Have you ever decided to buy a new car and suddenly started seeing that exact model everywhere? Or thought about someone and they unexpectedly reached out? These aren’t just coincidences – they are the work of your Reticular Activating System (RAS), the powerful filtering mechnism in your brain that determines what you notice in the world.
What if I told you that this same system is responsible for what you experience daily, influencing your ability to manifest, attract opportunities and create the life you desire?
In a world filled with infinite possibilities, your RAS ensures that you only perceive what aligns with your internal beliefs, focus and energy. It is the bridge between your inner world (thoughts, emotions and subconscious programming) and your outer world (circumstances, experiences and results).
Let’s explore how this natural filtering process works – and how you can refine your discernment so that your external reality aligns with your soul’s highest vision.
What is the Reticular Activating System (RAS)?
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a network of neurons in the brainstem that acts as a gatekeeper between your conscious and subconscious mind. It constantly scans your environment and filters out millions of bits of information per second, allowing only what it deems relevant to enter your awareness.
Think of your brain as a radio tuner – while thousands of stations (stimuli) are broadcasting at all times, you only hear the one you’re tuned into. Your RAS determins the frequency you set to, filtering your reality accordingly.
How Your RAS Shapes Your Reality
Your RAS is already at work, shaping your perception of the world in three key ways:
1. Selective Attention: You Notice What You Focus on
Your RAS prioritizes what you have consciously or subconsciously labeled as important. This is why when you start thinking about something, you suddently begin seeing it everywhere.
Example: If you decide to start a business, your RAS will begin highlighting books, mentors and conversations that support your goal. Likewise, if you focus on scarcity and fear, your RAS will reinforce those experiences.
Lesson: Where your focus goes, your energy flows.
2. Confirmation Bias: You Find Proof for What You Already Believe
Your RAS filters in experiences that match your existing beliefs – whether they empower or limit you.
- If you believe “I am not good enough,” your RAS will highlight evidence that supports that thought (rejections, challenges or doubts).
- If you believe “I am fully capable and supported,” your RAS will guide you toward proof that reinforces your worth and potential.
Lesson: Your external world mirrots your internal beliefs. Change your thoughts, and your RAS will find new evidence to support them.
3. Priming: Setting Your Brain to Work for You
When you intentially set an intention, affirmation or visualisation, your RAS begins filtering reality to align with it.
Example: If you write daily affirmation life “I attract aligned opportunities with ease,” your RAS will highlight synchroniticites, networking possibilities and isnights that support this belief.
This is why vision boards affirmations, and journalling are so powerful – they program your RAS to bring your desires into focus.
Does the Outside World Influence the Inside, or Is it the Other Way Around?
It’s a loop, but the inside world leads.
Your thoughts, beliefs and focus determine:
- What you notice
- How you respond
- The opportunities you recognise
Yes, the outside world can shape your beliefs – but only if you allow it to.
- If you absorb external negativity, your RAS will reinforce struggle and limitation.
- If you consciously direct your energy, your RAS will highlight possibilities and solutions.
Two people can experience the same event – one sees it as a failure, the other as a lesson. The difference? Their internal filter.
This is the key to manifesting, success and growth – understanding that your mind is not just perceiving reality but actively creating it.
How to Train Your Ras to Align with Your Highest Vision
1. Get Clear on What You Want
- Write down your desires in specific detail.
- Speak about them as if they are already happening.
2. Reprogram Your Filters
- Notice any limiting beliefs and replace them with empowering ones.
- Use affirmations that reinforce what you want to attract.
3. Tune Your Freqency to Possibility
- Visualise your success daily.
- Surround yourself with people, books and environments that match your goals.
4. Take Aligned Action
- Your RAS will highlight opportunities, but you must act on them.
- Follow the nudges, synchronicities and inspired ideas.
Refining Your Inner Compass: Fortify Within, Align Without
Your Reticular Activating System (RAS) is already filtering your reality – but is it aligned with your soul’s vision?
Most people live on autopilot, letting external influences dictate their focus, beliefs and experiences. But when you refine your discernment, you reclaim your power. You stop reacting to the world and start creating from a place of deep knowing.
This the work of The Sacred Mystery School – fortifying the inside so that the outside naturally aligns with your highest path.
- Discern the truth from distraction.
- Strengthen your inner guidance system so your choices flow from clarity not conditioning.
- Activate your soul’s wisdom, tuning your RAS to opportunities that serve your deepest calling.
When your inside world is fortified, your outside world transforms.
Are you ready to fine-tune your discernment and step fully into the life you are meant to live.
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