Hello everyone, who reads my blog! The strength and quality of your thoughts is a very important idea for the health of your body and your life! Have you ever stopped to think how what you see, hear and accept from the outer world affects you and your immediate surroundings and for that matter how the outer world around gets affected? I have to make an analogy: a person drives his or her car without a thought until the car, that used to drive great, flashes a red light that signals something is wrong under the hood and then the person decides to take the car to the auto repair shop to get whatever is broken fixed. Of course, that’s the point of those lights, allowing you drive without worrying or even thinking about your car while going about your day.
But humans are not machine, at least not yet. But if you look at the direction society is headed, you’d think we were robots that have been programmed to think and act a certain way. Well, I have to be honest and tell you the truth: humans are very susceptible to suggestion. (that’s the truth if I must say so, being a Hypnotherapist) (Caveat: I only do positive health affirming, life affirming Hypnosis that helps people make healthy life changing decisions.) What suggestions am I talking about? Not those Hypnotherapists use in their healing practices, even though there are some charlatans out there who do harm financially and mentally to the people who trust them! What I’m talking about are the suggestions we are fed constantly on the television, computer, smart phone and radio and the people who run them.
There are such a things as “mental viruses.” What are they? Well, when you listen, read or talk about ideologies/ideas emanating from politics, religion, sectarian organizations, education organizations, news organizations, etc. your mind will become infected with the same ideas whether they are good or bad for you. Now you may be thinking, I can keep those things out of my mind, but can you really? Do you follow a certain political pundit who is conservative or left leaning who you agree with? Are you brand loyal to say eating only at McDonalds, drinking only Pepsi, only watching show’s that make you feel good about your body, ethnicity, race, gender, town, state or country? Do some commercials that flash to your eyes make you go buy the product because a movie or sport star endorses it? Why is that? Is it because you make a concerted effort to think for yourself or let everything you’ve been taught and fed by school, television, computer and phone give you the thoughts you think minute to minute??
The question is what if? What if you knew that you could be manipulated mentally through your thoughts to feel and act in a certain way, and it’s involuntary? I would have to tell you: you are being abused each time you watch TV, get on your computer and use your phone. And thinking about what I just wrote, would you characterize yourself like the person who drives their car each day? As long as the car drives from point A to point B without any of the hazard lights coming on, there’s no need to think/worry or change anything about the efficiency of your car even though intuitively you can sense the car is burning more gas than usual, tends to move to the right without your hands on the wheel, the tires feel mushy or the car tends to slide more than usual when it’s wet out? But you think “I don’t see any lights warning me something is wrong, so I’ll just wait for a sign and then I’ll take it to the garage!”
The truth is that we are all targeted for programming from every angle and have been since birth! We are programmed to think, feel and behave as you are shown and told and not as an independent thinking human being who has control over each thought that comes into our minds. You may say “My parents, teachers, friends, town, state or country wouldn’t do that to me, would they?” But, what if they’re all programmed to be the same and don’t worry about it until something pops up telling them different? What if they aren’t in control of their own thinking, either? What if they have the same virus and keep spreading it like the flu or Covid-19? That’s exactly what’s happening and has been happening since time immemorial!
How do we fix this tendency to live on auto-pilot and allow the programming? Some solutions: 1) Meditate. 2) Question all assumptions and beliefs until you find the truth of them so you know whether to continue to listen, watch or interact with the information source. 3) Search and research for the truth in everything and don’t believe anything someone shows you, tells you or writes for you!!! Be an independent thinker always and be strong and fear nothing!!!
More to come!
Peace and love,
Joe
