What If You Could Program Your Brain Like a Computer?
Spoiler alert – you can totally program your brain like a computer.
The human brain is an incredibly complex piece of machinery. Everything the brain does – whether on the unconscious, subconscious, or conscious level – is simply astounding. Without our unique, complex, multifaceted brains, we’d be far more like the rest of the animal kingdom.
Human beings are the only animals on this planet who can adapt to any environment, communicate instantaneously around the globe via artificial electronics, and turn products of our imagination into reality.
Yet for all of this and more – we still have a very, very limited understanding of the totality of human potential. As far as we’ve advanced – especially over the last 100 years – we don’t know exponentially more than we do know.
One of the things we tend to know the least about is our own minds. And I don’t mean the overarching human mind as much as I mean the individual mind. We explore the world without regularly – but not the world within very often.
Hence, many people believe what they’re told, believe in certain limitations, and think that there’s little to nothing they can do about their lives, their thoughts, emotions, and more.
What if that’s not true? What if all you need to do is alter your programming?
Program your brain
One of the most amazing things about the human brain is how malleable it is. The programs that make up you are not written in stone. They are just like software – they can be upgraded.
Just because you’ve long believed that something was a certain, specific way doesn’t mean you can’t change it. You change all the time. But you have the power to choose change.
Change is the one and only constant in the Universe. Like it or not, it can, will, and does occur all the time. Sometimes change is glacially, unbelievably slow. Other times it’s so blazingly swift that it leaves you with whiplash. If you’re not a newborn, you’ve already experienced change many, many, many times.
Your brain has changed along the way. For example, there might have been a time in your life when you believed in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Underpants Gnomes, and the like. But then along the way you changed that belief. Which means that you reprogrammed your brain.
Like certain updates to your phone or computer software – some of the reprogramming of your brain is poorly timed or even unwanted. But apart from this – you have the power to choose to reprogram your brain.
Choosing to re-program your brain is done via active conscious awareness – in other words, mindfulness – of your conscious self and subconscious beliefs, values, habits, and more.
Mindfulness of the conscious and the subconscious
Everyone is of 3 minds – the unconscious, subconscious, and conscious.
The unconscious mind is what keeps your heart beating, blood flowing, and neurons firing. It’s how your brain operates your whole body. Think of this as the BIOS when you first start up your computer. It’s the code for controlling the hardware.
The subconscious mind is where your beliefs, values, habits, and the like exist. For the most part, they’re just there – but with a little effort, they can be accessed. Think of this as your operating system. Within it is every program you have, underlying data, and everything you have downloaded or installed to be accessed and used – some actively, some passively.
The conscious mind is your mindset/headspace/psyche self. This is your awareness – sometimes passive, sometimes active – of who, what, where, how, and why you are. Your conscious mind is like any software on your computer or app on your phone. Accessing it makes it active – though you can leave it running passively.
Via the conscious mind, you can access the subconscious mind. Just like software and apps can access the operating system. Through that access – changes can be actively, intentionally made.
To program the brain takes effort
Every time you learn something new – you’re programming your brain. That doesn’t mean that everything you learn helps you or is useful – but that’s true of everything on your phone and computer, too.
When it comes to the human mind, reprogramming or actively changing your programming begins with a conscious act. Via mindfulness – active conscious awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and intentions to drive your action – you can bring information from without and install it within.
To do that, you must access your subconscious mind. Using your conscious mind, you can choose to look at any beliefs, values, and/or habits – no matter how old or how deeply embedded – and repair, remove, and/or replace them.
However, doing this requires work. Sometimes diligent, thoughtful, ongoing work. But without effort and mindful action – you’re less likely to successfully re-program your brain.
What this requires can include reading, repetition, meditation, affirmations, or any combination of these. You must have the drive and desire to reprogram your brain.
But howsoever you might desire to reprogram your brain – you can. You’re empowered to do so. But that begins via thought.
Thought, feeling, intention, and action
There are numerous theological, philosophical, and even scientific arguments that everything in the Universe begins with thought.
Thought can be an idea, a notion, a concept, or some other spark that you observe. Some are random and just as quickly dismissed. Some, however, resonate with you. They spark something, and that something creates a drive and/or desire that you can’t ignore.
When that happens, the thought usually connects to a feeling. The what and how of the feeling will drive if you’d like to avoid or pursue that thought. Either way, the feeling combined with the thought creates an intention. Do or do not. Act or don’t act.
Thus, you have the elements of mindfulness. Thought, feeling, intention, and action. When all is said and done – these are the things that you have the most control of and over in your life. Through active conscious awareness – mindfulness – of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and actions, you can change your life. You can reprogram the computer that is your brain.
It takes effort, and some elements of the subconscious are easier to access and alter than others. But if you desire to take the wheel and steer your life – and reprogram your brain – you have all the power. All you need to do is recognize, acknowledge, and employ it.
Programming your brain – like programming a computer – isn’t hard
It’s all about working with mindfulness of your thoughts, feelings, and intentions to direct your actions.
When you understand that the mind is malleable and can be changed via using conscious awareness to access the subconscious – beliefs, values, habits, and the like – you can choose to re-program your brain and change. This is hugely positive. Knowing that you’re the only one in your head, heart, and soul – and the only one who can think, feel, intend, and act for you – you have all the power to reprogram your brain as you deem fit.
This empowers you – and in turn, your empowerment can empower others around you.
Taking an approach to positivity and negativity – from the vast cylinder that exists between them – shifts life in a way that opens more dialogue. With a broader dialogue, you can explore and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself employs an approach and attitude of positivity for realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself in the now, the more you can do to choose and decide how your life experiences will be. When that empowers you, it can spread to those around you to their empowerment.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the five-hundred and fifth (505) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog, and spread the positivity. Please visit here to explore all my published works – both fiction and
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