Have you any idea how remarkably powerful your mind is?

#UnderThe Hood

The brain is the first organ to start developing in the foetus, as soon as 2 weeks after conception, and it’s the last to finish developing, well into our 20’s.

You’re born with 86 billion brain cells, called neurons, which will each make 1000’s of connections with other neurons, called synapses. The total number of synapses equate to more than there are, stars in the universe.

Each synapse processes millions of bits of information per second from your external environment, received through the 5 senses, as well as signals from every single organ and cell in your body, and responds by sending communication about what to do next, to and from the brain and throughout the body - Put a jumper on to warm up, reach for a glass of water to quench thirst, stretch your legs you’ve been sitting too long, duck there’s a bird there’s a bird just pooped in the sky, that kind of thing.

It ensures our heart keeps pumping, our lungs keep breathing and our digestion keeps us clearing out, even when you’re asleep and without any conscious effort required on your behalf. 

It learns quickly and loves habits, because they make you efficient - you can act on auto pilot without taking energy away from the task at hand.

But it doesn’t recognise habits as good or bad, only neutral. Healthy vs unhealthy food? Don’t care as long as you’ve eaten today.

It’s constantly scanning for threats to your safety, and in a split second, can cause you to react by fighting, freezing or fleeing said threat. 

But it doesn’t categorise threats in terms of the risk to life and how dangerous they are, the sound of your dreaded boss or thought of an inbox full of emails can feel trigger the same sense of fear in the body as a bus approaching at speed.

And it’s gathered a lot of intel throughout your life to date. Every interaction, experience, situation, conversation is stored at the synapses. Especially those that took place in your earlier years. Especially those with a big emotion attached to It - whether positive or not, those will leave a long lasting imprint on your brain.

As grownups we underestimate these experiences, but they shaped how you think, feel, behave and act today, and if you’ve reached the age of 35, 95% are the same as yesterday. 

So it’s no wonder life feels like Groundhog Day. And is it then any wonder why it’s so hard to change?

Because we try and change behaviours and habits by changing the things we DO, which will always come up against the brains conditioned responses. 

So the only way then, is to journey deep into the subconscious mind and reveal what’s causing the behaviour in the first place.

Beneath the Surface is a 14 day quest to free your mind, because when you do, you can achieve anything.

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