The influence of language on (mental) health

My blog about cognitive dissonance ended with me expressing the importance and danger of language. Language, because, your diet is not only what you eat. It is what you watch, what you listen to, what you read, what you believe.

In this blog, I would like to explore this some more through NLP. NLP is concerned with influencing through language. NLP stands for neuro linguistic programming and is used in all kind of situations and also in politics. I will get to that later.

NLP was invented in the 1970s by Grinder and Bandler, because after research, they came to the conclusion that the communication process between people is based on neuropsychology, cybernetics and language.

How people respond to a message, to the language used, depends on a lot of factors, because: so many heads, so many worlds. So, it is worth your while to turn inside and discover to which language your are sensitive to, to which suggestion you are willing to comply. Anyway, as soon as you get someone into your point of view, you can say that the communication, the hypnosis is successful. This goes for parents, teachers, doctors and also for politicians. Hypnotic words exist within NLP. They are called nominations.

Examples of nominations are: climate change and crisis. There is no such thing as climate change as in: climate change is not a thing you can grab or touch. There can be a téndency that climate is changing. And there can be a tendency that that people are less inclined to spend money f.ex. This way of describing is less hypnotizing.

Hypnosis in itself is a neutral tool, so it matters who uses it. Politicians and also mainstream media, are known for using hypnotic language which is often negative and sows fear. This is made possible, because: who owns the information, owns the mind an therefore owns the behavior of the listener. Having said this, I now would like to make a bridge to our global situation.

My intention is to make you think and open up your mind, so you can start asking your own questions and do your own research. Hopefully your own research will lead to less fear, because great fear gives a tunnel vision. Fear is a ‘mindcloser’. And fear influences your immune system in a negative way.

Let’s have a look at the words and/or concepts which came into our  collective dictionary with a mindboggling speed, in the last few months.

• ‘Social distancing’. There is nothing social about distancing. We are humans and humans need contact and touch to live life and thrive.
• The same goes for the ‘1,5 meter society’. Walking around other people skittishly creates alienation and division.

What does it do to a person to see each other as a walking source of possible contamination?

• ‘Social shaming’. This is the expression to make people who do not follow the measures (exactly) responsible for the situation in which we are collectively. Nobody is responsible for your choices, your life, let alone your health.
• ‘Quarantine’. This is a complete mis-use of this word, because this word belongs to people who are verified sick. Most of us did not get sick luckily and there is no need for healthy people to be quarantined.
• ‘Stay at home order’. Bear in mind that not everybody has a home. Don’t you ask yourself how it is possible that there is no outbreak under homeless people? I mean, many of them don’t have access to water, a sterile environment, daily showers or sanatizing stuff.
• These measurements are ‘for the greater good’.

What is good about ruining the economy, putting people out of a job? Out of money? If shops have to close down due to measures, there will be no taxes, no taxes will mean bankrupcy and it means no money for healthcare.

What is good about closing in the elderly in the caring facilities to die alone? Were the elderly not the ones we were trying to protect with all those measures? How come many of them say that this solitude and loneliness is worse than WW2?

What is good about necessary treatments, f.ex. such as those for cancer, being postponed? What will that look like in the long run? How will that effect people, how will the pressure be on doctors? On hospitals?

• ‘Flatten the curve’. We had a curve of infections last February/March in my country. Why now, months later and different statistics, still those measures?

We did not take any measures with the 2018 flu, who regretted many deaths. Beware: I am not saying that this virus does not exist or is like a flu!

Why is it, that especially in the beginning, daily death rates are sent out into the world? That does not happen with heart disease or cancer or any other disease.

• ‘The new normal’. What is normal about this ‘new normal’? Like our King Willem-Alexander said on the 4th of May, 2020: ‘Don’t normalise what is not normal.’

Because: how is it normal that, when the measures were relaxed, that grandma was still not allowed to hug her grandchild, but grandpa was allowed to visit a prostitute?

What is normal about wearing masks? Tests prove your body, your nervous system, will go into survival mode when you wear masks specially for a longer period of time. Think about it: you are breathing your bodily waste. In the same category: would you eat your own poo if  your government would tell you to?

Is living in constant fear of contamination, sickness and possible death normal?

I think, no, I know this is an attack on your nervous system, on your immune system and on your humanity.

• Why is it said that the world can only return to ‘normal’ after taking  a mandatory vaccin?

If this vaccin becomes mandatory, then what about inviolability of your body?

Would you take this vaccin, knowing that other vaccins are taking years to develop?

Would you take this vaccin, knowing that virusses change?

Would you take this vaccin, without knowing what is in there? Without knowing the possible long term effects?

How do you feel about the fact that people who do not want to take the vaccin are already threatened with social exclusion?

How do you feel about a mandatory virus passport that is already being developed?

• Why is there not more emphasis on medication?
• And most of all: why isn’t much more attention paid to how to keep yourself healthy? Your immune system benefits when you eat well and organically, when you sleep well and exercise outdoors, connect with others, when you live without fear.

To conclude, this:

• There are a lot of different types of Corona virusses. They have been here for a long time.
• Now there is much more testing than in the beginning, so it is only logical that there is more chance that the number of positive tests will increase.
• The more there is tested, the more chance of false positives.
• The test may be positive if you have had a flu shot or mild symptoms that you did not recognize as such.
• Being tested positive does not necessarily mean that you are infected.
• Being infected doesn’t mean you will get sick.
• Getting sick doesn’t mean you will die (immediately). Everybody will die some day though.

Of course you do not have to agree with me. I highly recommend you to do your own research, ask your own questions, use your own logic, make up your own mind and act upon your own heart.

I leave you to ponder over all of this and I would love to hear your opinions on this matter, so feel free!