What is a trustworthy source? I don’t know who is that source for you. It could be a parent, a teacher, a good friend, a bank director, a street philosopher with a begging bowl, a writer, even a blogger, you name it.
What about TV, a man in a white lab coat, telling you everything about harmful bacteria, in your mouth or in your toilet, on the floor and in the kitchen.
What about your grandmother telling you to be careful with that fiancée of yours, “see (s)he’s lazy”.
Or your uncle telling you about your husband that he saw in the red light district.
Or that boss of your wife phoning you asking why she didn’t come to work today, and baffled you tell him she left to work, just like every other morning.
The last story I heard while commuting by train. The poor woman was working that day in another department. That boss of her was angry because she didn’t bend to his advances.
The story of uncle equally was not true either. He didn’t wear his glasses that day, and he never liked your husband for that matter.
And even that crazy advice by your grandmother, one week before you were going to marry your beautiful girlfriend, based on nothing at all.
And still, all this is poison!
You would wear your grandma’s spectacles now and then to see whether she might be right anyway.
You would keep an eye on your husband, and track his steps to know what he’d be doing.
What about that husband from the wife who went to work in good faith receiving that horrible phone call?
What about auto-suggestion. How you saw something wrong, interpreted it one way, and kept looking that way for the rest of your life through that earlier self-blinding interpretation.
Is suggestion turning your world upside down too?
One can only rely on one’s eyes and ears in regard to actual events and one’s superconscious for abstract knowledge.
And we cannot even trust our own eyes and ears if we haven’t learned to understand and develop them.
Loved this…
My grandmother taught me the ‘power of suggestion’ when I was a young girl. We’d work together a lot with different things and she’d show me examples of how to get someone to do something without asking. It was so much fun! I don’t know if she ever shared that with any of the other grandchildren, but it taught me a powerful thing at a young age.
Just last week a friend posted on facebook about being cozy in bed, one foot out and hanging off the bed, with the right lighting, music, pillow, etc., as she bid us all good nite. So, I posted, ‘watch for the gator, tator’.;..just being me.
About 10 minutes later just as I was about to turn my own light off, bling goes the text. It read….I cannot believe you just done this to me. It will take me weeks to get over this!
It’s powerful. Thanks, Granny for the insight.
You had a wise and ‘cunning’ but funny grandmother!
Thank you for this powerful comment.
Don’t think about the monkeys!
Indeed she was…I suppose it just came from having 13 children and a family to care for…she learned to make it for all.
Okay…so who told you about the monkeys?
Tilopa
thankfully not at the moment!
good to hear!
it is good! you’re up early!
It’s my after-midnight wake. Usually lasts about 1 hour. Not unlike the naps I take in the afternoon.
lol
when does a culture lose its innocence? When it markets to children.
That is an altogether different story and probably even more important. I’m aware that TV is now making publicity for household products on the level of children, since they accompany us often when shopping and have something to say about the things we buy.
On the other hand, till 25 years ago there was a national ban in my country on broadcasted advertising, and that other extreme was quite deplorable too.
interesting.. but subtle pressures surround us. Marketing, parental pressure, peer pressure, cultural pressure. Many with their own interests. It is very hard to determine which is in our interest or theirs.
Yes, those words, those comments, looks… get under the skin and fester like a secret sore. Solution, try to avoid poisonous people , situations as much as possible. If not possible, pray for antidote to poison– guidance, signs, the truth. Listen for the truth deep down inside.
Suggestion used to run my life. Any more, I just ask questions back and require some proof. Worse comes, I will ask the person(s) involved.
Being direct destroys most of that poison.
Scott
As I already replied to Natalya, these suggestions do their worst actions when we are unaware of them. I’m sure the direct approach kills 85% of the problems. But what remains are the power of our own past interpretations, and the processes in our subconscious.
Agreed!
Trust in someone is the only prevention for poisonous suggestions about people. If you have trust in the person that will help I think. Maybe some faith too I suppose. Also a good BS detector! lol
I noticed that even when the BS detector works, the suggestion of another is still recorded and sometimes much later resurfaces in the form of doubt. and even worse, more often we don’t even notice how much we adapt our glasses on reality by our own past interpretations and auto-suggestions.
Yes, you’re right there. That’s when I have to do my best and focus on what my gut is telling me.
Most often it is impossible to discern the truth. Trust is a good, probably the best remedy.
LOL, I guess we’re more at the mercy of luck than we want to think then!
Some neuroscientists indeed say we are. We are constantly being programmed, they say. I hope the opposite, but they might be correct.