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In today's episode, I wanted to share with you an article that I enjoyed reading from David Hanscom

MD and the title of his article was negative messages to your brain. I thought this would be interesting because

I enjoyed reading it and I thought that I would share it with you because of the number of people who write to me about negative messages.

Actually the wording is more negative thoughts and so when you have negative thoughts, especially when they're repetitive,

what is the message that you are sending to the brain and how does that pan out

for those of us who have had anxiety or are anxious or how this might even be

affecting anybody and what can we do about it. So he had some interesting

points here that I will share, but again I will put a link to the entire

article in the show notes for you if you would like to read the whole thing.

Dr Hanscom says that he spent some time with Bruce Lipton who is a cell biologist

and he's the author of a best-selling book called The Biology of Belief, and one of his major points regarding

the function of the nervous system was that 95% of our nervous system is functioning from the

unconscious aspect of it and only 5% is from our conscious brain.

The only way you can change your brain and behavior

is using tools that access the unconscious brain. They go on to say that it is also a major mismatch in that the

unconscious part of your brain processes about 20 to 40 million pieces of information per second

compared to only 40 bits per second of your conscious brain.

Now that's a huge divide.

The unconscious part of our brain

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