Ep 4: Your Brain's Reality Filter

Your brain is filtering your reality right now. Every second of every day, a mechanism called the Reticular Activating System (the RAS) is deciding what makes it into your conscious awareness and what gets screened out. In this episode, Laura goes deeper than the surface-level version most people have heard and reveals what the RAS actually means for how you experience your life. You'll learn why nobody has ever seen unfiltered reality, why what you believe to be true is a filter set to find evidence of that truth, and you'll experience the RAS working on you in real time before the episode is over.This episode covers:What the RAS actually does and why it goes far beyond "focus on what you want"Why your brain must filter, and what would happen if it couldn'tAll the things that exist around you right now that you will never perceiveWhy your entire experience of reality is a construct built by your brain's filterAn interactive exercise that demonstrates the RAS working on you in thirty secondsHow your beliefs, experiences, and wiring are programming your RAS to confirm what you already think is trueA live RAS activation you'll carry with you all week (hint: yellow flowers)Part 1 of 2. Next week: how to actively reprogram your RASConnect with Laura:Instagram: @think.lauraJoin Laura's Free Thinking Practice on Substack: ThinkLaura