You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This is a throwback episode to episode number 198, and that episode was titled, How Society Programs You to Be Unhappy, Broke, and Overweight. It’s interesting, synchronicity, how this episode popped up for me to actually use as a throwback episode this week, because this will be the last throwback episode that we do, and we’re going to go back to one episode per week. And everything that I talk about this day and age is about the brainwashing. And I didn’t even recognize this, but many years ago, back when I created this episode, I’m talking about the brainwashing, but in a different way. And the episode, the throwback episode today is how society programs you. We are programmed, we are air quote slash brainwashed to be unhappy, broke, overweight, and all the things that culture throws at us. So enjoy this last throwback episode. And I appreciate you listening to all the throwback episodes. And I’ll catch you on the main episode earlier in the week. Okay, enjoy it and have a good week. Bye bye.
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So the title: How Society Programs You to be Unhappy, Broke, Overweight, Lonely, and Sick. Being a hypnotist for many years, and I don’t do formal hypnosis anymore, I don’t do sessions. However, I do teach people how to use hypnosis in the power of the mind. And I have been asked, I don’t know how many times, people will say, you know, Jim, is it easy to get someone into hypnosis? And what I’ve always said is, no, that’s really easy to do. The hard part is getting someone out of hypnosis. What that means is, is we’ve all been programmed. And the hard part is getting people out of the program or the programming that they’ve had programmed into them by society. Because all aspects of society program you. The world programs you. TV programs you. News programs you. Advertising programs you. School programs you. Family programs you. Church programs you and your friends program you. Basically, the world around you has programmed you when you were, you know, five, six, and actually earlier, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight are the years that we are programmed. And for many of us, what’s programmed in at that point in our life becomes the way that we live our lives.
You know, I know I’ve mentioned before, and I’ve said some of the things in this episode that I’ve said in the podcast before, but I know a lot of times when we hear something, we hear it in a different way. And that’s finally when we’re like, oh, okay, now I get it. Now it makes sense to me. And my objective in this episode is to get you to see that you basically are a walking program. The world has programmed you to be unhappy and to do without and to all these ways and things that do not serve you. Why? Because that’s what the world has been programmed with by the parents of the people who programmed them. And my objective in this episode is really just to get you to fully, fully embrace that, you know what? I have been programmed to be the way that I am through societal interaction. And because I want to create new and different and more powerful things in my life, I have to reprogram myself, which by the way, earlier episodes go back, you know, to the first 10 episodes. And I talk about subconscious reprogramming and, you know, the subconscious mind and things of that nature. This episode is not about that, but yet I’m looking at that from a different perspective.
I remember many years ago when I told the story here in the podcast. I had a woman come in to see me and she was probably, I don’t remember, you know, 70, 80, 90, a hundred pounds overweight. And I said to her, I said, was your entire family overweight? And she said, oh yes, every one of my family is overweight. And she goes, we’re Italian. And then she went into her story. We’re Italian. And because we’re Italian, that’s what we do. And I said, how long have you heard that story? And she goes, oh, since I was a little girl, my mother used to put food in front of me and go eat, eat, eat. So the issues that she has challenges with later in life, these are things that she learned earlier in life. Now that might not pertain to you, but what does pertain to you? You know, not being good enough or not being able to sustain a healthy relationship or always chasing money and always being broke. Whatever pertains to you, you have learned earlier in your life.
You know, I’d even mentioned on an episode that we learned things like bad and good as a child early on. We learned that if we’re good little boys and good little girls and good little people, then guess what? For those in the world that believe in Santa Claus, Santa Claus is going to be good to you. And if you’re a bad little, you know, good girl, bad boy, bad person, then guess what? You’re not going to get toys from Santa Claus. And that’s been programmed into us since we were kids. And I remember as a kid, you know, my mother would take me to see Santa Claus. And I think a lot of us can relate to this. Your mother takes you and you plop your kid on Santa Claus’s lap. My mother did it to me. And Santa Claus said to me when I was, I don’t know, four or five. I don’t know. I don’t remember. But I remember the question, have you been a good boy this year? And I mean, that’s what Santa Claus asked, you know, asked, right? But that’s the question. And I was forced in that moment to say, well, of course, I want to be a good boy because I want toys. I mean, that’s what kids want. The whole point is we’re programmed and our parents learned from their parents. So however your parents programmed you is what they learned from their parents.
