This morning I posted on the mask wearing thread a message about Cognitive behavioural distortions a system of mind preconditioning to an outcome to change or attempt to change in a persons mind the structures they have ( what they know to be right ) upon which they make decisions or take action.
There is a psychological undercurrent going on in the way people are being tortured in to modifying such mind structures and here I am going to highlight examples where I have experienced this. I will then invite you to do an exercise which will hopefully help you in detaching from the anxiety this mind game is trying to unfold on us all. 3 examples in supermarkets:
tannoy systems messaging every 5-10 minutes about what you should buy or not buy and how you should pay or not pay
cash till side shelves made narrower by plastic barriers then card tills so your basket doesn’t fit
Cash payment deposit service machines removed in banks
Obesity govt plan - this is a reversed mind game. Where you would normally of your own accord adopt strategies towards not being ill and maintaining long term health, now because it is an imposition from a very poorly viewed Leviathan, the reaction likely is going to be to antagonise it already in a state of mind of anxiety. They impose it , you in a state of refusal are likely to not follow it or detest it , you are likely to
persist or make worse a lifestyle that will ultimately determine being better able to strenghten your immune system or weaken it:
Mind safe anchoring points strategies.
Before you get out of the house take a few minutes to become present and anchored in your mind. Do this by saying ‘ I can detach and keep separate‘ and mentally imagine pushing away and putting distance betwern you and what causes you anxiety about masks, people wearing masks, and other similar examples. when you are outside make a list of the examples ( like I did above) and make a point of noticing even out loud what those examples are. This brings it out of the subconscious mind and prevents it from becoming engrained behaviour. If you are outside with a partner or family make one another notice those.
One way out I found useful over time is to apply critical thinking but this is possible when your mind is not crowded with being too involved in negativity .
Reply below with the examples you find and let’s discuss how we can help one another.
Agree with all of this.
I also think that rational thought goes right out of the windows, when everything is negative.
I love the fact that you're providing coping strategies for people that may be stressed out. Little bit complicated for me tho...
Hi there thank you for letting me know can you tell me what you find complicated so I can re word it
Take an mp3 player when you go shopping and play an interesting conversation or enjoyable music, that way you can't be affected by the idiotic tannoy imposing rules on you while you attempt to patron the shop you're in. Likewise, if you're self conscious about being maskfree. My mp3 player is stacked with mindfulness stuff, audiobooks and more recently alot of the interviews with people that have been recommended in this forum, it's a comfort listening to people who predicted all of this years ago and see the end game if we don't put an end to this by playing our critical individual roles in not complying.
What examples of negativity have you found and how have they affected you ? would you like to share them perhaps they might be similar to what others find as well.
Like this a lot. Their biggest weapon against us is creating FEAR in our Minds. Their greatest FEAR is if we realise our own power.
So we have to flip it. Yeah, nice one :)
Yes that’s what I’m trying to do because when we are in a position of intelligent power ( without aggression) the aggressor has no power over us. This is in every setting from personal to our lives to this moment collectively. The magnitude of negativity that this is having at the moment is compounded by two things - one, their presumed legality to exercise that power ( which is true if it was done within the best interest we presume they should have) and 2 by the arm of the legal justice system which is being misused by them to reinforce their message . This last creates in us the anxiety and uncertainty we hear everywhere because we mostly would prefer abiding law but the turn to this nefarious system has been so sudden by being exercised via emergency legislation that we have bern caught in a situation like ‘deer in headlights.’ and reacting to an authority is both difficult and deeply uncomfortable.
I stopped listening to or reading the news at the end of March, i had to tell my sister to stop sending me news of EVERY KIND. Ever since, I only know what new nonsense has been brought in from what i have seen when i look at Hitchens' or Simon Dolan's twitter and i don't do that regularly since joining this forum.
I was suspect about all of this from the beginning yet even i on one occasion a week after the locdown started to question whether i was having breathing difficulties, i didn't end up in the ICU ventilated to death because i sat myself down and asked:
was i letting the 'news' get to me? (yes)
was i really having breathing difficulties or was it in my mind? (i was overthinking my breathing and consequently it felt laboured)
had i felt this way before in the past? (yes, when i researched deep breathing techniques years before)
was this really a reason to be concerned? (no)
what had i been doing for my chest to feel a little 'sore' (since working from home to burn off the energy from the hysteria i had cycled an average of 27 miles on 4 consecutive days at speed, an increase of my routine commute to work which was a round trip of 14 miles).
Stop listening to MSM, it's bollocks to the power of ten. Even if you go on a media fast and tune back in (rationed) you'll be doing yourself a favour, and you'll come back and see how ridiculous and transparent the propaganda is. I struggled with the MSM news because the blatant propaganda and programming attempts were insulting and infuriating, i felt like i was in a glass bowl being tested and provoked, and i was right, but it's not 'me', it's all of us.
A great video that sums up the governments actions. Is this torture? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yk3xezML8Q