8/27/18

Today's Horoscope

All signs:
The stars get sad sometimes when they watch us fail over and over again. We seem to keep trying losing strategies that never work. We go down the same roads over and over, expecting a better outcome, for some reason. We look for happiness in places that only bring us misery.
The problem is that our brains have not caught up evolutionarily with progress. Our brains are still under the assumption that we are fighting for a spot in the food chain. Many of our actions are based on outdated instincts and reactionary impulses based on our reptilian brainstem.
The good news is, our brains are highly adaptable and easily reprogrammed. Don't believe it? Your brain has been programmed and reprogrammed over and over already. By your parents, by theology, by school and organizations, by friends and lovers and advertising and pop culture. What do you think psychology, substance abuse programs, anger management, etc, is all about? Reprogramming your brain to think and react in ways that are better for you.
The thing is, reprogramming your own brain is the hardest way to do it. You're asking the very thing you're trying to change to help you do it, and brains by their nature resist change at all costs. It can be done, in fact it is done everyday, but it's so, so hard. That's why we fail most of the time.
Part of the trick is to get rid of the people and things in your life that are still providing you with faulty programming. When you're in toxic relationships and unhealthy environments, all the work you do on yourself will probably come to naught. Conflicting programming usually means that the bad influences will win out.
So the stars recommend that you fill your life with people and things that jibe with what you want in life. When the things that influence your life mesh with what you are trying to achieve, the programming will eventually take care of itself.