I remember my grandfather, who was born in 1904. And when I was in high school, he was talking about things that happened during the Great Depression. And you wouldn’t have this if it wasn’t for the Great Depression, or you would have this. And all these stories around 1912 and 1936 and 1944, all these kinds of things that my grandfather taught my mother. And then my mother taught us kids. And my mother, one of her things was programming: you have to work hard to get ahead in life. You have to struggle. You have to fight your way to the top. You got to put your nose to the grindstone. And if you’ve listened for any amount of time, you know that I actually buy into none of that anymore because for the most part, it just puts people in the ground dead and cold. I mean, if working hard made you rich, then everyone who worked hard would be rich. That’s not the case.
But I remember back when I was in sixth grade, 1976, a good friend of mine, he lived a couple of houses over. His name was Curtis. And we were friends since grade school. I mean, we’ve known each other since we were first grade. And we were arguing, I’m laughing at this, we were arguing about who was going to get elected president. Now, how the hell, even adults don’t know stuff like this. I mean, there’s so many armchair politicians in this country that have no education about politics, yet they’re experts on domestic policy and foreign policy and foreign relations and all this kind of stuff. But anyway, when we were 12, I laugh at this story because we were arguing, was it going to be Jimmy Carter or Gerald Ford? Now, I was arguing for Jimmy Carter and Curtis was arguing for Gerald Ford. Why? Plain and simple. My parents were, you know, salt of the earth, working Democrats. His parents were Republicans. So Curtis and I knew nothing about political platforms at the age of 12, back when we also had no internet and you just learned at school for the most part or watched the news. We knew nothing about politics. And I look back all these years later, 40 something years later, and I’m like, how come we were arguing? Why? Because we had beliefs and we had beliefs that we learned from our parents. So look at your life. What do you believe? And how often have you asked yourself, how come? How come I believe this?
I remember back in the 90s, and I just want to talk and mention TV shows here. But back in the 90s, there was an episode of the TV show called Friends, which Friends was very popular. I think it’s probably number one in the U.S. for a few years. And a couple of the characters were talking. And one of the characters said, well, when she does that, I get jealous. And then he said, somebody said, well, how come you do that? And I said, well, that’s what people do. They get jealous when so-and-so, their girlfriend does XYZ. And I thought even back then, I’m like, oh, because I noticed it. I’m like, okay, what if I were five or six or seven years old and I was watching that, what would I learn about jealousy? I would learn that when a person did XYZ, then I was supposed to be jealous about it. And where did I learn it? I learned it by watching TV.
I think back and I was thinking before, you know, before this episode, nothing really popped into mind, but I think back and it showed that my mom used to plant me in front of when I was a kid, probably four or five years old in the late 1960s was Captain Kangaroo. And this was before Sesame Street, which came out in 1970. And I started watching Sesame Street. As a matter of fact, when I graduated from kindergarten, I got a Sesame Street 45 RPM record with the Sesame Street song. But we learn, we learn. And I was thinking back tonight, I’m like, what did I learn by watching Captain Kangaroo? Because I know the person I am today, now I know how to reprogram my subconscious mind. And trust me when I tell you that I’ve done a hell of a lot of it over the years because I have these tools. And I know these tools and I know how powerful they are. But I look back and I’m like, what things was I programmed with? And what you’re programmed with for the most part is what you become.
