Utah Energy Works Part One: Your Brain

First, a super-quick background on why you think and do the things you do. Super-quick because everyone should know this stuff.

Your brain has neurons. About a hundred billion of them. I've seen that compared to the number of trees in the Amazon. Each neuron is connected to 5-10,000 other neurons (source). These connections are created as we think thoughts or as our senses stimulate various areas of our brain.

Furthermore, these connections are highly changeable, which is called neuroplasticity. New connections can be made almost instantly and old ones disconnected, which is called pruning. A few weeks ago at a cutting-edge biomedical conference, I watched real-time video of these neurons reaching out, making new connections, and old connections dropping away. This is the sort of thing going on inside your head when you learn something new or have an epiphany.

So think about it - most of your perceptions about yourself and how the universe functions were formed when you were an infant. As you became a toddler, you experimented with your world's limits and added to your collection of perceptions. As a teen, full of booming self awareness and sometimes-overwhelming emotion, experimentation and results got serious. Even if you're not aware of it, you've never recovered from some of the shocks you experienced in these formative stages.

What I'm getting to is that your early perceptions have a lot to do with who you are now - your confidence level, your degree of happiness, how much money you earn, what crowds you feel comfortable with, etc. You have NO IDEA how significant this is!

The other point I'm getting to is that these perceptions and results are NOT fixed. They are not permanent. At least they don't have to be. I'm saying that every one of us can be even better than we are - who wouldn't want that? I don't just mean more productive. I mean wiser. Happier. Kinder. More interesting, more fun, more influential. In short, if there were a way to change a few key neural connections, we could be more of whatever it is we were meant to be in this world and have a much easier time of it!

I'm not talking about compensation. I'm not talking about TRYING harder or the kind of bravado that covers up concealed insecurities. That sort of self "improvement" is exhausting! Yet it's the only kind most people know how to access.

I'm talking about real, deep, foundational change. I'm talking about changing one part of our nature - the part created by our brains - to more closely match the other part of ourselves - call it spirit, potential, or whatever else makes sense to you. I'm talking about perfect freedom from our limitations.

And it's a lot easier than you ever dreamed possible. Which leads us to part two...coming right up.