From Hard-Wired to Self-Wired: Reprogramming Your Mind for Personal Improvement

There is this prevalent contemporary notion that the human brain is like a computer, equipped with memory, experience, attitudes and ideas data, and that there are installed software that runs when we think. Many experts in different fields have been puzzled and intrigued by this idea of the brain. Self-improvement teachers often use this analogy to help their students and many other people to "reprogram their mind" for the betterment of their lives. 1) Break Old Habits By Reprogramming Your Mind A psychologist named Hebb in 1949 developed his theory that is very popular today saying that "neurons that fire together, wire together." This is the associative learning process that we often undergo every single day of our lives. This is why many of us have our daily routines that determine how our day goes by, what we do and where we go. We are constantly repeating cycles of our lives and the times that this cycle is disturbed and we change is when we learn new things and do new things. We change suddenly and the cycle is broken as a new cycle is adapted. This is also why some of us get stuck in the same place in our life and many of us get frustrated and discontented with things like jobs and relationships. We are hard-wired from early on, with the things that we are most exposed to, in the familiar places, in our comfort zones and suddenly we realize that we are unhappy. If the brain is like a computer in some ways, then it is absolutely possible to change this course of our lives, to change our reality by thinking and doing. 2) Reprogramming Your Mind To Change Your Reality. Reprogramming your mind means changing that hard-wired system into your own self-wired thoughts and getting rid of the ideas and attitudes that don't improve you to have more space for new learning and new experiences. There are many ways to reprogram your mind and its effectiveness depends only on you as everyone is different and unique and in order to change you have to want to change in the first place. 3) Reprogramming Your Mind Through Meditation Probably the most important step toward self-rejuvenation would be to meditate and spend time with yourself to think and look into your life, your experiences, your goals and dreams. Meditating will help you become motivated and determined to achieve the things that you truly want and stop settling for less. Meditation will help you change your negative attitudes and beliefs. Meditation will help you defeat the skeptic and pessimistic whispers in your mind that says you can't do it. You need to get rid of this voice and repeat to yourself that you are capable of achieving the things that you want. Always think of feel good thoughts and positive intentions and goals. The most effective method is to always feel confident and positive so that these positive emotions attract positive things into your life. Consciously choose to change and you will realize that reality is malleable to your will, you just have to free yourself from negativity and inhibitions by reprogramming your mind.