Why Trying to Fix Yourself is
Making You Sick

Where does this come from? Simply, programming. And programming is attention control and mind control and advertising. It’s propaganda that we just accept because it’s being fed to us 24/7 from birth. From school, from government, from church, from media, from each other. There’s a reason the scroll on social media is called “The Feed.”

And most of us are engaging with this full blast, with no energetic armor or awareness. Choosing each day, sometimes before doing anything else, to open our deepest, most precious resource (our inner world) to be mined, infiltrated, and harvested by whatever digital slop the algorithm deems worthy. Likely whoever paid for ads to target you that day.

Instead of waking up and connecting with the sun, the Earth, the animals, the land… we consume our digital feed. We have the phone in our hands before our eyes are even open. It tells us when and how to do everything. We are outsourcing our memory, curiosity, creativity, and worst of all, our time, to the false god of being, at best entertained, and at worst, just distracted. Before we have any time to connect with the natural world, our own rhythm, movement, breath, we are listening to and reading news about what’s gone horribly wrong in every corner of the world.

This is not 2026. It’s 1984.

OK, I know this sounds conspiracy-theory-esque. But you don’t have to be wearing a tinfoil hat to see that your attention is being monetized. Your values are being programmed. And your actions are being shaped by a limiting belief system that isn’t even yours. You didn’t choose this.

People who are sensitive, intelligent, and wired to care deeply about others often develop hypervigilant nervous systems. The same traits that make us good helpers also make us exceptionally good at scanning for problems.

And in a culture that constantly tells us something is wrong with us, that pattern becomes weaponized. We start scanning our own bodies the same way. Every symptom becomes a problem to solve. Every sensation becomes a potential diagnosis. Every bad day becomes evidence that something is broken.

And the nervous system never exits threat detection mode. The body cannot heal in crisis. But it feels so normal to live this way, to be so desensitized on the outside while everything inside is screaming, that we forget we have a choice in this.

When the body can’t get your attention any other way, it will start creating louder and louder signals. More symptoms. More fatigue. More illness. And if you’re afraid, anxious, and catastrophizing every sensation, it becomes the perfect storm for chronic conditions to start taking over.