What YOU Believe About Yourself Is What's Holding YOU Back From What YOU Want

Who do YOU think YOU are if you have 2 brains?

How I used to respond to this question limited myself and kept me one dimensional.

Whom you may initially think to say you are is an avatar your unconscious mind created to help you identify as, in the world as a means of survival based on the environment you live and grew up in.

This identity, often called the "ego", is a set of memorized mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns formed over the lifetime of your existence until this very moment in time.

Our ego is affirmed every moment of every day by the body in a specific space and specific time, based on how we sense our environment.

By the time we are about 35, about 95% of how we operate as a human being is a programmed set of emotional reactions and behaviors that continue to affirm this identity, unconsciously, which creates our personal reality.

Whom you think you are is a manifestation of thinking and feeling loops that's the result of living your life based upon the environment in which you live until the very moment you decided to stop and think about who you are beyond the avatar you unconsciously created.

Who we are is formed over 3 parts of our brains.

The neocortex part of our brain is where our conscious mind resides and is responsible for sensory perception, reasoning, language, motor commands, and conscious thoughts.

Then we have the limbic part of our brain which is designed to control the chemical order within our neurological and hormonal systems.

The limbic brain acts as a mediator between our conscious thoughts and perceptions of experiences to what is implanted into our memories and hardwired into our subconscious.

Finally, we have the cerebellum which is referred to as the "seat of our subconscious mind".

Once we have an experience and it is sensed, and after we have created an emotional judgment of the experience, we then hardwire it into our subconscious self.

Thus, our conscious thinking brain made up whom we think we are based upon our past experiences cross-checked with our current experience in this space and time.

I often hear how "bummed" a client is that "their anxiety", fear, etc. shows up again after "disappearing" for some time.

I first address the language around the unwanted emotion. Using the word "my" to start off describing anything unwanted tells our unconscious mind that it's apart of us and in return, it signals our body and mind to find more evidence of this in our lives and drives that feedback loop further.

Second, I note how this awareness of an unwanted emotion or limiting belief showing up again is actually a great win!

This means we are leaving auto-pilot programming and now observing, which creates empowerment.

The more we notice past programming, the more probability we have to change. It starts by catching ourselves or thinking about what we are thinking, feeling, and doing.

This allows us to make a conscious new decision resulting in a new outcome or reality we experience. Each time we do this, we go from thinking to doing and from doing to being.

With every new shift in thinking, feeling, and behaving, we rewire our brains to become a new person. This is why it's very important to hold an ideal version of yourself (personality-wise, emotionally, and physically) in your mind that you're working towards.

Finally, understanding the biochemistry that occurs inside of us via 3 cause and effect chemicals for brain activity and bodily function is what has allowed me to create more awareness in my life and empowered me to understand what's going on as it occurs. This awareness has helped me make conscious choices when old programming occurs inside of me because I can recognize the emotion and trace it to a signal from my environment that's creating this emotional state.

1) Whenever we have a thought, our brains make a chemical called a neurotransmitter. Neurotransmitters are neurochemicals that are chemical messengers that primarily send signals between nerve cells, allowing the brain and nervous system to communicate. They can tell a neuron to unhook from its current connection or stick better and can even rewrite a message as it's being sent to a neuron stimulating nerve cells differently than before.

2) This then triggers neuropeptides that send very specific instructions through the bloodstream and attach to various tissues, primarily glands, which then turn on the third chemical known as 3) hormones.

Neuropeptides and hormones are responsible for our feelings. Once the hormones are released, the body sends a signal back to the brain that it's now feeling what the brain is thinking and acting accordingly. This allows the body to comply with the incoming signals to initiate matching reactions directly aligned with what the brain is thinking.

A simple way of understanding this is thoughts trigger neurotransmitters, which act as chemical messengers from the brain and mind. Neurotransmitters trigger neuropeptides as chemical signalers that serve the purpose of bridging the gap between the brain and body to make us feel the way we think, and hormones as the chemicals related to feelings primarily in the body which influence the way we behave.

Unless we pull the layers back, we may never understand the reality in which we live.

So, who do you think you are and are you ready to change aspects of yourself that you believe is holding you back?

If so, let's chat and see what we can bring to light to lead you to your success.