Welcome to the Pick

Revival podcast.

My name is Vesna.

Today I'm going to talk

about, are you programming

yourself to be stressed,

unhappy, or sick?

Now, how many subliminal

messages are entering your

mind, or not even subliminal,

how many messages are

entering your mind that

are weighing you down,

causing stress in the back

of your mind, even dread,

even doom and gloom, and you

may not even be aware of it.

So I to talk about

some of these things

innocently have in our

life that do cause stress.

Okay.

Number one is

watching the news.

It's, whenever you

turn on the news there is

nothing that is positive.

Very rarely, there may

be very, at the end, one.

Very small segment of

something positive, but all

in all it is pretty much

doom, gloom, politics, war,

interest rates, inflation,

cost of living, everything

that creates more stress

and has our mind think

about those things more

and makes us scared.

I had this recent experience

where About six months ago,

I was following someone

on Instagram and they were

reporting the news, right?

They were reporting

things that were

happening in the area.

I'd stopped following

this person because.

Yeah.

It was terrifying me

seeing the things that

were happening around not

so much my neighborhood

but not so far from me.

and somehow she's popped

up in my feed again.

And it's not to say

that this person is

doing anything wrong.

She is reporting the news.

But the impact that it had

on me, I saw one video of

people getting, broken into.

And It was on my

mind for five days.

I was scared when I

went to bed at night.

I was worried if I woke up in

the middle of the night, if I

was going to find someone in

my house, like really crazy.

Right.

And so that video really

left an imprint on me.

And when you think about it.

Maybe you're not seeing

stuff as dramatic as that,

but you might be seeing a

lot of things on the news.

You might wake up in the

morning, turn the news on or

get it on your device, right?

Whether it be through

any of the social media

channels, you may be

getting the news that way.

And it's just giving you

a dose of stress hormones

it's not giving you a sense

of peace or a sense of

comfort or a sense of joy.

It is just delivering

stress and anxiety.

And if you check that first

thing in the morning, you

are going to start your day

feeling stressed and anxious.

And even if it's not doom

and gloom, maybe it's the

political situation, maybe

it's the economies or

things that, instigate or

initiate a lot of strong

emotions for you that cause

a lot of frustrations.

Like, it's not a way

to start the day.

It's not a way to end the day.

And unless you're going

to have an impact on those

scenarios, and very rarely do

we have an impact on politics,

unless you can have an impact

there, a lot of that stuff

is filling up your mind and

causing a lot of stress and

frustration and anxiety.

And it's not just the news.

There is other ways that

we are being programmed.

I had a client say to me

the other day, I'm in my

40s and so therefore it's

either frozen shoulder or I'm

going to have painful hips.

And I was like, what

are you talking about?

She's like, yeah,

because that's what you

have in perimenopause.

Like that's,

everyone has that.

I'm like, everyone really?

And it was really interesting

to me because again, there are

a lot of people sharing their

stories and perimenopause

seems to have exploded online,

but there are a lot of people

sharing their stories and

their symptoms, which you

don't realize that innocently.

Programming you.

Okay.

And programming you to expect

those certain outcomes.

And let me reassure you,

let me assure you that

these messages do have an

impact on your physiology.

And I'm going to explain more.

and the third one I

want to talk about is,

are you programming yourself

to be dissatisfied?

Right.

You just have to

jump on social media.

Everyone shows their best

stuff, you know, happy family,

great business, great content,

great travel experience, great

children, whatever it is.

Right.

And you may jump on social

media and feel inadequate

or dissatisfied with your

life because that stuff is

all throughout the feed.

there was a psychologist

many years ago, Alfred Alder,

and he had the Alderian

psychology and he said that

most human suffering comes

from feeling inferior and

striving to feel superior.

Okay.

And a lot of that comes down

to comparison to others.

So you think about it, the

social media channels like

Instagram or Facebook,

particularly Instagram is

really going to trigger that

sense of comparison and quite

potentially make you feel

dissatisfied with your life.

And Alfred Aldo said that

our contentment and our

fulfillment comes from

personal development and

contributing to society rather

than competing with others.

