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- 0:00Erin Gray: I had a client request that I record this episode about an exercise that I had her implement and to help her increase her awareness around the abundance that she already has in her life, and also to train her brain to look for the abundance that's already flowing in and the abundance that's actually coming, that will be coming in.
- 0:21Erin Gray: So today I'm going to talk to you about why, or how, our brains actually scan for things, why confirmation bias is.
- 0:31Erin Gray: Our brains actually look for what we believe in, our stories and our beliefs and the simple notes app practice that you can start to implement today to start training your brain and your body to look for the abundance and the money flowing into your life so that you can actually feel more resourced and supported right now.
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- 1:10Erin Gray: You know.
- 1:11Erin Gray: My mission is to empower more people like you to have a better relationship with their money and to truly change their life.
- 1:20Erin Gray: Okay, so let's talk about your brain for a second.
- 1:22Erin Gray: You have something called the RAS, which is short for the reticular activating system, and this system is a network of nerve pathways located in the brain.
- 1:34Erin Gray: It functions kind of like think of it like the gatekeeper for this sensory information that enters our consciousness, and so it decides what stimuli warrant our attention.
- 1:45Erin Gray: And if you think about it like, our brains are constantly bombarded with, you know, if you have five senses, that's why they have, you know, suggest, with meditation, is closing your eyes.
- 1:56Erin Gray: Initially, because our sensitivity to our vision don't quote me on this, but I think it's like around 80%, like, of all the stimuli that is coming into our brain, um, I think 80% makes up our, our vision.
- 2:10Erin Gray: So you know, when you close your eyes, how much stimuli are you able to kind of shut off to the brain because your eyes are closed.
- 2:18Erin Gray: So think of it like the RAS, like this filtering mechanism, and so it's essential because our brains are constantly, if you think about way back when, when we were cavemen or whatever, and we were constantly on the lookout for threats, right, and so when you are in this constant fight or flight, survival, which a lot of us have been, and we have trained our nervous systems to be this way.
- 2:46Erin Gray: We are constantly looking for what's wrong, what's not working, because in a way that is actually helpful to us from a biological standpoint and not a lot of us are like in the caveman days anymore, like probably none of us, right?
- 3:00Erin Gray: So when you think about it, it was a very highly useful thing for our brain to do, but it isn't very helpful in today's society and where we live, right?
- 3:13Erin Gray: So the RAS is trained by our belief systems.
- 3:19Erin Gray: So if you have been conditioned or you have stories around money or just think about your just overall beliefs, I mean we can get into the money part.
- 3:30Erin Gray: But like if you just think about your overall perception and perspective around the world, like if I were to ask you what do you think about the world today, the status or the state of the world, what do you think about humans in general?
- 3:45Erin Gray: Or, you know, what do you think about your life?
- 3:49Erin Gray: I mean, are you going to come back with it's amazing, humans are amazing, our world is amazing or are you going to come back with more of like we're on a downhill or what happened to us or what's gone wrong with humanity, right?
- 4:03Erin Gray: So you have to look at, kind of your overall state of being when it comes to your RAS and then also changing your perception and starting to look for those.
- 4:14Erin Gray: When I say positive, I don't think anything is positive or negative, it just is, but changing your belief to a higher vibration, a higher frequency in general.
- 4:26Erin Gray: So when you think about if you have a belief around, let's just talk about money If you have a belief around money lack and scarcity and not enough, and you know it's not working out for you, your RAS is going to filter that for you.
- 4:41Erin Gray: So just think about, like, if you, if you were to go and buy a car and the car color is red, and depending on what brand it is, let's just use a Tahoe Chevy Tahoe and it's red, how many more red Tahoes are you going to see now that you have one?
- 4:56Erin Gray: It's not.
- 4:57Erin Gray: It's not that they are more abundant, it's just that your brain now is focused on that.
- 5:04Erin Gray: So, just being aware and mindful of what you are focusing on, you're going to get more of.
- 5:11Erin Gray: So the good thing is because I think I like to be the example on the guinea pig, because I think my brain was as negative confirmation bias as it could get.
