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<![CDATA[M8TZ - UPLIFTING PEOPLE - BLOG]]>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:38:51 +1200Weebly<![CDATA[Bringing People Together]]>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:00:00 GMThttps://www.m8tz.com/blog/bringing-people-together

Recently a married, middle aged man with two teenage children who was unemployed and had suffered from depression and chronic back pain for 30 years was asked what his biggest challenge in life at the moment was. He replied, “I’m lonely, I sit in my house all day alone, I have no friends and no real life for myself... loneliness is by far my biggest challenge.”

A recent survey of 20,000 U.S. adults found that nearly half of people suffer from feelings of loneliness. Two fifths of older people in the UK, around 3.9 million, view the television as their main source of company. Loneliness is heavily linked to heart disease, cancer, depression, diabetes and suicide.

While a common assumption is that the elderly are at greatest risk for loneliness, data shows that up to 70 percent of late adolescents and young adults report that they “sometimes” or “often” feel lonely, compared to 30 to 50 percent of older adults.

Research shows that breakups are the leading cause of psychological distress and a major cause of suicide among young people.

It has been said that at no place in the history of the world have we become more connected to one another and yet disconnected from the person right next to us.

Overcoming Prejudice

Loneliness and isolation may be seen by many as physical separation from another whereas in reality it stems from separation in our hearts and minds.

Overcoming our prejudices and limited beliefs against one another would therefore result in far less conflict, suffering and turmoil the world over.

This has been no more evident than in the United States 2016-2020 election process. It’s not about who is your country’s leader and which political party is in power, but whether you allow your political views to make you despise or hate another human being.

For many years but especially the last four years, we’ve been watching the divisiveness of the United States through its two main political ideologies culminating in the 2020 election. This situation could potentially end up in a civil war and not affect just the United States, but the world at large as has been the case already.

Politics is not so much the problem, but rather the complex mechanism that politics has become where truth has become a stranger and hard to find.

The fear of saying something that is politically incorrect has made people afraid of speaking their truth for fear of persecution and isolation from others.

Social isolation is defined as a lack of contact with other individuals, while loneliness is the feeling that one is emotionally disconnected from others. Some people express loneliness even though they have regular contact with family and friends as these relationships are not providing the emotional support that they need.

Related: Riding the Rollercoaster of Life

Taking Back Our Power

We cannot rely on the Governments of the world to solve our problems and therefore we need to try something radically different.

The fundamental principle of coming to the level of agreement between two opposing ideals is to “chunk up” to something both can agree on.

When we can agree, it brings us closer together as human beings and it is here that we truly experience the power of the people; when we work together toward a common objective there is nothing that will stop us.

The mental imagery that we hold in our minds, what we think of most, eventually becomes our reality and when this imagery is shared in our society we become enmeshed in it. The vast majority of us are programmed in moving away from fear, the things that might hurt us, things that we don’t want.

Taking back our power is simply having the ability to change our focus toward what we do want and how we do want to feel… toward the things that give us pleasure, reward and feelings of really being alive.

We don’t need to eradicate the darkness, we just simply need to turn on the light.

Creating Magic in the World

The whole of human society has been created from the human collective consciousness and therefore it is possible to reshape it and to change the world from a divisive world to a magical world.

If we only just recognize our incredible abilities of creating magic in the world there would be no suffering; and there would be…

Nothing to kill or die for, no persecution or blame. No need for greed or hunger, no failure, poverty or shame. Connection rather than loneliness, encouraging healing rather than disease. One community supporting one another, with more compassion, laughter and ease. - MATESCafe.org

Join us - not just to create a better world, but to create a magical world where anything is possible.

]]><![CDATA[Being Superhuman is Reclaiming Your Super Power]]>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:00:00 GMThttps://www.m8tz.com/blog/being-superhuman-is-reclaiming-your-super-power

Without a clear understanding of how you want to feel throughout the day, you are like a ship without a rudder which can land you anywhere - and probably where you don’t want to be.

Your core feeling is not only your natural state of being, it is your internal compass and is something that will always be there from which you can build the foundation of your life upon.

However, constantly feeling emotionally triggered and hyper-aware of how you don’t want to feel drains your energy and makes you wonder why your life is lacking connection and meaning.

If you are reliant on existential experiences to help you feel better, then eventually you will realize it is a trap and a dead end.

Get Your Life on the Right Track

Wow, we have so much to tell you and it is our passion to share with you how to get your life on the right track and for you to taste your real power. So hold onto your socks, as over the course of this series of articles we will explain how you can break free of the shackles of your haphazard subconscious programming.

You will start to achieve mastery over how you want to feel, because as we have said, everything we do is ultimately for a feeling.

Helping people through crisis for over two decades has shown some interesting similarities. Many people undergoing crises such as relationship breakdown, loss and grief, depression etc, mostly respond with the same one word reply when asked how they are feeling… “Good” and most people when you ask them what they want, say “I just want to be happy.”

Are these real replies or some automatic scripted ideas about how one ‘should’ answer?

Reprogramming Your Brain

Your brain is programmed from an early age (2-6 years old) when you are basically in a hypnotic like trance state absorbing everything that happens around you and putting your own unique interpretation and understanding on it. However, the programs that are laid down are based on two main drivers of how you feel. Fear and moving away from what you don’t want and pleasure moving toward what you do want.

One of the main ways you have interpreted what is what, is from eye contact and the facial expressions of your parents, carers and loved ones, and predominately the cues were fear-based, trying to keep you safe… “Don’t do that. Stop that! Come here, don’t go there.” Yes, there might be an undercurrent of love and nurture, but how does this shape your sense of the world when you are focused primarily on how you don’t want to feel?

Your brain has a filtering system known as the Reticular Activating System (RAS) which allows you to experience whatever your brain has been programmed to pay attention to. It therefore makes sense that if you are programmed to focus primarily on how you don’t want to feel… pain, hurt, hunger, sad, lonely etc, then that is your main view of the narrow spectrum of your experience of the world.

Maybe as children we had little choice as our parents and grandparents have just repeated the same programming but now we do have a choice. What if you could change your subconscious programming and reticular activating system to primarily focus on how you do want to feel?

The Amazing Create-Whatever-You-Want Machine

You see, there is one great commonality we all have as humans… the human brain; an amazing create-whatever-you-want machine with the beauty and performance of the most eloquent Ferrari and yet we allow a six year old to drive it.

Mind Renaissance uses the Emotional Reset Technique so we can take over the wheel and not only assure our safety but feel the raw power with what’s under the hood...vrroom!

How it all works can be quite in-depth, yet the practical understanding and application is easy and almost done for you, so hang in there and we will explain.

The beginning of something starts as an impulse, an idea, a seed, a concept, an atom or similar and therefore it is full of the potential it is destined to become. Of course, how it is shaped and formed is again dependent on many things over the course of that thing's life. The environment, location, access to what it needs to develop, mishaps and time all play a role.