So the reason why I bring

all of this up and why do

I say are you programming

yourself with these things

is because our mind is

such a powerful tool when

used in the right way.

So our mind has the ability

to to solve our problems,

overcome our challenges

and find solutions.

That's for the real stuff.

But if we're filling our mind

with problems that are not

really for us to solve the

news, the dissatisfaction

with our life symptoms

that other people are going

through, but particularly

all that doom, gloom and

dread that is on the news and

TV and often social media.

If we're filling mind with

that stuff, with that, I

guess, garbage thoughts.

Our mind is going to work

to solve those problems.

So you may find that those

types of messages create

an underlining stress and

anxiety, which our mind

will try to resolve for us.

But they're not really

problems in our everyday life.

They're not a problem

that we have today that

we need to resolve.

And so rather than wasting

our ability to solve problems

on the news economy political

landscape and whatever it

is, we would rather save

our energy and our mental

space and our nervous

system for the things in

our life that we can change,

that we can overcome,

that we can recreate

and make better.

And the other thing is is that

a lot of that messaging, if

you're getting it every single

day, and this might, you might

find that you might have to

unfollow people on social

media and avoid the news,

which I highly recommend,

Because that becomes your

sense of truth, right?

That becomes your

sense of reality.

That we live in this world

that is really dangerous,

that is really scary, that

is all doom and gloom.

While there are those things

that are 100 percent in our

world, there is so much good

in the world, and there's

so much good things and good

stuff happening, that if we're

not seeing that on a day to

day basis, we're going to have

this more negative mindset.

So going back to my client who

said that, you know, in your

forties, it's either frozen

shoulder or it's sore hips.

It's kind of like seeing

someone's messaging on

Instagram or social media

about their symptoms.

And like I said, this

is kind of, when I talk

about perimenopause, that

kind of feels like it's

exploded online, but that's

no different to looking

up Dr. Google, right?

And then feeling scared

of your symptoms.

And your mind can send

messages to your body

that make That a reality.

And if you don't believe

that's true, you just

have to look at the

placebo and nocebo effect.

Placebo is.

Getting a fake pill or a sham

surgery with the belief that

it will make you healthy,

that it will help you, right?

And so people have changes

to their physiology,

through a placebo.

And then you have the nocebo

effect, which is the belief

that it will cause harm.

And so they've also tested

the nocebo effect, which is,

you know, they give people

a saline solution, they tell

them that it's chemotherapy,

and they lose their hair.

So the messaging that

we're taking in is

having an effect on our

body, on our physiology,

on our biochemistry,

and on our hormones.

And I think if you've got

enough on your plate, you

really don't need anything

more from the outside.

Recently, I was hearing

someone's story about, you

know, cutting out all this

programming from your life.

And this person was undergoing

chemotherapy and was not going

to buy in to the story that

chemotherapy makes you sick

and makes you lose your hair.

And she didn't, she didn't

get sick on it and she

didn't lose her hair, which

I find really fascinating.

And I think this is something

that we probably don't.

focus on enough, but the power

of words and the power of

suggestion is so significant

in changing our body and even

changing our behavior and the

things that we do in our life.

So what I really want to

highlight here is what,

what enters your mind.

You should really protect

what enters your mind.

Like how much TV

are you watching?

How much of the news

are you digesting?

How much time are you

spending on social media?

You know, how much of that

messaging is coming through?

I remember years ago,

I got sick of the body

messages for women, right?

Looking a certain way and.

And so I remember this

is a long time ago, I

stopped buying magazines.

I used to buy like the women's

health magazine and fashion

magazines and I stopped

buying them because I thought

I'm so sick of this getting

into my subconscious mind.

And it made a huge difference

to not see that stuff anymore.

And so then you're looking

at the new way we get that

information, which is.

It's like I said, on all

our devices and on the TV

and on Netflix as well.

And how much of that are you

absorbing each week and how

much can you cut back on?

Let me know in the comments

below how much time are you

spending on your devices?

And honestly, how much do you

think this messaging is really

seeping in, whether it be the

doom and gloom for the news

about other people's symptoms

that may scare you that you're

going to get or any other kind

of messaging out there online.

Let me know in the

comments below.