Your thoughts are not your thoughts. Why?
Our life is run by our subconscious brain which is our feeling brain. Our lives are destined by our thoughts, feelings, emotions, choices, decisions, behaviours and attitudes. All these attributes are influenced by everything around us. Like who we interact, what we talk and discuss, what we watch, what we listen to, what we read and even what we eat.
Many researches have proven time and again that effect of the kind of information we are exposed to, would have impact our decision making and critical thinking. The quality of food we eat also could have a huge impact on the how we react and behave for next few hours.
In the current world where we are continuously bombarded with information from different forms of media, the content we access has a huge impact on our ideologies and perception of this world.
As someone said, if we do not program our mind, we will be programmed. If we do not have our own agenda, we will run the agenda of others. In this world of excess and relentless information, our mind can be influenced by anything and anyone if we are not critical in our thinking. Sometimes we need to check ourselves and see if we are running in this world or the world is running in our mind.
There is a saying ‘Garbage in, garbage out’, but a better way of saying is ‘Garbage in, garbage stays in there’ and it is very difficult to get it out. If we access negativity and be with negative people, we perceive the world to be negative. You tend to lose hope and do not try hard to raise to a higher standard.
Hence, we need to consciously feed our mind with positivity and we need to watch, listen, read stuff that matters to us and serves our best interests. We need to spend time with people who propel us to do be better and do more.
How easily our brain could be manipulated and hypnotized has been demonstrated by many illusionists and mentalists. Magic is an art of distraction. You get distracted for a moment and magic happens.
Below videos beautifully demonstrate how our subconscious mind catches all that we watch, listen to and feel without we consciously do it. Later Loir Suchard also demonstrates how thoughts can be planted in our mind and the other person (if crafty enough) can make you do things that they want you to do.
This is crazy and too true to believe. But the fact is our mind is so powerful yet vulnerable.
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