These are but a small sampling of statements that may
make up part of your personal history. How many other phrases can you come
up with?

Let’s
imagine a real life example:

Imagine you are out on the golf course, you are
approaching a RATHER DIFFICULT putting situation and
you grab your putter and you feel that rush of adrenaline as your mind
instantly recalls the last 3 times you attempted this shot and missed and
those doubts begin to creep into your thoughts, that’s your Personal
History in action and that is what we are going to change!  By the way
how did you know it was RATHER DIFFICULT …. Personal
history in action yet again!

Let’s briefly explore how this happens so that we can
control our personal history and use it to our advantage. 

The latest research on how our brain works:

1.   Utilizing positron emission tomography (PET), a way of looking at the
brain, Dr Larry Cahill in the Centre for the Neurobiology of Learning and
Memory at UC Irvine states, “when there’s strong emotion attached to any of
the experiences in your memory both real and imagined, the stress hormone
response gets activated and essentially tells your brain, ‘Hey, this is more
important than what was happening ten minutes ago or an hour ago, or
whatever, store this better for immediate access.” A good example of this
would be “PSTD or post-traumatic stress disorder, where people have
undergone some sort of horrific traumatic event. What you have is memories
that are just the opposite of repressed. They’re way too accessible. People
have trouble not thinking about these memories.” Says Dr Cahill

Conclusion:  The greater emotional response that you have to any
situation, the easier it is to access by your brain and the more important
it becomes.

Which elicits a greater emotional response the 4 foot putt you are about
to attempt or the last putt you just attempted, missed and lost the bet? 
your secret weapons will reduce the emotional response to losing the bet and
place making this 4 foot putt high on your “important list” … more on that
next.

2. The Limbic System portion of the brain contains what
   is known as the Reticular Activating System, or the RAS for short. This is
   the part of your brain where the world outside of you, and your thoughts
   and feelings from “inside” of you, meet. It determines how important the
   information your senses are receiving from the outside by comparing it
   with the information you have stored in your brain, your “personal
   history.” Whatever has the most emotionally charged memory/experience in
   your personal history regarding what you are experiencing in the outside
   world will be placed highest on the list and you will act in accordance
   with that experience whether it was real or imagined.

Many scientists believe it’s
the reticular activating system that’s responsible for the phenomenon in
which we learn a new word or concept and suddenly begin “seeing it
everywhere.” The new car we wanted is suddenly seen everywhere, it was there
all along, of course; our brain just wasn’t taking note because the
information had no real significance for us. Since we have a higher
emotional charge to the experience of wanting this car all of a sudden, we
have placed it higher on the important list.

Conclusion:  Due to the fact that there is so
much information coming into your senses at any given time, your brain has a
natural and very necessary filtering unit.  This is called your Reticular
activating system; its job is to filter out non-essential information.  This
is responsible for those times when you ended up at your exit on the freeway
and don’t remember the last ten minutes of driving because you were day
dreaming. The problem is, up until now, you had no control over this
system.  Now That you are aware of it you can position yourself to notice
the things you want your brain to focus on and eliminate the unwanted
things. 

Whatever is important to you; whatever experience you have placed
an emotional charge to will be placed on the “important list” Every time
anything related to that appears within your experience in the outside world
your RAS will bring up your personal history regarding that event and you
will begin to act in accordance with your personal history and not what you
are witnessing in the outside world. 

That leaves me with this question for you:  Which has a
higher emotional charge for you on the golf course, the shot you are about
to take or the last 3 times you screwed up that same or similar shot.  My
guess would be based on the outcome …did you make it?   Your secret weapons
will greatly increase the odds of you making that shot.

3. As a result of the PET scans we now know now that
   only 1/6th of our brain is under conscious control.  The other
   approximately 83% or 5/6ths of our brain’s thinking power; the vast
   majority of our brain’s thinking power, is performed at the non-conscious
   level. 

Numerous scientific studies have also found and
proven that your nonconscious levels of thought (the other approximately
83%) do not operate off of the same rules as your conscious thoughts. In
other words, your conscious thoughts are filtered through reality, deductive
reasoning, logic, and moral values before you experience them. Non-conscious
thoughts have no such filters. As a result, your nonconscious brain can not
tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined, what is
negative or positive. It takes as absolute truth any pictures that are sent
to it.