You Are Uniquely You

Your human DNA is a blueprint of who you may become, yet the expression of your DNA is dependent on many things. These things affect the way your genetic code is written to express your DNA - this is the idea behind the science of Epigenetics (See Dr Bruce Lipton).

You are subject to numerous influences from a child into adulthood, yet the driving force behind this development is the potential you have within you to uniquely express yourself in the world and how you interact in it.

One of the main influences you have on the development of your innate potential is your subconscious programming. Up until now just like a program running in a computer, you have been limited in the full expression of your potential by this very programming.

It is said that by the time you leave school, the job you get, the car you drive, where you live, your career path, the type of person you marry are all mapped out for you.

Fulfilling Your Potential

To reach the fullest expression of your own unique potential, two factors need to be in alignment:

Your Potential
Your Programming

The challenge then is to somehow get beyond or below your flawed programming which is stopping you from seeing your true potential. Then it’s a matter of changing your programming so it is in alignment with the fullest expression of your potential.

Happiness might therefore be interpreted as being directly proportional to the level of expression of your potential.

The key to aligning your programming with your true potential is the Emotional Reset Technique which although being simple to apply in your practical life situation, has a very profound effect on your life.

Bad Choices Have Bad Effects

It is necessary to understand that one of the biggest causes of problems in our relationships and our life for that matter is emotional reactivity.

We overreact emotionally when we feel unsafe, threatened, annoyed or think that things are not going our own way. We tend to react to the situation from an emotionally triggered, unbalanced state rather than a calm, empowered emotional state. The outcomes as we are sure you are aware from experience, are vastly different.

There is a saying that when you are angry, you should do or say nothing. This is also true if you are in an unbalanced emotional state because the choices you make will generally have lasting negative effects on the environment around you and the people in it.

Your interpretation of what you see as not going your way, feeling unsafe, threatened, or annoyed is mainly due to your programming which is based on memory. Memory of your perception of past experiences, what you know and understand, all of which is not necessarily true. It is just what you believe to be true and different to everyone else’s perception in some way.

When you are emotionally triggered by a circumstance or situation, your body goes into high alert, meaning hormones such as adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol are preparing your nervous system to put your body into either fight/flight or freeze/shutdown mode for self-protection and preservation.

What also occurs in this situation is the thinking part of your brain is temporarily bypassed by your emotional brain so you can act and react quickly.

Allowing yourself to become emotionally triggered is usually not responding to the situation before you but reacting from your memory of past events and the belief system you have established.

This system is quite archaic and from our primitive ancestral beginnings where there were many life-threatening situations around.

Nowadays, there are relatively quite a few and rather than a saber-tooth tiger jumping out from behind the bush, we tend to react to annoyances, things not going our own way, or someone hurting our feelings as being life threatening - a little bit over the top (and most of the time regretfully so).

Navigating Sticky Situations

The good news is that we have developed a much more effective, efficient and responsive system that is called the Social Engagement System (SES - see Polyvagal Theory / Dr Stephen Porges).

The SES helps us engage with the world around us and communicate our way out of sticky situations which might be seen as a more appropriate way to behave than fighting, running away, putting our head in the sand or playing dead.

Why then, you ask, do we bypass the SES when it’s a far more effective system to use in our modern day life?

The answer is simply that our programming which is generally fear-based opts for what it sees as a safer approach, being fight / flight or freeze / shutdown responses. This not only limits our thinking capacity but shuts down our Social Engagement System so we are less likely and able to communicate our way out of an emotionally triggered situation.

The Emotional Reset Technique (ERT) in one simple gesture, does three crucial things to turn this whole situation around and literally transforms your life right in front of your eyes - it is here that you experience the power of choosing how you feel.

Rather than react to an emotionally charged situation, ERT will bring you to a calm, balanced and emotionally empowered state which will enable you to respond to the situation at hand with actions in alignment with what you want and how you want to feel rather than react impulsively to the situation, creating negative consequences.
Due to the fact that you are now able to choose an action toward what you want and how you want to feel, you are now able to distinguish flawed scripts and rewrite the scripts of your subconscious programming toward what you want and how you want to feel.
At this point of being able to rewrite your subconscious programming, you are also able to clearly tune in and align yourself with your core values and feelings. This alignment now enables you to strengthen your ability to make the best choices and therefore the best outcomes.

An Empowered Emotional State

After applying the Emotional Reset Technique and establishing an Empowered Emotional State you will realize your true power and creative potential. This means that you can become your own therapist; in charge of how you want to feel and your own life direction.

Yes of course you need guidance, support and encouragement along the way and further insights in how to wield your new found power, so a like-minded community is also crucial for further development.

We will break this down over the coming articles, yet for now acting from an empowered emotional state you will be able to:

Respond rather than react to an emotionally charged situation
Decrease stress hormones that wreak havoc on your body and mind
Increase your feel-good hormones and have more energy to enjoy life
Rewrite your subconscious scripts toward what you want and how you want to feel
Have access to your core feelings and values as a guiding compass for life

Being in an empowered emotional state will enable you to tap into the enormous reservoir of creative potential in the part of the brain that makes us truly human, the prefrontal cortex.

The prefrontal cortex is located at the front of the brain behind our forehead and within this is an area called the Central Executive Network (CEN). The CEN is in charge of our higher order goal-directed thoughts and hence our ability to consciously create our lives and everything in it.

When we are emotionally triggered, this part of the brain shuts down to a large degree and we continue to operate on autopilot, from our memory and subconscious scripts or programming.

The majority of humans only use around 1-5% of the CEN’s potential with 95-99% of our lives running automated scripts that have been created from a flawed program. As well as having foggy-brain syndrome, our greatest tool for engaging with the world is also shut down.

The social engagement system (SES) opens to its full potential when we are in an empowered emotional state and therefore we have heightened empathetic communication skills and as the name implies, much better able to engage with the world around us.

Seeing is Believing

Once you understand the kinds of feelings you want to experience by aligning with your core nature and naturally generate these desired feelings from the inside, you stop being victim to emotional triggering from fear-based thinking and flawed programming.

When you stop dwelling on your emotional reactions or those of others, you can use the insights gained from these experiences to get really clear on how you want to feel and what direction you want your life to take.

This enables you to focus your energy and attention toward creating that life you want to live.

Mind Renaissance truly exemplifies the saying, “Seeing is believing”

Up until now because of the haphazard programming we have developed from childhood we have been unable to tap into our core nature and therefore unable to realise our true potential.

This amazing brain that we have in the dark cavity of our skulls has the ability to create whatever it is we imagine or dream about.

The greatest use of this incredible creative machine is to express ourselves abundantly in the world by using our core feelings and values as a guide and a compass.

This is why we say that everything we do is ultimately for a feeling. That core feeling that has been deeply buried under mountains of subconscious programing is now finally uncovered. In the next article, lets dust it off and see how experiencing that core feeling can help give us what we truly want in our life.

