Do you believe that for many situations/beliefs you could re-program your brain?
Sometimes imagining pictures, emotions, "hearing" sounds or words we want to hear can go a long way in changing our attitude.
The brain processes the signals it receives from the outside through the five main senses – sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. They can be real (something that actually happens to us) or imagined (something we want to cause to happen to us). You've probably heard the story about the lemon: “Imagine you're at home. You go to the refrigerator in the kitchen, open it, pull out the cabinet for storing fruits and vegetables. There you see a lemon. You take it, close the locker, then the refrigerator door. You go to the kitchen counter, pick up a cutting board and a knife. You cut the lemon in half, then take one half, cut it into two more pieces. You take a juicy quarter of the lemon, put it in your mouth and squeeze the juice of the lemon with your teeth.” Did you feel more saliva in your mouth? This happens to most people. It is enough for the brain to set the scenario and it will create the right sensations based on past experience.
The brain gives a name to what is happening around us, to the emotions we experience and makes associations. We think about something, then a thought comes to us about the previous thought, and then a new one about the previous one, which we enrich more and more. This creates connections between emotions/thoughts that often remain in the unconscious. These repetitive thoughts shape our emotion, and this can be both to our advantage and to our detriment, depending on what we have made the brain think about what is happening.
Very often it can happen that the way we perceive a situation is different from reality. It is "symbolically" in our head, and it is a matter of interpretation how we will perceive it. If we have an unpleasant memory of an event, we may try to remember something good about the same event to push out the negative. Of course, the brain needs training and repetition in order to successfully cope with tasks like this and subsequently apply what it has learned to other situations. It is also necessary to set yourself up so that your focus is in the right direction - on positive, rather than negative emotions.
Take, for example, something that makes you angry. Then consider forgiving the person that angered you. Take that same anger and embrace it with love. Add a pinch of calm to the situation. Which emotion are you thinking about the most right now?
