Reset your brain & Hack your mind. E-Book

Nico Quindt

• Herausgeber: Nico Quindt
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Within you lie all the tools to shape the person you want to become. You've witnessed this a thousand times, how when you change, reality changes. You can't change anyone but yourself, and the only person from whom you can expect anything is yourself. Nobody will behave as you expect them to. Nobody shares your priorities, values, and principles. Nobody dreams your dreams. You are, or should be, the creator of your own consciousness, the shaper of your essence, the developer of your own ideas. With each thought, you assemble, adding a new piece to the puzzle of your mind. Your brain is a vast repository of cells where you store everything that constitutes your essence: memories, imagination, thoughts, plans. You arrange them according to your priorities; each cell is specifically placed where you chose, where you put it for whatever reason. Your mind is your responsibility. Your mind processes around sixty thousand thoughts per day, and 90% of those thoughts are the same as the ones processed yesterday and the day before. If you process the same thoughts, you'll make the same decisions, have the same attitudes, which will create the same experiences, and those experiences will reflect the same emotions in your mind, releasing the same neurotransmitters flooding your body, reinforcing those thoughts and embedding them in your nervous system. Now, you're experiencing these thoughts because you can feel them. Those emotions have been confirmed by your mind; they intensify and stress you out. From that stress, new neural circuits will be formed; your biology has been altered, and now this event has been registered by your body. It's not just a fleeting thought, but something you've felt and felt again; your mind has confirmed it as true, your body has suffered from it. You became stressed because of it and went on high alert, and in an instant, you're in survival mode, using up reserves of energy meant for other bodily functions. Blood is flowing to your extremities due to your most primitive "fight or flight" response being activated, putting other functions on hold. Blood is not flowing to the right organs for them to function correctly, causing them to start failing gradually. As you maintain these stress levels, your organs will deteriorate. At this moment, there's discomfort; your body is not well. You don't feel good, your motivation is not optimal. Your attitude has changed. You are not the same and don't feel the same as you did just moments ago. Do you see now why you need a mind hack? If you continue thinking the same way, you'll make the same decisions and get the same outcomes. That's why you need a brain reset. You need a method, a way of thinking differently, changing those thoughts, hacking your mind, rewiring your internal circuits, and restructuring your neural channels so your brain works differently. Cells that fire together stay connected, so if several neurons form a neural circuit due to a style of thought, that pattern will be repeated in the same sequence it originated. Therefore, every time we make our brain work differently, we will force it to change its structure, form new patterns. You are, or should be, the creator of your own consciousness, the shaper of your essence, the developer of your own ideas. With each thought, you assemble, adding a new piece to the puzzle of your mind. Your brain is a vast repository of cells where you store everything: memories, imagination, thoughts, plans. You arrange them according to your priorities; each cell is specifically placed where you chose, where you put it for whatever reason. Your mind is your responsibility.

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Nico Quindt

Reset your brain & Hack your mind.

Transform your mind and change your life with the power of brain resetting and hacking your mind!

Reset your brain & Hack your mind.

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ISBN: 9783988659088

You are an innkeeper

Your brain is a lodging house. It started as a simple, modest home with basic functions (reptilian brain). It then grew, and as a result, more rooms were added (limbic brain). Today, it's a large hotel with complex passageways (neural pathways) and thousands of guests (our ideas, memories). Some of them interact with each other (synapses). They formed work groups (neural channels, amygdala system). They even invited others to come live (neurogenesis). It also has undesirable guests who don't pay rent, who don't want to leave, who damage the facilities, who make a mess... you know them well; they are the negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, and mental barriers.

But this grand hotel is on the verge of collapsing; it's teetering on the brink of collapse. It's an old building that can be torn down and replaced with a modern one, with kind and cooperative guests, with faster elevators, with a more efficient board of directors that better addresses issues, and even with fewer problems to solve.

What happens with this complex system called the brain is that the only being possessing it to this extent is the human. And the human, with their brain, seeks something their brain isn't equipped to grant them. In one way or another, humans seek success. And the human brain isn't programmed for success, firstly due to its inherent constraints, which we'll delve into later, but primarily because that's not its function. The human brain aims to keep you alive by conserving as much energy as possible. Every day it asks itself: "Am I fulfilling my duty?" If I'm alive, the answer is yes, so I must be doing my job well. If what I've done up to now has kept me alive, I see no reason to change. So, when you want to introduce it to changes, learning, challenges, and obstacles, the brain will do everything possible to deter you:

1. Because it doesn't know if that will keep you alive, but it knows the previous actions did.

2. To conserve energy, as you need it to survive.

As success entails consuming more energy than usual, as success means challenging what has kept you alive, the brain doesn't want to do it. So if you're leading a mediocre life, if your brain doesn't want to learn anything new, if you don't care about succeeding, you're actually just a person with a functional, healthy brain that is acting in your best interest and performing its task excellently.