- 5:22Erin Gray: So if I can change my brain and we can rewire our brains right, they're very what they call neuroplastic neuroplasticity.
- 5:28Erin Gray: You know, research has shown that our brains can be rewired right, like our synapses can.
- 5:35Erin Gray: Our neural pathways can be changed, so we can all change the way that we think.
- 5:41Erin Gray: We can all change our stories and our beliefs.
- 5:43Erin Gray: The question isn't can we or can we not?
- 5:46Erin Gray: The question is, are we willing?
- 5:47Erin Gray: So back to your RAS, back to your brain, so you can retrain this filter right.
- 5:53Erin Gray: Our brains are able to be changed, they're able to be molded.
- 5:57Erin Gray: Like I always talk about with clients is just the, the neural pathways.
- 6:00Erin Gray: Think of it like a highway right now, depending on what your stories, what your belief systems are, that neural pathway in your brain.
- 6:07Erin Gray: It's like a highway and you get to go very fast down it right.
- 6:11Erin Gray: The connection is very quick, very fast.
- 6:13Erin Gray: So when you're developing new beliefs, I like to also think that we can also change our belief in an instant, because I know I have been.
- 6:21Erin Gray: I have done that.
- 6:22Erin Gray: There are some other beliefs in my life.
- 6:24Erin Gray: That has taken me a little bit longer and it's not a problem.
- 6:29Erin Gray: An empowering thought that I have and a belief that I have is like our beliefs can change in an instant.
- 6:34Erin Gray: I mean, think about, I watched this show called food Inc and that night I decided I wasn't going to eat meat anymore.
- 6:41Erin Gray: Think about people that have been diagnosed with cancer or they decide, you know, they go to the doctor and they're like you have to quit smoking.
- 6:47Erin Gray: Like you, immediately you were a belief had as that you were a smoker, and then now you're not.
- 6:52Erin Gray: So our beliefs can change overnight, and also sometimes some of our beliefs just take a little bit more time, and that's okay too.
- 6:58Erin Gray: So the practice that you can start today is, if you have an iPhone, which I do it's called a notes app.
- 7:05Erin Gray: If you're on an Android, then I'm sure there's probably some types of note app that you use.
- 7:09Erin Gray: Or if you pay for a note app whatever it is that you can.
- 7:13Erin Gray: I just keep it on my phone but create what I call a blessings log, or money and blessing logs, whatever you want to call it Every time that money flows into your life, no matter how, and nothing is big or small right, everything just is.
- 7:29Erin Gray: But if your brain wants to, you know, deem it small, no matter how little it is, write it down.
- 7:34Erin Gray: So, the money that you've made in your business or if you're, you know, employed by your employer, how much money have you grossed for the for the week?
- 7:42Erin Gray: I would do this every single day.
- 7:43Erin Gray: I would look in and and see um, but like what is your?
- 7:48Erin Gray: What have you received in from an income, any type of refund, someone offering and actually buying you a coffee, money that you find on the ground, you know, upgrades, anything like that, any type of money that has come into your life, paying attention to it and writing it down.
- 8:08Erin Gray: Because what we pay attention to grows.
- 8:11Erin Gray: If you think about everything is energy, and if we are paying attention to how much money we already have and how much money we are receiving, the more that we pay attention to it, the more that it's going to grow.
- 8:21Erin Gray: And this isn't just a thought exercise, this is also a feeling.
- 8:25Erin Gray: So I want you to get into your body and ask and get into the feeling of sufficiency and abundance as you start to see how much money are you actually receiving?
- 8:35Erin Gray: Because the feeling of having is what actually creates more money.
- 8:40Erin Gray: That is what creates sufficiency and abundance, not how we have been feeling.
- 8:45Erin Gray: How a lot of us feel right Is from that place of of scarcity and lack.
- 8:49Erin Gray: So when you do this exercise, you are literally teaching your RAS to notice abundance where you already have it in our life.
- 8:57Erin Gray: I think a lot of times people think, well, I need to be abundant, you already are abundant.
- 9:01Erin Gray: What we're really doing is just removing all of these limiting beliefs and these stories that we have around not being abundant.
- 9:10Erin Gray: So it's not like you become abundant, we already are.