The research of Dr. Larry Cahill and others,
have also found that the non-conscious brain sees things in images and
pictures. For example: if I were to ask you to close your eyes and think
about the last perfect tee shot you made, you would not imagine this in
words on a page, but rather in pictures.

When we tell our children, “Don’t trip over the
dog!” what picture does 5/6th of their brain automatically see? That’s
right, tripping over the dog! If I tell you, “Whatever you do, do not think
about anything Blue!” What do you
automatically see? The color Blue!

The picture that the brain
sees in all 6 areas is an image of him tripping over the dog.  He can give
meaning to that picture at the conscious level (do not) but cannot give
meaning to that picture at the non-conscious level, so the picture that he
see’s non‑consciously is of tripping over the dog and that is taken as real
and it is taken literally. 

 That means the chances of you
making the putt when you give yourself the picture “Don’t miss this putt” is
about 1 in 6 or about an 83% chance that you will only see and recall the
other emotionally charged times when you “miss the putt.”

Conclusion:  The unconscious 5/6ths of our brain
that controls our personal history thinks in pictures. Whatever we say to
ourselves, it will automatically formulate a mental picture from the
information received that it will then use to determine an appropriate
response based upon our “important list.”  The “important list” can be
altered by decreasing the emotional charge you have to the pictures and
images with the proper use of your new secret weapons

4.     
“Future Memory” is the term given by Dr. Richard Restak,
neuroscientist, to refer to your ability to instill future goals into your
nonconscious mind. You can create “future memories” by imaging yourself in
possession of the things you want, or reaching the goals you set to achieve.

At the Institute of Neurology
in London, Dr Richard Frackowiak and others have found through the use of
the PET scans, dramatic evidence of the benefits of mental rehearsal!

 It is now absolutely proven
scientifically, what professional and very skilled athletes have secretly
known for some time:  Imagining a complex or skillful movement, over and
over in your mind, can actually help to physically or mentally to improve
its performance. The PET scans show the same neurons in your brain are used
for mental practice and for real practice!

Conclusion:  If you utilize your new secret weapons and practice
this future memory before you undertake new projects. You are creating new
neuron patterns with the statements and pictures you use (My sand wedge
shots are always perfect …. in my mind!) which then will rewire how you feel
emotionally about your previous disastrous golf shots and bad habit patterns
taking them off of your “important list” in your mind.  Thus, allowing you
the opportunity to play much better golf.   ….. Don’t tell your competition!

5. Your non-conscious brain is pre-programmed by
   evolution for failure … not really. More accurately, the non-conscious
   functions of your brain by evolution were programmed to over emphasize the
   negative.  The reason for this is simple …survival.  Back in the day our
   world was quite literarily a live or die environment and our defense
   mechanism was our Fight or Flight response.  With every input that went
   into our brains we had to decide automatically whether to fight or run
   away (flight), there could be no time wasted in making this decision, so
   we always evaluate our environment based upon whether or not we are going
   to survive the event.  In order to accomplish this, our nonconscious
   brains would evaluate everything based upon the negative side first
   because the negative side always provides the safest response based upon
   our ultimate goal …survival.  That was great then but not so useful out on
   the golf course.

If your nonconscious brain is
overemphasizing the negative on the golf course you are in for a very long
day!  Only the “mentally tough” survive out there and as the pressure
increases so does the stress response which in turn starts activating the
old Fight or Flight mechanism and the overemphasis of the negative once
again takes over.  It’s all about “surviving the cut” now isn’t it?

Conclusion:  Most of the negative events in our
lives have a very high negative emotional charge to them.  That’s why we
call them negative right?  Compared to the positive events, you know the
ones, the ones we really can’t talk about because that would be bragging and
were not allowed to “too our own horn” now are we!

Which do you think is going to naturally be higher on
our important list the overwhelming amount of emotionally charged negative
events or the very infrequent, not so emotionally charged positive events? 

What are we going to do to my “Personal History?”

With the proper use of your secret weapons you can
greatly reduce the emotional charge on negative events and greatly increase
the emotional charge of the positive events that make up your personal
history. 

Why do we want to do this? 

Because, that will re-arrange our “important list” and
allow us more control over the approximately 83% or 5/6ths of our brain.
Allowing us to become emotionally free of our past experiences,
misunderstandings, habits and beliefs; should we choose to be. 

Remember this, the casinos are the true winners in Las
Vegas because the odds are in there favor on everything, using your secret
weapons you can put the odds back in your favor on the golf course and in
LIFE!