If you're not successful, you have a healthy brain. Because the average function of your brain isn't willing to expend energy and make you an expert in something. Reading hundreds of books, practicing for thousands of hours, and becoming exceptional, a genius; means going against your own mind, it means resetting your brain and hacking your mind.

The energy your brain uses to make a decision is often greater than the energy it uses to execute that decision. If you have an absolutely normal and functional brain that keeps you alive, then to turn a normal brain into an extraordinary one, you have to step out of that known normality. You need to break boundaries and escape from almost all the things that currently anchor your ideology in this supposed tranquility that gives you security and gives you reasons with which you feel comfortable and that no one can challenge.

Your mind processes around sixty thousand thoughts per day, and 90% of those thoughts are the same ones it processed yesterday and the day before. So, if you process the same thoughts, you'll make the same decisions, have the same attitudes, which will create the same experiences. These experiences will reflect the same emotions in your mind, releasing the same neurotransmitters which, in turn, flood your body, reinforcing those thoughts and embedding them in your nervous system. This way, you're experiencing those thoughts because now you feel them. Then those emotions, having been confirmed by your mind, intensify and stress you out. From that stress load, new neural circuits are created; your biology has changed, and this event was registered by your body. Now it's not just a fleeting thought, but something you've felt and felt again; thus, your mind verified it was true, your body has endured it, you became stressed because of it, and you went into high alert. In a flash, you're in survival mode, using energy reserves intended for other organic functions. Blood rushes to the extremities because your most primitive "fight or flight" system has been activated, pausing other functions. Now, there's blood that isn't flowing to the organs necessary for their proper function, causing those organs to start malfunctioning slightly. As long as you maintain these stress levels, your organs will suffer. There's discomfort; your body isn't right. Now you don't feel great; your motivation isn't optimal. Your attitude has shifted. You're not the same, nor do you feel the same as you did a few moments ago. Do you see why you need a mind hack?

If you keep thinking the same way, you'll make the same decisions and get the same outcomes. That's why you need a reset of your brain. You need a method, a different way of thinking, to change those thoughts, to hack your mind, rewiring its internal circuits and restructuring the neural pathways to make your brain operate differently. Cells that fire together will stay connected. Thus, if several neurons form a neural circuit due to a particular way of thinking, that pattern will repeat in the same sequence it was created. Consequently, every time we make our brain work differently, we'll force it to change its structure and establish new patterns.

Imagine not having to remodel that old hotel you have; it's quite a cumbersome task. You might wonder, why not move to a new hotel across the street? That would be a good solution, and you can achieve that because when you hack and rewire your mind, you're essentially moving into a new brain.

Many people say, "How I wish I could go back to being a child, but with the knowledge I have today." Well, that's precisely what I'm talking about: rebuilding our mind, but this time without making the same mistakes. Our experiences and memories won't disappear. This means we can't just move to the building across the street and start from scratch, but we can choose what to bring to that new hotel.

A Nobel Prize winner discovered that synaptic connections double from 1,300 to 2,600 when we incorporate new information. However, if that information isn't reinforced or reviewed, those circuits get reduced, and the brain returns to its initial state. So, this isn't about finishing reading this book and suddenly feeling smarter or having a different brain; you need to start taking action on your mind.

Rewiring our primitive brain

I've told you that our primitive brain is still active, that what we learned thousands or even millions of years ago remains imprinted in our DNA. What was useful at one point in our evolution continues to function today, even though the response we needed then may be quite different from what we need now. Imagine that your brain behaves as it did thousands of years ago when there were predators nearby, reacting to situations in drastic ways that are no longer relevant or necessary today. To your brain, the stress caused by a predator threatening your life is the same as being scolded by your boss at the office because you missed a deadline. The stress required to survive in the face of an animal ready to eat you is the same as the body produces to endure a scolding that will merely diminish your status in the workplace. And because we relive that process, we get stuck in that stress and secrete a range of substances that disturb our system, throw us off balance, and ultimately make us ill. So, we know what's happening, we understand how it works, but how do we stop it?

The brain wants to live in only two moments:

The predictable future or the known past.

Sometimes we believe that the ideas discouraging us from taking a different path are the right ones, and indeed, there's a high chance they might be if the same variables come into play. Those decisions that have kept us alive up to this point will likely continue to keep us alive if reality doesn't change too much. But doing the same things isn't always what will keep us alive; often, repeating the same actions is what destroys or stagnates a company we relied on to buy our food.

When we step out of the predictable future by doing unknown things, it causes anxiety. However, the best way to maintain a predictable future is to create it.

