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Understanding the Reticular Activating System

foreign [Music] activating system guys is crucially importante okay it's really really important we can probably most probably have a four day seminar on the reticular activating system okay that's how in detail we can go so the reticular activating system guys for you guys watching the reticular activating system is of crucial crucial importance for your focus the reticular activating system is literally a piece in your brain that regulates where you focus where your focus goes where your seven plus minus two goes this is the focus now obviously we have a limited we have a limited capacity of focus okay so this limited capacity of focus can only have so much information otherwise it's gonna fall out so how do we then determine what goes in and what goes out and that is the reticular activating system that determines that the reticular activating system determines what goes into that glass your seven plus minus two and what goes out because whatever it will be filled with attention will be given to that specific thing so if you fill it with um complaints and negativity it will find complaints and negativity as we spoke about earlier today now the reticular activity following scenario with who has this happened before you buy a car okay you do research on a car you buy the car you drive the car and now everyone is driving that car yes okay so it's not that there was more of those cars on the road Karen it is because you are now sensitive towards that specific car why because that car has a high value to you okay so when I did research on the laptop that I wanted to buy all I saw when I went to coffee shops is laptops why because that was the thing that was the most prevalent in my focus in that stage so your reticular activating system is the thing that will determine where your focus goes now this is probably one of the most important like controlling your state of mind is an incredibly important skill so this skill of putting your focus on a specific thing is of crucial crucial importance it's like my friend his wife is his wife is pregnant now and he's like bro do you have any idea how many pregnant women there are in the mall I'm like no my brother but it's the same amount of pregnant women in them all it's not that they just exponentially got more you just now pay attention to pregnant women because your wife is pregnant that's all no bro no I'm certain that's not the case no that is the case so the reticular activating system Gates braided to the average chapter that goes on in the mind if the average self-talk that goes on in the mind is negative then the reticular activating system is going to show you negative okay so the easiest way for me to explain this is the following with you guys are bad with names right bed with names okay now for some odd reason I don't know why this happens but you know when you walk with someone and then somebody comes along and you like oh what's the name hello and you walk away for some odd reason I don't know why when you're walking away when somebody's with you you're always like oh I'm so bad with names I don't know why we do that okay do you think it will get better or worse get worse if I don't do anything about it yeah it will get worse and the fact that I say yeah I am bad with names or when you see someone and you forgot their name you're like oh sorry I'm so bad with fames I don't know why we do that but we do that oh sorry I'm so bad with names no it's not that you're bad with names it's just you don't consciously pay attention when you meet people that's basically all so what I started doing was I literally started telling myself I'm good with names and I did a bit of research through to see what are some of the things we can do to remember people's names and there's a few things that I took from it and I started to apply that and I literally started telling myself I'm good with names now your reticular activating system is almost like a CIA team see it as the small little this the CIA team with with all of the the organizations members and all of the guys working there inside of your your reticular activating headquarters and if you tell your reticular activating system we are bad with names because that is the chatter that's been in your mind your whole life I'm bad with names I'm not good with names yeah it's difficult I'm not um what's going to happen is when somebody walks to you you've met them before they're going to be like guys guys guys guys guys guys guys forget the name forget the name forget the name and then you forget the name and then like mission accomplished sci-fi's all around if you start telling yourself you're good with names and you start telling yourself that hey I'm really good with names I don't know how that happens happens but literally I will meet people I will not see them for a month two three four months they will come approach like I will see them and I will like just their name will pop up into my mind because basically everything that you have seen goes into the mind it sits there and then what happens it starts to pull information and files to prove me right why do I say this because your reticular activating system will always prove you right although you might be wrong and that is what the reticular activating system does the reticular activating system is calibrated listen to what I'm trying to say to you it is calibrated to your self-talk so if your self-talk is self-talk is constantly I'm not worthy there's no man out there for me like let's say for a lady that is that can't find a husband or a spouse there's no guy out there for me I'm not worthy this is not what I I'm not capable I'm not um I can't be loved anymore then you are telling a reticular activating system you're calibrating him or however you want to see your musical activating system and you are saying to your reticular activating system guys find evidence to support this belief and it will delete everything out else to show you how what an amazing person you are and will show you how incompetent and how little work you have and how little value you can have and that there's really actually not a guy out there for you and every single time you see those things your mind's like see I told you so because the reticular activating system once again gets calibrated by your self-talk and your beliefs so if you have beliefs that money is bad Filthy Rich money doesn't go on the back of my on on my back you know money