Survival Code – The Facts

I spoke last time about the Survival Code, a mixture of your genetic preferences inherited from your parents and beyond and the learned responses from life experiences.

I want to expose some of the neurological events that make this important for you to know about.

When we are born our nervous system is nowhere near finished in its development. In fact of all the mammals on the planet, neurologically, humans are born about 16-18 months too early. But there is a real reason for this.

Human neurology places much more attention on the experiential side of neurological training than does other animal neurology. We use life experience as a way of learning how to survive the long term. Animals on the other hand put more emphasis on immediate survival. So they walk within minutes of being born because they don’t need to learn anything new about walking.

You might say that about humans too except that humans use the neurology of walking for many more things than just walking and become so nimble in our ability to move that we can do things with our bodies that most animals cannot.

Our neurological functions learn to be more integrated and intricate than any other on the planet.

Let’s look quickly at the process we evolve through after birth.

The Survival Code

How to rewrite this code and save yourself a life of wasted time, energy and stress.

Most of our time is taken up consciously with everyday things which must get done. We are distracted constantly away from those things we are good at and the things that would change our lives into the success we want it to be.

We are overrun with conscious input, most of which we will try to block out anyway. So the subconscious has the job of collecting all the other stuff we don’t want to know about consciously and process it into some form of usable information.

To do this the subconscious categorizes all the input we experience (even if we are not consciously aware of it) and attempts to use it where it can and store it where it can’t. It can be acting on information we are not consciously aware of. In fact, it does this most of the time.

The more we use the subconscious this way the more we invite its other activities to become stronger as well. We mostly do not know what they are either so how much of our life is the way we consciously want it to be?

Pay attention! This is critical information for you to understand your life!!

Discover how the Innate Systems can change how you do life.

Just as the name suggests, the Innate Systems are the inbuilt mechanisms that work systemically to keep us on the path of 'Best Adaption'.

Without these systems we would have a much more dificult job of recuperating, adapting, learning or growing. They are a part of our genetic ancestry in that they are something we all have. We don't all use them exactly the same way but we do have them. We learn how to use them in response to the challenges life throws at us. If we have the right challenges AND we respond to those challenges in the best way, we learn the best lessons in life. If we have crumby challenges we will learn how to respond and train our systems in a crumby way also.