If I were to
ask what was the most important characteristic for overcoming
procrastination, for persistence, and long-term achievement, most
would answer by saying willpower. That would not be an unusual
answer, but it would be wrong.
Willpower is vastly overrated as the leading trait used
by success-minded achievers. If we keep this discussion on a
scientific level, willpower cannot be responsible for more than
one-sixth of anyone’s success.
The real secret to success is your imagination and your
ability to visualize success. This powerful trait is responsible for
five-sixths of every great achievement.
Suppose that you have set a goal to lose 10 pounds. You
are absolutely determined to be 10 pounds lighter by next month! You
are using your willpower to prove that you are stronger and more
powerful than those extra cookies and calories.
So you say to yourself, “I will not overeat... I will
not overeat... You repeat this to yourself over and over again,
using your willpower. But all the time you are consciously saying
this, your imagination is visualizing how great those cookies smell,
and telling you how great those cookies taste. Sooner or later you
will grab those cookies or extra calories and chug them down. Why?
Whenever you have a conflict between willpower and your
imagination, whenever they are pulling in opposite directions, your
imagination will ALWAYS win!
But if your willpower and imagination are working
together, pulling toward the SAME goal, this will create an
all-powerful force that is impossible to overcome, and success is
always the automatic, inevitable result.
Now this sounds great, but how does this work
scientifically? Most sources of self-help tell you “what” you should
do. But very few tell you “how” things work. KNOWLEDGE is the real
key to success.
Revolutionary brain-science discoveries have been made
in the last few years. In that research lays the proof of the above
theory and how you can put this to use in your life to overcome
procrastination, and reach transcendent levels of success.
While using a PET scanner to verify that indeed most
people solve math problems in the left side of the brain,
neuroscientists made a startling discovery.
A PET scanner is used to take a scan-image of the
brain. The subject is injected with a very small amount of
radioactive isotopes, then placed in the scanner, in which an
electromagnetic device passes a very thin electromagnetic field
through their brain.
The part of the brain that is “thinking” at that time
will have excess amounts of blood-flow, which, due to the radiation,
shows up on the PET scan.
In the math function tests, each of the subject's brain
scan lit up in a similar area of their left-brain.
But something else occurred that the scientists had not
predicted. The brain scan also lit up in 5 other areas of the brain!
This was a startling discovery, in that it verified that your brain
is constantly “thinking” on six or more levels at once.
In additional testing, subjects were given a math
problem to solve and a sedative that was slowly increased, until
they fell asleep.
What happened? The light on the scan image representing
the math thinking, WENT OUT! But the other five areas of the brain
scan that were lit, stayed lit.
CONCLUSION? You are constantly thinking on 6 levels at
once, but only at the conscious level, are you aware of your
thoughts and ideas.
The other five areas are known as your nonconscious
brain or what used to be called the subconscious brain by
non-neuroscientists.
When the scan-light went out for the conscious thinking
and math problem-solving, as each subject fell asleep, all of the
other areas stayed lit.
This means that you are always thinking at your
nonconscious levels. No matter that you may be consciously asleep.
Your imagination and powers of visualization reside in
your nonconscious brain.
Your willpower resides in the conscious brain.
Your conscious brain represents one-sixth of your
brain's thinking power.
Your nonconscious brain represents five-sixths of your
brain's thinking power.
Which part of your brain is most important to control?
Which is more powerful: one-sixth or five-sixths?
Your nonconscious brain has five times the power of
your conscious brain.
Therefore anytime you have a conflict between your
willpower, which functions in your conscious brain (1/6), and your
imagination, which functions in your nonconscious brain (5/6), who
is ALWAYS going to win?
Yep! Your visualization and imagination of the taste of
those cookies-every time!
So what can you do to fix this?
Well there is another scientific principle involved
here.
Your mind sees only in pictures. If I were to ask you
to close your eyes and remember what you did first thing after you
got up this morning, you would see this in pictures. You would not
see this written on a page of notebook paper in your brain!
Because you are aware of what you think consciously,
your conscious brain can see things and think things through and
filter out negative pictures and give thoughts (mind-pictures) true
meaning or perception.
You CANNOT filter out the negatives from your
nonconscious thoughts because you're not even aware of what that
thinking (picture) is!
So when you say to yourself, “I will not overeat!” Your
conscious brain (1/6) can give this true meaning, but your
nonconscious brain (5/6) sees a picture of, “Overeat!” “Overeat”!
And boy does your nonconscious listen to you!! It is
not at all uncommon for people who want to lose weight to actually
gain weight!
Have you ever said to your children, “Whatever you do,
don’t spill the milk!”?
Five/Sixth of their brain, sees a perfect picture of
what?
That’s right! “Spill the milk!”
Kids listened well at my house. They always spilled the
milk.
SOLUTION: How do you solve this problem? Now that you
know the scientific basis, it’s easy. Do the math!
You’ve got to get your nonconscious brain, 5/6 of your
brain-power, in line with your conscious-willpower brain, 1/6 of
your brain-power.
You must use your imagination to dream and visualize
all of the positive benefits you can gain by losing ten pounds and
bombard your nonconscious brain with these pictures so that your
entire brain is working toward the same end.
Instead of saying “I will not overeat!” say, “I am fit,
and thin, because I eat healthy foods!” See yourself doing so as you
say this!
Also, start seeing yourself doing the things you will
be able to do afteryou lose weight.
Start visualizing every single benefit of that goal.
Then your entire brain is working in the same direction. And no
matter what your goal is, weight-loss or other great goals, your
success will be automatically guaranteed. You won't need willpower
anymore.
After about thirty days of imagining and visualizing
your success, your brain will have created enough new neurode
connection-patterns, so that it will automatically take the steps
necessary to reach your goals.
You won't have to do it; your brain will do it for you!
Willpower is overrated! Oh, it’s still important. You
need to use it to make the initial decision to change.
But once that decision to change is made with
willpower, use your imagination in your nonconscious brain to make
that willpower decision stick, permanently!
Procrastination will disappear, persistence and long
term success and achievement will take its place. Not a thing you
can do to stop it.
Your brain will be programmed for Success.
Automatically!
MOTIVATION AUTOMATION!
For more information, visit
http:www.scienceforsuccess.com |
