This week we\u2019re picking up where we left off last week, discussing how to wake up from your trance.
Last week we covered the kinds of trances we\u2019re all engaged in: work trances, parenting trances, relationship trances, and heaps and heaps of problem trances.
One characteristic of all these trances, is that they are repetitive, or habitual. They\u2019re based on patterns we\u2019ve developed. We move in and out of our trances, our automatic behaviours, all day long.
But that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re good for us! When you consider that most of these habits and patterns were formed before we were even seven years old, then we can allow that it\u2019s a good idea to revisit these things at an older and wiser age.
From birth till about 6 or seven years old, we are pretty much a blank slate. We are programmed with ideas about who we are, what we can achieve in life, and what kind of person we should be.
These ideas are brainwashed into us by parents, teachers, TV, society in general, and increasingly by shrewd marketers who want us to consume their products in order to feel good.
So up till the age of seven, we are basically in a hypnotic trance. We are like sponges, absorbing without question all that we experience, forming beliefs that we will then live the rest of our lives by, for good or for ill.
Think about that. Beliefs that were programmed into us before age seven\u2026 that become habits that govern us for the rest of our lives.
Now I don\u2019t know about you, but to me that doesn\u2019t sound right! What, you mean I\u2019m going to live my whole adult existence according to the crap that was programmed into me before I was even seven years old?
No thank you!
If you\u2019re ready to get out of autopilot, and wake up and choose for yourself, join me as this week I\u2019m talking about how you can do just that.
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