Reticular activating system

Inventing your future...

We know that the way you´ve been conditioned, trained, and educated can blind you to options and opportunities in your life, just as you were blinded to the word ººFLYºº We also know that, even if you´re open minded, your senses can´t provide all the information that´s available. Some of it simply ins´t accesible at present. And if you were made aware of everything bombarding you within your perceptual capability, you´d go stark raving mad. you ever get a haircut and have the hair fall down your back.? You get itchy and scratchy. That´s exactly how you´d feel, because the movement of every hair on your body sends a message to the central cortex of your brain for a response. If you needed to be aware of all the light and all the smells and all the tastes and all the sounds, it would drive you nuts. So you have a filtering device in your brain which screens the information for you, and lets only some of it get through to your consciousness.

I emphasized the importance of fixing, in your mind, a vivid picture of your goals. I said that once a specific goal is imprinted in your subconscious, an ººalerting device in your brain can than help you find information you need to accomplish it. That unique device is the filtering device I just described: The reticular activating system. It´s the most essential tool you have to lead you to success.

Reticular means ººnet-likeºº So, it´s a net-like system of circuits running from the middle of the brainstem to the cerebrum, the seat of all our conscious mental processes. This system controls arousal, attention, awareness. It´s job is to determine which of the thousands of messages bombarding your nervous system simultaneously are the most urgent, and it lets through only those messages. It screens out the junk mail. If you were an executive, and you had everyone knocking on your door vying for your attention, you couldn´t concentrate. If you needed to an answer every phone call yourself, and every piece of mail, you couldn´t get anything done. Like a good executive secretary, your reticular activating system knows who to let in to see the boss.

While it´s letting urgent information through, it is also filtering out and building scotomas to irrelevant information. That prevents an overload. The reticular activating system only sends you information that you´ve decided is of value to you right now. It locks out everything else. Once you achieve a goal, the information of value about that goal no longer gets through. So the reticular activating system keeps current with your needs. When you understand this, you can set bigger goals with broader vision because, once you set a specific goal, you know that the information you need will start rushing through.

Do you see what I´m encouraging you to do? See why it´s important to be vision-oriented, goal-oriented, end result-oriented even though you presently don´t know where the information, resources, and people you need are coming from? I´m talking about having belief without evidence. Mediocrity demands the evidence before building belief: ººShow me. Where´s it coming from? How will we get it done? High performance operates in the reverse. Once you set a specific goal, you have the belief, the faith that you´ll find what you need and then the evidence starts shooting through. If you don´t have faith in how you work, you don´t see the evidence: It´s right in front of your nose. No it isn´t...

So the key to your future is realizing that your goals should always transcend your current reality. If you visualize the goal as if it´s already been achieved, you will then find what you need to achieve it. Remember: Most people base their future only on what they know presently. If they can´t figure out how they´ll accomplish a goal based on their present resources and skills, they´ll say, ººWell, we can´t do it yetºº and they´ll back the goal up closer to their present reality: We have to wait a few months before we go ahead.ºº If you know about the reticular activating system, you don´t wait. You define your goal without the slightest idea. beforehand, about how to accomplish it, and click the ººhowºº comes through like it was invented for you. Business opportunities, knowledge, resources, finances, whatever you need..

I tell you this to give you great hope. This is information that most people don´t have and won´t use. But those of us who use it have tremendous fun getting things done in our lives. We find people, money, resources, adventure, everything. That´s the way I learned. And that´s what I telling you. Once you switch on your reticular activating system ººclickºº you become a selective information-finder of the greatest magnitude ...