your brain instantly fires a network of neurons.

This activity triggers the release of chemical messengers—such as neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and hormones.

These chemicals travel through your bloodstream to your hormonal centers and physical organs.

For example, if you think stressful thoughts, your brain manufactures a chemical called ACTH,
which signals your adrenal glands to flood your body with adrenaline and cortisol.

Your body begins to feel exactly how you were just thinking.

If your thought was insecure, your bloodstream fills with “insecure chemistry,”
and you physically experience the sensation of insecurity.

Thoughts belong to the brain, feelings belong to the body,
and because your thoughts communicate instantly with your body creating the feeling corresponding to your thought,
keep in mind 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day, the brain and body together form the habit.

The body becomes addicted to the chemical that the thoughts produce, which creates the feeling.

Your brain puts up a fight

Because your brain is a habitual brain, it likes patterns, sameness, and repetitiveness.

Unfortunately, it’s not able to differentiate between right and wrong, what’s good for you or what’s bad for you.

So, when you are trying to think about why you do what you do through your logical brain, it cannot help you.

It’s not where the problem resides.

Your logical brain is doing what it does, which is creating familiar patterns that have been deeply embedded.

It cannot help you out of your situation, because it is not the source of it.

So, one day you decide you need to change, prepare yourself, because it’s going to put up a fight.

Remember, it doesn’t like change, even when it’s for your greatest good.

Now you want to change? Suddenly? Not so fast!

So today is the day! You’re finally ready to make the changes you know you desperately need.

The brain goes along with your new plan, with encouraging thoughts of yes, you can do it!

It’s been fed from your last habitual thought, so it’s not hungry right now. It’s willing to play along..for a while.

A few hours go by, now it’s feeding time and it wants its habitual thoughts,
your body wants its chemicals, you know the same ones you’ve been feeding it for the past 35 or so years.

You start to feel insecure. You start to have thoughts like “I’ll do it tomorrow.” Your brain is wearing you down.

The next thing you know you’re sitting there with a drink in your hand or medicated on drugs.

Completely confused about what happened?

It seems that you lost your mind for a second, you don’t understand, you were doing so good?

Old habits die hard

Your brain can access a habitual thought or memory in as little as 150 to 300 milliseconds—
which is twice as fast as the blink of an eye.

The brain doesn’t actually have to “scroll” or search through an index at all.

Instead, a habitual thought is retrieved almost instantly because it uses a superhighway of pre-wired neural connections.

In a computer, a search engine has to scan a database to find a file.

But in your brain, a habit is a deeply etched, physical pathway of neurons that have fired together millions of times.

When an external trigger or a familiar emotion occurs, the electricity in your brain automatically defaults to that exact path.

It behaves less like a search engine and more like water immediately rushing down a pre-carved canyon.

You do not consciously decide to recall a habitual thought; the brain fires it before you even realize it is happening.

This is why you can catch yourself feeling anxious, insecure,
or annoyed before you have even consciously processed why you feel that way.

Because habitual thoughts fire in a fraction of a second, you cannot stop them from initially lighting up.

So, to be fair, you didn’t stand a chance at that moment.

And it’s what happened when you found yourself with that last drink in your hand or self-medicated.

Your brain was simply doing its job, which is to stick to what it knows.

You’ve been pulled from the wreckage

You will gain awareness in neuroscience, when you understand how, what, why of your brain.

During this time, you will be highly educated about your wonderful brain, and once you know how it works,
you will be both amazed and relieved…But, not before some discomfort…

The only way that you do have a chance to change is by shedding awareness
and understanding into the brain and how it behaves.

So that you become super self-aware, you eventually can spot the takeover before it happens.

Be aware of how you feel, and you will know by how you feel what you just thought about.

At first you will be just left with the feeling but as you interrupt these patterns, by replacing old thoughts with new ones,
you start to make new pathways and habits of thinking.

This takes extreme determination, will and awareness.

At the end of this awareness, you will be able to smile at your brain and watch it do its magic.

Your brain, your body, and your emotions do not operate in isolation.

Neither do your habits. Every habit has an origin.

To truly change the pattern, we first have to understand where it began.

Know Thyself…Everyone is counting on you