Before we proceed to using systematic approach in
1. your problems healing/solving,
and
2. getting real miracles from
your desires,
I want to open the greatest secret
about brain,
Our brains are not for
thinking!
Brain is a super organ for
your body for dealing with physical environments. When we are awake, our brain
intermediates our
- vision,
- hearing,
- sensations,
- smells perception,
- tastes and
- movements,
- interest and attention in the
outer world,
- people,
- emotions,
- reactions,
- intents,
- intelligence and personal
meaning about everything,
through our body, hands, arms,
skin, mouth, face, lips, tongues, etc.
There are plenty of natural mechanisms
within our brain-body system, organized by biological
intelligence (Koch & Ullman, 1985; Grossberg, 1999a; Grossberg &
Raizada, 2000; Itti & Koch, 2001; Culham & Kanwisher, 2001; Rajeev & Grossberg, 2003; Grossberg,
2006).
But brain never thinks instead
of us! Those, who believed in this myth, often experience pain, so-called “inner
self-talking”, ‘inner voices’ and fall into depression or gloomy moods. In
these cases, PET-scanning registers active processes in region of
brain called Broca’s area (Barnaby, 1995).
Broca’s area (red
circle on the diagram)
People differ in the amount that they pay attention to their
internal self talk. Those who talk a lot are
called “Ruminators” in cognitive psychology (Bolstad
& Hamblett, 2000).
Rumination in itself is not a problem. But combined with a permanent, pervasive explanatory style, this pattern cements
depression in place.
Seligman (1997, p 82-83)
points out: “The more you
are inclined to ruminate, the more it arises. The more it arises, the more
depressed you will be. Brooding, thinking about how bad things will be, starts
the sequence. Ruminators get this chain going all the time.”
The person feels an
uncomfortable feeling (F).
They then talk about how permanent
that will be and tell themselves off (T).
They then check how they feel
now (F).
Not surprisingly, they feel
worse (F).
They then talk about that (T).
This is the strategy of
failure.
Formula
of failure and depression
Mental strategy is the
succession of elements of experience to get certain outcomes or results (ex. states of pleasure vs. negative feelings).
Any strategy can be recorded as a mathematical formula.
This strategy describes an
active ongoing self-hypnotic process. Potentially it is a healthy process. In
anticipating future challenges, we estimate the significance of the challenge,
and the strength of our resources to respond to that challenge (Beck and Emery,
1985).
In the case of depression, the
focus is on past experiences – failures, losses and defeats which have already
happened and are thus fixed facts. The depressed person may not even have a bright future of success,
let alone to have goals in. Their comments about life and their own self are
thus based on a “permanent pervasive style” of explanation (“This is the way I
and other things are; everything is like this, and it always will be”). The
depressed person has understandably little interest in doing anything, because
they expect failure (“What’s the
point, it only gets you to the same place I’ve always been – nowhere.”).
If we fill this strategy (i.e.
succession of elements) with positive contents, words and emotions, we will get
what we want.
Mental
strategy of success
That is why it is important to
enrich your intelligence and create your own concepts of success.
Think about it, because when
we learn with you how to use systematic approach with desired outcomes, you
will have to talk about them only in positive manner and language.
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Natalia Levis-Fox