First article in the Mind Renaissance series:
Being Powerfully Attractive Means Living Your “A” Game

In association with the MATES Cafe community project, Mind Renaissance™ helps to align your mind and emotions to empower your relationships and your life. Learn more about Mind Renaissance here.

Mind Renaissance, incorporating the Emotional Reset Technique can be learned for a limited time through consultation via Skype or other video conferencing platforms. Take this opportunity now.

]]><![CDATA[The Art of Being Happy]]>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:00:00 GMThttps://www.m8tz.com/blog/the-art-of-being-happy

At any given moment we have access to both the most creative powerful tool on the planet and the most powerful force that we know - human emotion.

Happiness is an art form where we direct the force of emotion into whatever it is we wish to create. The outcome is representative of the image we hold in our minds being either what we want or what we don’t want. We can continue playing small and tell ourselves the story of why it hasn’t happened yet or we can choose happiness.

Ask someone what they want and how they want to feel in life and they will probably reply, “I want to be happy.” We all have a slightly different interpretation of what happiness is and that difference is further increased throughout the many nationalities, cultures and belief systems across the globe.

Happiness is a very vague term and similar to feelings such as excitement and enjoyment, yet it is not a feeling. It is our natural state of being and the truest expression of who we are and what we do in the world.

The concept of happiness is purely a mental construct and our interpretation of the power of emotion flowing through our creative self-expression. Our feelings and our rational thoughts are therefore one and the same yet it is our flawed programming that makes it seem as if they are separate.

The two keys here to understand are:

The difference between emotions and feelings
How you can consciously direct or channel the power of emotion

Over the previous articles we have explained how being in charge of how you feel is not only imperative for a fulfilling life but also possible. It then makes sense that if we are in charge of our emotional triggers and our feelings we will experience happiness.

Realizing happiness is utilizing our creative intelligence in alignment with what we want and how we want to feel so that the full force of emotion can flow into our lives.

May The Force Be With You

Emotions are neurophysiological (bodily) reactions from an external or internal stimulus and sensations activated through neurotransmitters and hormones that are interpreted by our brains.

Feelings are the conscious experience that these emotional reactions give us and are perceived as specific types of feelings. All of which are a subjective expression and therefore a mental construct.

What we commonly tend to refer to as emotions are really feelings, for example we might say, “I feel happy.” “I am content” or “I am fearful.”

The problem here is that except for basic emotions such as fear, surprise, sadness, joy, anger and disgust which seem to be quite universal across many different cultures; the interpretation of our feelings tends to be uniquely our perception - although somewhat similar to those around us.

What we see as emotions is really an emotional force that is akin to Life-Force in being a force or influence that gives us our vitality and strength.

Human emotion is seemingly invisible, yet it is the driving force of life that motivates us and serves as the fuel for initiation and execution of our goal orientated actions.

This force when interpreted and labelled in our minds is the same force that we experience as pain or pleasure.

Away from pain or towards pleasure are our two main psychological drivers that propel us through the way we respond, our actions, and mental activities as we are creating new ideas and new relationships.

Feelings Are Mental

Another way to experience emotion is through the continuous valence-activation-dominance model:

Valance represents the positive-negative hedonic tone, a measure of how intrinsically pleasant or enjoyable the emotion is.

Activation represents the level of calmness or excitement, a measure of its intrinsic ability to push you to “do something”.

Dominance represents the perception of control exercised on the stimulus, being either high or low.

Using this model a lack of emotional control can lead to negative or irrational behavior during decision making.

Anxiety has a high activation making you nervous, on edge and ready to run or scream about something; and depression has a low arousal where you tend to be lifeless, not wanting to do anything about nothing even though they are both negative states.

In a positive state where you have low arousal like relaxed, chilled out feelings, you might feel very calm and fulfilled. Feelings of excitement and inspiration however, may drive you to seek action or to do something.

We need to be aware of the difference of our emotional power and feelings as they have a fundamental role in deciding the most suitable way to behave, and as a catalyst in our decision making.

It is important that our emotional and reasoning faculties work together as they are mutually dependent on one another to ensure we adapt to our surroundings, respond to the different demands of our environment and function efficiently and effectively.

The way we feel, being an interpretation in our mind of what is actually going on in our internal and external environments is dependent primarily on whether the emotional power or force is either flowing through us unhindered or stuck and stagnant.

We cannot control our emotional power, however, we can direct or channel it by expressing ourselves creatively in the world and to do this effectively we need to employ our creative intelligence.

We can choose a new start in life by using the most powerful creative tool humanity possesses - the human brain/mind complex in a new dynamic and impactful way on our planet. Let's make it a revolution in consciousness that we are undertaking. Isn’t it time we take back our power?

What Do You Desire?

Understanding the amazing discoveries and insights in our brain is a great leap forward in human consciousness and helps us manage illnesses, take psychology to a whole new level and see the world from a new perspective.

As we uncover how our brain works, it’s time to understand “why” we all have this phenomenal equipment in our heads.

When our brain helps us maintain a safe encouraging environment to live we can set to work in fulfilling our human needs:

Safety - Establishing an environment where you have assurance you can avoid pain and gain pleasure in some form. A place you have some form of control and can take risks and stretch and grow.
Change - Not knowing how things are going to turn out encourages feelings of apprehension, uncertainty and even anxiety but also excitement, anticipation and entertainment. The need for the unknown and new stimuli can be summed up in the saying “the thing we both crave the most and fear the most is change.”
Significance - A sense of mattering to the people around us. Making a difference and being appreciated, needed and publicly acknowledged. Where each of us contributes individually in a unique way.
Connection - A strong feeling of closeness or union with someone or something. Creating an environment where we have a sense of community and feel that we belong. Where everyone feels they are an accepted member, equal and moving in the same direction together.
Growth - A sense of expanding our capacity, capability or insight and evolution into our highest selves. Looking at life from being a student and a teacher with a passion for understanding, knowledge and truth toward self-development.
Giving Back - A sense of service and focus on helping, giving to and supporting others and feeling that we’re giving our greatest gifts in the greatest service to the world. Able to contribute in a meaningful way encouraging feelings of gratitude, appreciation and being thankful.
Creative Expression - Uncovering our unique potential, developing it and sharing it with others and the world around us. Having a conscious plan to expand our abilities and qualities utilizing our creative intelligence in alignment with our core values and feelings.

Shutting Down

When we are emotionally triggered, we tend to bypass our Social Engagement System and therefore limit our ability to connect to those around us limiting our ability to gain new information from our environment. This means we mainly have our memory to rely on to help us navigate the situation at hand which is like driving a car looking in the rear vision mirror; a crash is inevitable.

Our heart rate gets faster, which increases oxygen flow to our major muscles, and we prepare to engage in our body’s protective system which can result in fight/flight, and or freeze/shutdown. We are now majorly reliant on memory of past events for decision making as our reasoning faculty (prefrontal cortex) shuts down in differing degrees.

Why do we need our prefrontal cortex functioning in times of perceived threat or danger?