When we are in a sequence of predictable routines, we operate on autopilot, avoiding self-reflection and taking charge of our own consciousness and the planning and management of our thoughts. Our mind is a machine that has never been reviewed. It operated automatically, and that's what it prefers. Hence, it rewarded us with a sense of balance and mental tranquility. When we take control of our lives, don’t follow a schedule, move to another country, change our routine, or constantly experience new things; our mind feels uneasy. It keeps us on edge, filled with anxiety, stress, depression, releases cortisol, lowers our defenses, and makes us ill. It fills our heads with terrifying, uncomfortable, distressing thoughts. It evokes nostalgia for past times when we let it operate on autopilot, and we felt so happy. It does all of this to push us back to that state, making us feel unhappy now by releasing chemicals that induce that unhappiness. Your mind can be a very cruel enemy, capable of punishing, sickening, and deceiving you just to prevent its transformation. And though it might not seem like it, it does all this for your own good, for your survival. It's like an overprotective parent punishing you "for your own good", and what did you do? You disobeyed, of course. Here, we'll do the same; we will disobey it.

But this is the price we pay for wanting an extraordinary mind. The ancient mind needed a stimulus to feel good; it first had a reason for joy and then felt joy. Thus, we need to create a new mind that is joyful without reasons, so that energy transcends and generates those reasons. The ancient mind wanted success, and it's understandable why, and I said mind, not brain; your brain doesn't care about your success. Now, let's delve a bit deeper into this concept:

The final stage of success is gratitude and fulfillment for what has been achieved. So, if we experience gratitude and fulfillment before the event, we will feel successful. The way to achieve this profound change in our brain and entire organism is when our thoughts and visualization make us experience that future, feel that happiness before it happens, thus preceding the thoughts of desire and anxiety to achieve what we want. This is the state of transcendence, which is reached in a quantum leap towards that future, allowing us to live it. When we live it, all that energy will vibrate, producing hormones that will flow through our body and transmit information to our genes that will change our DNA. Our body will be restructured, and our mind recalibrated. This is the way to organize the mind to reconfigure it.

Our mind is a set of rooms in that grand hotel. Now imagine that within each room there are hundreds of closed boxes, and within them, shattered wine bottles. Those boxes are your neurons, and the broken bottles are your thoughts. You, from the mind, can arrange these boxes, order them, move them from room to room, and that's part of what I'm going to talk to you about here. That's rewiring your mind. But, even if you arrange each of those boxes, the bottles inside will remain broken. Because the only way to mend your mind isn't by moving the boxes around but by reconstructing those thoughts or, even better, replacing them with healthy ones.

When we think about something, we activate a specific set of neural circuits in a particular combination in the brain, which releases a series of chemicals to make us feel the way we are thinking. This sequence leaves a mark in our brain called a neuronal footprint. Every time we have that thought, we will feel the same way, and every time we feel that way, we will think that way; this is how the vicious cycle in which your mind is immersed works.

This creates a chain of emotional addiction. When that feeling settles in for a few hours, we call it a mood. If that emotion extends for a few months, it becomes part of your character. And if it lasts for years, it then becomes a part of your personality.

Connected

It's possible to interlink two particles into a single quantum state; this phenomenon is referred to as "quantum entanglement". If you send one particle to one end of the universe and the other to the opposite end, it can be observed that if certain alterations are made to one of them, it is instantly reflected in the other, regardless of the distance, or rather, the space between them. There are three possibilities that explain this phenomenon:

Time and space are nullified.

Information travels at infinite speed.

Both are intertwined, connected.

The first is highly implausible, the second is hard to grasp, and the third seems most plausible. Because even if speed becomes infinite, it doesn't explain why this infinite speed only applies to returning an electron to the same state it exposed to the other.

Given that two electrons can be entangled, if we go back to the dawn of time, everything was intertwined at the beginning of the universe, and somehow everything remains so. In a way, we are all connected to everything.

This could explain why disciplines like astrology exist. One might argue that the force a distant star might exert on a newborn child – impacting their fate, personality, and traits – is negligible. The hospital bed where one is born would have more influence than having Aquarius as the rising sign. Yet, we share something with that distant star; we remain intertwined with the universe and the universe with us.

Choosing to believe we are connected means seeing ourselves as part of a whole. After all, if we're alive and composed of the same elements as a galaxy, this perspective might not be as far-fetched as it seems. If we are part of this whole, we can influence the universe. If we are energy and we alter energy, the energy alters us.

You can also choose to believe in God or in absolutely nothing. Yet, even if you're as atheistic as me, reflecting deeply can reveal a connection with the broader universe. You might feel uninvolved in such a vast universe, but the moment you interact with another being, you sense a connection with life, the universe, or God - call it what you will. You felt it when your child was born, when you met someone who felt familiar as if you'd known them all your life, or when fate or coincidence introduced you to situations or people as if scripted.

