“There is an ongoing battle for your mind, heart and soul. There are those who seek to influence you and get you to think and believe what they want. They don’t want you to think for yourself. It’s not in their interests. They want control. They want to control you.
Who is doing your thinking for you? Are you? Are they? You think you are, but just how manipulated are you by outside forces around you? How much of what you think, believe and value did you come to on your own without being influenced against your best interests?
This may be the largest concern facing us. Most of us don’t even know it goes on. People don’t realize their thinking has been co-opted and shaped since they were young. We’re so egocentric we think everyone thinks like us, or at least they should.
You Are Today Where Your Thoughts Have Brought You
But should they? We shun those who don’t. We avoid good, honest, legitimate discussion and debate of alternative views. We watch our channels, fraternize with those who think as we do, and ostracize those who do not. How is this freedom of thinking? It isn’t.
Other forces have and are always consistently attempting to think for you. Your government, your church, advertisers, media, your primary caregivers, peers and even strangers have, and are always trying to get you to think as they want. You don’t even realize this.
If you don’t control and take charge of your thinking someone else is already thinking for you AND your interests don’t enter into it! Their interests become yours, and you aren’t even aware of it. It is subtle, and powerful. It began when you were born.
Tomorrow You Will Be Where Your Thoughts Take You
From birth on you were conditioned to feel worthy or unworthy, deserving or not, able or incapable, confident or insecure, that the world is abundant or scarce, money is easy to come by or difficult. People are either good or bad. Government is good.
Government is bad. You are a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu or a member of whatever faction you adhere to. While it is true some people opt in or out of these later on, or switch allegiances, the process of ‘believing in something’, or nothing, is the same.
Advertisers, social media messages and memes, news 24 hours a day, bombard us with messages, thoughts, values and ideas we embrace without realizing. Billboards are powerful but go largely unnoticed. Brand identity exists at eye-level in supermarkets.
You Cannot Escape The Power Of Your Thoughts
We are loyal to brands. We wear their logos without considering ourselves unpaid walking billboards. We pay to wear their logos! We think it makes us better, an individual or more popular. It doesn’t.
Much of the influence is implicit. There are messages within messages. Buy this brand of soap and you will get cleaner, have more free time and be more popular. You’ll attract the right person to you. You will greatly benefit. Other soaps won’t do it for you. Is it true?
They rarely say straight out, ‘Brand XYZ is a rip-off and bad for you. Get mine instead.’ Although we do hear it strongly from extremist religions and political groups who disparage and spew hate. Who encourage violence against those who don’t adhere to group-think.
If You Don’t Think For Yourself There Are Plenty Who Will For You
These groups make clear it is them against us. These groups claim to have the only way, the only answer. These messages are explicit. Some of us were brought up with primary caregivers, and in environments where these explicit messages flourished.
Mostly, we get implicit messages. Don’t trust strangers. Who specifically? Well anyone who is not like you or thinks like you do. Beware of people trying to take advantage of. Who? ‘Others who don’t value what we do. Those who have less than us.’ Get it?
Somethings are loudly shouted and adopted by adherents. Other messages are implied, inferred, layered, but either way we embrace them both the same way. Messages are repeated consistently, regularly, for long enough to become thought and behavior habits.
If You Don’t Live Your Dreams You Will Live Someone Else’s
If we want to take charge of our thinking, we have to re-condition our minds and hearts and self-talk and behaviors the same way. By repeating regularly, consistently for long enough positive, good, messages that support you and others in living a higher purpose.
You can’t repeat the same old thinking over and over again and expect to be, or become, different. You must change your thinking to reflect who you want to be or become. You must first decide to end ‘herd-mind’ and take 100% responsibility for what you think and do.
You must take 100% responsibility for re-conditioning yourself. No one can or will do it for you. Others want to keep you with the herd because that is in their interests. It has been going on for eons and for great profit. People want to buy your soul. Often, they do.
The Moment You Start To Wonder If You Deserve Better – You Do
If you don’t take back your mind and power and learn how to begin to think for yourself, you ultimately lose. You are controlled and don’t even realize it. You don’t even think to think differently. This is the ongoing issue most people miss. People willingly are powerless.
They give away their power thinking they are thinking for themselves, when they are not. We each need to take 100% responsibility for our thinking and what we believe, create and attract. So, we can live free and flourish. Unhook and move forward.
We have the possibility of becoming free to live the life we want to live. We must stop living from herd mentality. When we do, we can get much further than the herd. We need to be in the world but not of it. We can begin to choose what we think. Vet what we accept.
Get Free From The Herd Mentality – Vet The Sources – Get Free
In this world of messages not everything is equal. Not everything is fair or balanced. We must access accurate information and not be swayed by option or false claims appearing true. It can be difficult to do this but not impossible. If you want to be better, you must!
We can work cooperatively and in harmony with others and share a common vision or goal, but we first need to become free, and clear, independent, positive creative thinkers who go beyond the programming ‘they’ want us to embrace, and which have embraced through the conditioning process while growing up from birth. We must get free from ‘Orwellian Speak’ and influence. We can. Become aware. Notice it and stop buying into it. Get it? Get free. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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