BIKERS CLUB FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE | Page 31

GET WHAT YOU WANT through your subconscious mind Get what you want, through your subconscious mind. Your brain is built to reinforce and regulate your life. Your subconscious mind is the gatekeeper of your comfort zone. Your subconscious mind has something called a homeostatic impulse, which regulates functions like body temperature, heartbeat and breathing. "Through your automatic nervous system, your homeostatic impulse maintains a balance among the hundreds of chemicals in your billions of cells so that your entire physical machine functions in complete harmony most of the time." It is also the realm in which you can either habituate yourself to expect, and routinely seek the actions that would build and reinforce, the greatest success, happiness, wholeness or healing of your life. But what many people don't realize is that just as your brain is built to regulate your physical self, as does it try to regulate your mental self. Your mind is constantly filtering and bringing to your attention information and stimuli that affirms your preexisting beliefs (this is known in psychology as confirmation bias) as well as presenting you with repeated thoughts and impulses that mimic and mirror that which you've done in the past. Here, a few ways to start retraining / reprogramming your mind to be your ally, not your enemy.