This document discusses how the brain takes mental shortcuts to conserve energy, usually choosing fear-based "superhighways" over more positive back roads. However, building up the positive back roads through exercises and hypnosis can make them the dominant pathways, making it feel easy to achieve goals by overriding fear responses. The key is changing deep-seated beliefs so one truly feels getting what they want is easy.

2. If you were driving across a few
hundred kilometers of land, which
routes would you take?

3. Huge, wide, super highways, or small
back roads?

4. Unless you had plenty of time to kill,
and wanted to experience local
culture, you'd take the highway.

5. Generally speaking, when we decide to
do anything, we take the shortest
route possible.

6. This doesn't have to involve physical
movement.

7. The idea of "killing two birds with one
stone" is embedded deep into our
psychology for economic reasons.

8. Every calorie we burn must be
accounted for on a microbiological
level, so our subconscious minds
quickly calculate the least amount of
energy needed to get what we want.

9. Sometimes, though, this doesn't help
us.

10. Just like real roads, our brains are a
collection of superhighways and back
roads.

11. Whenever thoughts move around our
brains, they take the easiest route.

12. Unfortunately, the routes that lead to
fear are HUGE.

13. This is so we stay safe, no matter
where we are, and what we are doing.

14. Long time ago, our brains decided the
most important rule, in all cases, was
to not get injured.

15. This worked great in primitive cultures
and environments, but not so much
anymore.

16. Now we get tons of "false positives"
when our brains think there's
something to be afraid of when there
really isn't.

17. This is why so many things that
SHOULD be easy aren't. We know
what to do, but for some reason we
think it's hard, or we keep putting it
off, or we imagine there's somebody
"out there" that is stopping us.

18. But here's the deal. When we build up
those back roads, in our brains, so that
they are BIGGER than those factory
programmed, fear-based super
highways, taking action, ANY action
will seem easy.

19. The false images of fear will be
removed, and getting what we want
will be as easy as baking a cake. (At
least if you know how to bake a cake!)

20. How do you do that? How do you build
up those positive, "good feeling" paths
in the brain so they are the go-to path
for your thoughts?

21. A combination of mental exercises and
hypnosis.

22. These the basic elements of Belief
Change.

23. When you change those back roads
into super highways, you'll truly
believe, on a deep level, that getting
whatever you want is easy.

24. mindpersuasion.com/belief/