When the prefrontal cortex is not functioning effectively we can see changes in personality, limited facial expressions and difficulty interpreting our environment, such as not being able to adequately assess risk and danger.

Our prefrontal cortex is essentially the control panel of our personality and our ability to communicate. It controls our important cognitive skills such as: emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgement and sexual behaviors. It is also responsible for our conscious ability to move our muscles and areas related to speech.

It is in the prefrontal cortex also known as the Central Executive Network that thought processes such as working memory, abstraction, planning and cognitive flexibility are located which are all critical to creative intelligence.

In The Flow

Utilizing our creative intelligence is not just about painting, music or sculpture but more about decision making, finding creative solutions, self development and methods of communication. When we are being creative and innovative, our mind tends to be focused on how we are feeling in the moment such as joy, amusement and contentment.

Being in the creative flow we tend to feel good about ourselves, happier, more confident and it lifts our self-esteem. Using our creative intelligence productively, improves the quality of our life and brings us closer to understand our sense of purpose and meaning.

By being more creative we become more engaged, productive and helpful to the people around us and evolve into being better versions of ourselves.

We access greater and greater levels of creative intelligence by being more calm and aligned with our core feelings and core values in an empowered emotional state.

It is in this state of alignment with ourselves that we have clarity of mind, increased perception, foresight, awareness and communication skills. We are more attractive and inspiring to the people around us and are able to use our creative intelligence to create a vision of our future in alignment with how we want to feel.

The level of emotional power that flows into our lives is directly proportional to how we use our creative intelligence in shaping our future.

The Power Of Imagination

We receive millions of bits of data every moment so our brain must filter out the vast majority of information it receives, otherwise it would simply overload. Our working memory can only handle 7-9 “chunks” of information at any given moment, so it filters according to what we focus on most.

This means that what we see before us is not real per say but a construct of our mind. It is here that we start to use one of the most advanced human faculties - imagination.

Imagination is the image-making power of the mind where we can mentally create and reproduce an object or experience not previously perceived.

The emotionally empowered state allows us to use imagination to create images in our mind of what we want and how we want to feel. When we manifest these images in the mind and start using our creative intelligence and start making them happen, the emotional power will flow into our lives, giving us a sense of achievement, excitement and happiness.

The formula for happiness - H = E x CI (E ∝ CI)
H = Happiness / E = Emotion / CI = Creative Intelligence
(E is directly proportional to CI)

Being able to create images in our mind and using those images to bring about change in the physical world through our own will and discrimination has been deemed by many through time immemorial as magic. Magic is a metaphor for the power of the mind and is the power to change our destiny.

Couldn’t we all use a little magic in our lives?

The greatest achievements of mankind have come through looking at things through our imagination - electricity, space flights, social equality, and landing on the moon.

In the next article we will explore more about the power of imagination. How it is not only the key to creativity but has power over emotion due to its ability to direct it wherever we want it to make the most impact in our life.

Imagination is the key to harnessing emotional power, making the impossible possible and a core principle of the art of happiness.

Learn more about Mind Renaissance here.

]]><![CDATA[Riding the Rollercoaster of Life]]>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.m8tz.com/blog/riding-the-rollercoaster-of-life

Have you ever reached the top of a rollercoaster and said to yourself, “I want to get off”? Many of us are living a life of quiet desperation; we come across the tough times, the painful times and the challenges in life and often feel like we want to get off the ride. Yet it is the choices and decisions that we make which signs us up for the experience of life.

No matter how we resist and want to go back, in reality there is only moving forward. The good news is that your experience of moving forward depends on only one choice - whether you are in an emotionally empowered state or not. An empowered emotional state is foreign to you when you live your life from fear-based programming. However, living your life from reward-based programming makes it feel foreign to you when you are not being in an empowered emotional state.

Our Natural State of Being

An empowered emotional state is our natural state of being, it is from here that we need to live our lives. The power of our ability to communicate empathetically is directly proportional to the level of the empowered emotional state we are in.

Empathy has generally been defined by emotional researchers as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, together with the ability to imagine what others might be thinking or feeling. Getting perspective on something refers to cognitive empathy which is our ability to identify and understand the emotions of other people.

Therefore, the word empathetic could be defined as showing an ability to understand and share our own feelings with others.

Simply put, the best way to have good relationships with others is to have a great relationship with ourselves.

Communication is our ability to feel connected with others when engaging with life. We do this primarily through what has been referred to as the Social Engagement System (SES - from Polyvagal Theory / Dr Stephen Porges).

The SES is a complex neurological and two way interaction system being both receptive and expressive. It is defined by the nerves and structures which regulate our facial expression, listening, speaking and ingestion. Although the SES is based mainly in the eyes, ears, larynx, and mouth, it incorporates the entire face and the torso above the diaphragm.

Being Socially Engaged

Our social engagement system (SES) is integrated with the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) which calms our heart and regulates our protective defenses. The SES is involved when we express cues of safety, cues of danger, or to imitate death and appear to be inanimate when we’re unable to fight or run.

Therefore when engaging with others the SES enables us to project our psychological state, which could be interpreted as being welcoming, unwelcoming or disinterested.

It has been said that our communication can be roughly broken down to 55% physiology, 38% tonality and 7% words. This of course may vary in context with our activities, yet indicates the importance of non-verbal cues in our communication.

What is really interesting about our methods of communication comes from the reasoning behind it. We communicate either to help protect ourselves from perceived dangers and threats, or to befriend and communicate with others so we can create safe and productive environments.

Safe environments allow us to enjoy the company of others; developing friendships and relationships, procreating and raising our families. It is through working with others we are also able to create and develop new ideas, inventions, contraptions and technologies to improve our life experience.

Our behaviours reflect either of our two main subconscious programs and drivers:

Threat-focused: Primarily based on fear and moving away from what we don’t want and what might induce pain and discomfort.
Reward-focused: Moving toward what we do want in our lives that may give us pleasure, satisfaction, feelings of accomplishment, companionship and joy.

A Radical Revolution

It makes sense to realize that our psychological states, feelings and behaviors are reflective of how we are subconsciously programmed. When we see the world from the filter of fear as compared to reward, our life experience will be vastly different.

The greatest point of difference however, will be from the utilization or non-utilization of our innate ability to communicate to those around us and whether we push people away or attract them into our lives.

By attracting the right people into our lives, comes the opportunities to succeed in our creative endeavors, and also achieve the fulfillment that comes from sharing those accomplishments with others.

The development of empathetic communication helps us discover ourselves through self-reflection and introspection so we are able to become more interested and engaged in the lives of others.

Living our lives through the power of empathy is a new and radical revolution in human relationships; not based on new laws, institutions or policies, but on our ability to connect with others and work together from an empowered emotional state.

Emotional Intelligence in Action

Empathetic communication is emotional intelligence in action; through utilizing our social engagement system. Empathetic communication is the ability to understand, use, and manage our own emotions in positive ways; to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.

