There is idea that it is possible to change yourself physically by changing your opinion about yourself and/or doing daily affirmations… true or false?
Consider Mind is that kind of “apparatus” responsible for the ongoing process of thinking related to our daily life. If you change your thought flow to thinking: “I am not old” or ” I am 20 years younger” etc… and even spending some time in affirmations – nothing will change in you.
There might be some visible effect from regular daily affirmation for a long time, but most probably you will get tired from that activity before you start noticing any change in you…
All these talks confuse mind activity (on-going thinking) for subconscious beliefs which are not “on the surface” so to speak. Many of those beliefs are so deep in subconscious that you actually don’t even realize their presence or what they are… Even your affirmations can barely scratch the surface of beliefs if ever… People don;t realize for ex. that even your perception of the air temperature is nothing else but your deep seated subconscious idea about what feeling should correspond to what temperature!
Those are the most fundamental beliefs which Carl Jung called “Archie-types” – these beliefs form human bodies, races, sexes, perception of climate, etc…
It is these deep subconscious beliefs imprinted into cells DNA and form our aging processes as a function of time. Changing these beliefs take much more than THINKING. In other words mind is not a tool capable to change anything here…
I did experiments to verify some methods described in Yoga literature regarding stopping or even reversing the process and discovered many surprises…
At the physical level body can be changed to the feel and performance of being decades younger just as Yoga says. It takes tremendous focus, dedication and withdrawal from “normal” daily life. The outcome can be jaw dropping for having no better way to describe this…………..
but……..
even enjoying a newly re-discovered young body for couple of month you find yourself slowly but steadily returning to the same “old you”… your old habits (same as before the experiment) coming back, your old stiffness coming back and most importantly, old limiting negative thoughts ! After 2 months enjoying “new young you” , you are back again to the same “old you”…
Why?
Though it is possible to change physical body , it is much harder to change subconscious beliefs about your age… this belief was not gone and it is “returning to balance” so to speak…
Does it mean it is not possible? No, but it means that changing subconscious beliefs is much higher goal to achieve compared even to making your body 20 years younger!
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