You might be surprised to learn that your brain is deleting 90% of reality right now, and this mental filter could be the very reason why we sometimes feel ‘stuck’. This powerful process is managed by a part of your brain called the reticular activating system, and understanding how it works is the first step to consciously shaping the world you experience.
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A Simple Test to Prove Your Brain is Filtering Reality
Let’s do a quick experiment. Without looking around the room you’re in, try to tell me how many yellow things there are. You probably can’t answer accurately, or you’re just guessing. But if I told you to actively look for the color yellow, you would suddenly start seeing it everywhere. That’s not a coincidence. That’s your brain filtering your reality in real time.
How Your Brain is Deleting 90% of Reality With the Reticular Activating System
This powerful filtering mechanism is called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). Its job is incredibly simple, to show you what it believes matters and to delete the rest. But here is the critical part, the RAS decides what matters based on what you have been consistently focusing on. It is a biological system designed for efficiency, not for accuracy of the total environment.
Why You Feel ‘Stuck’ in the Same Reality
Herein lies the problem. If you’ve been consistently focusing on what’s not working, what’s missing, or what’s not enough, your brain literally removes evidence of anything else. This creates a powerful, self-reinforcing feedback loop that keeps you in a limited state of perception.
Opportunities deleted, progress ignored, momentum goes unseen. Not because it’s not there, but because your brain doesn’t think it’s relevant.
So, you stay in the same reality without realizing you’re the one curating the experience. You are the one actively filtering out the very things that could help you move forward. You are not a passive observer, but an active participant in the reality you perceive.
How to Change Your Reality by Changing Your Focus
Now, here’s the shift. Instead of trying to change your whole life at once, simply change what you’re looking for. You can consciously train your brain. Start noticing proof of what you do want, even if it seems small. The moment your brain registers it as important, it will start showing you more of it. If you find yourself caught in these kinds of repeating patterns, learning how to break free from self-sabotage can offer a more structured approach. You can check the schedule for the next training event on the registration page at the link.
That’s how perception shifts. And since perception drives every single decision you make, this small change quietly changes your entire reality. It is a subtle but profound way to take control of your life’s direction.
The truth is, you’ve actually never been stuck. You’ve just been trained to see a very specific version of things. Change that, and then everything else starts to move.
