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John Assaraf

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

and their experiences. Now, if you've been in the self-help world where you read positive stuff, you're around positive people, you've seen people overcome health issues, financial issues, business issues, relationship issues, whatever it is, you see that, then those possibility thoughts are there too. But negative and positive are always there.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

Our strength comes from what is it that I'm choosing to latch onto and increase the amplitude of the vibration with my focus and attention. So awareness is what gives us choice, and the choice is what expands through our decisions. So you're never going to be able to control 6,200 thoughts. Your brain is naturally wired to find the negative for survival, safety, avoidance of pain or discomfort.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

Our strength comes from what is it that I'm choosing to latch onto and increase the amplitude of the vibration with my focus and attention. So awareness is what gives us choice, and the choice is what expands through our decisions. So you're never going to be able to control 6,200 thoughts. Your brain is naturally wired to find the negative for survival, safety, avoidance of pain or discomfort.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

Our strength comes from what is it that I'm choosing to latch onto and increase the amplitude of the vibration with my focus and attention. So awareness is what gives us choice, and the choice is what expands through our decisions. So you're never going to be able to control 6,200 thoughts. Your brain is naturally wired to find the negative for survival, safety, avoidance of pain or discomfort.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So it is a part of your brain you want to start loving. Now, Barbara Fredrickson did some research many, many years ago, and it's now known as the three to one positivity to negativity ratio. For every negative thought that you find yourself like latching onto, stop, replace it with three positive thoughts. Now you start to tilt the ratio, you know, in your favor.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So it is a part of your brain you want to start loving. Now, Barbara Fredrickson did some research many, many years ago, and it's now known as the three to one positivity to negativity ratio. For every negative thought that you find yourself like latching onto, stop, replace it with three positive thoughts. Now you start to tilt the ratio, you know, in your favor.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So it is a part of your brain you want to start loving. Now, Barbara Fredrickson did some research many, many years ago, and it's now known as the three to one positivity to negativity ratio. For every negative thought that you find yourself like latching onto, stop, replace it with three positive thoughts. Now you start to tilt the ratio, you know, in your favor.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So you have way fewer what we call automatic negative thoughts. You replace them with automatic positive thoughts. Automatic negative emotion, ANAPTS is what we call the first one. AN is what we call automatic negative emotions. Emotions are triggered in the subconscious mind to give rise to feelings.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So you have way fewer what we call automatic negative thoughts. You replace them with automatic positive thoughts. Automatic negative emotion, ANAPTS is what we call the first one. AN is what we call automatic negative emotions. Emotions are triggered in the subconscious mind to give rise to feelings.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So you have way fewer what we call automatic negative thoughts. You replace them with automatic positive thoughts. Automatic negative emotion, ANAPTS is what we call the first one. AN is what we call automatic negative emotions. Emotions are triggered in the subconscious mind to give rise to feelings.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So if I have an automatic negative emotion or feeling, what does a Hollywood actor or actress do when they say to them, okay, scene two, take one. I want you to be angry in this role. And the actor actually goes, what do you mean I can't go over there today? I want to go over there today. And they say, okay, act two, scene two, be super happy about it. I said, wow, I get to go there today.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So if I have an automatic negative emotion or feeling, what does a Hollywood actor or actress do when they say to them, okay, scene two, take one. I want you to be angry in this role. And the actor actually goes, what do you mean I can't go over there today? I want to go over there today. And they say, okay, act two, scene two, be super happy about it. I said, wow, I get to go there today.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

So if I have an automatic negative emotion or feeling, what does a Hollywood actor or actress do when they say to them, okay, scene two, take one. I want you to be angry in this role. And the actor actually goes, what do you mean I can't go over there today? I want to go over there today. And they say, okay, act two, scene two, be super happy about it. I said, wow, I get to go there today.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

I'm so freaking happy. What about act two, scene three, be really, really sad? I can't believe I've got to go there today. You can flip emotions on demand. It's just turning on a state. in your brain.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

I'm so freaking happy. What about act two, scene three, be really, really sad? I can't believe I've got to go there today. You can flip emotions on demand. It's just turning on a state. in your brain.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

I'm so freaking happy. What about act two, scene three, be really, really sad? I can't believe I've got to go there today. You can flip emotions on demand. It's just turning on a state. in your brain.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

Now, what happens with a lot of people is, when they get into, let's say, a negative emotional pattern or a negative thought pattern, they hold on to it, and it hijacks them, and then they reinforce it.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

Now, what happens with a lot of people is, when they get into, let's say, a negative emotional pattern or a negative thought pattern, they hold on to it, and it hijacks them, and then they reinforce it.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

Now, what happens with a lot of people is, when they get into, let's say, a negative emotional pattern or a negative thought pattern, they hold on to it, and it hijacks them, and then they reinforce it.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
Confidence Classic: Rewire Your Brain to UNLOCK The Science Of Success with John Assaraf CEO Of NeuroGym

And they think about what they don't want, and they feel what they don't want, and they think about what they feel, and they feel what they think about, and they reinforce the pattern, and now it becomes a habitual pattern. Instead of saying, okay, I had a shitty childhood. I was traumatized. I was this. I was that. She did this to me. He did this to me. I lost this. I failed here. Great. Okay.