There are 24 visual processing centres in the back of our brain, to deal with all that our eyes see in the world. Recent discoveries in neuro-science has revealed a cunning trick that the brain uses to conserve energy. There is as much information coming into these processing areas from the memory parts of our brain as there are from new visual information. This allows us to process large volumes of new information without having to spend lots of time and energy sifting through the detail. Basically we make up a lot of the present based on memory of similar experiences that have happened in our past.
That‘s why magicians stay employed. They take full advantage of the brain seeing what it expects to see rather than what is actually happening. That‘s also why when asked to give a description of an event, 10 people will give 10 completely different versions. Our reality is often based more on our past patterns than on what is flowing in the present. This is why it takes so much energy to change.
Just say you see the world as a place of lack, your lens of perception is hooked into your beliefs that you can’t earn enough or you may tend to give away what you have. The pattern is embedded to save you energy. You see someone in need or an opportunityand without thinking the old memories kick in go to the rescue, or you can’t see the opportunity for what it is.
The only way through to change these habits is to keep a constant check on them. Enquiring on what is motivating you to do this. Most importantly it is setting yourself new actions to practice what is in effect the opposite to what you currently do. Over coming the comfort of your old patterns takes a lot of energy. That’s why if you are stressed trying to keep your head above water, it becomes difficult to draw enough energy reserves to meet this challenge. This is assuming you want to change. Usually as the human condition goes, it is only when the pain of the current pattern becomes greater than the pain of change that we are then motivated into action.