This is why, like it or not, you pretty much become your mother and father or you become them to a large degree. And if they raise you because they’re unhappy, they raise you unhappy. You learn in many ways to be unhappy. No matter how much you want to be happy, and you can get out of that trap, but you’ve learned many paradigms that will keep you unhappy. Mine was that about money. My parents, I watched my father always complain and struggle with money. And he learned that from his father, who was also an auto body repairman, who was always working for money and always broke and always struggling for money. So my father learned that from his father and he taught it to me. My father transitioned over, left the planet in his 60s because of profuse alcoholism. He had cirrhosis of the liver. Yet he died near poverty. And I thought, you know what? He learned that from his father. And my father taught that to me. So he programmed me to be broke.
Now, as I’ve mentioned before, my brother, we grew up in the same household, same everything. This day and age, he still doesn’t have two nickels to rub together. He’s probably 51 years old, lives in a mobile home somewhere in Texas, and is broke, broke, broke, broke, broke. I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum. So we had the same conditioning, but yet, psychologically and subconsciously, yet I conditioned myself and programmed myself out of it. Because I spent many years, you know, I went to college, but I spent many years still being a college graduate and a professional job. Even when I was making what I would call good money back then, working a job, you know, six figures. I was still broke when I was making six figures. Why? Because I was programmed to be broke.
Overweight, the example I gave you earlier, and I’ll touch on all these. Lonely. A lot of people are programmed to be lonely for a lot of reasons. But if you watch ads, TV ads, or even, you know, just different advertising, if you’re not a certain kind of person, then you’re going to be alone or you’re not going to be this or you’re not going to be that because you are a certain kind of person or you’re not the cool person or you’re not the hip person or the in-person or you don’t have this. Why? Because advertisers say that, you know what? Only cool people use this product. And if you’re cool, then guess what? All the women are going to want to be around you if you’re a guy. And if you’re a girl, that same thing, who cares? But, you know, people, oh my gosh, it just popped into my mind. There was a TV commercial back in the 80s. The guy’s name, you can find it on YouTube now, was Tom Vu, T-O-M-V-U. And he used to teach programs about how to make money in real estate. And all of his commercials were with him and he was probably a five foot two inches tall guy, wasn’t tall and he was Asian and he would say things like, you know what, if you buy my real estate program you can be this and you can be that and you can have all the beautiful women like I do. What if you’re eight years old and you’re watching that, or nine or 10, what does that program people with?
And then finally, the biggie, big one is sick. Now, to a large degree, many people have been programmed to be sick with all the aforementioned things that I just shared with you guys. You know, to be unhealthy is not a natural state. Ponder that: to be unhealthy is not a natural state. So then the question arises, how do I get into an unnatural state and be in an unnatural state long enough that I physically become unhealthy and sick? Well, the reason that happens is because you learn that.
So what I want to do is I want to look at these and I want to look at each one just a little bit. But the first thing that I talked about I talked about unhappy, broke, overweight, lonely, and sick. Now, again, you might not be all of these, but I would bet that everyone listening falls somewhere into one of these categories to some degree or another. Why? Because they’re so encompassing and they’re so much a part of our lives. All these categories are parts of our lives. But unhappy: now, I kind of touched on, but if you look at ads for a moment, and you look at ads about the ways that you have to be, and you have to have this car and these kind of people have this car and this kind of good job and this kind of home and this kind of financial security and all these kind of things. But ads will tell you how you’re supposed to be to be successful in the world. And here’s where unhappiness comes in. Most people work from, well, I have this story about what my life is supposed to be. Now that’s in my right hand. And I look at my left hand and you know what? My life is not that. So on my left hand, my life is not that. And on my right hand, my life is that. And guess what? There is a disparity between right hand and left hand. And there’s a big old gap. And that big old gap between what you’ve been programmed to think your life should be and what your life actually is and what it is you’ve also been programmed to be, that is the unhappiness gap for people.
