How the Brain Works!

Principles of the Brain

Here is a great article from my book World Class Tennis Mentality…..

Every thought you have sends electrical and chemical signals throughout your brain! Thoughts therefore have physical properties; they are real and have a significant influence on every cell in your body. For instance think of your favourite food of all time, imagine the smell, the taste. Is your mouth salivating?

So what just happened? Well, what you will learn in this part will affect your performance directly, by controlling your thoughts and hence your emotions you can only but improve everything about your game.

Scientific research shows that your brain can learn new things; it is just a matter of believing that you can!

Even if for now you have to literally lie to yourself!

PROFOUND STATEMENTS…

Give enough focused intention to any project fully and the spirit of that project will grow and give itself back to you ten fold.

This is right up there with…

As within, so without.

The Kyballion

It took me a long time to understand either of these, I wonder how long it will take you?

Science has made spectacular headway in how our brain works and has shown that if used regularly will grow, after all you never truly grow old…if you become a lifelong student of learning. We generally either allow it to grow until we literally die or let it wither. This is the ‘use it or lose it’ type scenario.

The trouble is, we naturally, as humans, (well for 95% of the population at least) place self‐limiting chains on ourselves by allowing negative self‐talk that influences what we achieve, or even worst prevent us from trying something new because we are fearful that it just will not work or it is impossible to do.

The following was learnt from a very knowledgeable Doug Bench and his Science for Success Systems (www.ScienceforSuccess.com). The reason I feel the need to tell you this is two fold. Firstly I wish for you to know the source of this geniality and secondly if it’s wrong then Doug should have known better!!

A ground breaking experiment….

Whilst in the midst of venturing into how our brains work, selected volunteers were asked to calculate simple maths problems whilst being observed under a PET scanner (computerised technology that literally scans the brain). It was always thought by scientists that when calculating any problem under this PET scanner on the computer screen just one certain part of the brain would light up. The amazing discovery however whilst under the scan another 5 areas lit up, so each subject was thinking in 6 different areas of the brain at once!

Further studies proved that by admitting sedatives to willing volunteers, neuroscientist found that the one area calculating the problems fazed out leaving the other 5 working away. Hence the conclusion being these 5 parts were on a non‐conscious level and the final part of 6 on a conscious level. More importantly since you are unaware of your non‐conscious thoughts, your non‐conscious brain can’not tell the difference between what is real or imagined, truth or a lie. Hence why the phrase ‘Fake it until you Make it’ is all too real and should be utilised at every opportunity.

Now why don’t you do the maths, 1/6th or 5/6th, where should the majority of our tennis play be?

Cut out the conscious thinking and you are on to a winner, better still cut out the conscious thinking and do enough to get inside your opponents head and you will take the upper hand which could be enough to take the match. But let’s not end on that note! Take this in, the 5/6th Non‐Conscious actually thinks 10 million times quicker than the 1/6th Conscious.