Prolonged exposure to stress and fear, especially early in life tends to atrophy or impair the development and utilization of our social engagement system (SES). Our SES is not able to be used effectively when we are over-reactive and stressed from being emotionally triggered.

The social engagement system when in protective/defensive mode (ie. emotionally triggered):

Scans our environment for cues of threats and safety
Conveys a defensive persona to ward off threats and attackers

If we’re not feeling safe, we may see neutral facial expressions as being angry and assume the worst because that’s what our nervous system tells us to do.

Being the Person You Don’t Want to Be

When faced with a perceived threat, you can feel your heartbeat quicken, you may start breathing faster, and your entire body becomes tense and ready to take action. Actions taken from an emotionally triggered state are usually destructive in both your external and internal environments.

When we are emotionally triggered we tend to react in 3 ways:

Outward aggression: Openly using any tactics that can be mustered to bring potential adversaries to submission with blame, criticism, name-calling, ridicule and being dismissive. Outward aggression tends to be seen as the most common form of behaviour; only due to its non-concealment.
Passive aggression: Feelings of delayed anger, hurt, anxiety or annoyance expressed as hidden aggression in a non-forthcoming way. Using tactics of ambivalence to avoid taking accountability for decisions through complaining, disparaging comments and even the “silent treatment” when unhappy with the choices made.
Covert aggression: Concealed aggressive intentions exploiting a person’s sensitivities, eagerness to help, conscientiousness and other vulnerabilities to manipulate them. Ensuring the person succumbs to an ingrained need for control and never really sees what’s coming.

Violence of any kind used to abuse and exploit others tends to happen when people lose their sense of power and feel the need to defend themselves or subjugate another person.

Engaging In Life Full On

When we stop criticizing ourselves and others; and start accepting who we are, life opens up… We can either limit our freedom and our happiness or be full of potent radiant energy, vitality and joy; elevating our lives and the people around us… the choice is ours.

Engaging in life full on is to have optimal health in all areas of our lives, the awareness of the available energy at our disposal and the ability to utilize it in the most efficient and effective way possible.

The social engagement system when in open/receptive mode (ie. empowered emotional state):

Scans our environment for cues of opportunity and reward
Conveys a receptive persona to allow others to feel safe

When we are in an emotionally empowered state we have the potential to act in 3 ways:

Kindness - Listening with empathy and speaking tactfully, kindly and refraining from speaking harshly or critically to another person. Being true to our word, considerate of others feelings and acting with a contagious and inspiring enthusiasm for life.
Acceptance - Being an artist of life we are focused and disciplined, forgiving and accountable for all of our words, actions and creations. Organised and orderly, committed to excellence and mastery, living as a peaceful warrior who tolerates ill-mannered behaviour with grace.
Appreciation - Grateful and appreciative of all we have and open and receptive to what life has to offer. Respectful and charitable to those in need, we are encouraging, dependable and enjoy an energetic life full of fun and laughter.

Living our life from an emotionally empowered state has incredible benefits. We have far less stress hormones coursing through our veins, therefore enjoying higher immunity with less illness. We have more energy, look and feel younger and attract high energy emotions like gratitude, joy and appreciation.

Looking at the world from an optimistic rather than pessimistic viewpoint, our brains are more aware, creative and focused on what we want and how we want to feel. We are more resilient and tolerant and realise that simply by showing a person kindness, acceptance and appreciation we will reveal their true nature.

You Can Scream or Enjoy the Ride

Your ability to let go and enjoy the ride does not come from being a master in psychology or emotional intelligence but by simply doing one thing to turn your subconscious programming right-way up. Living the Mind Renaissance lifestyle reminds you that being in an emotionally empowered state is your natural state of being.

Your thinking is what tends to sabotage your happiness, by placing meanings on life events and situations that lead you away from what you truly want and how you truly want to feel.

It’s time to take charge of your emotions, awaken your creative intelligence and become the scriptwriter of your new life story. When you are aligned with your core nature, it becomes your onboard GPS to find the path that leads to fulfilling your innate potential.

With incredible breakthroughs in technology, we are now able to see deeper into the workings of the human brain, yet happiness still seems to evade us.

Being in charge of your feelings will change the way you look at and engage with the world around you. An emotionally empowered state is your natural state of being and transforms the way you interact, socialise and enjoy your time spent with others. It is from here that our empathetic communication becomes optimised, our brain is no longer foggy and our vision of our future becomes clear.

It is through empathetic communication that our relationships are enhanced and therefore create new opportunities to achieve our dreams.

Our next article will explain more about why our creative intelligence is key to experiencing what we truly want and how we truly want to feel.

In association with the MATES Cafe community project, Mind Renaissance™ helps to align your mind and emotions to empower your relationships and your life. Learn more about it here.

Please share this post, share your comments and remember that we are stronger together.

]]><![CDATA[Using Your Super Powers for Good Rather Than Evil]]>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.m8tz.com/blog/using-your-super-powers-for-good-rather-than-evil

Creative power is not being limited to some narrowly defined artistic or cultural talent like music or drawing but more about utilizing our superpower to create the life we want to live through conscious choice.

It’s about our ability to create our future, to be fully present and in charge of our life and everything in it so that we can enjoy happy healthy relationships and experience life to the full.

Now that’s a superpower worth having and it’s not something where we have to be exposed to some green-glowing radioactive material or be bitten by a chemically-enhanced spider. It is something that reveals itself to us when we get out of our own way and align ourselves with our true potential.

Harnessing the sheer power of our brain and devoting our full creative power to whatever situation or challenge that lies before us. Using our imagination and ability to improve, invent and rethink so that we can see possibilities where previously we only saw limitations.

If our brain is such an amazing create-anything-you-want machine and we all have one, then why do we not use it to its full potential and what is stopping us?

Experiencing Your Potential

The world is brimming with personal development coaches, life coaches and motivational speakers, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, councilors, religious and spiritual teachers offering teachings, systems, modalities and education to reach our potential. However, here we are, still with this amazing creative machine at our disposal and we still are not implementing it to its fullest potential.

The majority of personal development teachings around the globe instruct you to follow certain systems and modalities to modify your behavior so that you can reach your potential. Mind Renaissance first lets you experience your potential using a simple technique and then from an empowered emotional state helps you to share that potential with the world.

One of your most powerful motivators is to actually see something so you can believe it. The experience of seeing your potential, awakens within you the desire to fulfill it, and you become virtually unstoppable. By aligning with your core feelings, your perception of the world changes so you are more attuned to finding the pathways, people and opportunities you need to achieve your innate potential.

From an emotionally empowered state you are able to write and rewrite the automated scripts of your subconscious mind. As your subconscious programming becomes more in alignment with expressing your innate potential, you increasingly gain more access to the creative power of your brain and are less likely to become emotionally triggered or self-sabotage your own happiness.

The Most Satisfying of Feelings

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The work of life is to develop it.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
David S. Viscott

The above statement is often attributed to the famed playwright William Shakespeare or the influential painter Pablo Picasso on social networks, however it actually first appeared in a 1993 book “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times” by psychiatrist and pioneering radio personality David S. Viscott.

