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The Five Core Components To Building Rapid Success (Part 4)

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(…continued from last week)

Build A Vision

You don’t have to have every detail but you’ve got to have at least a picture of where you want to get to, and begin to break it into bit by bit steps.

Success requires this process. Whether the success is a dream vacation, writing music, making a better income, or improving your health and increasing your energy. You need to create a plan of action.

For example, a few years back I had a client come to me who had been having anxiety and panic attacks for nearly 10 years. I don’t know if you’ve ever had an anxiety or panic attack, but medical research says that most people experience one or two of them during their lifetime. They can be caused by chemical imbalances, by hormones, by stress, many different reasons. But most people experience one of them, or maybe a few, in their life.

This poor person was having them on a daily basis for over 10 years!. He had tried just about everything. He had been to doctors. He had tried medications. He had tried acupuncture, hypnosis, exercises, vitamins, on and on. Some things helped a little bit, but he just couldn’t beat the recurring panic attacks.

Through this there were so many things that he had had to change his life for that he had given up. For instance, he was really a good athlete in lots of areas. He couldn’t go skiing. He got so nervous when he was up on the hill he was thinking “Well, I’m too far away from anybody. And, what if I had a panic or anxiety attack up here and I fainted or I flopped around on the snow or died. There’s nobody around me.” His anxiety just ruled him.

Or he couldn’t play softball any longer because of the pressure. He would try to get out and play, but he would fear looking stupid, or looking bad, or that something would happen. He didn’t want to subject his teammates to what if he had an anxiety attack right in the middle of a game and couldn’t play and ruined the game.

He was a manager in his corporate office. He oftentimes had to get up in front of groups and make presentations. He couldn’t do it. His anxieties got so overwhelming that he could no longer present to his group.

He said the biggest thing that he missed was things that he used to do with his children. He remembered it was always fun at Christmas time to go shopping with his wife, or to go to the mall with is family. He couldn’t go out in those crowds. They just absolutely made him horrified. He had to stop going to children’s sporting events. He could go to one every once in awhile, but if there were many people there, he couldn’t take the pressure. He hadn’t gone to see his children’s plays and the events at school for years.

We used the same process I’m talking to you about. We set goals. He had a vision. He knew where he wanted to go. So we turned it into a step by step plan. He created new visions, new outcomes. He retrained his self-talk to be more positive and focused on good outcomes. One of the things that happens to people with panic attacks is their self-talk becomes very negative. It’s like there’s a critic inside of them blasting at them all the time.

Using Your Brain For A Change

In your physical brain you have about a hundred billion neurons. Those neurons have about 1,000+ synapses each, which means you have somewhere around a 100 trillion connections in your brain. There are two types of neurons. There are axons and dendrites. Axons are the little nerves which send messages around inside of the brain. On average an axon is about one micron thick.

Brain researchers using CAT scans have seen that the neurons that we use highly, can be as much as three to six neurons in thickness.

We use all of our brain but there are certain pathways we use more than others. Those that are highly used or trafficked area the ones that can become three to six microns in thickness. That’s a huge difference! The more you use a specific train of thought, the more you do a certain behavioral pattern, the more you focus on specific aspects of your life, the larger the axons of that part of the brain grow.

But it’s also true that when axons quit being used as much, they shrink and become smaller. It’s rather like a muscle. Without use it will begin to atrophy and it gets smaller. And so it is with the neurons in your brain.

A nerve that gets fired frequently increases in size because it’s a pipeline of energy. Think about it that way. As the quantity of energy flows through the pipeline increases, the pipe must expand. The more energy you give to your focus, the more that you energize and expand the nerves.

In the case of anxiety attacks, that pipeline gets these huge blasts of energy because of that scare or the intense concern. So one of the jobs really of eliminating anxiety and panic attacks is to shrink a certain set of neurons, and expand new neuron pathways.

This gentleman basically over a period of months eliminated his anxiety and panic attacks through use of visualization of outcomes he wanted. He reinforced these images with powerful self-affirming self-talk about what he could do and about what he would do. He had clear goals. He knew step by step by step because we set out a plan for him.

He listened to tapes. He practiced deep relaxation techniques. He focused on where he wanted to go. He believed in what he was doing, and believed his goal was achievable. He learned more physical control over his body.

He affirmed all of this by re-focusing on his confidence, his potential, and who he could be. Day by day he built a new positive neurological pathway. And the old pathway began to shrink from disuse. Seeing, hearing and feeling what he wanted, NOT what he didn’t want.

(to be continued…)


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