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inspirations: Tony Robbins and Peter Sage
Sep 23, 2016
3 min read

"The strongest force in the human experience is a persons need to remain consistent with their image of them self."

Anthony Robbins

Most of what this blog is about is how to change the mental frameworks that we use to limit ourselves and our potential.

Basically, how to rewire your brain and improve your human experience.

What we do is we unconsciously map our previous experiences to try make sense of the world around us. But as we get older we tend to layer those maps between ourselves and the present moment, filtering every new experience through those mental cobwebs, and it is not surprising then if the result seems repugnant and dish-washy.

The way the way we see ourselves and the way we see the world are extremely closely tied together.

Remember that you have never had an objective experience in your entire life. Everything you've heard, felt, seen or thought was always perceived through your own, singular point of view and thus it was subject to your minds interpretation and filtration.

So... How do we change the world that we perceive? How do we 'Rewrite our Reality'? The answer is - We change the person we believe our self to be.

Imagine this for an example -

You have tried to stopped smoking for years. You know the risks, you've seen the pictures on the packages.

But you have tried it all, the stickers, the gum, the vaporizers. Your friends have complained and the man in the TV has declared it a fact. Cigarettes are poisonous and in the long run, they are lethal.

But still you always end up coming back to the cancer sticks. Time and time again.

Viewed like this, the desire for nicotine feels compulsive, like a primal urge beyond your conscious control.

But that is because even though the knowledge exist in your brain, the brain is not the one calling the shots. We are not logical creatures, we are creatures of emotion and thus we need an emotional understanding for something to make sense to us.

To make it real.

Now say that your doctor says to you

"One more cigarette and you are going to die."

WOOOOOW! Reality suddenly hits you like a punch.

When your daughter says. "Daddy, I want you to walk me down the isle when I get married and I want you to be alive to do it."

(And she is only six years old)

That is when you get an emotional understanding of the implications. It is a powerful insight, strong enough to get you to change your behavior... For a time.

But willpower is depletable resource and to stay consistent to those vowels you need a third level of understanding.

You need what is called "an Identity shift".

You go from a person who is trying to stop smoking to a person who does not smoke. Period.

When you disassociate from the identity that supported the need, the addiction starts to loose its grip of you and the substance slowly starts loose its appeal.

Simply because you are no longer the same person that got addicted in the first place.

That is how you begin reimagining your image of yourself. And that is how you start rewriting your reality.