To fully understand the intrinsic value of this quote and how it applies to Mind Renaissance is to clarify two things:

How do you discover your gift?
Why do you give it away?

Expressing your innate potential - strengths, abilities, unique gifts and talents in the world you feel empowered in some way as you are in alignment with your core feelings. Giving selflessly and contributing to the world in a meaningful way through service, kindness and compassion is certainly up there with the most satisfying of feelings.

Discovering your core feelings then, is key to both finding your gifts and giving them away.

Your core feelings and your innate potential are like Yin and Yang, inseparable. Tuning into and aligning with your core feelings will awaken awareness of your innate potential and vice versa. The idea of honing and developing your gifts is about practice, repetition and becoming unconsciously competent which means they are now part of the automated scripts of your subconscious programming.

The more you align your subconscious programming to express your innate potential / core feelings, the more joyful you feel, the more fulfilling your life becomes, and the less likely unwanted or destructive programming has influence over you to sabotage your progress.

But Wait, There’s More.

We have discussed earlier that when we are emotionally triggered, by applying the Emotional Reset Technique (ERT) we are able to reset ourselves to a place of calm. From this Empowered Emotional State, something incredible happens that presents us with a taste of our real power and gives us the ability to experience and develop:

Metacognition - which basically means that we are able to step outside our automated scripts and evaluate our thinking to see what is working and not working for us.
Creative Intelligence - due to not being emotionally triggered and reactive, we have greater access to our cognitive and creative thinking abilities and are more attuned to our Social Engagement System (SES - our ability to connect with and engage in the world)
Emotional Power - when we are in alignment with our innate potential and creative intelligence, an increased degree of emotional power flows into our lives that makes it easier and more enjoyable to express ourselves in the world.

How we feel inside generally influences how we perceive the world around us; and what we perceive in the world also influences how we feel. By the application of ERT you are able to remain in an emotionally empowered state and therefore be more resilient to the fluctuations of emotions experienced by yourself and others around you.

You are also able to increasingly develop reward-based programming giving you a calmer demeanor and increased patience as opposed to fear-based programming from which impatience is a by-product.

Brainwashing Our Children

We are often asked about how we can help program children toward an abundant and healthy life. Parents certainly could do with more patience to create encouraging environments for their children rather than discouraging them and shutting down their creativity.

This can be done by:

Creating clear boundaries through clear communication of consequences when those boundaries are breached
Explaining and living by the principle of cause and effect with full accountability
Clear, simple, concise explanations and gathering feedback for effective evaluation.

If parents are able to achieve and maintain an emotional empowered state in their lives, their home environment will reflect the above principles and qualities.

Many parents see themselves in their children and want a better life for them, one without the struggles and the pain. Yet it seems so challenging to walk the talk, to be positive role-models and to overcome the negative programming taken on as children.

Sweet or Savory?

Fear based programming makes you adept at focusing on fear, interpreting situations as threats and constantly moving away from how you don’t want to feel. People who are conditioned through fear-based programming are more likely to have less patience, less attention span, be easily distracted and more likely to choose short-term satisfaction over long-term investment and gain.

Reward based programming makes you adept at interpreting situations as rewarding and constantly moves you toward how you want to feel.

In 1972 a team led by psychologist Walter Mischel, a professor at Stanford University conducted a study on delayed gratification famously known as the marshmallow experiment. In this study, children were offered the choice of a reward, depending on the child’s preference. The reward was either a marshmallow or pretzel stick, or double the reward if they waited for 15 minutes.

During this time, the researcher left the room and returned in 15 minutes. When they returned it was found that the children who were able to wait longer for the double reward tended to have better life outcomes. Continued monitoring indicated increased educational attainment, healthier body mass index and other beneficial life measures.

Looking Inside

We struggle through life trying to force our dreams to come true with sheer willpower when our actions are not in alignment with our dreams. Through the science of Epigenetics it has been shown that at the level of DNA, our genetics interpret how our potential is expressed based on a number of factors including nurture and nature.

Many of the choices made by our parents and caregivers also have a profound effect on how our lives are shaped through the subconscious programming that we take on board as a child. Being encouraged to be aware of how we truly want to feel; knowing our core feelings can act as a compass to help us express our potential in the world.

Yet how do we become attuned to our core feelings?

Where intuition is the idea of knowing or feeling there is something to be aware of or alerted to in our external situation, interoception is the knowing or feeling that something is to be aware of or alerted to in our internal environment.

Traditionally, human beings are considered to have five main senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch which are mediated by our nervous system’s organs and sensory systems. These systems rely on chemoreceptors, photoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, or thermoreceptors to detect the state of both exteroception (stimuli that occur outside of our body) and interoception (stimuli occurring inside of our bodies).

Interoceptive senses can include the sensations of stretch (as in muscles or organs like the lungs), oxygen and carbon dioxide sensing, pH sensing, pain or nociception (physiological pain), balance or equilibrioception, body awareness or proprioception and even sense of time or chronoception.

We certainly then are very well equipped for detecting and tuning into our core feelings and therefore aligning with our true potential. Mind Renaissance encourages the increased awareness of our interoception as well as exteroception. When our external lives are reflecting an alignment with our core feelings we can be assured that we are fulfilling our potential and playing our “A” game in life.

One Love

Stepping back from the person you believe yourself to be, allows you to see what's working and not working in your life. Now you can align your powerfully creative mind with your innermost desires, core feelings and values. In doing so you will awaken your full emotional power and your ability to consciously direct it to create happy, healthy relationships and a fulfilling life.

Philosophers used the concept of “sentient beings” with the understanding of having the faculty of sensation, to feel things and the power to perceive, reason and think.

Mind Renaissance utilizes our amazing create-anything-you-want machine in alignment with our core feelings and innate potential - our strengths, abilities and unique gifts and talents. We then awaken to the knowledge that our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but that we are powerful beyond measure.

We are also one humanity sharing similar and familiar life experiences together and so community is vitally important not only for surviving but thriving. Having empathy for one another, being able to connect and communicate and share experiences with those around us can heighten our life experience tenfold and this is what we will be discussing in our next article - empathetic communication.

Previous article: Being Superhuman is Reclaiming Your Super Power

In association with the MATES Cafe community project, Mind Renaissance™ helps to align your mind and emotions to empower your relationships and your life. Learn more about it here.

Mind Renaissance, incorporating the Emotional Reset Technique can be learned for a limited time through consultation via Skype or other video conferencing platforms. Take this opportunity now.

]]><![CDATA[Secrets to Achieve Superhuman Consciousness]]>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:00:00 GMThttps://www.m8tz.com/blog/secrets-to-achieve-superhuman-consciousness

If you were to look through the eyes of someone with superhuman consciousness, would you see the world as stressful, emotionally reactive and not as it should be or would you perceive the world as the perfect example of the causes that have been put in place to create it?

