Mind Viruses: Pathological Memes

Dr. Wayne Dyer teaches that certain kinds of ideas behave like 'mind viruses' that he calls memes. They are bad concepts you live by that can reproduce themselves and be spread from one mind to another like viruses. Those bad ideas or viruses of your mind tell you how you're supposed to think and behave based on what your parents thought, or your church taught, or somebody else taught you along the way. "No one will help me". "I don't have the energy". "I don't deserve it". "I'm all alone and can't do anything about it". "I'm too weak to do what I'd really like to do" are the kinds of pathological memes Dr. Dyer uses as examples. His message of course is that we are all bits of God and we can rise above the programming of our memes. But we have to become conscious of our bad memes and then want to be rid of them, they aren't going away all by themselves and it takes a conscious effort to replace them with something better.

less