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A New and Improved Form of Brainwashing

It’s DIY and so beneficial

Victoria Ponte
2 min readApr 13, 2020

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Our brains become polluted throughout the day. We may start the day in a good mood, but then we live life.

The kids won’t eat what you made for breakfast. The traffic is horrible. Maybe there’s not enough money to pay the bills. The list goes on with things that disturb the peace.

Our brains and our minds start to feel clogged from trying to deal with an overload of stress. It becomes more difficult to cope as the day wears on.

If we add the 24/7 news feed to this cycle we might start to feel overwhelmed by stress. War. Pandemic. Deaths. Crime. Illness. Suffering. All over the world. It’s relentless.

By the time I’ve figured out what to make for dinner, cooked, served and eaten it, I feel like my brain is fried.

I stumbled upon a way to wash, rinse and repeat the crud that accumulates in my brain. I call it brainwashing, but it’s not torture.

This is the traditional definition of brainwashing:

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Victoria Ponte
Victoria Ponte

Written by Victoria Ponte

Writing to share wonder, gratitude and a sense of humor. Poetry, life lessons, survivor https://www.youtube.com/@victoriaponteagain?sub_confirmation=1

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