Our brain keeps on scanning our environment to predict and protect us. Its main job is to keep us safe and more importantly alive. In times of extreme starvation and stress, our brain could activate different systems that keeps us alive without food or water for days but at the cost of devouring our own body tissue and resources. This feature of our brain was of great help may in the ancient times when we used live as tribes in deep forests exposed to natural elements, wild animals and other dangers at any moment.
Experts say that our mind has psychological immunity. This psychological immune system is built from our childhood and continues to keep evolving as long as we live.
It is made up of our life experiences, our beliefs, our values, our self-image, our thoughts, our feelings and emotions.
This mental immunity keep our ego safe and stokes it to stay in your own limitations.
- It prevents you to make changes in life even though they are beneficial for you.
- It makes you judgmental to feel less guilty for not doing the things that you are supposed to do.
- When ever you decide to change something for good, it gives you all reasons to not do it.
- It makes you choose to stay in your comfort zone and not try something different.
- When you venture out to do something innovative, it only shows you the risks involved and not the long term happiness.
- Your mental immunity makes you choose easy going and shortcuts.
- It makes you procrastinate by validating your irrational reasons.
- If gives you reasons to stay in known hell rather than choosing unknown heaven. It rejects anything that is unfamiliar to you.
- It produces all chemicals in body to force you to not take up new challenges. Essentially it chooses to conserve your energy and resources to stay with your self-limiting beliefs even though they are not in your best interests.
- It simply blames others for others and external factors for the situation you are in.
- It does not give you automatically give you internal drive and energy to take full responsibility for your life so that you could do your best at least from this moment.
- Your psychological immune system always wants instant gratification and immediate success. It pushes you to choose something that gives you instant pleasure at this moment rather than wait for better experience after a while.
- It does not understand the importance of self-control, discipline, consistency, commitment and resiliency which are required to stay on track and keep giving your best.
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