Regardless of the challenges we face, we can achieve our goals if we keep believing in ourselves.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. This is what Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said about self-confidence. And I can’t agree more.
We all go through life’s ups and downs. No matter how tough the life path we choose is, if we don’t lose belief in ourselves, we move forward, figure things out, and make our goals happen.
So, believe in yourself. For some of us, this may be more easily said than done. At such times, I suggest we change our perspective slightly, and try trusting our brains.
Our Brains Can Change and Grow, So Can We
Within our brains lie amazing powers beyond our reckoning. Our brains contain infinite creativity. The neurons, and the synapses between them, of our nervous system are not fixed and unchanging. Rather, they change and replace themselves based on feedback.
The brain is designed to change endlessly. New brain cells and neural circuits are created through novel stimulation and reaction to that stimulation. This is called neuroplasticity. The essence of the brain is to change, adapt, and grow.
Confidence—trusting our brains—is the first key to activating change in the brain. We can maintain a positive attitude when our confidence is alive and vital, and a positive attitude responds flexibly to information, increasing the speed at which we change and grow.
If you are in low spirits because of past mistakes or poor behavior, or if you want to change a habit, tell yourself this: “Yeah, that was my brain as it was in the past. Not now though. My brain can change.”
The moment we acknowledge our past experience without being ashamed of it, denying it, or making excuses for it, the brain opens up circuits once completely blocked by stress and starts creating new thoughts. Our brains are ready to ceaselessly change and grow. We provide them with a direction for that change by continuously making choices and by putting those choices into practice.
Ask the Brain More Often
To make use of our brains’ infinite creativity, ceaselessly pose questions to them. Our brains answer questions. When questioned, they move actively to find an answer. When we ask them new questions, our brains search for new information to answer them, and they come up with integrated ideas that connect separate informational elements.
Questioning is behavior that involves requesting information from the cosmic database. Once we have our questions, information will come to us in various forms through various pathways. Imagination, ideas, thoughts, conversations with friends, telephone conversations, newspaper headlines, TV advertisements—all of these things will present us with messages concerning our queries. For questioning brains, such forms of information have significance and are important sources of ideas and inspiration.
The more earnest a question, the more passionately a brain moves in its quest for answers. If we sincerely want the answer, we will ask the right question. Trust your brain; ask your brain. It knows the answers.
If we ask them to, our brains can do things we’ve never done, things we are unaware of. Our brains have great power to find paths we cannot see and create paths we cannot find. Our brains, however, will not put forth their creative power if we set our own limits and keep only to those aspects of ourselves that we have experienced and that we have understood so far.
Some people live within the limits of the self they have experienced and known. They fear to attempt things outside the scope of their own knowledge and experience. But if we rarely extend beyond what we’re already comfortable with, our lives become much smaller than our real potential.
Setting Ourselves Free
We don’t have to become proficient at everything that intimidates us. But if we make even a little progress, or just shed our fears, we’ll awaken a part of our brains that’s been dormant. We’ll become more comfortable in general with the idea of trying things that don’t come easily to us, and that alone will help us face our challenges head on. Never again will we shrink away from mountains we haven’t yet climbed.
When we trust our brains and work consciously with their ability to change, we are the creator of our experience. Instead of caging in our awareness or limiting our expectations about what we can accomplish, we can set ourselves free, knowing that if we try something new in one area of our lives, we’ll experience an openness in our brains. As a result, other areas of our lives will become more creative and fun as well.
We are what we think. We are what we repeatedly do. We are as conscious or unconscious as we choose to be. With more practice, we can work with our brain’s amazing neuroplasticity to improve our lives. We are the masters of our own lives.
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