Chapter 3: The Power Of State
The experience of being on
a roll, when you could do no wrong-or the opposite-is a result of the
neurophysiological state you are in.
Understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence.
Our behavior is the result of the state we're in. We always do the best we can with the resources available to us, but sometimes we find ourselves in unresourceful states.
A state can be defined as the sum of the millions of neurological processes happening within us, in other words, the sum total of our experience at any moment in time.
The problem is, most of our states happen without any conscious direction on our part. People succeed or fail in life in direct relationship to their ability to consistently put themselves in states that support them in their achievements.
Almost everything people want is some possible state-love, confidence, respect-even money, which you want in order to give you states like freedom, power, love, etc.
Behavior is the result of the state we're in, and our states are created by 2 main components:
1) Internal representations-
a) what and how we picture
in our mind,
b) what we hear and what
we say to ourselves in our mind
2) Physiology-posture, biochemistry, breathing, muscular tension/relaxation
INTERNAL REPRESENTATION and PHYSIOLOGY work in a cybernetic loop. Anything that affects one will automatically affect the other.
To control our states, we must control and consciously direct our internal representations and physiology.
The key word is "re-presentation"-we experience our world through our five senses-visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory.
Through the process of generalization, distortion, and deletion, the brain takes the sensory stimuli and "represents" or filters them into an INTERNAL REPRESENTATION.
Thus, your internal representation, your experience of the event, isn't precisely what happened but rather a personalized internal re-presentation-it's just one interpretation as filtered through specific personal belief, attitudes, values, and metaprograms.
This filtering process explains the huge range in human perception.
One person may pay more attention to what (s)he saw, another to what (s)he heard-they look at it from different angles, and have different physiologies to begin the perception process with.
Since we don't know how things really are, but only how we represent them to ourselves, why not represent them in a way that empowers ourselves and others, rather than creating limitations?
The key to doing this successfully is memory management.
In any experience, you have many things to focus on-no matter how terrible a situation is, you can represent it in a way that empowers you.
We can represent things in a way that puts us in a positive state, or we can do the opposite. If we don't consciously direct our own minds and states, our environment may produce undesirable states.
We must weed our garden by deciding what we are going to focus on. Successful people are able to gain access to their most resourceful states on a consistent basis.
When we go into a state, our brain then accesses possible behavioral choices.
The number of choices is determined by our models of the world-what are your behavioral choices when you're in an angry state, for example?
The Firewalk teaches people how to change their states and their behaviors in a way that empowers them to take action and produce new results in spite of fear.
The Firewalk helps people form a new internal representation of belief and possibility.
Most people take very little conscious action to direct their states. They wake up depressed or they wake up energized. Good breaks lift them up, bad ones bring them down.
Successful people are able to summon their best when they need it, when the pressure is the greatest.
People who have achieved excellence are masters of tapping into the most resourceful parts of their brain, by deciding what they are going to focus on-what they are going to represent to themselves, and thus controlling the state they access on a regular basis.
DR.DENNIS EKWEDIKE :
ReplyDeletePeople succeed or fail in life in direct relationship to their ability to consistently put themselves in States that support them in their achievements.
It is one's responsibility to represent things in a way that puts one in a positive State since if one doesn't consciously direct one's mind and state,the environment may produce undesirable state.
People who have achieved excellence are masters of tapping into the most resourceful parts of their brain on a regular basis.
My initial thought is that how did this man who had no formal education able to understand human being and it's awareness so much?
ReplyDeleteThis chapter teaches us that
1. There's unlimited power inherent in everyone of us, all that is needed is proper communication between our internal and external representation.
2. That if we don't directly positively represent what is internally communicated to us, it might lead to wrong representation leading to failure instead of success.
3. People who mastered tapping into the resourceful part of their brains, achieve success than those who don't.
Proper communication is the key
DeleteIn this chapter, I can deduce that
ReplyDelete¶ Our behavior is the result of the state we are in, and understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence.
¶ To control our state, we must control and consciously direct our internal representations and physiology.
¶ People who have achieved excellence are masters of tapping into the most resourceful parts of their brain, by deciding what they are going to focus-on.
Joshua Chibuike Ehugbo
We must be conscious of what we want out of life
Delete1. A state can be defined as the sum total of our experience at any moment in time.
ReplyDelete2. Understanding state is the key to understanding change and achieving excellence.
3. Successful people are able to summon their best when they need it, when the pressure is the greatest.
1.We must learn to represent things in a way that empowers us and others rather than creating limitations.
ReplyDelete2.It is what we consciously direct our minds and states to that determines the state our environment produces.
3.If we want to be successful,we must be deliberate and consistent in giving access to our most resourceful states
Self empowerment by way of internal conversation is another key to personal growth
DeleteThere are two factors that affect the powers we emit:
ReplyDelete1. Our internal representation
2. Our Physiology (Walking, Posture, Dressing etc)
The power of the state of our internal life is so great that the better we are internally, the better we can be externally.
The heart and the brain must be in a simultaneously connected state in other to yield effeciency and growth.
Great
DeleteTo control our states, we must control and consciously direct our internal representations and physiology.
ReplyDeleteSuccessful people are able to summon their best when they need it, when the pressure is the greatest and direct their energy on actually what they want by focusing positively.
In any experience, you have many things to focus on-no matter how terrible a situation is, you can represent it in a way that empowers you.
Great
DeleteGreat Chapter.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts by dr uzoma
ReplyDeleteHow i go in life is dependent on how i balance between my internal and external environment
I must focus on what makes me successful no matter the pressures