Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful day. where ever you may be. My name is J and I work as a fully remote clinical hypnotherapist; in that work, I have observed time and again the effects of a single system when it comes to being better.

Have you heard of the Reticular Activating System? If not, this information could change your world. It did mine. You see, the RAS (shortened for the sake of sanity from this point forward) is a physical part of your brain itself that serves several vital functions. For the sake of this conversation, we'll be discussing its most impactful function in our day to day lives: our attentional filter.

All around you there are countless things going on that you're simply filtering out. The noise in the background, that itch you forgot about, etc. Information that is not useful need be filtered out so that your attention can be used on more useful things, or at least what you perceive as useful. What you see, what you don't, what you notice, hear and think are all influenced or directed by the RAS.

What does this mean? To put it bluntly, you decide what you notice in yourself, others and the world around you. If you make the choice that the proverbial lens you put in front of your reality is negative, corrosive or self-defeating... well, your brain will verify all of those things for you to. If you think the world is bad or you are insufficient, then your brain will literally tune itself so that's all you notice that which validates your thinking.

The opposite of that is also true. If you begin to think positively and supportively of yourself, a wild thing will begin to happen: your world around you will begin to validate that thinking via what you notice in that world. By adjusting your attentional filter, you change what you pay attention to. Crazy, I know. Try it, I'll tell you how.

Our most naturally suggestible time of the day is the morning, right after we wake up. You're actually in a state of trance; this is an ideal time to adjust your RAS. I want you to try this: when you wake up, just relax in bed for a bit and think about how good your day is going to be. Find things to get excited about, even if it's just a positive anticipation of your morning coffee. Start your day with the expectation that it will be good and something fascinating will happen... no matter how your day objectively goes, you will view it as more positive.

This isn't just mindset, this is neurology. The brain, not the mind. By recognizing and working with the RAS, we can create incredible changes in our perception. Your reality is plastic, mold it into something that makes you smile.

JRP, Director
Twin Ravens Solutions