I go back to a girlfriend of mine. Her name was Elisa. And this was back in the 1990s from 92. We were good friends from 92 till about 96 or so. Very close friends. And she was a Ford model for the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City. Not only that, she was Miss New York in the Miss America pageant. And in the Junior pageant, I believe she was like, I think she was Teen America, if I remember correctly, or Miss Junior America or America’s Junior Miss or whatever. And working for the Ford Modeling Agency, she worked around a lot of big names, like back then, Cindy Crawford and Christie Brinkley and people like that. And I remember, I remember one day we were at the check, we were at the supermarket and the checkout line and, you know, the magazine rack has Glamour and, you know, People magazine and gossip magazines and a lot of beauty magazines. And for some reason I said, what do you think of those magazines? Meaning, meaning she was also on the cover of Glamour magazine, some other covers, Seventeen, etc. And I said, what do you think of these magazines? Meaning the beauty magazines. And she goes, at this point in my life, and she was around 30 at this point, she goes, at this point in my life, I think those magazines are garbage. I said, what do you mean? You were in these magazines and your friends are in these magazines. And she goes, you know what? When I was in them, I wasn’t the person that I am today. And today I think those magazines are garbage. And the reason why, she goes, any woman that has the proper lighting and you’ve got three people doing your hair and you have airbrushing and a professional photographer can look gorgeous. These magazines create unrealistic expectations for what beauty is. And the average woman in person doesn’t look like the woman on that magazine cover. And then they strive to be the woman on that magazine cover. And when they’re not, because that’s what they’re supposed to be, because that’s what advertisers tell them, then they are unhappy. That’s why I think they’re garbage. And then she went on and she said, you know what, she goes, which I knew she knew Christie Brinkley, she goes, even Christie Brinkley gets zits. And what they do is they just airbrush them out.
And I was reading a while back some research on men. Men now, many years in the 70s and up into the 80s, it never affected men like it did women. And now men are affected also, especially, you know, boys and young guys and teenagers. Why? Because of magazines like Men’s Health and Men’s Fitness and these magazines that tell guys, if you don’t have six-pack abs and you don’t have this and you don’t have that and you don’t have this physical characteristic and you’re not, you know, proportionate with your muscles and everything and you’re not working out, then you’re not good enough. And men also, I’m going to use the word suffer with that as much as women do. Being a hypnotist, I have pretty much heard everything. There’s nothing that surprises me, nothing that shocks me. And the amount of men that will say things like, you know what, I won’t even go to, if I go to a pool party, I won’t take my t-shirt off because I’m not going to run around the pool with all those guys that are fit. And I take my t-shirt off and I’m not fit and trim with a six-pack. So advertising, which I’ll talk about some more, teaches people what they have to be and how they have to be and what they have to look like and what they have to do and what they have to drive. Advertising programs people with here is the ideal human being and the way to live. And most of it is just nonsensical.
Now I mentioned unhappy and then I mentioned broke. As I mentioned to you, my parents taught me how to be broke. I mean, I remember one time after college, I was waiting tables and this guy looked at me and he literally said, he started, because we were talking about some political stuff. We’re just sitting around the bar, just drinking some beer afterwards and work was over and everything. And he looked at me and he goes, you were, this is exactly what he said. Doesn’t mean it’s true. It’s just what he said. He goes, you are so damn smart. What the hell are you doing waiting tables? Well, I was programmed that, you know what? There’s this whole kind of things here and money was hard to make. And I was waiting tables after college for, I remember a lot of years ago, 50, 60 bucks a night when I could have been making back then probably near six figures. But I didn’t know that in myself. Why? Because I was programmed to work and to struggle and to earn my money.
And then the politicians, let me go somewhere else first. So I remember back in 1982, the year before I went to college, I remember my uncle, he would come over every Saturday morning and hang out with my dad. And they would literally hang out all day in the garage and tinker around on cars and restore things, never finishing it. And they’d drink beer all day. And I remember my uncle saying, you have all these stars in your eyes and you want all these things in life and you want to be successful. And he flipped out a newspaper and he goes, look at this. Look at the unemployment rate in the United States. Look at these inflation rates. Look at all these things, unemployment and all this stuff. And he goes, all these things that you want are just a pipe dream. And that’s what I was programmed with. So you think about yourself, what were you programmed with from your parents in particular, your grandparents, also your friends around you? Were your friends around you wealthy? Were they poor? You know, what did they program you with?
