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When change is what you want


Sometimes we want change, but most of the time we want comfort and stability. When is the right time for change? What can we do to make it less scary? Is there anything we can do health-wise to give our system the strength to cope?


by Boris von Rechenberg


CHANGE. IT CAN be frightening. We can spend whole lifetimes avoiding it. Some wait until they get sick, or even on their deathbed. It is not surprising really — after all we are actually wired to avoid change. Did you know that the limbic/paleo-


mammalian brain, the mid brain, maintains our beliefs, our sense of identity, and our sense of safety? And it does it all subconsciously, without our neo-cortex (which thinks it’s in control) knowing about it. When I first found out about this I was blown away.


10 JULY 2015


Suddenly it all made sense. The action of the limbic brain is much faster than our neo-cortex processing speeds; so the neo-cortex is unaware (unconscious) to what’s going on in the limbic/paleo- mammalian brain. ‘Subconscious’ really means it’s


happening beneath (sub) our normal level of consciousness. ‘Unconscious’ is when we’re not aware of it at all. Can you see what this means? It means that if there’s a conflict


between what we want consciously and


what we want subconsciously, then our subconscious-self always wins out, because its action is so fast that our conscious processes are unaware and remain unconscious to what’s going on. Bam! Why aren’t we taught that at school? But why would our conscious-self


want something different from our subconscious-self? We’re on the same team, right? I know, it sounds a bit like we’re possessed by different entities, but the answer is far simpler


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