Pink Elephants & Training Your Brain

Pink Elephants & Training Your Brain

Have you ever felt like you were unlucky? Or maybe you were generally unhappy?

Hi, I’m Jana Hennemann, and today we are going to talk about what pink elephants and training your brain have to do with your happiness.

First and foremost, did you know that we cannot have a world without mind entering into it? Science is pointing more and more to the fact that how our brain is wired determines what we experience in our lives.

For example, our brain receives 400 billion bits per second of information, but we’re only aware of 2000 bits/second. And how our brain is wired determine which bits of information we see.

You can think of life as an endless smorgasbord. There’s food, tapas, desserts and drinks from all over the world. But how your brain is wired determines which bits of information you pick up.

Training Your Brain

If you’ve trained your brain over the years to only pick up foods that are red in color, that’s all you are going to see.

If you’ve trained your brain to only pick out the bits of information on the smorgasbord to pick up salty food, that’s all you are going to pick up. You’ll miss out on the sour, the sweet, the nutty, the spicy, bitter, and fragrant foods.

We have a saying that we go by: Results don’t lie. That means if you are experiencing something in your business, relationships, health or life that you don’t like, chances are your behaviors (which reflect the neural pathways you currently have) are producing those results over and over again.

For example, have you ever met anyone who seemed lucky? Everywhere they went, it was like God was blessing them?

Do you know someone who can find four-leaf clovers without difficulty? Or someone who starts off their business and is profitable their first year?

Chances are, they have specific neural connections that help them pick out the information our of the smorgasbord that reflect that. We are creating our lives as we go about them.

But what happens when we notice that we aren’t receiving the results we want? What happens if we are constantly finding ourselves in traffic jams? With unexpected bills? Unappreciative clients or partners?

All it takes, is a bit of practice. But before we go there, let me tell you a story about Pink Elephants.

Pink Elephants!

Without realizing it, and without putting too much emotion into it, Mia and I trained our brains to pick up pink elephants.

Keep in mind, this isn’t something you practice for a week and your wildest dreams come true (unless you believe it).

Think of it like this. You hold a thought long enough, it gets denser. You start feeling an emotion around it. You keep holding it, and that denser emotion starts showing you evidence of the thought and emotion you’re holding.

And once you find yourself in an emotional space where it’d be nice to have but you aren’t attached to the results, BOOM! It shows up in your life.

That’s why pink elephants came about so easy for us – we weren’t thinking “Oh my God I need a pink elephant by tonight or else I’ll lose my house.”

There’s a lot of emotional charge around this. It was a “It’d be great to have, but I don’t need it.” Kind of feeling.

That’s how it came in so fast.

This could be why some people have no issues finding a lover, or a partner where others have big challenges with it. Or the same why some people can close business without a lot of seeming effort.

So first things first – write down 3 things you want to achieve. Things that are believable – let’s start small… baby steps, if you will.

Maybe you want a free cup of coffee within the next couple of days, or perhaps you’d like to see a pink elephant, or maybe you’d simply like a compliment from a client or your boss.

The point is, write down three things you’d like to see.

Keep in mind, results will vary depending on your mental state. If you’re stressed to the max, I’d recommend finding some sort of stress relief – meditation, a daily morning walk in silence, perhaps starting a gratitude journal.

Start there first.

When you’ve relaxed, even just a little (if you’ve been a 10 on a scale of 1-10 stressed, get to an 8).

Next, here are some things you can do every day that will help you start training your brain to see what you want to see:

1. Journal about these 3 things from the standpoint that you’ve already achieved them.
   Wow! I went into the coffee shop and bumped into an old friend who bought me a coffee! Or, I was perusing through the television and actually saw a pink elephant on the telly.
2. Listen to music that pumps you up – gets you happy. Something that after you’re done listening to it, you think, “Man that was fire – I need to hear it one more time!”
3. Set an alarm on your phone for every 3 hours to spend 5 minutes visualizing as if its already happened.
4. Start a vision board if using your imagination is too far-fetched. I’m not visual, so vision boards weren’t my thing, but I have an over-active imagination so the alarm thing worked for me. If alarms don’t work for you, start a vision board, set an alarm for every 3 hours during the day, to stop and gaze at it, imagine the feelings of already having achieved it, and the satisfaction after attaining your goal.

Again, results may vary for people. One person may achieve one or all of their three things the next day, while someone else may take a week, a month or a year. The point is to focus and to make time to focus.

One more story.

I once wrote out exactly how I was going to meet my husband. I literally wrote out like 8 pages of how we met, what it felt like, how he chased me, and how it all felt.

What happened afterwards amazed me. I didn’t meet him right away. But every time a song came on that made me feel giddy, I’d pretend that I’d already met him, that he sent me a “thinking of you” text, that we’d laugh and laugh at each other.

I was also at the point in my life that I was so happy with my life being just Mia and I, that if he came in GREAT! But did I NEED him? No. I loved being with myself so much that if he popped into my life, it would be a bonus- not a necessity.

So I’m married now. Despite the heartbreak, betrayal and all the negative emotions people go through as they go through life, he popped in. Everything on my list of him came true – I wanted someone who was working on themself, that could work with me in my business. Someone that made me laugh and was good in other ways….

The point is this: you can do everything to train your brain into seeing what you want. Attaining it though, may take a little bit less of the needy desperation, and a little more of the – “that would be nice to have but I don’t need it.”

Your challenge:

Make it a point to do the 4 daily things everyday for 120 days.

1. Journal
2. Music
3. Set an Alarm
4. FEEL it

If you notice you’re being clingy or a little desperate – maybe focus on something else. It’s why money, love & health eludes so many. “I NEED THIS I WANT THIS I MUST HAVE IT” that’s not a good energy – and you’re literally telling your brain to look for it but it won’t find it!

That’s a no go.

Anywho – I’m Jana Hennemann, wishing you nothing but neural rewiring and pink elephants in your future!

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