Anthony Robbins AWAKEN THE GIANT... - Lemma Coaching

pattern of behaviour, the stronger that pattern becomes. Merzenich mapped the specific areas in a
monkey's brain that were activated when a certain finger in the monkey's hand was touched. He then
trained one monkey to use this finger predominantly 34 in order to earn its food. When Merzenich
remapped the touch-activated areas in the monkey's brain, he found that the area responding to the
signals from that finger's additional use had expanded in size nearly 600 percent! Now the monkey
continued the behaviour even when he was no longer rewarded because the neural pathway was so
strongly established. An illustration of this in human behaviour might be that of a person who no
longer enjoys smoking but still feels a compulsion to do so. Why would this be the case? This person is
physically "wired" to smoke. This explains why you may have found it difficult to create a change in
your emotional patterns or behaviours in the past. You didn't merely "have a habit"—you had created a
network of strong neuro-associations within your nervous system.
We unconsciously develop these neuro-associations by allowing our- selves to indulge 35 in emotions or
behaviours on a consistent basis. Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behaviour of
yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it
again. The good news is this: research has also shown that when the monkey was forced to stop using
this finger, the area of the brain where these neural connections were made actually began to shrink in
size, and therefore the neuro-association weakened. This is good news for those who want to change
their habits! If you'll just stop indulging in a particular behaviour or emotion long enough, if you just
interrupt your pattern of using the old pathway for a long enough period of time, the neural connection
will weaken and atrophy. Thus the disempowering emotional pattern or behaviour disappears with it.
We should remember this also means that if you don't use your passion it's going to dwindle 36 .
Remember: courage, unused, diminishes 37 . Commitment, unexercised, wanes 38 . Love, unshared,
dissipates 39 .
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
RENE DESCARTES
What the science of Neuro-Associative Conditioning offers is six steps that are specifically designed to
change behavior by breaking patterns that disempower you. But first, we must understand how the
brain makes a neuro-association in the first place. Any time you experience significant amounts of pain
or pleasure, your brain immediately searches for the cause. It uses the following three criteria.
1. Your brain looks for something that appears to be unique. To narrow down the likely causes, the
brain tries to distinguish something that is unusual to the circumstance. It seems logical that if you're
having unusual feelings, there must be an unusual cause.
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predominant (vor)herrschend, überwiegend
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indulge nachsichtig sein gegen; einer Neigung und so weiter nachgeben; indulge in something sich etwas
gönnen oder leisten
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dwindle (dahin)schwinden, abnehmen
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diminish (sich) vermindern oder verringern
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wane 1. abnehmen (Mond); schwinden (Einfluss, Macht und so weiter); 2. be on the wane im Schwinden
begriffen sein
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dissipate (sich) zerstreuen; verschwenden