Beyond The Conditioned Mind

CPP'd on December 9th, 2007

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We each live in our own individual world. It may not look like it, but 6 billion people live in 6 billion separate realities.

The way we see and experience the world is determined by how we grew up, the attitudes, opinions, beliefs and limitations we were given. In other words, by the conditioning we received to our minds and emotions.

This conditioning effects the way in which we see things. It is as though we are looking out of a window with curved glass - everything appears distorted. This distortion is created by our conditioning.

When you are ‘educated’ you form ‘hard wiring’ in your brain. Literally. From then on, anything that does not match that wiring is ‘wrong’. And, incidentally, you then assume you are superior (to those whose wiring is different), and ‘they’ are more primitive. Conditioning is the main thing that reduces your feeling of freedom and happiness, not the people, places, and events around us…

(continue reading this post via Karen Walker)


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