"Your Kingdom Is Your Brain" - Anthony Robbins

Other than regulating the bodily activities, the brain is an organ of the body inside the head that controls thoughts, memories and feelings.

The mind however, does not exist in any specific place. It is the center of consciousness that produces one's thoughts and feelings and the ability to reason.

Knowing the function of your marvelous and magnificent gray matter in the skull will allow you to condition it so that you can produce the results you want.

What it does...

• Stores your memories.

Every experience that you have seen, heard, felt, tasted or smelled in your life is stored in the cortex.

These mind recordings are brought into your conscious thoughts when triggered by outside events.

You use your five senses to store them. You can always recall them anytime. You can play back a scene that you have seen and hear a song in your head.

You can feel hungry just by the smell of your favorite food and feel your heart warming thinking of the touch of a loved one.

The stored memories simplify your life and make it easier for you to grasp the happenings in the world.

• Files and codes your experiences.

Your life experiences are stored inside your head and take up its own spatial location. You use your eyes to access the parts of the filing system. Your eye movements tell a lot about what is going on in your head.

When you are trying to remember something, your eyes will usually move up to the left. Your eyes will move to different directions when recalling a sound or a feeling that you have felt.

• Deletes and distorts your experience.

When you focus your mind on something, the brain deletes other things that you do not want from your attention.

It processes, codes and transforms whatever you experience and deliver the messages back to your representational system. This creates your feelings and your sense of knowing and believing.

However, it will also distort your perception and cause misinterpretations because you will only see what you are focusing on.

How does this gray matter affect your personal growth and success?

Many of us fail to reach success in life because we allow our gray matter to run on its own.

We let it flashes pictures and vivid reruns of our unpleasant experiences. We think that we have no power to control it.

If you just accept the interpretations that it shows you each time an event is triggered, you are going to limit your personal growth.

You are allowing it to weigh your alternatives to see what the impact of the outcome will yield for you.

And if you memories are associated to a lot of pain, you will get more of the things that you do not want in your life.

So what can you do?

• Tell it what to do.

Give it instructions and directions. Create new mental pictures of yourself. Change the self-image you have been portraying. You must give it goals to achieve and directions to move toward.

Whatever undesirable traits, behavior of habits that is limiting your growth and success need to start with changing the way you see yourself.

The brain does not differentiate an imagined or a real experience. You can use this knowledge to trick your brain by visualizing a different outcome.

Repetition of the patterns of thoughts will condition it to produce something new and soon it will become automatic.

• Play around with your memories.

If you were to pay attention, you will notice the colors, the sounds and the sensations that appear in your mental pictures.

You can consciously play around with the brightness of a disturbing picture just like how you do it with your light control switch.

You can mentally decrease the volume of a repetitive criticism or add any music to it.

Your memories can be distorted and once it is done the meaning will transform. It will affect your emotions and expressed in your body physically.

• Question and mindstorm.

It does matter how you ask yourself questions. If you ask yourself why bad things happen to you all the time, you will get all the reasons from your stored data.

However, if you ask yourself how you could do something better, you would receive more empowering answers.

Ask yourself better questions even if you think you do not yet have the answers.

If you repeatedly ask and focus on getting the answers, you will find the appropriate solutions to your problems and challenges.

The words you use have power. Your memory storage comprises of your language and your sensory representations.

How you word your language represents your experiences. How you ask yourself questions will determine the answers that you get.

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