Blunt Force Truth: Fear and paranoia can be so persistent in the minds of others that not even logic will help them. They might listen. But their mind snaps back like a rubber band to focus on what they fear (and what does that attract even more of then?).
The mind is automatically biased in that way. It does so until one becomes aware.
Until then, the mind dwells. It remains focused on what you want to focus on, and when you don’t feed it positivity, it feeds itself. It looks for verification, finding others like it. This is just what the mind does. Like attracts like. That’s how people become divided into groups.
And the mind also gets it’s open self gratification in this way. Because by surrounding itself with other people with similar fears, now it begins seeing the same thing over and over again.
This is how misinformation spreads so quickly.
People surround themselves with other people believing the same doomsday scenarios, then share the same misinformation.
And then when the mind sees misinformation again and again, it stops discriminating what’s real or not. It stops discerning truth or untruth. It stops detecting lies and manipulation. And it sees mistruth as truth. Simply through repetition.
That’s why logic is meaningless to the untrained mind–it’s already too late. This is what gaslighting does. Brainwashing. Social conditioning. Because bias that’s present–in all of us.
Until you become aware.
Because in awareness you replace self gratification with gratitude for the lessons being presented, and you look deeper. You replace fear with love and compassion. And where others see conspiracies of hate, you simply replace it with conspiracies of love.
It’s an inside job.
And it all starts with loving yourself.
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