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Recent study reveals that our brains are predisposed to be ‘bad’ with money

Announcement posted by Mind Potential Academy 18 Dec 2017

Our brains are easily moulded and impacted when it comes to our financial decisions and we often like to be spoon fed when we are making big decisions with money, suggests SBB Research conducted by Dr Sam Barnett. Leading Australian Clinical Hypnotherapist Maggie Wilde agrees with this assertion which validates the need to rewire your brain when it comes to thinking about money, especially when it comes to ridding oneself of preprogrammed unhelpful  beliefs.


Dr Sam Barnett, a neuroscientist at SBB Research conducted a study which analysed the brains of those participants who were assisted and unassisted when making financial decisions. It was found that those who received assistance were more relaxed by a significant 21%. The ones who received assistance were able to engage in crucial concepts while those who receive no assistance required a greater level of concentration and developed more stress.


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“Our data indicates that assisted brains need significantly less concentration- making decisions feel easier - than when unassisted. It’s remarkable to see how quickly these effects occur,” says Dr Sam Barnett.


This correlation between stress and money is not unfamiliar to Potentialist and bestselling author Maggie Wilde. She regularly coaches and educates people through her Money & You Brain Training Programs to overcome their stressful relationships with money. She addresses decades of potentially unhelpful programming including money fears, disappointments, past failures and successes and any beliefs that subconsciously impact the way they think about, feel and act with money. Maggie reassures us that unhelpful patterns around money are not the fault of the individual, but what the person has learned about money, wealth or poverty in the past.


“Most of us  aren’t even consciously aware of why we may be blocking financial flow or stressing about it because 88% of what is driving our impulses is driven at the subconscious level below the awareness of our conscious mind. Our brain is wired to keep us alive and safe, so if it has stored a memory of an unpleasant experience or reaction involving money, then our decisions, emotional responses and actions  are driven by subconscious protective impulses ,” says Maggie.


Thus, becoming aware of our helpful and unhelpful beliefs about money will provide immediate  stress relief  as well an awareness of where  assistance is needed when making life-changing decisions about money or wanting to change your current relationship to it.


“Clients in my Brain Training Program reveal that handling or thinking about money can often feel overwhelming. Many hold beliefs that money is hard to come by or too hard to keep. We do not enter this world thinking this way, we have no concept of what ‘money’ is in our first innocent years. As the neural connections that form our beliefs and perceptions develop, they do so based on everything we’ve heard or witnessed from our environment and authority figures as we grew up,” says Maggie.


For more information about the Potentialist Maggie Wilde and to learn more about rewiring your brain's relationship to money and wealth, head to www.mindpotentialacademy.com.