Using Subconscious Thought To Change Conscious Behavior

Neuroplasticity:

There are reasons for the things you decide to do, or not do. Regularly you may find yourself doing the very thing you didn't need to do. While you may not always recognise your motivation, it is generally present. The motivators that are easily recognized are in your conscious awareness and those that aren't, reside in your subconscious.

This is where it becomes fuzzy for the majority. It is better to tackle conscious behaviours than the ones that lie below the surface. It isn't uncommon for people to create associations based totally on life experiences. Frequently you won't be aware it has happened, but the memory (how you felt about the situation) remains locked in your subconscious. When a choice must be made concerning that behavior in the future, the association will be accessed and it can innocently influence your behaviour.

For example if you weren't athletic growing up and you have distressing memories of gym class, that association can still nag at you whenever you think about exercise. The majority do not look awfully enough into their private history to look for these concealed roadblocks. But when you realize that they exist you can start to create a new more positive association.

Thanks to the neuroplasticity of the brain, scientists are finding that you can create new neural pathways in the mind. Neuroplasticity is the power to change the structure and working of the brain through experiences and the conscious use of directed thoughts. Much of behavior derives from those deeper associations in the mind, by creating new associations and redirecting your plans, you have got the chance to move your inner inducement.

This makes doing many of the things which were once hard to stick to, more fascinating in the first place. If you can influence that inner inducement, you will be giving your activities the best chance for success. By reappraising how you understand a situation, you can begin to build your own resilience and improve psychological welfare. Research is showing that when you choose to direct your thoughts you can immediately affect your wishes or inducements.

A secondary aspect to the research was the minds natural desire towards negative associations. They have demonstrated that negative information has a bigger result on the brain than does positive. This “negativity bias” is a result of the of the fight-or-flight reply, turned on during negative experiences. The negativeness bias often occurs outside conscious awareness, so the first step in counteracting it is to realise it exists.

The brain gives more attention to negative experiences because they pose the threat of danger. The increased heart beat rate and rush of adrenaline that occur with the fight-or-flight reply cause the negative events to be experienced more intensely, therefore imprinting them in the brain more resolutely. The challenge becomes the proper way to apply positive stimuli in such a fashion that it has bigger influence in shaping the brain than the negative experiences.

Your brain automatically makes you aware of possible threats in the environment, whereas positive awareness takes a deliberate effort. To be effective, you need to make your grey matter more respondent to positive than negative. One way is to appreciate what the reward center in your brain reacts to.

Much of how you react in a situation is due to the way in which the reward center in your cerebral cortex functions. When you are feeling pleasure or reward, you'll seek that experience again, however if you have a negative or anxiety causing experience, you will probably shy away from that behaviour in the future. The brain records the feelings that were felt, much like a chemical fingerprint on that memory. When the memory is accessed again, so will the reciprocal emotion.

Because experiences vary from person to person, as well as ones natural disposition it becomes far more crucial to understand what some of your personal triggers for reward could be. The more that you access the negative, the more the brain will monitor for other possible threats. This vicious cycle is what leads people into a negative downward spiral of depression and anxiety. This recurring negative feedback loop can cause heavy mental trouble, if not countered or interrupted.

Negative experiences are sometimes unavoidable, but reframing or reinterpreting the feedback loop is achievable. Redefining negative situations in more positive terms can help to counter the adverse effects. Thru conscious effort and the powers of neuroplasticity, folk inclined to negativism can redirect their thoughts to reflect a rather more positive viewpoint. This is valuable because how you recall a situation (not what really happened) will really affect your association and the subconscious reaction you have. When the behavior is experienced again.

Thought repetition will imprint the data in your brain like a well-worn trail. Permitting you access that positive emotion with less effort. By consciously practicing reframing, you make a determined decision to switch how you understand a situation. This one choice could be the catalyst that moves your life in the direction of your ambitions. It can be difference between the habits you keep and the ones you do not.

“Wellness Matters” Article Series by Lisa Schilling RN, CPT
Speaker, Writer, Well-ness Coach & Advisor

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