Have you ever noticed...there are so many things in life that you believe without question? Why would you question, when everyone around you believes the same thing? But if you do start to question these things, you often find there is no reason beyond everyone else believing, for you to believe!
Would you have believed the world was flat when your family, friends, teachers, media and entertainment were telling you it was fact?
Do you believe by 20, 30 and 40 you should be behaving a certain way and have achieved certain things? If you do then you probably believe this because you believe you only have a certain life expectancy! why do you believe that?
There are ancient texts that say that people once lived for hundreds of years. 'Some lived for eight hundred years, some lived for five or six hundred years, but longevity was a commonplace. So what happened? People changed what they believed. Instead of believeing in living for hundreds of years, people changed there beliefs over generations, and they became to believe in a reduced life expectancy.' (R Byrne 2010)
"There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists descover what it is that is causing us the trouble." Richard Feynman 1918-1988
So this is taking the theory to an extreme, or maybe i just believe that because everyone around me does? The message i am trying to get across is, be careful with how you limit yourself in life, if it is true that 'what the mind expects it finds', then your mentality could quite literaly be leathel! Not only that, but you could be repeating replicates of the lives lead before you, due to taking on there beliefs when who knows what more you could be!
Bex
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