Do You Believe The Stories Your Mind Makes Up?

Last week I talked about the idea of the "new neuroscience" and "outside stimulus".  This week I want to go to the next step in the mental process. 

I don’t know if “Auto Stimulus” is the right term, but I like it for the context here, and will use it. 

When the mind is left alone, it still needs to move electricity.  This is a period I call “Auto Stimulus”.  It might be seeing and hearing or it might just be dreaming.  During this time the mind is organizing everything thing it has taken in through the senses and is trying to apply an explanation to them.  

This is  a bit different than “outside stimulus” because we aren’t actively trying to apply a stimulus or press for an explanation.  The mind is just doing it on it’s own.

The dangerous part here is emotional connections to the thought processes.  Your mind may attach an emotion or feeling of truth to something which isn’t true at all.  This is where questioning everything is so important.  If you don’t actively question the mind, it can take over with all of these false explanations.  

It is generally accepted that emotionally we can’t tell the difference between a real or a created event. At some point those “real emotions” begin to create “real events” that we have a hard time separating from or believing they are false.

The process of Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP depends on this phenomenon.  If you tell yourself something enough, your mind will believe it and you will become it.

Auto Stimulus is the result of your mind creating the explanations for the unknown outside information, and eventually convincing you that the story is real.  Yes we all believe something that our mind made up.  That is why people are such horrible witnesses.