Excerpt from Reading Between the Lines, The Hidden Power of Language
Your Picture is Yours Alone
“How often do you look at someone and make a snap decision about them based on the situation you observe?
We all make judgment calls based on many factors, but the final decision to take action in any given situation is driven by our internal interpretation of that situation.
Each judgment call is a neural sub-net. Each neural sub-net is a personal picture.
It is a pre-wired response of some sort, driven by a specific series of historic experiences or beliefs. So you continuously build “experiential expectations” based on this history of sensory and emotional experiences.
These individual “experiential expectations” are the foundation of your primary neural-net, which is built upon the myriad of historical experiences and sensory input acquired during your lifetime.
Years of experiential feedback guide you through your daily existence without you even knowing it. This repetitive sensory input confirms the expectations you have of what your experience of life should be, so you speak, think and react out of habit instead of acting out of creative thought.
However, you are constantly testing and adding to these individual neural sub-nets of past experience with each new experience you encounter!
The question is, if these habits of thinking or speaking the same thousand words are subjected to new mental or sensory or emotional input can they be changed or affected? Can you evolve yourself by observing and controlling your thoughts and words?
Interestingly for our purpose, the mind does have the ability to evolve. It’s known as neuro-plasticity.
When you experience something new in your life, the layers of your previous experience try to assign that new experience a meaning based on your existing neural net. As a species we can quickly and easily categorize data based on this framework of previous experience.
However, a new experience can directly challenge your pre-existing categorized perceptions by presenting new or excess data previously unknown to you. This fresh experience doesn’t fit into your current framework of expectations.
When this occurs you can do one of three things:
- Create a new category within your existing neural-net (grow)
- Question the validity of those pre-existing expectations (evolve)
- Dismiss the experience (deny)
The first two options are forms of mental expansion while the latter is a form of mental stagnation. Right now you want to focus on becoming empowered through new knowledge, and expanding your picture of the world.
What will you do with this information?
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