How to De-Hypnotize Yourself & Become Intellectualy Self-Reliant (Breaking Away From Groupthink)
Summary: <p>Listen to episode 110 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to De-Hypnotize Yourself & Become Intellectually Self-Reliant. Edited & adapted from The Philosophy of Self-Help, An Application of Practical Psychology to Daily Life, by Stanton Davis Kirkham.</p><br> <p><strong>Self-Help Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>While there has been much discussion regarding self-help via hypnosis, apparently no one has recognized the fact that we are all hypnotized, more or less, by the group-think of the world around us. As this is one of the factors which militates against our freedom, there is something to be said of the necessity for de-hypnotization. </em></p><br> <p><em>The important question is not — can we be hypnotized or not; but being already in a state of hypnosis, how are we to be de-hypnotized and freed from the tyranny of false world-beliefs? Some are in a profound hypnotic sleep and their acts are purely automatic, their opinions wholly reflected. Others are merely in a drowsy state and are obedient only to the hypnosis of certain ideas from which they have never been free. This hypnosis, begun by their parents and by a corrupt education system, has been fostered ever since by the verbose nonsense of the news media and by the pressure of the group-think itself. </em></p><br> <p><em>There is only one remedy for ignorance and that is enlightenment. But if you do not know you are in slavery, you will not seek freedom. The most hopeless class intellectually are the half-educated who think they are wise. And in this day of the mass distribution of cheap knowledge and half-truths, when everyone has a smattering of information, and people learn from the news media a thousand things which are not true, this class is growing rapidly.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Self-Help Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="How to Be Self-Reliant" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/ralph-waldo-emerson-self-reliance/">Ralph Waldo Emerson & Self-Reliance</a></p><br> <p><a title="Building Self-Confidence" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/building-self-confidence-change-your-limiting-beliefs/">How to Change Your Limiting Beliefs</a></p>