And then the news. And that’s a politician’s job, especially at the national level, is to, I remember an ad, Ronald Reagan, he had really good speechwriters. And one of the reasons he was a great president, well, not a great president, let me put it this way: one of the reasons he was successful in getting elected as president was because he was an actor. And being an actor, he knew how to read lines. And people could think, well, that’s ridiculous. No, it’s not ridiculous. Because there are many people that have been tyrants on the planet. The biggest tyrant on the planet, literally, I read once before that he took acting lessons. I’m being serious. Fill in the blanks. You know who I’m talking about? The biggest tyrant and the most destructive human being that ran a country on the planet also took acting lessons. And you watch him speak, a video from many years ago, and the guy is extraordinarily dynamic in engaging the imagination and exciting people. But yet all of his rhetoric was downright to me, just atrocious. I can’t even comprehend. Ronald Reagan said in a speech one time, which his speechwriter wrote, he goes, the average American is terrified because they don’t know what’s going to happen next in the economy, in their life. Now we listening to that, we go, oh, we’re average Americans. Okay. Average Americans are terrified with the uncertainty because we don’t know what’s going to happen next in life. Notice right there, notice right there that we’re being programmed. Now I didn’t buy into it. It took me a lot of years to get out of it, but I didn’t buy into it because I knew even back then I ain’t listening to these people. I’m not listening to mom and dad and grandpa about what I can’t have. And Uncle Bill, I’m not going to listen because I can have more. But that’s how I was programmed.
Okay, overweight. I want to segue here and just share kind of off topic, but I guess on topic, is parents, for the most part, teach their kids to be overweight. And if you want proof of that, and so do advertising companies, which I’ll get to, or our food companies that do advertising. Being overweight has never been a challenge for me. A lot of people it has been. And what I was going to say a couple of minutes ago is look at the amount of kids in the U.S. now, because the world has changed, that are overweight when you walk into the supermarket. And that’s because of more sedentary lifestyles. I mean, when I was a kid, mom would kick us out of the house, go play. We’d go play every afternoon. And we’d play softball or something in the front yard. But we were always busy as kids and no TV. We didn’t really watch a lot of afternoon TV. Now kids are playing video games and different things, but you have to look at how the world also… Okay, let me go back here to what I was saying. I just didn’t want to skip over this, but I’m hopping around here a little bit, but oh well. A way that parents can program negative associations to food is when we are small, it happened to me, but it never happened in a negative way to where it became a problem, is parents will say, okay, if you’re good, then guess what? On the way home, we will stop for ice cream. Or you know what? You can have cookies if you’re really good. So then as kids, we want the ice cream and the cookies, which are marketed to us. And we want those because we’re really good. And then guess what? We are rewarded with sugar. And you can think, well, big deal. But the big deal is the brain learns to associate. It’s a reward. Sugar is a reward. So when I’m good, I get cookies and ice cream and everything else. So parents, please be careful how you are rewarding your kids because you’re also programming your kids. And if you’re rewarding your kids with food, you’re programming them to when they’re good, think about that for a moment, when they’re good, then guess what? They can eat sugar and ice cream and donuts and all that kind of stuff. Be careful with those associations because the brain will link them together.
Now, I know I had mentioned at some point in the podcast before about neuro research, brain research. And this day and age, research is very advanced when it comes to advertising and marketing. And I’m not going to get into it here in this episode, but I used to work in that field, neuro influence, neuro persuasion for a lot of years, over a decade. I understand it very well, that it’s very easy to get into people’s subconscious mind when you know how. And I love the topic. That’s why I worked in the field for a lot of years. But honestly, I was very good at teaching, what I would say ethically, teaching people how to use neuro influence. So Doritos, I read a study, it was in the New York Times many years ago, how Doritos would actually, they knew the amount of, when you would bite into a Dorito, I haven’t had a Dorito probably in 25, 30 years, but you bite into a Dorito and you get that crackle and that crunch. Doritos knows through watching people with putting them in MRI machines or whatever. I don’t remember what it was, but it’s something like that. But they know how many pounds of pressure you have to bite down on a Dorito to get that crack and that crunch that’s part of the experience.