- 9:12Erin Gray: We are born abundant, we are born worthy.
- 9:14Erin Gray: And what happens is we we kind of think of it like you're putting on clothes, so each, each layer of clothing you have are these limiting beliefs.
- 9:22Erin Gray: So over time, what's going to happen is your brain is going to start scanning for what is working instead of what's lacking.
- 9:28Erin Gray: It's going to start seeing, oh, my goodness, like, look, this is like it will just be on autopilot for you of how abundant you already are.
- 9:37Erin Gray: And there's this brain and this body nervous system.
- 9:41Erin Gray: You know meshing that occurs right.
- 9:44Erin Gray: So when we start to show our our mind how what we have already, we can start to actually relax the nervous system right, we get out of that fight or flight survival state because you actually have proof.
- 10:00Erin Gray: You know, like, for me, sometimes I really do have to show my brain when it wants to argue with me, like I do come from the energy of certainty and faith and trust, but I'm a human right, my brain wants to argue with me and it wants to tell me where it's not.
- 10:14Erin Gray: And so you have something there that shows you that money is already flowing in and that good things are already happening and more good things are on the way.
- 10:24Erin Gray: And so, using that as a recognition and also a gratitude of feeling and of having already money in your life and of having already money in your life.
- 10:39Erin Gray: And we know that abundance does not start with having a bigger bank account, because me, so many of my clients, right, we already have the money in the bank account but we don't feel abundant because money or any type of feeling actually doesn't occur outside of us.
- 10:51Erin Gray: It is an internal thing first, and then it shows up like right, like we live in this cause and effect world.
- 10:58Erin Gray: It shows up first in our internal state of being and then it gets shown in in the observed world, or what we, what we see, um with our eyes.
- 11:07Erin Gray: It really starts to train your brain to see what's already here, right, it starts with that feeling, that how we feel, first, and then allowing more to come into your life.
- 11:18Erin Gray: So what I would do and what I recommend when you're starting this exercise is to start with it daily.
- 11:25Erin Gray: I would look at it in the morning and I would look at it in the night, because there's a couple of things here.
- 11:29Erin Gray: Right, like you're building the habit of looking and to notice.
- 11:33Erin Gray: Um, there is a book called hardwiring happiness that I read.
- 11:38Erin Gray: That was really um, it's not necessarily on money, but it talks about how our brains are actually wired to look for, like I talked about in the very beginning of this episode, to look for the things that could cause us harm or what's not working, because that is from that survival biological state.
- 11:58Erin Gray: Right, and so really being disciplined with looking at and focusing on where am I already receiving money?
- 12:06Erin Gray: Where and it doesn't have to be just money right, like you could look at all of the blessings in your life, because that's really true abundance.
- 12:11Erin Gray: Abundance is not just money, but I know that a lot of you, money is, is a very tender and sensitive topic, so I just started writing down so I could see where all the money was already flowing to me all from different sources as well, right, Um, so I really started to train my brain.
- 12:30Erin Gray: You know where we already have money and paying attention to that and feeling grateful for that.
- 12:37Erin Gray: If you want support transforming the way that you think and the way, more importantly, how you feel about money, and really change your life, I am here to guide you.
- 12:45Erin Gray: I'm here to support you.
- 12:47Erin Gray: I would love and be honored to support you on your journey.
- 12:50Erin Gray: You know you can schedule a call.
- 12:52Erin Gray: I'll put the link in the show notes, you can click on a time that works for you and we can see if we are a good fit for each other.
- 12:58Erin Gray: Until next time, I want you to know that I'm rooting for you.
- 13:01Erin Gray: I believe in you.
- 13:02Erin Gray: I love you.
- 13:02Erin Gray: We are all abundant, even though that our body and our minds want to tell us that we aren't.
- 13:07Erin Gray: We all are right, like that is our natural state of being.
- 13:10Erin Gray: God did not put us on the planet to struggle and to not have fun and to not enjoy our life and to feel lack.
- 13:18Erin Gray: That is not our natural state.
- 13:21Erin Gray: So I hope you enjoyed this episode and I will see you in the next one.