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http://www.breakthrough-hq.com/goal-setting/reticular-activating-system Ever noticed what happens when you want to buy a particular thing or know someone who has one - a car, maybe an Audi, or a designer handbag? You begin to see them everywhere? So much so you wonder if the dealer has a giveaway on that you've missed. Or perhaps you are thinking about going on holiday - Antarctica - then BAM on TV there is a deluge of doco's on the destination. The travel section of the weekend paper is featuring the wonders of the southern realm. Your kids class starts a learning module on it. And you sit next to a geotech engineer just back from working the summer down there on the bus. Why is it that when we focus our attention to something all around us the cues and clues seem to become more abundant? Answer your R.A.S has been activated ... Your reticular activation system is a part of your brain stem which acts like a radar. See the link under the picture above for a great article from Breakthrough-hq on how the R.A.S works and how it can support you in goal setting. Activating your own R.A.S. deliberately is a powerful tool for motivation and for learning. Focus yourself on something that you would like to learn more about and let the universe deliver the goods. Tune your radar in to healthy eating and lifestyle choices and you'll begin to notice all the wonderful supportive ways you can nurture yourself and your wellbeing. You'll participate in a friends healthy living research, you'll find wild berries when you walk. You choose fish over fondue off the menu, a herb tea over a coffee in the morning. Don't like something or someone. Turn your R.A.S off. Start to go other places and notice other things. Hide them in your Facebook newsfeed or unfriend them. Change the channel. The R.A.S. is the portal between the outside world and it's signals. And YOU - the living, breathing, acting power house and what you do with that information. Learn how to effectively and efficiently open and shut that door. With the ADRENALEARN natural learning framework that I use in DO Learning workshops we activate the R.A.S. to the topics and content of the session and build links and bridges to your real world experiences to ensure that the learning will continue once you re-join real time. How can you turn it on? Turn it up or tune it out? D.A.R.E is my model for change. Decide: what it is that you want to be different. Pick just one thing that you would like more off or less of in your life. I generally find it useful to focus on the things I want to increase and to play the zero tolerance for negatives game. Instead of saying I want to eat less crap I would therefore say I want to be motivated to eat more healthy foods that nurture my health. Act: as if you are tuned in to this goal. Seek out images, stimuli and experiences that support your radar and allow yourself to notice the naturally occurring incidences that arise for you as your R.A.S. presents them to you. Perhaps you can search through Facebook pages and like those with healthy lifestyle options, be sure to unlike any your may have already subscribed to that focus on 1000 great uses for chocolate. Subscribe to a gardening magazine. Do your window shopping in health food stores, eat out at vegan restaurants. Listen to pod casts on the topic. The idea is to give your R.A.S a kick start that is as cool calm and collected as an All Black setting up in front of the goal post with the whole of Eden Park silent patiently waiting for him to get it in. Review: Look at things again and again and again. Do it one more time with feeling. When your R.A.S. points out something that supports your goal and matches up take a good look at it. Say to yourself AHA!! - there's one, that's useful. Oh look there goes another one and there it goes again. Enjoy: Bottom line B.F.O of any DO experience is are you having any fun yet? Play with the concept. Go on I D.A.R.E. ya...
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