Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

122 BRIANNA WIEST
This is valid. Your intestines are literally connected to
the stem of your brain; the bacteria in your stomach respond
to subconscious intelligent awareness faster than
your mind can. This is why your “gut” is indeed correct on
instinct. But when this advice is given to people who cannot
differentiate a gut feeling from fear or from a passing
thought that has no bearing on reality or their lives as a
whole, it becomes a dangerous practice in which they become
completely stuck and limited because they assume
their random feelings are all real—and then not only real,
but a prediction for what’s to come.
Psychic thinking is nothing more than a series of cognitive
biases, the most prominent of which are the following:
CONFIRMATION
At any moment in time, your brain is inundated with stimuli.
To help you process, your conscious mind is aware of about
10% of it or less. Your subconscious mind is still paying attention,
logging away information you might one day need.
However, what determines what makes it to that 10% of
our conscious awareness has a lot to do with what we already
believe. Our brains are literally working to filter out
information that does not support our preexisting ideas,
and then to draw our attention to information that does.
This means that we are subject to a “confirmation bias,”
which is that we literally seek out and sort through stimuli
that supports what we want to think.