Today's Motivational Nugget with Dr. Walubita Siyanga - Tuesday 24th May 2022 - Melo Media is Zambia's premier independent social media platform.

{DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR OWN BRAIN DOES BETRAY YOU SOMETIMES?}

Brain betrayal happens every time you want to make success changes in your life without first programming your mind for that success. It’s like trying to force a particular software on hardware which is not compatible. During brain betrayal, your own brain resists any major adjustments that you may be trying to work out because your brain perceives such success seeking actions as strange and foreign to your life.

Friends, we are products of the information that we constantly receive through our senses and we become programmed according to what we hear, what we smell, what we see and what we touch. Therefore, your brain will only allow you to go as far as you can see, smell, hear and touch. Your brain will not accept for you to reach for a reality that your senses are not familiar with. So you can desire certain things in life but if your brain feels that your character, behavior and habits cannot support your new quest, then your brain will gently persuade you to stay on course with what you are used to. So literally, you may think – “I want to work hard” but your brain will subconsciously do an access denied protocol and persuade you to stick with laziness if that is what you are used to. At the subconscious level, your brain believes that it’s acting in your best interest to rule out that idea of change or success which does not match your current state of life.

So how do you overcome brain betrayal? It’s simple. All you have to do is expose your mind to success first, before taking actions in pursuit of success. You must cause your brain to see, hear, smell and feel success by all means so that your brain no longer rejects the idea of success. You need to create an environment of success around you. Hang around the successful long enough, talk to the successful long enough and get influenced by the successful long enough and sooner or later, your brain will gravitate towards success in terms of programming. Consequently, every success seeking action that you undertake after that will be gladly accepted by your brains without your brain betraying you.