Do You Need a New Brain?

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Sandra Vela, One of Thousands of Performance Coaches on Noomii.

Have you ever heard that we don’t use our brain to its fullest potential? Ultimately, most of us are unaware of the things that are holding us back. Or, if we are aware of them, and are not making change, we’re left wondering why. “Why can’t I make this change? Why will I not quit smoking? Why am I not making more money? What am I in a relationship that is un-fulfilling? Why am I not happy?"
The latest in neuro-science research has identified the reason: this inability to make the changes we so desperately want to make is associated with our brains. We process all incoming information through our lower survival brain which has been programmed to “keep us safe”. To this part of our brain, it only matters that you keep doing what you’ve always done. It knows that “whatever that was”- it kept you alive, so it worked! The ‘lower brain’, only wants us to “survive” not thrive! This part of our brain processes the world as if everything is a threat, so it automatically turns on the stress-response systems that keeps us reacting to everything around us, (especially possible change) with it’s best tools-fight,flight,or freeze. This part of our brain evolved millions of years ago when we lived in a predator rich environment, and there was a tiger around every corner ready to eat us alive! If it can just keep you alive another day, it did its job!
Now, it interprets everything in our modern day life as a tiger! No wonder modern life seems so exhausting! So you see, we’ve been “programmed” to fear change and avoid it at all costs. This is the outdated operating system with which we’ve been trying to survive in our modern world and the result is constant, debilitating STRESS!
Our belief system is linked to this physiology of the brain and when we change the perception and feelings surrounding them, the mapping system also has the ability to change. Anything in our life that is not how we want it to be is anchored into our lower “fear-based” brain. This is the part of our brain that mediates things under our conscious threshold and is successful by doing things the exact same way. To this part of our brain, sameness equals safety, so it uses all its energy to keep us stuck in the same, un-fulfilling patterns because it wants to protect us. Success is measured by surviving, not thriving. Amazingly, for most of us, this lower-brain structure is running the show 95% of the time!
Now, through the breakthrough research being done in neuro-science, we know that when we change our brain, and quite literally change our life. We’re not really going to change the brain, just upgrade the operating system to use more of the most modern, most evolved part of our brain, the pre-frontal cortex. The physiological structure is there, but most scientists agree that we’re only using about 5 % . So what if we could “turn on” this most evolved part of our brain? How could that change our lives? Well, the change can be the most dramatic change you could ever experience; more clarity, more joy, more confidence, true personal transformation. Isn’t that what we’re hoping to accomplish through coaching?
As a Life Coach, and a Licensed Higher Brain Living® Facilitator, I can help people use their brain’s fullest potential to finally overcome what’s holding them back, but we have to begin by empowering the most evolved part of the brain, first!
Higher Brain Living® is a proven system that, through a gentle-touch process, creates a surge of energy to the most highly-evolved part of our brain: the prefrontal cortex or ‘Higher Brain’. This is the only technique in the world to do this consistently and repeatedly while simultaneously providing my clients with a life-map that is guaranteed to create transformational change in their lives, leading to less stress and greater clarity, joy and freedom. This physiological change is the ‘missing link’ in all personal development practices. Higher Brain Living® is successful because we create physiological change in the brain first, and then our clients create solutions from their Higher Brain perspective to overcome whatever is holding them back from living the life they want. It starts when you’re ready to do something “different”; Higher Brain Living™ is IT!
For more information go to www.sandravela.com.