In the first article I talked about how the brain gets its messages from thoughts and emotions. Your body is a perfect representation of the information you have been giving it. Now that we have helped eliminate the story and point of focus that has massively contributed to the information your brain has been receiving for as long as you have been struggling with your body, we want to give your brain something new to work with—a new program to follow.
Now that I have my clients feeling better about where they are and maybe have created a new interpretation, we then turn our attention to figuring out more specifically what they want. Most people are not clear on this, but having cleaned up some negative things about how they felt it should be more apparent now. That does not mean they have access to that information yet by virtue of the fact that they are so used to thinking, imagining, and talking about the negative side of things. At this point, they usually know they want more of something—like wanting to be more fit or to be leaner or to have more energy. Unless they are feeling fit or lean or have good energy already, wanting more of that usually means they have less of it now—they have some of their attention still on where they are. This means that their goal is being driven by a don’t want. They want to be leaner because they are not lean. The goal here is to help the clients form an end-result image of what they want. What would they look like if they lost twenty pounds or if they were leaner or if they had more energy? The point is, we want them to get specific about where they would be if they were already at their goal. What would they look like? What would they feel like? What would they be doing, wearing, and so on, at their goal?
Once that is established, we investigate why they want their goal. We all want anything not for the physical having of thing we want but, rather, for the feeling we think having it will provide us. Once we understand what that really is on a high emotional level we can then use that as an emotional driver. Remember, emotion helps program the chemical side of change but also helps imprint images stronger into our brain. To help someone figure out their emotional driver for wanting their goal, we simply ask them, “What would having this provide for you in your life that you don’t already have?” We continue to ask this of each answer they give until they are truly moved and inspired by their goal.
Once the emotion has been recognized, we look into other areas of their life—their past and present as well as things unrelated to their goal—to see if they can find evidence of this having felt this emotion before. This gives proof that they have been successful before.
Once we help them establish these points of focus (their goal, why they want it, and the proof of having been successful at that emotion before) we then create a neural reprogramming process to help them rewire their brain for success. Since they will more than likely continue to see where they are, we need to help them see where they want to go more often than where they see themselves. This requires continually imprinting these images and the emotions they evoke into the brain as often as possible. The more this information gets imprinted in the brain, the more the brain becomes wired with this information and then starts to act as if this is its reality. The filters in the brain will start looking for success, and the chemical changes that are active in people with this as their reality will start to take place.
We encourage our clients to do this process for at least ten minutes a day, twice a day for thirty days. We now know through research that it takes about thirty days to rewire the brain. One great example of this is a study NASA did many years ago. Researchers had potential astronauts wear goggles that inverted their perspective (basically flipped their visual world upside down) to see how they would react to extreme changes in environment. They wore these every waking moment and had to do everything while seeing the world upside down. The interesting thing that happened was after twenty-six days one of the astronaut’s perspective shifted to be right side up while wearing the goggles, which means after twenty-six days the brain rewired itself. The amazing thing was that all the other astronauts did the same thing within the next few days—each astronaut rewired their brain within thirty days. This started the understanding that it takes about thirty days to rewire the brain.
So the more we have the clients do their neural reprogramming process, the greater chance that information will be set in at the end of thirty days. We encourage clients who are consumed by their body to do this more than that so they are thinking more about where they want to go than where they are so as to tip the scales in the favor of where they want to go. In time they start to think more and more about where they want to go outside of the process and even start to change how they see their body, which helps them gain momentum to see and believe their goal is possible. At this point their body will start to reflect the images and thoughts they have most, and if they think more about where they want to go than where they are, eventually their body will start to reflect that image. Not only will their cells be getting messages to be lean, but their chemistry will change by the fact that their appetite and even their desired actions will change. If their body is in line with a lean and healthy person, it will start to desire things that match that person. Exercising and dieting will be natural progressions for this type of thinking and imagery.
Ultimately, they want their body to act as if it were already at that goal. If it acts as if it is at that goal, it has to bring everything into alignment to support that vision. No longer will they have to monitor how many calories they are eating since their body will do it for them. They will also see many more times the results from their exercise program since it will be in line with their vision, not trying to trump it. This is how they allow their body to change. Once they are clear about what they want and steadfast about thinking only about their goal, then their body will have no choice but to reflect that back to them.
