ON ‘AUTOMATIC PILOT’

Parts of our brain save information. It does this that so that we don’t have to relearn everything we do, every time we do it!

Can you imagine having to relearn how to drive every time you get in your car? Can you imagine having to relearn how to read every time you pick up a book? How tiresome!

Once we have learned something, this incredibly complex thing that is our mind, stores all that information so that we don’t have to keep relearning everything all over again!

Think about what you do on a daily basis and ask yourself how much of that is actually automatic? Getting up, showering, getting dressed, driving to work, using a computer, eating lunch etc. Once we’ve learned something we do it by rote.

You’ll be incredibly surprised to find how much you do without even thinking about it! If you have time and are interested in finding out how much you do each day by habit, then take a pen and paper and sit down and work it out.

This seemingly thoughtless behaviour is commonly referred to as our ‘automatic pilot’.

The problem with this ‘automatic pilot’ is, that because we start learning things from the moment we are born, long before the Front Occipital Lobe (FOL -the reasoning, logic lobe) has matured, a great deal of the information our brain stored back then was incorrect or faulty because we had no ability to reason or apply logic to the information we were receiving.

This ‘misinformation’ was stored in our brain exactly as if it were true, which in a lot of cases it was not. We call this misinformation ‘beliefs’ because a belief is not the truth.

It is important to understand that our beliefs create our reality and our reality continually validates our beliefs. Our beliefs also create our perception, opinions, values and judgments and become our habits and patterns, done automatically without thought about how they affect us, how we see ourselves, others, and life itself.

The Negative Belief Removal Process eliminates negative programming from our brain so that we begin to have more choices and are not at the mercy of our Automatic Pilot doing and saying things by rote without ever thinking about consequences.