doesn't just grow on trees when your parents used to have those type of language what do I look like the bank what do we look like like whatever the case might be what what do I look like does it look like money grows on on my back what happens once you got calibrated since you were young that money is a bad thing and now your mind will any sign or signal that will show you about money bad negativity it will pick it up that chatter will start even to go yeah look at that guy he must have inherited that Michelle [Music] it is exactly that so your reticular activating system is literally the thing that's literally right now getting you to look at me and to focus at what I'm saying that is your reticular activating system is doing that okay so in your mind depending on the expectation that you had you came in you were looking maybe for a certain answer for a certain thing that's currently going on in your life that is not where it should be you are maybe looking for certain answers and having an expectation that it will be resolved whatever coming what what comes out of my mouth that is remotely related to that specific thing and that it might be able to help solve that specific issue you will boom foreign so it's this simple little exercise that I want you guys to do and you guys at home what I want you guys to do right now is close your eyes right now everybody close your eyes and I want you to experience how amazing the brain works when you start to put your focus and your attention on one specific thing that specific thing would be the color red so just in your mind's eye see the color red to see the color red now on three I want you guys to open up your eyes and look for everything in this room that is red one two three look for everything that is red red red red red red red red red red red red red red red red red red uh uh phenomenal okay Karen what did you pick up that's red that you didn't notice before the Coca-Cola can a little bit the A4 thing that's thicker Ernest what did you pick up that's red that you didn't notice oh that thing on your shoe okay interesting the sanitizer is a bottle yes the red chair at the back I I noticed the red frames of your glass okay that okay do you guys see how quickly you if you guys see how quickly you pick up red like when you say red red okay ohness what did you see that is green oh well I didn't ask you to look for green the trees you get what I'm saying okay the tree is out there so yeah even this I knew I didn't even notice this little thing I don't know what it is until I looked for the color red so do you guys now see how quickly when you just tell your mind just look for red how quickly it picks up everything that is read literally even that chair that is not actually like red is like maroon-ish whatever the case might be your brain's like that is remotely linked to Red Green maybe something that's even a bit Brown pinkish purplish like bring bring okay so when you say it's a force of attraction yeah that the reticular activating system the secret in my opinion okay I'm gonna be trade very carefully now the secret in my opinion is the reticular activating system on steroids they are basically telling you what to do but they don't tell you about the reticular activating system the reticular the the secret movie and the book is almost like making a reticular activating system so sensitive towards what you want that it will only start to pick up what you really want and now we think we're attracting those things but Meanwhile we're just paying more attention to those things you get what I'm saying now I'm going to contradict myself completely I also do believe in attraction and energy that that vibrates on certain levels connected to your feelings and how you feel about yourself that just comes and brings about certain things that happen in your life which I call in my life I call that Grace I call that just somewhere along the line somebody's going to come and they're going to help you out and that is what I call Grace but I do believe also once again that there is certain things that happen but the fact that you're going to visualize that you're gonna flip and earn this money and drive drive that car or have that relationship with your spouse and you after that like Jim Carrey said eat a sandwich that's not gonna work so that visualization and attraction needs to be backed up with action but very often what the law of attraction in my opinion does it sensitizes your actions and makes your actions far more intentional with regard to with regards to what you visualized sorry so the law of attract when you start to visualize so the law of attraction is all about visualization and feeling that emotion right so the law of attraction makes your actions more intentional when you when you when you act out whatever you need to act out to attract whatever you want the basic premise of the reticular activating system is the following it will show you what you believe about yourself point it will show you what you believe about yourself and um it will prove you right although you might be wrong okay and and vice versa if you start telling yourself certain things about yourself that you really may not believe like that you are good with finances and and and and and and and you really maybe feel at the current moment that you're not yes at the beginning it might feel a bit awkward and weird to say those things about yourself but if you start having that chatter with yourself it will start showing up you will start it will start showing you like I've got this thing that I say I've got this Mantra very often I tell myself I've got a 45 year old brain I've got a 45 year old brain like I am so mature I'm at the age of I'm at the level of a 45 year old like that's what I tell myself constantly so very often when I'm in a in a in a situation I don't know what to do I will just repeat that remember Franco you're you've got the experience of a 45 year old okay and then what starts to happen is my brain now starts to show me evidence of things that I have done before that might just indicate to me that I am maybe might be at the level of a 45 year old although the case is that's not completely the case but because I've been telling myself that my brain starts to show me evidences see I told you you like that see I told you so and that c I Told You So can be either negative or positive empowering or disempowering okay that is the reticular activating system remember your reticular activating system loves you it wants to prove you right [Music]