We have previously written about being able to see through the eyes of another. Empathetic communication, creative intelligence and emotional empowerment are all part of your human potential to see the world in a different light and from a place of strength.

The speed in which technology is increasing is just one clear example that everything is happening at a much quicker rate, as if the world was somehow speeding up. Now is the time for you to step into your human potential, not only so you can feel at home in your new world environment, but that you can help empower others to join you.

So what are the secrets to achieving superhuman consciousness?

The Principle of Cause and Effect: Understanding and diligently applying the principle of cause and effect in your life
Emotions vs Feelings: Knowing the difference between emotions and feelings and therefore being able to consciously direct the power of human emotion into your life
Recreating Our Reality: Reprogramming and realigning the create-all-you-want machine in your head with your chosen experience of reality, by developing and expressing your creative intelligence in the world around you.

In the early days of the steam-powered train, scientists urged capping the speed at thirty miles per hour because they believed that the human body exploded at speeds greater than that.

Believing in self-imposed limitations may have served us in the past, in a time where human development focused primarily around surviving. Now it's time to thrive.

Understanding Superhuman Consciousness

Superhuman consciousness is your ability to consciously transform your life and the world around you by directing the power of human emotion in alignment and conformity with your will.

Stepping up and utilizing the extra 90% of your brain's potential that is available to each of us right now, enables you to unlock your amazing potential and achieve superhuman consciousness.

The keys are that you:

Realize the power of living in a time that is so technologically advanced, that you are able to communicate and connect to the majority of people on the planet in an instant
Awaken to the tremendous changes that are occurring around you and be willing to work with others in transforming our planet
Are willing to reprogram your brain toward focusing on what you truly desire in the core of your being by stepping out of your own way, and stop sabotaging your happiness

The funny thing is that you are able to utilize 10% of the potential of your brain without even trying. The other 90% could come just as easily and naturally to you when you awaken to it.

Dancing with Dragons

The principle of cause and effect is simply understanding that for every cause (actions, words, feelings, thoughts) there is an opposite and equal reaction. The world is but a mirror in which you live. Therefore, when you look outside in the world around you, you are seeing the results of the causes you have already put in place.

Next time you see something in your life that you don’t like, want to change, or are blaming for its mere existence; think back in time to the minute and unassuming seeds you’ve planted. And then maybe take a look at how you fertilized and encouraged those seeds to turn into the dragons you must now face.

Yes, dragons. Dragons are an ancient symbol of imagination. Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Imagination is real, think about it, if you come up with a concept, idea or invention that didn’t exist before, it is now real. Even before any action has taken place to physically manifest it.

Be acutely aware, that every action you initiate (be it words, deeds, thoughts or imagination) is a magical act. That action creates an effect in your life and the world you, that didn’t exist before; and you are responsible for the repercussions from that effect.

Wise sages and masters of the past knew inherently how to wield their imagination in such a way that their seeds became the gardens of their mind in which they lived and breathed.

When you know how powerful your imagination is and become competent in directing it to create the world you want to be part of, it is then that you understand that you don’t need to slay your dragons, you just need to learn how to ride them.

Directing the Force of Life

A powerful misconception that has us chained to our delusions in life, is believing that what we are told and how we perceive it is actually the truth. One of the greatest of these misconceptions is thinking that feelings and emotions are the same thing.

Feelings are a mental construct: when you feel happy, sad, excited or depressed it is your mental interpretation and perception of what you are experiencing that you label as the designated feeling. That feeling is a result of your interpretation of how human emotion flows or doesn’t flow in your life.

Human emotion is the most powerful force on the planet, it has and continues to generate untold suffering and untold bliss in our world. It creates wars, enslaves people, drives greed and self-centeredness. Yet, at the same time can create the most exquisite forms of music, art, poetry, has inspired the most amazing change-makers on the planet, and is the same energy we experience at the birth of a new-born.

The way in which you direct the flow of human emotion into your life is the precursor to whether the outcome is destructive or creative. If you are emotionally reactive with your mind focused on what you don’t want (like the majority of humanity), the flow of human emotion becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy

If, however, you are able to respond to each situation from a place of calm, balance and poise and in an empowered emotional state, you look at the world vastly differently. You experience what it is you do want, and how you do want to feel, due to your mind being more positively focused.

Learning to direct human emotion is the difference between looking back at our lives from a place of regret and remorse; or looking forward to what we can create in our lives with an air of grace, a spring in our step, and a smile on our face.

Recreating Our Reality

Neuroscientists with state of the art technology have been literally pulling brains apart in trying to comprehend how they work, and how they can better improve our life experience. Now is the time that we stop theorizing and start using our brain in how it’s intended to be used; as the most powerful creative machine known to man, with the potential of vastly transforming our planet.

No matter how differently we see our fellow human beings and how separate and individual we may feel, we each share an incredibly complex and powerful brain. It is almost identical in its design and unique to the human race.

That makes around 8 billion and even if we use half our brain, that’s still 4 billion. Just imagine if we all worked together towards a common direction and purpose aligned with the core principles and values we hold dearly as humans, what a difference the world would be.

Nothing to kill or die for, no persecution or blame. No need for greed or hunger, no failure, poverty or shame. Connection rather than loneliness, encouraging healing rather than disease. One community supporting one another, with more compassion, laughter and ease.

Related: Bringing People Together

Unleashing the Power of Community

Finally, the biggest secret in having superhuman consciousness. It is simply being able to compassionately see through the eyes of another, for two or more to unify and for us all to work together as one in common-unity.

Belonging to a community of people in alignment with their core nature and with one another. By having a sense of purpose and direction and a unifying group purpose, we have an opportunity to develop and ultimately achieve our combined potential.

Together let’s explore the other 90% of our human potential so that we can radically elevate our level of growth and contribution and unleash the power of community. Growth and contribution are intrinsically linked together. It’s about “teaching people to fish” by each of us taking responsibility for our own advancement.

Empowering each other in walking the talk in our own lives to overcome despair, isolation, loneliness and the concept of suffering. Together we can consciously direct the power of human emotion into the planet by developing and using our creative intelligence, to create a world we all enjoy and want to be part of.

]]><![CDATA[Being Powerfully Attractive Means Living Your “A” Game]]>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://www.m8tz.com/blog/being-powerfully-attractive-means-living-your-a-gameThere’s a lot that goes on when you’re emotionally triggered, from not being able to think clearly, to being unable to communicate what you want and need, to eventually pushing the people you love and care about away from you...

Forget COVID-19, isolation with its associated loneliness is the biggest virus and killer known to humanity. It’s the main cause of stress, cardiovascular issues, high cholesterol, diabetes, depression and chronic illness, so let’s not go there.

Happy is the New Normal

Instead, let’s put on your “A” Game and develop healthy, happy relationships with the people closest to you as well as everyone else. This is part one of a series of 5 articles in which we will give you an overview of the Mind Renaissance lifestyle, where “happy” is the new normal.

