Higher Ground Living Podcast

Why do I attract the same crap all the time?   When it comes to changing the direction of your life it is important to understand that our brain has its own search engine. It is a part of the brain called the Reticular Activating System. It is located at the base of the brain at the top of the spinal column. Ever wonder why when we decide on a new car to buy we start seeing them everywhere, when just yesterday we didn’t notice any? That’s the RAS in action. Ever wonder why you keep attracting the same problems over and over? That’s the RAS in action too. This amazing piece of human equipment filters all of the data that flows in through the five senses. The reticular activating system processes this barrage of info moment by moment and decides which information is most important to go through to our perception. How does it decide which information is important or not? The RAS decides what’s important by reading what’s important to us. It works off our core beliefs and dominant thoughts to seek out stimuli to