In NLP - An Ideal Change Work Medium, you read about the Reticular Activating System (RAS) which is responsible for sorting through the 10,000,000 bits of information attempting to enter through your sensory input channels.

You can also listen to the 3.55 minute AUDIO on The Reticular Activating System.

To interrupt the enormous amount of information that is trying to penetrate your minds, the nervous system, your neurology deletes, distorts and generalizes information.

It is your internal filters or memory files that tell the RAS what information to sort for. 

Your memory files are part of the folder known as your subconscious mind.  It is your subconscious mind that, so to speak, tells your RAS what information to sort for based upon what your existing beliefs and expectations are.

This is where you need to be alert to your generic reactions and behaviours as situations present themselves.

Your beliefs and expectations can either empower you or hold you back.

Your subconscious mind will only allow the RAS to import information that is congruent with your long-standing thought patterns and behaviours.

You will only get more of what you are getting because that’s how you’ve trained your subconscious mind - unless you deliberately show it that you want change.

What you are going to be reading in the next weeks will give you the tools, for all areas of your life to

a) Observe what you are currently doing, and

b) Give you the tools to make safe, permanent changes to the areas that you feel need it

You will be able to take control of your filtering system, and the language you use is of paramount importance, that is, the self-talk that goes on in your head and the speech that you vocalize.

The mind uses three techniques to manage the 10,000,000 bits of information that approaches your conscious mind in order to give you your reality:

These three techniques, which will be discussed in The Techniques of  Deletion, Distortion and Generalization are:

1. Deletion

2. Distortion

3. Generalization