Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind, Become a Master of Your Emotions, Achieve the Goals You Want, & Start Living to Your Full Potential

By Tiffany Adams

Are you sick and tired of watching your life pass you by? Pay close attention here, because the life of your dreams is closer than you might think…

We've all been there, life is overwhelming, complicated, confusing, and yes, within it all you still seemingly have all that a person should ever need to feel happy and fulfilled.

But for some reason, you just don't feel this way.

Hours spent trying to figure it out, to no avail. Days and weeks, even months on end of you trying technique after technique and personal growth tactic after personal growth tactic - but still nothing.

There's an emptiness inside of you that you can't seem to escape and no matter what you do, it just seems to keep getting worse.

If this sounds eerily familiar to you, I'd like you to take a moment with me here as we acknowledge together that it doesn't have to be this way.

You can have the life of your dreams. You can master your emotions and you can begin honestly living to your fullest potential.

Or maybe none of the above resonates with you at all, maybe you love your life and are simply trying to upgrade the way your mind functions.

In either case, the answer to a life of fulfillment, gratitude, and undeniable happiness protruding from every pore of your being is simply this - you need to understand your mind.

Once you understand it, you can hack it. You can change your mind in whatever fashion you like, and begin thinking however you want to think, about whatever you want to think about.

In Mind Hacking, you'll discover:

• The groundbreaking truth of your emotions and how they affect your thought patterns
• The most straightforward guide to facing your emotional triggers and rewriting your thought process loops that is out there
• Powerful tools for separating yourself from your mind
• How to make a s.m.a.r.t. plan and keep yourself on track with P.A.C.T.
• The ultimate guide to reading someone's mind
• An idiotproof path to rebuilding self-worth
• The stunning science behind Mind Hacking
• The most important things not to do when rewriting your brain, saving you valuable time and energy

… and so much more.

Mind Hacking is the #1 guide to understanding your mind and your emotions so that you can navigate your life in any direction you want.

No more wondering if it's possible, no more daydreaming of a future where things might get easier. No more of this comparing yourself to others and feeling incomplete as a result.

A life of achievement, one where all of your goals and aspirations are a complete and total reality is not the stuff of fiction here folks.

It is yours for the taking - if you would understand your mind and begin to actively take back control.

If you want to leave behind all the nonsense dreaming and instead place yourself inside your fullest potential then check out this guidebook right now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tiffany Adams
• Release date: Dec 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393082996

Book preview

Chapter One:  The Composition of the Brain

The easiest way that you can envision the brain is in the form of a big computer—it receives information from the body through the senses and processes the information. It then returns messages back to the body. It is also the source of human intelligence and can experience the emotions we feel. It is the size of both of our clenched fists and weighs roughly three pounds. It has many crevices and folds and looks much like a walnut.

We can divide it into four different sections: the cerebellum, the brain stem, diencephalon, and cerebrum, all of which serve different purposes. In addition, we can separate it into left and right hemispheres, connected with a thick section of nerve fibers known as the corpus callosum, which passes information between the two hemispheres. The left side of the brain is responsible for abstract thinking and speech, whereas the right hemisphere deals with imagery and spatial thinking.

To better understand your emotions and thought processes, we will focus more on the cerebrum area of your brain. We can also refer to this area as the cerebral cortex or cortex. It comprises the hippocampus, the amygdala, the hypothalamus, and the cortex, and it incorporates information from the sense organs to thought processes, memory, and emotions.

The location of your thoughts, emotions, and memory is in the temporal lobes. This is where we can find the limbic system, which contains the hippocampus, hypothalamus, and the amygdala, found in the corpus callosum between the two brain hemispheres.

The hippocampus is responsible for short- and long-term memory and connects to the amygdala. It resembles two horns or a seahorse. We locate the hypothalamus beneath the thalamus, and it is the pleasure center of our brain. The amygdala appears as two clusters of almonds and regulates the response to fear and aggression, and coordinates our physical responses to these emotions throughout the body. This is where all of our learned fears go, and it helps us to remember these situations so we can avoid them later.

