If You think you can or if you think you can't youre right

I have decided to no longer trust the mind. As to what I will depend on in its stead, that has yet to be determined. The mind is a more efficient machine than the body. Now they tell us that the body given less calories will readjust itself to only require less calories. So to all us dieters less calories just means more of us. It's kind of tangential but try to stay with me... the mind can tell you and show you what you need, want can bare to know. For instance if a trauma is severe enough, say childhood sex abuse, the mind will often "Gate" that information and the abused person wont 'remember the event. Now there will be traces of behavior from the event but the memory will be impossibly out of reach unless and until the individuals emotional , psychological capacity can handle the information.
So, Ive heard of people whose mind tells them that their sex abise was a really good thing for them.
Okay, so if the mind can do that what other tricks does it play on us?

Well what immediately pops into mind is the way alot of us believed the mortgage brokers who said we could have houses and seemingly never have to pay for them because the houses would keep going up in value and then we'd just reborrow from this new money (equity) and the house would virtually pay for itself.... or so they said

They is always some authority figure who presents something to us that is much preferable to the negative stimulous and input that the outside world is providing: bounced checks, no job, creditor harassment. The mind can convince you that none of that matters

And then there is Sarah Palin telling us that Barack Obama hangs out with terrorists and she read it in THE NEW YORK TIMES. I'm sure that little mind of hers didnt even see the part that said there was no evidence of any ongoing relationship between Barack and Ayers now or in the past.

The mind is a scarey monster

So I'm not gonna trust it anymore. For today, I'm gonna rely on my feelings. yeah that low level neanderthal stuff. Oh no, in some peoples minds evolution does not exist. well feekings are like...ugh....ouch when people are saying that "Your incompetance is breathtaking" No that wont work because your mind can convince that the people who are saying it are the incompetant ones

And so we go around and around believing whatever the mind telkls us or whatever we want to believe in any moment and changing it because the mind will support seeing it any way we choose.

Some say I'll believe it when I see it others say You won't see it until you believe it

The mind will let you have it either way