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It’s not that they don’t like you; they just don’t think about you.
Guilt seeks punishment, and those with this self-limiting belief tend—typically without consciously realizing it—to do things that are not good for them or that are contrary to their intended goals and consciously held beliefs. In other words, as Claudia so accurately put it, to become self-sabotaging.
Weighing two to three pounds, your brain comprises a mere 1 to 2 percent of your total body weight, yet it consumes 15 percent of your total blood flow, 20 percent of the air you breathe, and some 20 to 30 percent of your body’s total energy intake.
The brain, in other words, is an iceberg that is 99.9999 percent submerged below our level of conscious awareness.
