How your thoughts is connected to your future

[ryanvoey]

“Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our mid-30s, our identity or personality will be completely formed. This means that for those of us over 35, we have memorized a select set of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, emotional reactions, habits, skills, associative memories, conditioned responses, and perceptions that are now subconsciously programmed within us.

Those programs are running us, because the body has become the mind. This means that we will think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, react in identical ways, behave in the same manner, believe the same dogmas, and perceive reality the same ways. About 95 percent of who we are by midlife1 is a series of subconscious programs that have become automatic—driving a car, brushing our teeth, overeating when we’re stressed, worrying about our future, judging our friends, complaining about our lives, blaming our parents, not believing in ourselves, and insisting on being chronically unhappy, just to name a few.” 

― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

Check out the full video by Dr. Joe Dispenza

[Eric Tarpall]

Psychologists also tell us that disobeying is an illness. So f* them. You can have the mind of a child if you're a hundred years old. 

[Shadowraix]

2 hours ago, Eric Tarpall said:

Psychologists also tell us that disobeying is an illness. So f* them. You can have the mind of a child if you're a hundred years old. 

Don't blame psychologists for the shit of other psychologists. 

[Bluebird]

@ryanvoey Seems so arbitrary, why 35? Why not 40? 

Is it a gradual solidifying or does it just happen all of a sudden? If it's gradual can it be reversed, loosened, slowed?

What gets solidified? Do you know people after 35 who have changed an aspect of themselves?

I would inquire more into the truth of this rather than take it on as a limiting belief.

[Shadowraix]

@Bluebird Running off old knowledge but afaik it has to do with neuroplasticity. This reduces as you get older. Although I imagine at a less degree the more you challenge yourself.