We See With Our Brain

We See With Our Brain.

Maxwell Maltz, Cosmetic Surgeon, wrote a book called, Psycho – Cybernetics. Maxwell writes in his book one of the things he became aware of in his Surgical Practice was how we see with our brain.

After cosmetic surgery many of his clients would not see the changes he had made for them.

What he noticed was that it took about 21 days before his patients started to recognize the changes. It takes repetition for the brain to change.

Maxwell Maltz realized that we  See With Our Brain.

Allow me to share an experience I had just the other day while sitting in the reception area at the Manor Office Apartments.

I was sitting on a three seater lounge at one end and another man was sitting at the other end.

Then a person I know comes in looking for a seat…

She looks at me directly in the eyes… and I’m looking back at her… I notice she doesn’t recognize me…

Then this same friend sees the empty seat next to me and makes her way to it and sits down and starts looking at her phone…

I was also on my phone looking at my emails…

After a few minutes the car arrived so I stood up and departed…

Since that experience I have been reflecting about the statement that Maxwell Maltz made that we see with our brain.

In NLP we teach that our life experiences are not so much about the external reality as much as it is the internal experience with our mind, memory and internal resources projected into reality.

Imagine in our mind we have a huge PICTURE FILING SYSTEM…

All of our life experiences are stored there…People, places, things, feelings, sounds and smells…

When we go through life we are always referring back to this filling system to make sense of the world.

Now…Listen carefully….

In this example my friend had a picture of me in her filing system of who I looked like…

Before this experience I had hair on my head and I have since shaved my head…she has not yet seen me with a shaved head…
Understand this…

She still has the old picture of me (with hair) in her INTERNAL FILING SYSTEM so when her eyes look at me her brain only can find the old picture and comes to the conclusion she doesn’t know this person…

Please go back and reread as this is very important that you understand this process…

Now will she ever recognize me again?

Definitely she will…Once she updates her internal picture (repetition) of the new looking me in her filling system…

That’s what is meant when Maxwell Maltz says we See with our brain

I find it absolutely amazing and a very powerful concept how our mind works and how we process information to experience the world.

Understand this…

Many people are wandering the planet with an OLD FILLING SYSTEM…

In NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programing) and coaching we are upgrading, refurbishing your internal filling system to represent the most positive and up to date experience in life you could possible have.

We see with our brain

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