#mind patterns

✦Content Note: A philosophical vignette analyzing hypnotic rhetoric and persuasive language patterns. Read as a literary exploration, not a personal suggestion.✦

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Today I woke up and poured myself a coffee, like every morning. I thought, let’s see what Tumblr has prepared for me today.

It didn’t surprise me.

I was reading a written hypnotic induction—though not everyone can write poetry. As usual, we won’t mention who authored the prose that flooded my humble space, but the content went something like this:

You read. You feel tired. Your eyelids grow heavy. You notice your eyes closing.

Right.

So I thought: this is useful. Not as an induction—but as a lesson.

“Tell me,” I said to my apprentices, “what is the difference between pacing and leading? And how does it connect to the yes set?”

Silence. Stammering.

So let me translate it into human language.

Pacing (truths): • You are reading these words • Your eyes move from left to right • You are breathing as you read (The mind responds: yes, yes, yes.) Leading (suggestion): And you might notice that it takes less effort to keep reading.

There are things people before us already understood and passed down like a sacred torch— even if, in their narcissism, they named it after themselves.

The brain does not like arguing with reality. Why would it? It feels it. It perceives it. The senses confirm it.

And the brain loves patterns. That’s why people enjoy puzzles, sudokus, or trying to predict the plot twist of a Netflix series before it happens.

And that’s where the real magic occurs—if you want to call it that. When truths are chained together and followed by a suggestion that doesn’t need to be evaluated, the critical guard lowers. Rhythm appears. Rapport forms.

What doesn’t enter as a command, enters as a truth. And by the time the subject notices—

they were already following the path.

And if this is what you call an induction— understand this: you’re not darkening minds.

You’re only revealing how empty your own suggestions are.

Mind Patterns 1

There is nothing right or wrong with it…nothing positive or negative about it… It is simply the way our minds are predominantly wired to think in a particular manner…a particular style…

For ex, one has an early morning flight to catch… He can think about it or visualize in two ways

One is he visualizes that he is on time for the flight and has a very relaxed check-in…

An on time departure

The other is he visualizes that he is behind schedule, there is a break down en-route, he literally pleads with the staff to let him through…Folks tend to qualify and quantify this as negative thinking…

All I would say is that this too is perfectly fine…nothing wrong with this sort of thinking either. It just has one additional step/process involved… and that is “what is the positive intention behind this”? What is the positive intention behind scaring the living daylights out of you…behind throwing up these nightmares??

The answer is simple… “It doesn’t want you to be late…It wants you to be on time”…

Once you understand this, positive thinking or negative thinking loses all relevance… Only thinking exists…

Like many people, I get knocked down by fear. A lot.

Right now, I get knocked down more than I'd like to (in my perception), and I get taken over by the old egoic patterns again and again.

And again..

But most of the time I somehow manage to break out of them, even if it often feels like an absolutely impossible thing to do..

If you can relate to this, just know that you are not alone. I am with you, just like many many others.

Lesson of the day:

Take less, give more.

Mind Patterns - Drowning