Highest Functioning Self

Here are some thoughts on how to think about and connect the information from the last couple of calls, particularly the most recent call on how to access and operate from your Highest Functioning Self.

Let’s look at a potential survival situation. You and your spouse have taken a trip to Alaska; you both board a small twin engine aircraft to go even deeper into remote territory. At some point, the plan starts to falter, the plane crashes, and your spouse and the pilot perish. You are shaken, but without major injury.

You quickly realize that you are far from any civilized area, and may very well be on your own for days-if you can make it that long-before search parties come.
In this situation, there are 7 factors that you will have to deal with, and, HOW effectively you deal with them will determine whether you live or die. They are listed in order of significance:

1. Fear and anxiety
2. Cold and heat
3. Thirst
4. Boredom and loneliness
5. Fatigue
6. Hunger
7. Pain and injury

Unless you are able to adequately manage your fear and anxiety, it’s not likely that you will live long enough in this environment to be able to secure and/or create a shelter that will keep you from becoming hypothermic. If you can stay warm, you don’t need to worry about water. If you can’t find water, boredom and loneliness won’t be a major issue, and on and on it goes.

You must realize this; all 7 factors are BIG concerns of your lower functioning brain regions-the Reptilian Brain and Mammalian Brain.

SURVIVAL is what the lower functioning brain regions are interested in.
However, when we are engaged in, and working from these lower brain regions, we simply cannot plan, monitor or engage in intelligent decision making.

Fear/anxiety (1.), and boredom/loneliness (4.) can occur ANYWHERE!
You need not be in a life threatening situation for these to rear their ugly head. They can and WILL manifest at work, at home, in the car, on vacation…you name the place…they can show up.

Since most of us have constant access to food and drink, when the fear/anxiety and boredom/loneliness begin and the lower functioning areas of the brain are active, it’s easy to address the other primal concerns-the ones we realize we can instantly alleviate-and get something to drink and/or eat. In this way, we satisfy Thirst (3.) and Hunger (6.) directly, and Fear/Anxiety (1.) and Boredom/Loneliness (4.) indirectly.

Key Point: There was no real threat or danger in the first place; there was nothing we needed to “survive”

Is it already occurring to you just how significant this is? When you access your Highest Functioning Self and take a leadership position, calming, assuring, comforting and confidently leading your lower functioning brain areas, you stop the train in its tracks.

When you quickly and effectively manage the fear and anxiety, you will find that hunger and thirst (and all of the others) are nothing more than what they are intended to be; when you are truly thirsty you drink. When you are truly hungry (physical hunger, not emotional hunger) you eat. It’s really just as simple as that.

Read through this several times and listen to the call a couple of times. Once you really get this, and put it to use, the feeling of empowerment and control in astounding!

© Copyright 2010-Vincent Harris-All Rights Reserved.

This weeks call

This weeks call is tomorrow night...Wed, March 10th, 2010...7:00 pm!

This Weeks Call

The call this week will be on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 7:00 pm! Same numbers for the call as last week. Please email if you need them.