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People, businesses, organisations and institutions with a wide range of agendas will feed you information in various forms in an attempt to attract, distract, exploit or influence you. They may have your best interests at heart, they may be actively trying to harm you or they may be indifferent to your existence. It’s often impossible to tell and it arguably doesn’t matter. The thing that does matter is what you do in response to receiving information, the result of which will have a profound impact on the outcome of your life and mental state. Your responses to information may also impact the lives and mental states of anyone you directly or indirectly interact with.

At times, the things you choose to do will be in opposition to the wishes of people who you may admire, respect and love. People whose opinions, like yours, can be easily misinformed or driven by personal fear and greed. When you don’t do what people want, expect or demand of you then they may go to extreme lengths to try and change your opinion, discredit you, silence you or punish you. They may label you, threaten you, befriend you, attack you, attempt to ruin your credibility or even try to convince you that you’ve lost your mind. Therefore, in addition to filtering information skilfully it’s also important for you to trust yourself to act on the information you receive in a way that is independent of the external pressure of other people.

If you don't understand how information is used in an attempt to control you then you may be highly susceptible to the lure of anyone who can capture your attention and plant ideas in your mind. In doing so they can have you think things, give things, say things, stop doing things or ignore things that could be to your own detriment, to the detriment of other people and even to the detriment of the planet.