Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

If the limbic brain had a motto, it might be: Experience is for the body.

If the neocortex had a motto, it might be: Knowledge is for the mind.

You have to feel as though whatever you want is in your reality at this very moment.

The moment you begin to feel the way you think, you begin to think the way you feel

experience enriches the brain even further than new knowledge.

You alternated between obsessing about an unwanted future (anticipating what would come next) and living in the past (comparing stimuli you were receiving to what you received previously), so you created more of the same.

But if we always relive the same ones, we can’t embrace any new experiences. Have you known people who always seem to talk about “the good old days”? What they’re really saying is: Nothing new is happening in my life to stimulate my feelings; therefore I’ll have to reaffirm myself from some glorious moments in the past.

By definition, emotions are the end products of past experiences in life.

Your body has been conditioned to be negative; it knows how to be unhappy better than your conscious mind knows otherwise.

The moment we listen to those subvocalizations, believe those thoughts, and respond by feeling the same familiar feelings, mental amnesia sets in and we forget our original aim.