Our mind is ultra powerful.
It can calculate, arrange, remember, store information, direct, manage, and imagine to name but a few.
It is like a supercomputer programmed to run the most complex of tasks. And what more complex than keeping us safe, healthy, sane, aware, awake, and alive? A mega machine housed in our brain. One of the greatest ever created.
Now that should amaze and encourage us all in one.
But, and it’s a very big but, it’s becomes so mighty it starts to take over the whole show and actually run our lives.
An autopilot on a plane is useful until it won’t disengage and then the pilots feel out of control of where it’s going and what it’s doing. Our mind gets like that because we are leaving it on autopilot for too long. And then IT thinks it’s the one responsible for our whole lives.
That’s when you don’t realise that it’s started to take over your life.
Read on to discover how it’s been doing that in your life!
You are as young…. as your mind tells you that you are.
Most people know the phrase, you are as young as you feel you are.
In reality it’s our mind that makes that opinion, not our emotions as I wrote earlier in why thinking you are younger keeps you younger.
How can it do that? Back to our autopilot above. Left to run automatically the mind will begin selecting information it decides relates to you. Unbeknown to you. So there you are merrily going about your business but like an Alexa devise the brain listens in to gather data. What people say does get collated, BUT it’s your own little quips and throw away joke comments it can’t read as just a laugh. It takes them as who you are, the identity it must protect.
All those little ‘I’m getting old’, or ”I’m not as young as I used to’ comments lock in that you are getting on and your identity is older person. If you say it often (and add some aches and pains sounds) this further ‘proves’ who you are.
Now that may sound funny, but it’s what your mind does next that is where the take over of your life accelerates.
It is convinced that this is who you are (the master it must look after), that it starts to convince you of the fact as well. So when you make that funny little ‘geriatric man/woman’ comment, it now adds sensations that feel like you are. It’s simply adding back ups that match your self definition. In a matter of months you feel old and move older, because your mind is turning the whole of you into that personailty.
Just like YouTube will record the videos you watch and then continue to present you with the same type because that’s what suggestions you gave it.
YouTube reads you and your mind reads you. And they both mirror you back.
Your mind though is the one that sets that as the person you are and arranges your life accordingly.
This is what YOU do.
Now you are old, or much older, as decided by the mind.
The mind has been with you a long time, a lifetime to be exact. It’s gathered billions of bits of info and data. Within that it has massive gen on what older people do. And don’t, or shouldn’t’ do. And it’s about to to inform you of that.
But not nicely. Slyly to be precise.
It produces reactions that match all those little ‘old person’ sayings you have uttered. Sudden aches flare up. You feel stiff more often. Your energy levels aren’t what they used to be. And you start swearing that your face has more wrinkles and your body looks less attractive. From muscles to eyesight, figure to vitality, you feel older by the day.
Soon you not only think you are aging fast, you also feel and see evidence everywhere.
But, it never actually existed. It is a mind made reality experience projected on to you. You kept saying you were old so it superimposed this person onto you to assist and protect you so you weren’t at risk. In effect the message to all of you is – this is what YOU do as a more senior citizen.
You have become old because the mind has taken over as you were not proving it wrong.
You have effectively, mind washed yourself!
The Mind is Listening.
Hopefully after reading this you have discovered one fact.
The mind is always listening. And watching and sensing. It even posts a sentry at night when you are asleep. It’s not some over controlling stalker. This is all done to record all it hears and picks up to look after you. It’s protecting you. And smothering you.
Whether you keep saying you are old or concerned at the world, the mind will read that as getting you to think and act and feel in ways that stop that harming you. Which results in not going running in case you have a stroke or travelling in case you are caught up in a terrorist attack.
Your mind takes over because you don’t order it to stand down. And on your side of things, start speaking better of yourself and your future. If you do your mind will switch sides and begin seeking opportunity and potential as it’s your new ‘best life’ dictat. You think it and speak it, to goes into search mode for it,
Mental operation 101.
So, get defining yourself better so your mind will positively take over to help you get there. That’s not just good advice, it’s a good way to live life.
And that insight will never get old!!!
Photo attributions – free to use under Pixabay Content License by alanajordan and NoName and darksouls1.
