We have all been brainwashed! All our lives this has been happening but perhaps not in the way you think. No-one has been deliberately brainwashing us but unconsciously moment by moment from the time of our conception we have been learning from the people around us. In this way we learnt what was right and wrong, what to believe and what to think about ourselves. Every single thought which passes through our heads comes from this conditioning.

I know that might feel uncomfortable but it's okay. That's just your conditioned thinking trying it's best to hang on to your belief system. When you start to see this, a different kind of brainwashing can happen. You can start to hold those beliefs up to the light and ask, is this true? Bit by bit, those beliefs get washed away just by seeing the truth about what they actually are.

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