How impressionable are we as we live from day to day? The answer is an unequivocal VERY impressionable!

A month ago I was at my brother’s house for dinner. He’d had surgery on his thumb to quell his arthritic pain. After a grueling recovery, I asked if his thumb was better.

“Not really,” he replied. “It’s just as painful as it was before the surgery.”

“Sad,” I said disappointed for him as I looked at his gnarled hands, swollen with painful lumps on his knuckles and rather unsettling.

A few weeks later I noticed a painful lump on my left thumb. I knew I hadn’t bumped it, then realized my brain had locked into and copied my sibling’s condition.

“No, I will never have arthritic hands,” I informed my subconscious mind.

As an avid stitcher and knitter the thought of arthritis mortified me, knowing such a condition would ruin my favorite pastime.

Over the following days with many insistent reminders to my subconscious mind, the swelling in my thumb went away as did the nagging pain.

“Wow!” I thought regarding this. “How impressionable is my brain?”

Then I laughed at its folly, relieved I had taken charge and not allowed my mind to create a debilitating condition.

Have you ever heard the theory about “The Simpsons Show”? How this animated sitcom predicted so many things that would play out in history?

I don’t know a lot about it, but I’d like to use it as an example of something I want to explain, because I know it’s the opposite of what everyone is saying.

“The Simpsons” didn’t predict anything, they simply planted the seeds. As one of the most popular and long running sitcoms in our nation’s history, the writers suggested silly events that took hold in countless minds, until we subconsciously played them out once the seeds took hold and surpassed a collective tipping point.

We’ve created these real life events that were whimsically planted in us.

This is why companies pay high fees for commercials on television. And this is why our government (once not as corrupt as they are today) outlawed cigarette commercials because of the ill effects.

The pharmaceutical companies are well aware of this and inundate the public nonstop with suggestions of possible illness, peddling their harmful drugs to consumers who watch tv, knowing they are cultivating an extremely unhealthy public as their lucrative revenue streams.

Ironically our government no longer cares about us, with their final “take what you can” attitude as our cherished nation collapses. Instead they protect the drug companies from any consequences.

So please protect yourself from this harmful environment. Eat organic non-processed foods and spend as much time as you can in nature’s healing vibe. This is what cures the body and rejuvenates the soul.

Way back in 1977, Frank Zappa wrote the following lyrics – “I’m the tool of the government and industry too for I am destined to rule and regulate you… I’m the slime oozin’ out of your TV set.”

Retrain your brain to set boundaries with mainstream culture as it is steeped in misinformation and predatory illusion, so you can create a healthy condition throughout every aspect of life.