The Most Amazing Psychological Mind Hack Is Action Now
Life is challenging when you`re forced to change and you don’t want to but the great thing is if you change quicker than others you`ll receive the advantages that they never will
The German author Eckhart Tolle is famous for educating the world on the present moment.
After all, it was his book ‘The Power of Now’ that sold millions of copies in over thirty different languages around the world. But that ‘now’ that he spoke about occurred back in 1997.
And since then a lot has happened.
After all, the planet has changed especially since the world recession of 2008 and the global pandemic of 2020. And your world has changed too.
For me back in 1997, I was just leaving school. I didn’t know what lay in my future and if I`m totally honest I didn’t care. After all, I was young and the world as they say was my Oyster.
But I did know I wanted to make a difference.
At least a difference in my own life and those around me. And, ideally, I wanted to help a lot of other people make that difference too.
Yet to make that difference you have to be willing to change.
And change usually demands an uprooting from the comfortable. As humans, we don’t like this. We hate it.
Sometimes we know that change is the best thing for us but we still keep things the way they are despite the benefit it will bring us.
Then we self analyze and wonder why we never altered what we could when had the chance. We get annoyed with ourselves for not making the change when it was there in front of us to do. And we find it difficult to look ourselves in the mirror knowing that we have effectively self-harmed ourselves from moving to a better opportunity in life when we could have.
And then for many people, this lack of adaptation becomes a habit.
They begin to self depreciate in public and say things out loud to others like:
“That’s typical of me!”
and
“You know the way I am!”
Almost as if they are seeking help for not changing, an explanation from others, or even an excuse as to why they didn’t react to things at the time they knew they should have.
However, the truth is you can change and you can do it at any age.
Not just that, but there are times your choice of change is not yours alone but looking back on it with ‘twenty-twenty’ vision you can recognize later on that there was a need to change at that time of your life anyways.
But before you start shaking your head in agreement about how this is your way of dealing with change or who you recognize that reacts to change in this way know that the human brain controls a lot of the initial reaction towards a perceived threat or inevitable change around you.
Your amygdala is the part of your brain that establishes the potential threat that it perceives and it triggers a flow of neurophysiological commotion when this occurs. And then the fight-flight response kicks in so that you survive the oncoming threat that it believes to be true. Such is the terror that people can feel their heart rate can increase, their pupils may dilate, and adrenaline will give them what is effectively a bonus trigger of strength.
The results of this can make you more alert, physically stronger, and more combative than you`ve ever felt in a long time.
Or it can make you feel the opposite and you want to cling to the existing status queue of your lifestyle.
Back in the 1970s psychological researchers James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente introduced the Transtheoretical Model of Change. Within the model, the researchers acknowledged that as humans we need to go from one thought process to another before we can adopt this change fully. They spoke about how the stages of change begin with pre-contemplation, contemplation, and preparation before action is taken. Then maintenance and relapse occur.
They explain this by saying that in general:
- People first believe that people are in denial that something is happening,
- This then leads them to feel uncomfortable and they contemplate what a change will look like before they prepare a plan of action,
- Then they will do something about it while they struggle to maintain the temptations to go back to the previous behavior or situation.
- And that’s when relapse can occur.
So the lesson here is that if you accept that this is how most people react to change and how their ancient brain drags them back then you can make that change faster. Sure, these stages slow them down from succeeding but you can take advantage of the up-and-coming external changes that will enviably occur that you have previously felt you have no control over.
Things like the changing of the economy or global warming are huge and you may feel you don’t want to experience them.
But in reality, they are happening at present and they will never go back to the same place in your lifetime.
By grasping this change you’ll trust your future and thrust yourself into opportunities right now.
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