Why are there three 'yellow cars'? An experiment on the wonders of the brain's filter and the cocktail party effect!

🐶 A must-read for those who think, 'Nothing good has happened lately!'

This is a personal story from before I started my own business.

When I was at rock bottom,
I felt like I had completely given up.

(↓My husband's workplace went bankrupt! But thanks to believing in the power of the brain, I was able to hold my head up. It's okay!✨)

I used to think that restarting one's life
was something that could only be done

by attending expensive seminars
or by people with special talents.

But in reality, our brains
are equipped with a magic switch
that can rewrite the world for zero cost. 💡

The brain has an incredibly meddlesome filter

In the previous article, I talked about
an athlete who turned things around by lifting the corners of their mouth during a desperate crisis.
I told the story of a sports player.

(It's written in this article below. Please read it 🩷)

'But, just with a single smile,
why would something so magical happen?'
You probably think that.

Actually, our brains have
a filter that acts like a 'gatekeeper' for information
.

Around us, there is a vast amount of information, hundreds or tens of millions of pieces per second.

If we were to take it all in properly,
the brain would crash.

That is why the brain
throws everything into the trash bin except for what it judges to be 'important to itself'.

Technically, this is called
theRAS (Reticular Activating System)
.

When I say 'brain mechanism',
it might sound a bit difficult,

but actually, this isa very famous function in brain science discovered in 1949
.

More than 70 years ago,
researchers in Italy and the United States

'Thebrain has a switch that determines where to direct consciousness
'

was identified.
It seems it was a major discovery at the time.

The reason you can hear your name in a noisy place🍸

'Brain mechanism'? 'RAS function'?
I don't mean to talk about such difficult topics.

How is brain science useful to us?

By mastering it,
will life really start looking up?

That's more important, isn't it?

But this,
is actually something everyone experiences in daily life.

For example,
even in a noisy party venue,
if your name is called from afar,

or a topic you are interested in comes up,
don't you notice it immediately?

In psychology, this is a phenomenon called
the cocktail party effect.


The brain's filter
'This is information relevant to you❗'

judges instantly, and picks up only that voice
from the noise and delivers it to you.

In other words, our brains always
have a super-efficient searchlight installed
that prioritizes finding

'what we are conscious of'
.


The part in the brainstem calledthe RAS is,
so to speak, the brain's checkpoint.

Thanks to this sorting information,the 'cocktail party effect' is born,
allowing you to hear your name even in noisy places 🍸

In short,



this part isthe true identity of our'brain's searchlight'
.

[Personal Experience] The 'yellow butterfly' and 'yellow car' experiment I tried

Setting aside difficult theories,
what I was interested in was

that I could 'switch the brain's switch
on and off at will'.

'But... is it true...?'

I'm quite skeptical.

In my life so far,
I've been naive and almost deceived before.

On top of that, I was financially struggling at the time...
If this is a lie,
my precious time would be wasted...

So what I tried was,
the 'yellow butterfly' and
'yellow car' experiment.

If nothing changed after trying, I could just stop,
I could just not believe it.
That's all.

What would be good...
'Right, let's go with a yellow butterfly to improve my financial luck! Let's go with a yellow car!' (laughs)

That day,
I made this request to my brain.

'If this is true,
bring them to me! Show them to me!'


With a lighthearted feeling like a treasure hunt,
I tried spending every day happily and excitedly.


At first, when I was concerned about it,
nothing happened.

But one day,
when I had forgotten about the butterfly and the car,
unbelievable things started to happen.


It was autumn at the time.
Normally, you wouldn't see butterflies
as much as in spring.

Yet, strangely enough, every single day,
'yellow butterflies'
started appearing before me.

I was surprised.
At first, it was just one or two.
I thought it was a coincidence.

Then they gradually increased,
and I started seeing several a day.

Eventually, in a friend's garden,
they started following me around and wouldn't leave...


Since they were living things,
I felt like they were carrying some kind of message.

It's so strange...

But...
It's almost scary, but I still can't believe it...



Furthermore, yellow cars,
also started catching my eye more and more.

Bright yellow cars, lemon-colored cars 🍋,
there are many different shapes.


And at one point, amazingly,
I even saw three yellow cars in my field of vision at once
💛💛💛

It's not that yellow butterflies and cars
suddenly increased in the city.

My brain simply decided,
'Yellow things are important to me right now!' and

it started picking up with full force the information
that I had been throwing in the trash until now.

I was truly shocked.
It felt like I had surrendered to my own brain.


It wasn't about 'wanting to believe' anymore,
but a feeling of being forced to be convinced by the facts in front of me...


So I thought,
'If my brain is showing me this,
I'm going to make use of it!'...

It doesn't matter if it's just a delusion or whatever.

It doesn't bother my family,
and it doesn't cost any money.

It's just something happening within my own heart and body.

'In that case, I'll master it!'
That is what I decided.

When you're worried, it turns into a 'lucky item'

Now, these yellow cars
have become an important signal for me.

The moment I get in the car to leave the house, or
when I'm suddenly worried about something.

A yellow car will suddenly pass by
from an unrelated direction.

At times like that, I can feel
a bright feeling, as if I've received a message of support saying,
'It's okay! Your brain is functioning properly. You will definitely find the answer.'

I can feel a bright sense of encouragement,
as if I've received a message of support.

Where is your 'searchlight' pointing?

If your brain is currently
only picking up on 'anxiety' or 'things that are lacking'...
it might just be that your brain is mistaken,


thinking 'that is what is important to you right now!'

The reason that athlete smiled during a crisis that day,

was a brain switch to forcibly shift
from 'despair' to a 'clue for a comeback'...

There is no need to try hard
or force yourself to be positive.

First of all,
why not make a new wish to your brain with a mindset like finding a 'yellow car'?
won't you?

If the things you wished for
start appearing before your eyes more often,

you might be able to have a little more confidence in yourself 🩷

(For how to deal with your brain,
please refer to this here👇) ↓

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