2007-01-26 03:38:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Yes. Its like abused women who are constantly told by thier husbands that they are worthless and cant live without them. They get brainwashed. If it happens over a period of years, of course you start to believe it.
2007-01-26 03:49:10 · answer #1 · answered by JC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sometimes your subsconscious is listening when we really think we aren't listening, and that's why the bible warns us not to expose ourselves to evil, to not put ourselves in certain situations.
I remember once when I was 7. I was in school, on recess, next to the blackboard thinking about writing something with chalk. I had a banana in the left hand and the chalk in the right hand (I am right handed). The kids around made the comment: "wouldn't it be funny if you wrote with the banana?" and we all laughed and as they started to walk away my mind said to write on the blackboard, and darned if my psyche didn't kick in automatically. I began to write with the banana and eat the chalk. By that I learned that my subconscious is always working and I don't espose myself to hearing or seeing things I should not see or hear. So it doesn't take "often enough". all it takes is one time, so your statement, in essence is true.
Why do you think in olden days that when kids did something wrong that for their pennance they were told to write a positive statement (to their negative), maybe write it 100 times to change their psyche. And that does work. I once read that for every negative someone does that they have to do a positive 10 times before their negative is changed to a positive in their psyche.
2007-01-26 03:50:34 · answer #2 · answered by sophieb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it does not have to but many times human frailty kicks in and we start to fall in to a self-fufilling pattern. Hearing something repeatedly can go both ways...try looking in the mirror every morning for a month and tell yourself positive mantras and see what happens.
2007-01-26 03:53:52 · answer #3 · answered by gizmo357 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course...it is called 'conventional wisdom.' We associate truth with convenience, according to John Galbraith, and what "promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life." So, doesn't it make sense that our thoughts must be convenient, comfortable, secure-like...but not necessarily true?
2007-01-26 03:55:47 · answer #4 · answered by bruceprof 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The average person yes. Me...no
2007-01-26 03:44:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you think the democrats get elected these days?
2007-01-26 03:44:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No doubt about it...be careful about the things you tell yourself over and over again
2007-01-26 03:43:48 · answer #7 · answered by єЖтяα ¢яιѕρψ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but my guy thinks so, he keeps telling me he knows people better then i do, and that I'm just paranoid because i don't trust certain people.
2007-01-26 07:20:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i start to analyze what i am constantly hearing
2007-01-26 03:42:59 · answer #9 · answered by wise 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