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Information Bulletin No 4

Conditioning of People

All day everyday you experience. These experiences shape the person you are. They create your personality. They help you make decisions about yourself, other people, your relationships and life in general.

In the same way that you program a computer, your mind is programmed by each experience. What you learn becomes your adopted beliefs and values. This is your blue print, from which you make your choices and decisions. This blue print affects the way you think, behave and react to everything in your life. It becomes the established pattern you live by.

This pattern can be very powerful. It can dictate how a person responds and behaves in a situation that appears to be similar to their blue print when in actual fact it is quite different. Because of this manner, the result is always the same as the blue print.

Quotation:

"Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

Charles Dickens, Author

Research indicates that most of this conditioning occurs very early in our life. Eighty percent is obtained prior to age five and by age ten, ninety five percent of our patterning for life is fully developed (the blue print).

Generally from this point on, the person is living life as a reaction to what is on their blue print, not to what is actually occurring.

These patterns result from emotions felt in childhood. When emotions are contained, they are stored in the mind and body as recordings to be played back later, the same as music is recorded on a compact disc. When a person finds themselves feeling a certain way, the mind remembers the song and plays back the ending again and again. We become adults with a repertoire built into our physical being. This prevents us from functioning at our full potential, because instead of concentrating on today - we are marching to the tune of a very old song.

Throughout life we will seek out the songs we know from our childhood, whether these experiences are positive or negative. With the negative, our unconscious mind is seeking to heal the hurt experienced in childhood by having us choose people, relationships and career moves that will recreate our childhood dramas even if these are unpleasant and appear to be completely irrational to others because we are trying to fix the past.

These patterns can be changed, just as a blue print can be re-drawn. People are able to let go of their recordings and to think rationally around a subject to which previously they were simply following the old tune. Thus people are able to improve their thinking and to become more aware. They become more productive, content workers.

Quotation:

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Dale Carnegie, Author

Please contact Graeme Alford, Principal Executive/Life Coach, for further information.