Learn It Live It Give It with Jairek Robbins
Health:Self-Help
I don’t know about you but personally I’vehad all kind of experiences in life – great, interesting, bad, horrible, tough,challenging, fun experiences – all kind! What’s interesting is somethinghappens in our nervous system, a research concept that proves this to be true,as we go through life when we have significant emotional event is that isstarts to leave triggers or little marks on our nervous system that reminds uswhen it starts to happen again how we are supposed to respond and what is aboutto happen next.
Let’s say you’re in a relationship and you’vefallen in love, everything is amazing, beautiful, and incredible and you’re soin love. All of a sudden, one day you were listening to a very specific song onthe radio and you are thinking about your lover and how amazing they are. Allof a sudden they call you and dump you. I hate to bring up bad memories but I’msure it has happened to any one of you. Here’s the crazy part: let’s say youare in a brand new relationship with a totally different human being, you’regoing through your day, everything is awesome and that song comes on the radioand as you’re listening to the song you’re thinking about all these moments ofhow fun the song is and all of the sudden this memory hits you. Right when thememory hits you of the time this happened, the phone rings and it’s yourboyfriend/ girlfriend of the moment. What do you think is going in on yournervous system? Whether it’s true or not, you’re nervous system starts toreact: “I’ve been on this road, I know what’s about to happen! They’re going tobreak up with me!” and you pick up the phone and “Hello?” “Hey! What’s up?” andyou start acting and maybe get mad at them, “I don’t want to talk right now!” andyou hang up on them and they would think what is wrong with you. They justcalled because they care about you and to say “I love you,” but your nervoussystem is linked up to past experience that was painful to a current experienceand thought THIS means THAT. It’s not true. THIS does not mean THAT.
Let me give you a little bit of sciencebehind this. There is a study done by Martin Seligman years ago where he tookanimals and put them in a cage. What he did was he put a little space inbetween so there are two sides that you can step on and on one side he put alever for the animal. On that side there were turn on and shock. Light currentunderneath their foot which would hurt and there was a lever. Then one cagethey allowed that if the animal hit the lever it would shut off the electricshock. In the other cage, they created the same lever and they made it donothing, whichever they do the electric shock does not stop – which soundspretty bad! They did the first round, the animal finally figured out how toturn off the shock. The other animal no matter what it did with the switch itdid not stop. Then they stopped it, pull them out, let them walk around and doother stuff. Put them back in and this time they gave both animals the abilityto control the electric shock. The first animal who was able to turn it off thefirst time, quickly turned it off and shut the electric shock. The animal who’slever did not work the first time, lied down and just suffered through theshock.
What does this mean to you? Where in yourlife right now are you allowing old triggers, old stuff that happened to linkup in your head that there is no point in even trying to change how it is? Isit in relationships, business, your finances, emotional life?
Where have you assumed it’s not even worthtrying anymore? Because maybe God, Universe or Mother Nature is giving youanother chance to making the switch active this time so when you do it, IT WILLACTUALLY WORK.
I want you to take a moment to dig throughyour emotions and identify what’s the couple of areas your brain is linked upthis means that and it’s not true anymore? Don’t allow something that happened10 years ago, 10 months ago or 10 days ago to dictate what you’re about to doin the future. I believe in learning from mistakes. I also believe in notallowing your brain to make assumptions that are not always true.
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