I’d mentioned before also Cheetos. Why do you think they have the orange stuff on Cheetos? Why? Because everyone, I did, I think all of us do. When you eat Cheetos, you get the orange stuff on your fingers. It’s kind of sinister the way this is done, but you get the orange stuff on your fingers. And then what do you do, most of us, to get the orange stuff off? You lick your, prior to COVID, you lick your fingers to get the orange stuff off. Well, some of the most sensitive parts in the body are the fingertips. So when you put your fingers in your mouth, you are releasing endorphins. Big whoop, right? Big deal. But the reality is when you’re releasing endorphins, your brain is tying the release or licking your fingers to feeling good, which is releasing endorphins. Therefore, your brain ties Cheetos to feeling good. Apple products have done the same thing. Many companies have done the same thing. But many of us have been programmed to be overweight by the food industries and then the advertising related to the industry and their products and services, because you’re going to feel better. You’re going to get an emotional payoff with a lot of these companies, you’re going to feel better if you eat this junk food or your life’s going to be more convenient or easier if you eat this junk food or this crap or this garbage that’s full of chemicals, your life’s going to be better. So you get the immediate payoff because you actually, you know, you create a chemical reaction in the brain by doing that. And then you emotionally feel good about it. But guess what? One pound, two pounds, five pounds, 10 pounds, 20 pounds, 40 pounds, 50 pounds later, you look back and you’re like, how, how did I get here?
Loneliness that I’d mentioned in the title. You know, there’s so much advertising around loneliness. And basically you have to do XYZ, which I’ve covered a lot of it, or be XYZ. And if you don’t do XYZ or be XYZ, guess what? People are not going to want to be with you. And if people don’t want to be with you, then you’re going to be single. And if you’re going to be single, then you’re going to be lonely. Therefore, because we’re conditioning you, we are programming you as a marketer and an advertiser, we’re programming you: buy our product and have a better quality of life by being an XYZ, called associating to identity, being an XYZ kind of person. And if you don’t do that, then guess what? You’re going to be lonely. I think I cover it somewhere else in this episode if I remember when I was thinking through this. But a lot of advertising is built on fear and it’s built on you being alone or actually not having something in your life. I mean, even for example, toothpaste. Crest toothpaste and most toothpaste commercials are about, guess what? If you don’t use XYZ brand of toothpaste, then you’re going to get gingivitis. And if you get gingivitis, then guess what? No one’s going to want to be with you. And if no one’s going to want to be with you, then you’re going to be lonely.
Okay, another category. And when I thought about, you know, as I was just thinking through this episode earlier, when I thought of this category, I’m like, oh my God, I could spend hours on this category showing you how this has been proven to be true time and time again with really ironclad, substantial, credible research. But many times you’re kept physically sick through programming. Society and advertisers and family program you. And for many of us, for many of us, we’ve been programmed by our parents and they tie the programming. This is, you know, I just thought about this. I used to teach this and share this a lot of years ago and I’ve not shared it in about 10 years, I think, but I’m going to share it with you. I was watching a commercial, I don’t know, again, maybe 15 years ago, 20 years ago. So this TV commercial comes on and there’s this little boy sitting on his bed and he’s sniffling and he’s sneezing and there’s this violin music in the background and it’s very soft and it’s very somber. And you can see rain pattering down in the window. And all that the announcer says in a very deep voice, listen to this: Moms, cold and flu season is here. When your little one gets sick, you can depend on Children’s Tylenol. That’s the end of it. Moms, cold and flu season is here. When your little one gets sick, you can depend upon Children’s Tylenol. That’s it. That’s a whole commercial. And I watched that and I said, oh my gosh, because I taught this for a living at that point. I’m like, that commercial.
