Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

How important is it to make sure your nervous system is in alignment with what you think and believe within your brain in order to manifest what you want in life?

I think it is the most important thing. I truly think it's the most important thing.

I mean, when I think of your nervous system being in alignment with what you want, I think of

your thoughts, your beliefs, but not only that, but also your habits and the way that you show up in the world,

because your brain doesn't just listen to your thoughts, it also listens to who you're being, right?

And that's such a key player and something that I love talking about is identity, because, you know,

your identity is your destiny in this life.

And I love talking about that, and it's so huge.

I mean, every single time I shift my

identity my reality shifts like pretty quickly and so that that's because your brain holds a model

of who you are right in the default mode network there's a key component in that but your brain

holds a model of who you are and then it uses that model to predict your thoughts feelings behaviors

and choices without your conscious awareness.

So a lot of the time we think we're choosing, but really it's our identity and our nervous system

that's choosing for us and they've shown that in studies that a lot of time the neural representation

of the choice that you've made shows up in a brain scan before you're even consciously aware

of the choice that you're making.

And so that really is the importance of making sure your nervous system is in alignment with where you're trying to go. Because if it's not, then you're going to have, you know, those moments where you're like, why did I not do the thing I know I should be doing? Why did I make that choice? Or maybe you don't even know what to choose or you're confused or you're feeling stuck, you're lacking motivation and getting your nervous system into alignment really is the first step.

Interesting. So would you say that our nervous system is actually making decisions for us

rather than what we truly want or desire?

That happens a lot of the time without our awareness. Our brain is making choices for us. And when I think of the brain, that's a part of the nervous system. So they all kind of work hand in hand, right? Like the brain is a part of the central nervous system. We've got the peripheral nervous system as well. So these two work hand in hand. But I think that, you know, through processes like meditation and practicing mindfulness meditation, we can

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