So let's talk a little bit about how the brain works. How thinking works to create a feeling experience. Now there's one thing that you need to know, right up front. And that is that you cannot have a felt experience of feelings such as anger or happiness or just sadness or any feeling whatsoever that isn't generated in your thinking. It seems the feeling is generated from the outside in from some experience something that somebody did or said something that happened to us some experience of the outside world created the feeling inside of us. That's what it looks like.

Well, the brain is very clever because it delivers that experience very seamlessly, as though it's happening from the outside. But that's not what's happening at all. Actually, what's happening is the outside world is just giving a little tap and saying, hey, do you want to think so thinking is generated inside of us both on Consciousness, all that voice that we hear inside our head, thinking that we're aware of having, and in an unconscious way, thinking that we're not even aware that we're having thinking that is so automated and virtualized that we come to a conclusion long before we even realize we've had any thought process. So let me explain to you a little bit about how the brain actually works and how this whole thing is set up to the park down the way here, we call it the Delta Park. It's a beautiful piece of wild ish green land, and all that land at these various paths that runs through it, that are kind of indented into the grassland.

And there's no sign anywhere that suggests that you must walk on the path or that you walk on the path. In fact, in the Delta, you may walk anywhere you like. But of course, everybody walks on the path and when you think they do this Well, it's pretty obvious when you come to that space, that there's a way to go. And which you're not thinking about going in another way, the natural impetus is just to go in the way that's already laid down. For us. It's easy.

It's obvious, we don't have to think at all. There's no processing required. And so we naturally all walk on the path. It's pretty funny, actually. Because when you walk into delta, all the people who are walking there with their friends, or their dogs are walking on the path. And then next thing, you know, you have this clock, somebody's running behind you, and then you look over your shoulder and you see someone's running behind you.

And then you have to decide, well, do I get off the path? Are they getting off the path who's gonna get off the path and then everybody scatters in a million directions, and we make it through shore and then everybody gets back on the ball. And then somebody comes whizzing behind you on a mountain bike, and then you're like, Whoa, there's five behind me. And then we you know, this is like, now dangerous. So who's going to get off and who's going to get on and everybody scatters. Somehow that makes it through.

And thanks. Thank you. And we all get back on the path again, it makes absolutely no sense. All the runners, all the mountain bikers and all the walkers to be walking on the same path. And yet, that's what we do. Why?

Because their path is really laid down in some way. And so obvious and easy that we don't have to think about. So we don't think. Now this is pretty much how the brain works. We have thinking, and when we first start to think about a subject, it's kind of a plus b plus c plus d, and we work our way through it until we get to the conclusion. And the brain is like, Well, you know, I can manage this, I can do it.

But the part of the brain that is doing this is using a massive amount of energy. The part of the brain that automatically process something the unconscious part of the brain is a virtual Pomfret that uses signal Continuous energy. We're hunter gatherers by design. And so we need to have a way of functioning on as little energy as possible should it be that we have a lack of energy. So the brain is looking to put things into the part of itself that does things automatically all the time. This is it's, it's instinctive way of working, put it into habit, put it into habit.

Now, you'll know about habits because if you've learned to tie your shoelaces, or you've learned to drive, or you've learned to do anything that is a physical thing. You can see how, at first, it was complicated. I mean, did you learn to drive? It is complicated. If you've driven beside somebody in a car, your entire life, the gears, the clutch, the accelerator, the indicators, the mirrors, but it's complicated. And so at first you're very hesitant and you've got all of these things that you have To remember, and it's very difficult to get used to it.

And slowly but surely as we repeat these actions, our brain starts to say, Hmm, okay, if you're gonna do this a lot, let me put it into habit. And after a while, we start to find that it's not complicated at all. And after a bit longer, we start to find that it's actually pretty simple. And at some point, you'll find that you'll drive from one destination to another and when you reach that destination, probably home you'll think, oh, I don't mean that the journey at all. How did I get here? And yet you stopped at all the lines, you stopped all stop streets, you didn't run anybody over.

How's this possible? Well, all of that functioning of driving and stopping and indicating and looking in your mirrors and making sure that you weren't going to kill anybody. That was all happening in the unconscious in the automatic perpetuated fashioning of the mind. So anytime the brain is made up with something that we do over and over again, or that we have a very high emotional content to, it starts to put that into the automatic function, that habitual part of the brain. So it feels as though we have some feeling coming to us, when the outside world comes and taps at us and says, Hey, it feels as though this feeling comes to us just from the outside world. But actually, what's happening is that our brain is going into automatic thinking into default habitual thinking.

And we're not even aware of that thinking. And suppose that thinking but it's giving us a feeling inside of ourselves, of anger, of happiness, of joy, of sadness, whatever. So even when we're not aware of our thinking, it's still thinking. It's just that the thinking is very optimistic. Now understanding this concept, in relation to the learning that you're doing, you need to start to really get a grip on the fact that 100% of our feeling experience about felt experience is generated through thought. We cannot have a feeling that was not generated through our own brain in our own thinking.

Even though it feels as though the feeling is generated by the experience that we're having from the outside in, in fact, the experiences generated from the inside. So I don't know if you've ever watched any of those shows like CSI, where you can actually see the graphic of the brain when somebody's spanking. You see these little bolts of lightning that are going down the nerves down one of the attorney sharp lift and zooming down another one and turning right and left and right. And they actually wiring these little nerves together, nerves that fire together, wire together. And so when that thinking follows a pathway from listener to that way from this Step one, and does it again and again. And again.

Neurologists say that nerves that fire together wire together, which means that they're forming a pathway that is pre determined, if you will, at the park, like that pass in the Delta where everybody's okay. And if you were to look at these nerves, actually, you will find that they, as you find them over and over and over again together, they start to build a bigger myelin sheath around the outside. And so then myelin sheath is almost like the rubber rising a lot around the outside of electric cable. So they're actually literally physically growing in a way that allows them to stick together and become from a path to a street from a street to a highway from a highway to a superhighway, where the information can pass quicker and quicker along this pathway. And this is what happens when we have thinking that goes time and time again, and gets placed into the habit, part of our brain