The Breakdown of Emotions

Emotions are a complex state of psychology that we categorize into behavioral responses, subjective experiences, and physiological responses. Scientists have been trying to define the different states of emotions that have fluctuated anywhere between six to 27 states over the last five decades. Currently, we accept that there are eight different types: anticipation, surprise, disgust, trust, anger, sadness, and happiness. We can combine these types of emotions to create other emotions, such as using anticipation and happiness to create excitement. We will focus on the three categories of emotions to have a better understanding.

Subjective Experience

Even though people around the globe can feel basic emotions regardless of their culture and background, subjective experience goes deeper—we feel these emotions with more complexity depending on our individual experiences. For example, you can feel anger ranging between a slight annoyance to outright rage. The other complex part of emotions is that we can have mixed emotions, meaning that we can feel different emotions simultaneously or in sequence, even on opposite sides of the spectrum.

Physiological Response

This concept relates to the feelings we experience with signs within the body. These responses can be your heart beating faster when you see someone you really love, or your stomach turning when experiencing anxiety. These physical cues are a response controlled by the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which can also keep you out of harm’s way, as it connects to our fight-or-flight response. These reactions can also be deep-seated experiences that were so powerful that they manifested themselves physically.

Behavioral Response

When we express our emotions, we are having a behavioral response. We see this on the outside and is the most expressive form of emotions, and we usually display them using body language and during everyday situations. We can interpret our and others’ states of being through this expressive emotion.

Our physical conditions, genetics, beliefs, and cultural traditions all influence our emotions. Other people around us can also trigger these emotions, for example, when we have an automatic response to smile back.

Physical conditions are medical complications that can bring about changes in emotions. When you have any brain disease, injury, thyroid disorders, or diabetes, it can change our emotional responses dramatically.

Genetics can influence the personality and brain structure within an individual or family. You cannot alter your genes, but you can alter your brain. These emotions may be expressed or repressed within a family unit.

Beliefs and cultural traditions can be experienced on an individual or group basis. These emotions can be controversial to people from other backgrounds, such as having an opinion of someone’s behavior and seeing it as a negative action because it goes against their own beliefs.

Feelings of Compassion, Sympathy, and Empathy

We commonly interchange the terms of compassion, sympathy, and empathy; however, they are not synonyms. They each have different meanings, though closely related. Compassion is the willingness to take away the suffering of another; sympathy is your understanding of the feelings of others; empathy is feeling the same as what others are feeling. We will look more closely at each.

Empathy

These are the feelings that you usually relate with when you see someone in pain; however, you can relate to others and feel what they feel for any of the range of emotions available. This is because of what scientists call mirror neurons, which help us gain a deeper connection with other people by mirroring their behavior and feelings.

This is a natural response for sensitive individuals or empaths, but it is an emotion that you can work on developing. If you have ever heard the phrase to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, this scenario is the very instance in which we can use this visualization technique. Most of us cannot understand every aspect of emotions we feel because of our uniqueness, so at some point, you will probably use this visualization. Sometimes you won’t require this visualization because you will relate to what the other individual’s body language is telling you.

Sympathy

When you understand what someone else is feeling, you can easily imagine the situation, even if you do not have all the details. When you find out more information, it may either deepen your sympathy or switch to understanding that person’s feelings, as you have a better understanding of the situation. Sympathy is a step above empathy because you do not physically feel what they do, but you can relate and understand where they are coming from. An excellent example of this is when a friend’s family member passes away, and you have a firsthand understanding of their situation because you also had a family member pass away before. Keep in mind that you do not have to go through a similar scenario to be sympathetic.

Compassion

Compassion is the most profound connection you can have with others because it combines both empathy and sympathy—you recognize their feelings, and then you feel them. The result is that you try to assist this person in any way possible to make their situation better. Again, it need not be a terrible scenario, but compassion usually links with despair because the root meaning is to suffer with. Just as the definition suggests, you are in the same ethereal space with this other person, so they are not alone with how they or what they are going