But how does this happen? is it because being grateful helps us to recognize and see things and people in our lives in a more positive way? Well, yes!
Does it align our thoughts and actions to bring about more of the things that we are in vibrational harmony with? Yes!
The cool thing, is that beyond just the ethereal notions of manifesting things through the law of attraction, we actually can see a physiological change that happens in our nervous system when we are in a place of thanksgiving! Hooray!
I would like to introduce you to your Reticular Activating System (RAS). It is a very special part of your brainstem which conducts wakefulness, arousal, circadian rhythm, respiration, and cardiac rhythm, to name an important few.
It also has a huge role in our ability to be conscious, as it is a 'gate keeper' to what experiences from our environment moves through our sensory system and into our brain. Therefore, the experiences we have in life are processed through our RAS, and then evaluated within our frontal cortex, which is the higher brain center associated with consciousness.
If we are focused on the things which bring us worry and fear, the RAS can become dysfunctional resulting in an over-amplified response to stressors in the environment and create anxiety and a lack of awareness for the good experiences we have in life. As a result, we tend to literally bring about more things which bring about worry and fear because we have 'wired' our brains to experience things related to what we focus on.
So we see that the RAS begins to become programmed to the experiences, thoughts, and actions that we are focused on. The RAS literally becomes a filter for those sensory experiences and allows them to reach the conscious higher brain centers. We therefore create a 'mood' or a wiring in our brain which expects and identifies with that experience, and it becomes part of our reality. The result is more and more of the same experience, because it is what our brains have become hard-wired to expect. Sweet.
Therefore, in order to create the life of health, abundance and vitality we want, it is important to focus on our most desired visions and those things in our life that we are grateful for. Through our thoughts, feelings, actions and words, we create a platform for our RAS to function in the manner we desire.
Although it may take practice, our nervous system has plasticity (literally known as Neuroplasticity), meaning that it can change functionally and structurally as a result of our experiences.
Best to focus on what you want and are grateful for, wouldn't you say?
In summary, the more we focus our energies on things that make us feel gratitude, the more our RAS will become wired to filter for more of these experiences into our higher brain centers, and thus we have more of these experiences. The law of attraction from a concrete neurological perspective...cool!
So when you are walking around expressing gratitude for your family, your friends, the flowers, and the trees and someone mentions how all 'peace and love' you are while rolling their eyes, you can tell them: 'I am strengthening the connections between my Reticular Activating System and my Prefrontal Cortex, thank you very much!"
And tell them how grateful you are to them for noticing. :)
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