The Brain Science of Wealth: Why Your Wealthy Self Feels Like a Stranger (And How to Change That)

So this morning, I wanna talk about why the wealthy you can feel like a stranger, why you're doing all the things, you're journaling, you're writing, saying your affirmations, you're visualizing, but in your heart of hearts, it's either, I feel like I'm still waiting for her to show up, or I feel like, you know, like I'm going through the motions, but she doesn't, it doesn't feel like me.

It feels like, yes, I'm very aware there's this other version of me, but damn, like where's, where's all the stuff she has in my reality right now? And so why do we have this gap? why does she feel like a stranger well there's a neuroscientist called hal hershfield and he did some research that shows us that actually when you think of your current self when you think of yourself in context like this is my bank balance this is my home that i live in this is the amount of money that i have this is the type of business that i have anything to do with Your brain thinking about your current reality, there's a part of your brain called the medial prefrontal cortex.

It is the part of the brain that is responsible for self-processing.

It's like, yeah, we know that about us, right? Your brain goes, we know that.

And so when you think about anything to do with your current reality, that part of your brain lights up.

Because it's self-processes.

It's like, this is a real thing that's happening right now.

This is who we are.

This is our reality.

And your brain recognizes that.

It lights up.

Something different happens when you start thinking about your future self.

That part of the brain goes quiet.

It literally, like when you think of your current self, yay, it lights up.

Think of it as doing cartwheels.

When you start thinking about your future self, your wealthy you, with all the money, all the living in the house, with the type of business you want, with the feeling of financial freedom, that self-processing part of the brain goes quiet.

What does that tell us? A, from a neuroscience perspective, what's called a neural gap has been created.

Your brain is like, huh? say what now? Your brain is like, who are we talking about? What? It does not see that.

It does not when it's, you know, in terms of self processing, it's like, I don't know who you're talking about.

I don't know what that is.

I don't know.

So we talk about wealthy me and you visualize and you write and it feels inspiring.

You know, you start to feel like it's possible, but your brain does not see it as really you.

Now, This is information, but I wanna take this conversation a little bit deeper and I wanna talk about, well, if your brain is not seeing it as really you, if that part of your brain is not lighting up, it's not accepting that this is your reality, then how does that cost you? How does that show up in your bank account? How does that show up in your financial reality? Because we're here to talk about wealth and ease combined.

So let's talk about if your brain is not seeing this version of you that's wealthy It's not processing it as this is really who you are.