Now, mind you, everyone listening, please tell me the first day of cold and flu season. Everyone, if you think about it, when is the first day of cold and flu season? Is it November the 1st? Is it, no, it’s November the 24th. Is it November the 7th? When is the first day of cold and flu season? There is no first day. So what happens is, is when a mother sees that commercial, moms, cold and flu season is here, the first thing the mom does, and that’s literally hypnosis, bypassing the analytical factor of the mind, meaning the thinking conscious part of the mind. Because no mom, for the most part, stops and says, hmm, well, is that true? Is cold and flu season really here? You know, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Maybe this is an advertiser trying to trick me. No, what happens is when mothers hear that commercial, moms, cold and flu season is here, when they hear that, the first thing they think is, oh, that’s right, cold and flu season is here, it’s cold out. Then what happens is they tell their little one: bundle up, bundle up, bundle up, bundle up. And they also say, you’re going to get sick, you’re going to get sick, you’re going to get sick, you’re going to get sick. They are programming their kids. Now, guess what? The kid has been programmed. The kid gets sick. And when the kid gets sick, notice the commercial also said when your little one gets sick. It didn’t say if your little one gets sick. It says when your little one, which is presupposed that it is true. When your little one gets sick, which the little one gets sick because the mom said over and over and over, you’re going to get sick. Why? Because the commercial said it. Now, who can you depend on? Children’s Tylenol. That’s powerful. And that’s how it happens or one of the ways that it happens.
Another area here is pharmaceutical companies. Now, I did research on this. You know, years back, I did some earlier today when I was thinking about this episode. And what I found is that Big Pharma, meaning pharmaceutical companies, their profit margins were about 250% greater than other industries. Think about that. And that industry, Big Pharma, their profit margins a couple of years ago were 250% greater than other industries. And this was back in 2015. Now, I also researched this and what I found, it was pharmacychecker.com, that, which I’ve heard this years ago, that pharmaceutical companies spend more money on advertising than they do research and development. Ponder that. Pharmaceutical companies who want you to buy their product spend more money on advertising than they do R&D. And that all their commercials are about, if you have this ailment and you have that ailment, you could have this, you could have that, you could have this. And when you have that, ask your doctor about XYZ. Ask your doctor to, you know, about Eli Lilly this and GlaxoSmithKline this and Pfizer this and Novartis this. Ask your doctor.
Now doctors are human beings and they are programmed to a large degree by pharmaceutical companies. And guess what? So when you ask about XYZ Pharmaceutical, the doctor says, oh, yeah, I’ve had training on that. I went to a steak dinner recently, which they have curtailed that the last couple of years. I went to a steak dinner at a fancy steakhouse where the sales rep was talking to me about that drug. Sure, I will prescribe that drug. What I’m telling you is true. Because again, many years ago when I waited tables and things have changed a bit, but in very high end restaurants, many times pharmaceutical reps would bring in doctors and say, okay, you know, have a good time on this expensive dinner. And by the way, here is our drug and this is what it does and prescribe our drug. So then what happens? The patient comes in. Why? Because they see on TV that they could possibly have XYZ. And then guess what? They go ask their doctor and the doctor says, yes. Even doctors.
I’ve said before is I fully subscribe to trauma care. If you’ve got trauma, get your butt to the ER. No question about it. Don’t even think twice about it. But I’ve seen this with my own eyes and experienced it by having what I had last year, the physical ailments, a stroke and heart failure. I mean, some major stuff, so to speak. And maybe it wasn’t major. Maybe it wasn’t major at all because I’m well, I’m healed. Maybe I was programmed to believe that, oh, stroke and heart failure are major. I don’t know. Anyway, I’ll leave that alone. But in the hospital, the doctors were telling me that, you know what? This is what’s going to happen. This is going to be your long-term prognosis, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If I believed, which if I saw the doctors as an authority figure, which I’ve talked about in the podcast before, if I believed what the doctors told me, I’m not saying there wasn’t some truth to it, but if I believed it and I just took it wholeheartedly, guess what? That would be my reality. Why? Here’s the thing: power of suggestion, which I used to be an expert in. As a hypnotist, because that’s one of the things that a hypnotist will use is power of suggestion. And this is strong. This literally will activate the mind to override the body.
