Brainwashing Your Way To Creating A Life You Love To Live

Brainwashing is typically looked at as a negative thing. At the same time, we sort of innately know (plus we have science to prove) that our lives consist of what we think about all day. So, truth is, we are sort of brainwashing ourselves anyway. It’s just a matter of how conscious we are about the fact that we are doing it. And based on the state of people’s happiness and fulfillment, on average, it seems we need to start washing our brain with some new material if we want to live fulfilled, meaningful, exciting lives that we love. As statistics of divorce, satisfaction with jobs, health, and polls on overall happiness tell us that as a people, we are not where we want to be. And add to that the fact that now we’re broke! The nation is hurting.

The good news is, we can pull ourselves out of this. We have the power to create the awesome life that we feel inspired to live, and it’s not even that hard. The funny thing is, I believe what I am talking about here is going to be common knowledge in the next 25 years and taking a more active role in how we brainwash ourselves is going to be just a common, widely practiced part of living a healthy life..
That is looking forward a bit, but lets turn the clock backward now. Twenty five years ago a woman sat in the drivers seat of a big brown grocery getter, a cigarette dangling from her lips, smoke pouring from it into the air, the station wagon full of blue-grey smoke, a baby in her lap, a litter of kids in the seats behind her jumping around without seat belts. At the time, we see this and don’t think a thing of it. Normal behavior, and fully acceptable.

Today smoking in the car with kids is looked at as ridiculously selfish and horrible. “Who does that?” we might think to ourselves witnessing the same scene today. We also know better than to put babies in our laps and to put all passengers in safety belts, especially kids. I think there’s even a law about it. But not long ago, we didn’t know any better. We did what everyone else did until new information came to light. And even then it took until a critical mass of people started changing their behavior before it really caught on and the new behavior became a mainstream accepted part of life.

We’ve seen this time and again in the evolution of our culture, haven’t we? Remember when no one wore seatbelts? How about our food intake? Remember when we didn’t know anything about cholesterol? We just ate fried food and starches washed down with sweet tea or soda for every meal. Heat disease became the number one killer of Americans. And with that one, we’re still in that in between place where we have the new information but we’re still trying to reach critical mass (pardon the pun), but the latest stats show we are now making progress. With oil, we’re at the beginning of the cycle. The information has been out there a long time, but its just now makings its way to forefront (as always, due to pain. Always helps awaken people) One day we’ll ask, “remember when all our cars were fueled with only oil from gasoline?”.

I believe one day soon the same will be true with our thought intake. I believe that, similar to the oil example, we are on the front end of a large scale, pop culture awakening to the fact that our thoughts create our lives (and consequently, our world). Also due to pain. People are not happy with their lives, particularly in America, despite having achieved degrees of success and having things.

This is not a new idea. Heck the Bible spoke of this concept of our thoughts creating our worlds in a number of different ways many times throughout, including one of the more famous scriptures around this idea, “the eyes are the window to the soul.” And Christianity was not the first to put forth this idea. This idea has been put forth in ancient teachings by sages from every religion across the world since the dawn of man. We innately know that we are strongly affected by the thoughts that we carry, and that we create our worlds in large part through those thoughts.

What is interesting is that despite that knowledge, very little emphasis is yet given to being the architect of those thoughts. It reminds me of that time in our culture I spoke of earlier, when we sort of innately felt that smoking around our kids was probably not good for them, but it was sort of still just accepted. No groundbreaking discoveries were being put forth that were making people just up and change their behavior, and everyone else was doing it, so it was just kind of swept under the rug and gone along with.

Similarly, we kind of know that our thoughts create our lives, our worlds, but putting energy into actually controlling those thoughts isn’t something that’s widely done, so we just continue to kind of live with that knowledge and don’t do a whole lot with it. We watch tv programs 6 hours a day filled with disempowering ideas, including dozens of simulated (and some real) murders each week. Shows that promote ego, violence, greed, and all kinds of other ideas that are not serving us in creating a thought life that helps us manifest fulfilling, exciting lives we love to live.

And not only do we allow disempowering thought generating content into our brain, we do nothing to actually manufacture positive content. Its just not done. We’re not at that place yet. So what ends up happening is we are allowing ourselves to be brainwashed by default, and these disempowering thoughts are playing a huge part in helping us stay stuck in unfulfilled lives. I am committed to doing my part to help change that, to help usher in a new era where people are more aware of what we’ere talking about here, that their thoughts control the creating of their worlds, and that they can actually create new lives through more consciously being the architect of their thought life.

Just as in learning more about avoiding health issues and heart disease we learned we have to start cutting out the stuff that is disempowering, unhealthy for us, and putting in more foods that give us power, and help us feel good, we must learn to do the same with our thought life. We start with cutting out the unhealthy influences; the shows that aren’t good for our thought life, the murder shows, the greed shows, etc. We do the same with our music. We cut out the stuff that promotes unhealthy, disempowering thoughts.

A word here: Of course we LIKE the negative content. Heck, it’s entertaining. Same with the food. Of course we LIKE fried chicken and cheesecake. They taste good. And I enjoy stuff like this from time to time myself; probly once a week. But I don’t live off the stuff! It would ultimately make me feel like crap, and look like crap, which would make me feel even more like crap! So the point I’m making is that I’m not at all saying we should give completely and totally give up songs, shows, or anything that might be just mindless entertainment, kind of cheesecake for the head. All I’m saying is that to start creating a life we enjoy more, we have to feed our head with more empowering stuff than not.

Learning to take control of our thought life is the entry way to a new, happier, healthier, more fulfilling life for ourselves. Cutting out the negative and finding ways to insert more positive thoughts is where it begins, and in the next post I’ll describe some secret ways I’ve uncovered in my studies over the years for helping create a thought a life that helps me create an amazing life and keep myself positive even when things don’t go as planned. Until then, be well.