The Masterful Lie We Tell Ourselves That Prevents Us From Reaching Our Potential
How A Survival Mechanism Thwarts Our Growth
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The Masterful Lie We Tell Ourselves That Prevents Us From Reaching Our Potential
How A Survival Mechanism Thwarts Our Growth
As Humans, We are Incredibly Good at Lying to Ourselves.
When you look at the Psychophysiology of it, you'll discover that it is a Fascinating Magic Trick that We Play on Our Brain.
We Begin to Think about Something that We Want...
A New Career...
Starting Something New and Exciting...
Pursuing a Goal or Dream that We've Had for a Long Time...
Maybe Doing Some Good in the World.
Our Conscious Brain begins to Want That...
We See It...
Desire It...
Begin to Feel Driven...
Then We Tell Ourselves a Lie that Derails Us Completely...
It goes something like this...
"I Will Do That When..."
And We Add in Some Extremely Vague Idea of a Future "When" or "After" Where this Will Occur.
This becomes a Subtle Way for Us to Put Off that Thing...
Until We Never Pursue It At All.
What is Happening is that Our Subconscious has Essentially Created a "Future" Scenario to Stop the Conscious Mind from Actively Pursuing It...
The Conscious Mind Accepts this "Vague" Future, without Any Solid Details, and then Sets Out on a Different Task to Actively Pursue.
The Subconscious has Successfully Diverted the Attention of the Conscious Mind and Derailed Us from Putting "Real" Efforts into Path We Considered...
And it Easily Prevents Us from Growing Into Our Potential...
Often Perpetually.
But Here is the Real Question...
Why?
What Purpose would the Subconscious Mind have to "Purposefully" Throw Off Our Conscious Mind from Pursuing this Path?
Especially if it is Something that We have Wanted for a Long Time?
To Understand the Why, We Must First Understand This...
Our Bodies are Designed to Survive...
First and Foremost.
Its First Objective is to Ensure Our Survival, Literal or Perceived...
And Only "After" Our Survival Needs are Fully Met will Our Subconscious "Allow" Our Conscious Mind to Seriously "Ponder" Other Potential Paths to Growth.
But I Know You Might be Thinking...
"Yeah, but this Path that I have Considered for a Long Time wouldn't Hinder My Survival! In Fact... It Might Make Survival Easier!"
To this I say, from a Psychophysiological Level, Your Body May Still "Perceive" that Path as a "Potential" Threat to Survival...
Which is All that is Needed to Completely Subvert Our Efforts Toward Growth.
But What are these Survival "Threats" that Our Subconscious Perceives?
How Does the Subconscious Come to "That" Conclusion?
Well, let's look at that.
What are some of the Barriers?
The First is that, Subconsciously, We Lack Belief in Our Ability to Pursue that Path.
I Know You Might be Wondering...
How Does "Belief" Impact Survival?
Think of it like this...
If You Pursue a New Path...
You will Need to Dedicate Time, Money, Resources, etc. into that Path...
All Things that are "Needed" to Survive.
If You Do Not "Believe" that You can Successfully Go Down that Path...
Then Your Subconscious Also Believes that You will be Wasting Time, Money, and Resources by Going Down that Path...
Which Directly Conflicts with Your Survival.
Even if "Consciously" We Understand This is Not True at a High Level...
The Subconscious will Not be Convinced, and will Continually Attempt to Prevent Us from Pursuing that Path.
So You Need to Actually "Believe" that Success is Not Only Possible...
But Possible for "You".
However, this is Not the Only Challenge We Face when it comes to the Subconscious...
A Second Obstacle is Lacking Energy (Mg-ATP).
Our Bodies Run on Energy (Mg-ATP).
We Need to Consume Food with certain Macronutrients and Micronutrients to Sustain Our Lives.
If We have All the Correct Nutrients...
We have No Problem Here.
But the Problem in Today's World?
Few People Get All the Macronutrients "And" Micronutrients They Need...
For a Few Reasons.
Misinformation Online about How Nutrients Work...
Bad Farming Practices are making Food have Fewer Nutrients...
Synthetic and Processed Foods that Our Bodies are Unable to Utilize Correctly...
(PS - Processed Food can be "Any" Type of Food, Including "Plant-Based" Foods, such as the Many "Meat Alternatives" that are filled with Sawdust)
Getting Too Much of Some Nutrients and Not Enough of Others, as is Common with "Multi-Vitamins"...
For All of these Reasons and More, the Reality is that "Few" People are Getting the Nutrients they Need.
The Result?
Their Bodies Struggle to make Enough Energy (Mg-ATP) to Handle the Demands of Life...
Which Means their Subconscious will Avoid "Anything" that Will Consume "Extra" Nutrients Needed to Survive...
Such as is Required in Starting "Any" New Path.
So Now Your Subconscious has Two Strikes Against You...
Ready for the Third Barrier that Strikes You Out?
Total Stressors.
Any New Path will Cause Some Level of Stress...
Stressors are Needed for Growth to Occur.
The Problem?
We, as Humans, can Only Handle So Many Simultaneous Stressors.
This is Known as Our "Stress Threshold".
If We are Below Our Stress Threshold...
Our Subconscious has an Easier Time "Allowing" Us to Consider Other Possibilities.
But as Soon as We Exceed the Threshold?
We Enter Dis-Stress, and Our Subconscious Immediately Pushes Us into Survival Mode "Until" Our Stressors Drop Below the Stress Threshold.
This is a Gigantic Problem Today for One Reason...
Burnout...
Which is Currently Impacting Over 80% of the Workforce Today...
With it Expected to Continue to Grow based on the Current Trends.
Burnout is Essentially a State of Being "Constantly" Past Our Stress Threshold...
We are in Perpetual Dis-Stress.
So, when Our Conscious Minds "Ponders" Other Paths...
Our Subconscious Pushes Us to Focus on the Dis-Stress "Now" and wants us to Completely "Forget" about Any Other Potential Stressors until "This" is Figured Out...
Which for Most People...
Becomes Never.
Their Lives are Filled Constantly with Stressors that they are Unable to Handle...
They Might "Dream" of Another Path...
But the Subconscious Creates the Masterful Lie of "Someday"...
In Order to Get Back to Surviving "Today"...
But Today Becomes Tomorrow...
Becomes Next Week...
Becomes Next Month...
Becomes Next Year...
Becomes Us Laying On Our Deathbeds Wondering "Why" We Never Pursued Our Dreams and Goals.
The Reason is Simple...
We Told a Lie to Ourselves...
That Masterfully Prevented Us from Ever Pursuing Our Dreams and Goals.
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