And there was this video that I saw one time. And the video was about this town that literally had like 250 people from the high school go to the ER over the course of an afternoon. Why? Because someone thought they had something. And then other people thought they had that thing. And because other people thought they had that ailment, oh, because Bob has XYZ and that’s not good, and now I’m starting to feel like Bob, so guess what? I must have XYZ. So guess what? I better go to the ER also. And that dominoed. I wish I could find the research. I’d have to go look somewhere. But that dominoed in a school. And before the ER knew it, they had hundreds of students here all having these symptoms. And there’s been tons and tons and tons of research on this that people influence other people through the power of suggestion. And this has been around for a lot of years that people have studied this.
And in the U.S., I’m just telling you the truth, like it or not, is that big money, big advertisers, big tobacco, big pharma, big oil, on a lot of these money-driven companies. And what I just told you earlier, Big Pharma, I’m gonna tell you the truth, whether you like it or not, is that Big Pharma doesn’t want you to be well. Why? Because if you’re well, Big Pharma, an extremely lucrative industry, is out of business. And the objective of that company is to make shareholders profit on the shares. Folks, ponder that. The job is to make shareholder profits. If that is the truth, and it is the truth, then why would they want you to be well? They’re going to go out of business, which does not accomplish shareholder goals.
I could do a lot of, and I will, I think, do more episodes on this. But we are, you get the point, we are programmed all around us to be unhappy and to be lonely and to be broke and to be unhealthy and all these kind of things that we’re programmed literally. And we have to change the programming. You know, I’m going to just share this with you. Like it or don’t like it, doesn’t matter to me. But there are the biggest mass programming campaigns ever seen in the history of the world going on in the world right now. So you just ponder that for a little bit and think about what that means.
So what do you do with this? Step number one is awareness. And I think probably a lot of people listening might have awareness about this. I tend to speak and I tend to attract people that are what I call more awake, more aware, people that are spiritual beings, people that I call as I am a cosmic being. We’re thinking, you know, outside of just let me be a 3D bag of skin or a meat suit or whatever you want to call it or bones and skin. We’re thinking at a different level than the masses. Most of us, that is. But it doesn’t matter. We’re still in the world. And please be aware. Please be aware that by being on the planet, you’ve been programmed with a lot of these things that I’m talking about and you’re not aware of them. Why? Because they’re completely subconscious. And you’re working on a program that’s keeping you unhappy and stuck, unhealthy, or whatever it is for you, you may be stuck in programming because you’ve been programmed to be that. And the key is to go back to the earlier episodes on subconscious reprogramming and learn, as I start to lead you there, to reprogram your subconscious mind. That is the only way out. Only way out of it.
You can also ask yourself, this is the big thing, is what’s really true about the things that are fed to me by the world, by other humans, and by media? What things are true? And you will find a lot of things that are fed to you are not true. Well, they’re true for some people, but if you take them and you own them, then they are true for you. And many of these are some, I should say some of these things can keep you in places in life that are not comfortable and are not healthy and you do not enjoy.
So a question for you as well. Your takeaway this week is you know this. So the takeaway is a reminder. You’re a cosmic being. So the takeaway, which I’ve said many times in this podcast, is be in this world, but not of this world. Work from the higher spiritual essence and knowing and develop that in you and work from that place. Because when you do that, you will automatically rise above mass consciousness. And that better happen on this planet or that planet’s in a lot of trouble the next couple of years. Not an opinion, but look at what’s happening. This planet is metaphorically burning down all around us. And it’s not the planet burning us down. It’s humanity and the lack of awareness. That’s the key, the lack of awareness and conscious awareness that’s burning civilization down.
So ask yourself this: What power do I have? Not what power do I think I have. What power do I have? And if you work from the power of a cosmic being, then what power do you have? What power do you have as a spiritual being? What power do you have as a soulful being?
Thanks for listening. And please share this episode with friends and family or people that you think would get value from this. And I will catch you over on another episode. Do what you can to make it a great day today. Bye-bye.
