Brain Fact Friday on "Using the Reticular Activating System to Set Your Intent and Achieve it!"

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, for our very first Brain Fact Friday episode.</p> <p>When we recorded episode #109<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a> on “Achieving Quantum Level Results Using Price Pritchett’s You Squared Principles” we announced we would be pulling out an important Brain Fact every Friday to dive deep into some of the brain-based strategies we are offering in each episode.</p> <p>I love how my good friend Samuel Holston and Kirin Goy pull out their brain tools on their podcast Brain Tools<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a> or how Lewis Howes has his 5 Minute Fridays on The School of Greatness Podcast.<a href='#_edn3'>[iii]</a> And I did mention one of the top strategies for taking your results to the next level is to find a mentor who is achieving outstanding results and do what they are doing—so we are following in their footsteps.</p> <p>BRAIN FACT: Did you know that Giuseppe Moruzzi, from the University of Pisa, is responsible for discovering the Reticular Activating System?</p> <p>What is the Reticular Activating System and How Can it Help You?</p> <p>To achieve your goals, or things that you want in your life, learn how to understand and use your Reticular Activating System<a href='#_edn4'>[iv]</a> which is a filter in your brain that helps you to focus on the things that are important to you. If you have heard the idea that “energy flows where your attention goes” this explains why putting some focus on what you want to create in your life is so important. Be very careful of where you are putting your focus, because your RAS will help you to achieve whatever you are focused on, good or bad. There really is a power of making your environments work for you, not against you.</p> <p>Tobias van Schneider explains how the Reticular Activating System (RAS) that’s a “bundle of nerves at our brainstem that filters out unnecessary information, so the important stuff gets through.”<a href='#_edn5'>[v]</a> He believes that the Reticular Activating System