Cast a thought into the future, project it into a reality you wish to experience. As long as it remains a possibility, your mind can make it real. It doesn't yet exist, but in the quantum world, it's possible. Even if it doesn't materialize in reality, if your mind projected it and the relevant chemicals were released from your glands, then your body experienced it as real. Imagine feeling the pain of a burn on your skin, then realizing your skin is unharmed. You still acquired that experience.

We know that thoughts can affect water molecules, as seen in Masaru Emoto's photographs. If thoughts impact water molecules and we are primarily made up of water, those same thoughts can affect us, either positively or negatively. We may suffer more from fearing illnesses than from the diseases themselves. Our thoughts have overwhelmed us so much that we've forgotten to ask why we're unhappy. We've become disconnected from the universe, our surroundings, and ourselves.

Hacking our minds means giving our brains a complete, new, unique, revolutionary format. It implies rewiring, changing how it processes information and responds to environmental stimuli. Replace negative thought patterns with positive ones, develop new skills, or simply enhance the brain's capacity to learn and adapt.

In summary, hacking the mind and resetting the brain is an ongoing process that will help us improve our mental health, skills, and ability to adapt and learn. Along the way, we'll explore numerous approaches, but first, how about we attempt a genuine connection? Don't think of it as cheesy; think of the benefits. Try living each day as if your wishes come true. By experiencing them, you no longer need them to materialize. Imagine a perfect future awaiting just behind a door you never open; experience that sensation even if it isn't technically real.

Recall a day when you did something you're proud of. At that moment, several factors aligned to gift you that experience. You had intent and then infused it with passion. With passion, you feel a sense of wholeness because you believe you already have what you desire. The feeling preceding this completeness is gratitude. Feel gratitude before receiving a gift, and you'll experience the same peace.

Gratitude is contagious. Some people are grateful for their experiences, while others often focus on what they lack. Most of us have elements of both, but if you lean more toward the latter, it would benefit you to connect with those in the former group. Surrounding yourself with joyful friends is essential, as your mirror neurons will mimic their behavior.

Your brain will divert you from the path so you don't force it to expend energy.

Before starting the journey, I need to warn you that it won't be easy, and the first obstacle to transforming your brain is your own brain. You might already feel sleepy from reading this book, obviously because it knows what you're trying to do: force it to work. Right now, as you're reading this new information, it's sending you images to distract you, to get you to stop bothering with this whole idea of changing it. It might even tell you that all of this is a sham, a trick, that it doesn't work, that you shouldn't even try. Why bother? You're fine as you are...

But if you continue, it will use all its artillery to make you give up. The brain has several mechanisms that it executes automatically after different programs are loaded into it, be it behavioral patterns, life choices, ways of thinking, and preferences. These are a series of systems it uses to simplify its tasks and objectives, and I'm going to describe them to you so you can learn to identify them and, in this way, rewire and reset your brain.

Harmonization System

The mind tends to harmonize. This means that if we hold certain types of thoughts, the mind will undertake actions and attract situations that are in harmony with what's in our head. This is because our subconscious mind identifies or believes that this is necessary, important, and will only want more of the same to ensure a harmony between thoughts. There are two reasons for this:

The first is that in the harmony of thoughts, it's easier to categorize them, thereby conserving energy. Similar thoughts don't require questioning.

Because whatever I have stored in my mind, which determines how my behavior operates, has kept me alive up to this point. If all our thoughts are defeatist, then there's a congruence in our mind, and the mind feels comfortable in that situation. What we fail to consider is that there's an incongruence in the totality of what makes up our being. While it might be beneficial for survival to assume the worst, to undertake an action that allows us to survive, we must have self-esteem and confidence that we can carry out that action. Otherwise, either things won't turn out entirely well, or we won't even begin them. Our mind is faced with a dilemma, causing disharmony. Excessive positivity also creates an incongruence since not everything in life is rosy, and our mind is aware of this, even if we try to deceive it. That's why harmony isn't just about introducing positive ideas into our heads so that the mind seeks more of those ideas and aligns with them. It's also about being careful not to wander into absurdities just for the sake of being positive.

Path of Least Resistance

In ancient times, paths were uneven and meandering for the simple reason that a person walked through nature following the route that offered the least resistance to their progress. They would avoid lakes, rocks, trees, and so on. This is how your mind works. It follows the same groove day after day, taking the path that's easiest, that offers the least resistance. You talk to the same people, listen to the same information, do the same things, and have the same thoughts over and over.

For instance, when we complain about things we can't change and end up programming our minds for complaints, why do we do this? Because complaining doesn't require solutions; it doesn't force the mind to work. Since the mind is inherently lazy, meaning it wants to save energy, it will prefer to complain rather than seek solutions. Once we begin to complain, the mind will always look for reasons to complain. This is the path of least resistance it finds. Later on, I'll explain how to escape this mental trap when we get to the section titled "Demagogy, the Brain's Cancer."