Your mind and the messages that it believes or takes on board, are WHO AND WHAT you become. Your mind is programmed over time by things like social conditioning, experience, self-talk and your emotions, to mention but a few things. When someone is negative towards us, they say things that dis-empower or hurt us, or they simply talk rubbish. We allow them, especially when we are young because we often have no choice. In youth we can do nothing about this which means that we can become prey to the disempowering thoughts, opinions, beliefs and attitudes of others; THEIR baggage that can infect our mind. And, in adulthood it is not unusual for us to listen to and even unconsciously allow other people to dump their mental and emotional garbage upon us. Whether we agree with them or not, the simple act of listening to disempowering messages can impact our own thinking in ways that we do not always consciously register within our own mind. We do absolutely nothing about it.
Many of our beliefs and attitudes towards life are not just wrong they are sometimes absolute rubbish, and yet we accept them, hold on to them, believe them and live our lives by them. Our attitude towards so many things is based on what someone else told us, what the media says or what other people want us to believe because it suits their purpose. So much of it is such complete fabrication and lies that we now have trouble knowing the difference between it and truth. Does that mean that by default we are living a lie too?
The result is that people have become dis-empowered and disenfranchised. Because so many of them accept information without question and because they have been socially conditioned to believe certain things about themselves that simply are not true, they have now even given up on themselves, their potential AND their natural god-given ability to achieve anything that they put their mind to.