Mind Renaissance is about consciously evolving to the best you can be. It is not about a cliche, but actually more about the science of Epigenetics where your DNA is expressed through your genetics according to the choices you make. If you continue to operate your life from autopilot there is very little chance you will be happy.

So playing your “A” Game is first about hacking your biology and rather than emotionally reacting to the numerous annoyances you come across every day, it’s about responding, engaging and communicating with the world from a place of calm.

To do this, in this first article we will explain the key to Mind Renaissance - the Emotional Reset Technique.

From the clock alarm insisting you get out of bed to not being able to find the car keys, or someone cutting in front of you and nearly causing an accident, you become emotionally triggered numerous times each day.

Dealing with Stress

Your body’s self-protection system responds to potential threats and annoyances through your sophisticated nervous system. The autonomic nervous system has two distinct ways to protect you: fight/flight - where your body is prepared to do just that or freeze/shutdown - which is basically playing dead and hoping the threat will pass you by.

When you are emotionally triggered you become fixated on the perceived threat to the exclusion of everything else and therefore find it difficult to think clearly, rationally or assimilate new information.

The emotional reaction triggered by an external or internal (imagined) threat and the associated stress hormones including adrenaline and cortisol are constantly keeping your brain on high alert, and scanning for impending danger. This will often trigger unwanted emotional reactions, especially when you perceive a person or a situation to be an annoyance or a threat to your survival.

Driving Your Ferrari

You have been conditioned from a very young age to move away from perceived dangers, things that aren’t nice and how you don’t want to feel. This has formulated a mental program just like in a computer which operates the amazing hardware in your brain. Yet the program is continually scanning for threats, and guess what, that is what it finds.

You’re running on auto-pilot using a program created when you were a child to operate and live your life and that's the scary part. Would you let a 7 year old child drive your car? What if it was a Ferrari like the one in your head?

While humanity has evolved well beyond the dangers of being attacked by a saber-tooth tiger, your nervous system is still switched to the default mode based on survival - and is that how you want to continue to live?

There is some good news however, actually, it is great news because you are now able to take the wheel and from there consciously evolve to the person you have always known you could be.

It’s simply about changing the program from being focused on what you don’t want and don’t want to feel and start focusing on what you do want and do want to feel. And your incredible human machine has done all the hard work.

Being Socially Engaged

Thanks to a breakthrough discovery developed over the past 40 years by Dr Stephen Porges your nervous system has evolved a much smarter way to deal with potential threats. The Social Engagement System (SES) allows you to first gauge, influence and diffuse a challenging situation through the use of your eyes, listening ability, facial expressions, physiology, hand gestures and tone of voice.

The hierarchy of your nervous system is to first utilize your more evolved social engagement system to tend and befriend. If that doesn’t resolve the situation at hand then your self-preservation and protection system responses kick in.

Most people habitually default to the ancient fight/flight - freeze/shutdown response as the associated neural pathways have been used most frequently. However, the social engagement system requires more conscious effort as it is the newer kid on the block.

While it seems easier to get caught up in the heat of the moment and ride the waves of adrenaline and cortisol, constant release of these stress hormones not only result in unwanted behaviors which damage your relationships, but lead to increased inflammation which quickly leads to aging and other damage to your body.

Enjoying the Ride

The key to unlocking the Mind Renaissance lifestyle is the Emotional Reset Technique (ERT) which enables you to stay consciously engaged through your social engagement system at the first sign of a perceived annoyance or threat... without defaulting to a full-blown stress response and emotional reaction.

This enables you to remain in a naturally empowered emotional state where you feel calm and open to new opportunities to connect to the people around you. This is the state that all your actions need to come from and this is when you are most creative, most inspired and most intelligent due to your brain being sharp and alert.

From this place of calm, balance and poise you are probably for the first time able to stop looking through the lens of a child and start taking real accountability for your actions and the effects they create. You are from here able to evolve into your fully empowered human potential and enjoy the excitement of this ride called life.

In association with the MATES Cafe charity project, Mind Renaissance™ helps to align your mind and emotions to empower your relationships and your life. Within the next article in this series we will explore the importance of getting clear on how you want to feel.

Why are feelings so important you ask? Because everything you do is ultimately for a feeling and being in alignment with how you want to feel is going to shape a life of happy healthy relationships and a whole lot of fun.

Learn more about the power and benefits of Mind Renaissance

Read the next article in this series:
Being Superhuman is Reclaiming Your Super Power

Mind Renaissance, incorporating the Emotional Reset Technique can be learned for a limited time through consultation via Skype or other video conferencing platforms. Take this opportunity now.

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Overcoming Prejudice

​Taking Back Our Power

​Creating Magic in the World

​Get Your Life on the Right Track

​​Reprogramming Your Brain

​The Amazing Create-Whatever-You-Want Machine

​​You Are Uniquely You

​​Fulfilling Your Potential

​Bad Choices Have Bad Effects

​​Navigating Sticky Situations

​An Empowered Emotional State

​Seeing is Believing

​May The Force Be With You

​Feelings Are Mental

​What Do You Desire?

​Shutting Down

​In The Flow

​The Power Of Imagination

​​Our Natural State of Being

​​Being Socially Engaged

​​A Radical Revolution

​​Emotional Intelligence in Action

​​Being the Person You Don’t Want to Be

​​Engaging In Life Full On

​​You Can Scream or Enjoy the Ride

​​Experiencing Your Potential

​​The Most Satisfying of Feelings

​​But Wait, There’s More.

​​Brainwashing Our Children

​​Sweet or Savory?

​Looking Inside

​​One Love

​Understanding Superhuman Consciousness

Dancing with Dragons

Directing the Force of Life

​Recreating Our Reality

​Unleashing the Power of Community

​​Happy is the New Normal

​​Dealing with Stress

​​Driving Your Ferrari

​​Being Socially Engaged

​​Enjoying the Ride

Taking Back Our Power

Creating Magic in the World

Get Your Life on the Right Track

Reprogramming Your Brain

The Amazing Create-Whatever-You-Want Machine

You Are Uniquely You

Fulfilling Your Potential

Bad Choices Have Bad Effects

Navigating Sticky Situations

An Empowered Emotional State

Seeing is Believing

May The Force Be With You

Feelings Are Mental

What Do You Desire?

Shutting Down

In The Flow

The Power Of Imagination

Our Natural State of Being

Being Socially Engaged

A Radical Revolution

Emotional Intelligence in Action

Being the Person You Don’t Want to Be

Engaging In Life Full On

You Can Scream or Enjoy the Ride

Experiencing Your Potential

The Most Satisfying of Feelings

But Wait, There’s More.

Brainwashing Our Children

Sweet or Savory?

Looking Inside

One Love

Understanding Superhuman Consciousness

Recreating Our Reality

Unleashing the Power of Community

Happy is the New Normal

Dealing with Stress

Driving Your Ferrari

Being Socially Engaged

Enjoying the Ride