So, let’s start by answering the question, what is a positive pattern?
Picture this…..
So, the alarm goes off, you wake up and get up at a good time, leaving yourself enough time to do all those things you like to do and should do before you leave for work, giving yourself the best chance of having a good day.
If you constantly do that, every day, that is a “positive pattern”
Here's the the interesting thing, the more positive patterns you have, the more positive patterns seem to be created!
There seems to be a link, I do not yet know if there is a known area of our brain responsible for this, I suspect its not known at this stage, but I also suspect in the future it will be found.
So how do we build positive patterns? Well, let’s look at what a positive pattern actually is?
In our brain, we create neural pathways, we’ve done it since birth. Actually babies are born with more neural pathways than we have as adults.
Here is an example of a Neural pathway or “pattern” So around the age of about 4, a boy across the road from where I lived showed me how to tie my shoe laces, I even remember his name, so thanks again Nigel!
This act of repetition built a neural pathway or “pattern” within my brain, and I still have exactly the same technique as he taught me some 50 years ago!
That is an example of a very simple pattern, a neural pathway, one that has served me well!
I use the analogy of Ski Tracks, a cross country ski racer, the skier at the front, lays down a groove in the snow with his ski’s, he has the toughest job, then those following him ski in his “groves” deepening and strengthening them, making it easier for those following. Looking at those groves is like looking at neural pathways (patterns) that are created in our brains when we repeat an action over and over again, its becomes easier and more natural to use.
