Read the following sentence:
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a patetrn. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
The reason you can read this is because your brain has created a pattern for every word you know, and instantly recognizes them by simply seeing the first and last letter of each word.
So…you can only imagine how many trillions of patterns we must be carrying around right now. In fact, according to V.S. Romachandran (rama-chan-dran), the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, the number of patterns your brain can carry is theoretically greater than the number of elementary particles in the universe.
It is no wonder that neuroscientists now call the human brain the most complex organism in the universe!
But what can all this mean to us? Only this: The only element that really limits our brain’s ability to learn and grow and change is what we say to yourselves.
You see… while I am talking to you, you are talking to yourself three times faster. When I stop talking, you talk to yourself six times faster. We call this constant conversation your “self-talk, ” and this self-talk determines how you see yourself (called your self-image.) And…you do not have one self-image, you have tens of thousands; how your see yourself as an athlete, a teacher, a husband, a wife, and so on.
And…your brain accepts what you tell yourself without question! No arguments! So when you say, “No way! I can’t do that!” the mind simply says, “OK…you can’t!” and then blocks out ways for you to do it. However, if you say, “Absolutely…I know I can do that!” the brain not only accepts that just as quickly, it then helps you find a way to do it, and then gives you the energy to get it done!
So…a new way of thinking is to immediately throw away any notions that we are too old, or too young, or too uneducated, or too stuck in our ways to grow and learn and change. We can grow and change as much as we really want to! How exciting!!!
More to follow!