Joseph Selbie: Break through the Limits of the Brain
And suppose it is a challenging belief for you. In that case, you need to be realistic about whether you are really ready to not believe that you can’t just magic it by saying an incantation 10 times or even a hundred times. If you really believe it deeply, then you’re probably going to stick with the belief that you have. Even if you emotionally don’t want that belief anymore, you must be realistic about what you believe. So I recommend with affirmations that you combine the process with introspection and look at what you do every day. Have a time in your day when you are back from what happened, and ask yourself a question. So perhaps you’re having trouble feeling unsafe or easily triggered to be angry, or just everything adds to your stress at the end of your day. When you’ve got 10 or 15 minutes to think about it, ask yourself, well, what happened today?
What threw me into not feeling safe, or not feeling loved or not feeling, relaxed? Just pick one of those. Don’t pick all of them, but let’s say we’re going to pick not feeling relaxed. What is it that triggered it? That made me not feel relaxed and just get to know the response, not trying to figure out how to overcome that trigger. Just get to know what really gets you going. And if you do that for weeks, you’ll begin to see a pattern. You’ll begin to see that certain things really make you feel stressed and take away your relaxation. And if you can boil those down to a particular thing, and maybe it is that you don’t feel safe, maybe it is that you don’t feel loved by others, or you don’t feel supported by others. Find that pattern. Maybe there are multiple patterns but find the one that is of particular power in your life.
And then, look for an affirmation that is the antidote, and use that methodically to build a new neural circuit. So what you’re experiencing when you have all those experiences is you have neural circuits that you’ve already wired in your life, through your life experiences, that fire when certain things happen. And we all know this, we talk about, well, it’s like they pressed a button, and in a very real way, it is like they pressed a button. That button is a neural circuit in your brain that fires and makes you feel stressed or angry or whatever it is. So just accept that you have wired yourself in these patterns. And if you really don’t want that pattern anymore, you need to wire a new pattern. You need to be deliberate about it. And so affirmation can become a really powerful tool. So to find an affirmation that may let’s say it is that you feel unsafe in this world, that you just, everything makes you feel like it’s out to get.
You find an affirmation that affirms your deeper divine safety. And that affirmation may just simply be I am surrounded and loved by the infinite in all things in my life.
Now, you may not believe that you may believe it intellectually. However, you do not truly believe it because, on an emotional level, you’re still not feeling safe. So this will take time to penetrate feelings and your thoughts so that you can really believe it. You can level this process with meditational experiences, where you feel relaxed and safe. Put it all together but keep repeating that affirmation until you really believe it. And what then happens is that the situations that would’ve triggered you to feel unsafe will start to trigger this deeper feeling that you really are safe. Even though these things are happening, I am safe. Nothing really can get to me because I am beyond all these superficial things happening in my life. I am much more than I know, this subtle reality beyond the physical. It can take weeks to months to do a single affirmation over and over and over, at specific times, whenever you can do them, but understand that you’re rewiring your brain. You’re doing something very specific. It’s not just kind of shouting out to the void.
You’re actually making a new circuit in your brain, which once made is a real physical thing that will come to your rescue when that is triggered. And it will antidote the other neural circuits you previously built because it’ll take that triggering away from them. It’ll trigger that deeper, calmer self than the stressed one.
It’s not a quick panacea to everything because it is time-consuming. The bigger panacea is meditation because it rewires your whole brain, not specific circuits. Still, an affirmation can be a powerful specific tool.
Sandie Sedgbeer: So forget sticking the post-it notes on the mirror and just repeat everything by writing while you’re cleaning your teeth. You’re talking about structure, you’re talking about a methodology here, you’re talking about actually putting some effort into it and taking it deeper.
Joseph Selby: Yeah. I mean, if you want to do it, be serious about it. Otherwise, you are wasting your time. I don’t want to say that even an attempt is a complete waste because it will leave some memory of what you were doing. It’s going to. There will be some gain in there that you might be able to remember. So, I don’t want to sound like if you fail, it’s useless, but I want to underscore that you get a lot more out of it. If you stick with it until you really get to this point where you have rewired your brain.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Having read your book. I mean, we are almost out of time now, so we’re going to have to be quick, but having read the physics of God and also this one, do you see these as a kind of a sequel, so to speak, that this one just goes a little bit deeper, has a little bit more of the practical in it?
Joseph Selby: I put more exercises into it than the physics of God. The information really is you could read them in any order, I think, and not find it confusing. You don’t have to start with God’s physics and then read this. But the breakthrough in the limits of the brain definitely offers much more than meditation, which I do offer in physics. But yeah, it offers these tools of introspection, affirmation, energization, as you say, and learning to live a more concentrated life. The more concentrated you are in all things, the faster you rewire your brain. So there’s a lot of how-tos.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Inlaying out the pathway. Yeah. I think for me, the physics of God was, like: here it is, here’s the big picture, here’s the wires and the evidence, and everything else. And you do talk about meditation there. This is a pathway for people like me who want to go deeper and have some of that greater experience.
The Book Breakthrough the limits of the brain, neuroscience, inspiration, and practices to transform your life is published by new page books, which is the division of red wheel wiser for more information about Joseph Selby, his books, and his work, visit JosephSelby.com and expandinglight.org.
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