Our Conditioning

What causes us to act in certain ways – ways that may not be working for us? The simple answer may be conditioning. Find out more in the mini podcast.

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Transcript

Our Conditioning

Some years ago one of my friends posted this question on Facebook: “What’s wrong with people?” It was in response to a video he posted.

I’m sure there are countless answers to "what's wrong with people" but if I had to sum it up in a word it would be, “Conditioning.”

You learned whatever is “right” or “wrong” with you somewhere, and, by and large, it was learned at the knee of the people who helped shape you.

The video he posted no longer exists on YouTube but it involved two women who got into a fist fight in an Indiana Walmart over who knows what. The one woman has her 5 year old son with her. What she encourages him to do to the other woman was long-conditioned into him before this incident. She said something like, "Kick her Billy." That’s the sad part.

I have little doubt this child will carry these attitudes forward. And if we fast forward into the future, I suspect someone else will be asking “What’s wrong with people?” in an incident regarding him.

Many people defend their conditioning, not recognizing it’s not working for them.

It’s only when you begin to recognize what’s not working, that change has a chance of happening.

I have no doubt this woman is telling anyone who will listen that she’s a “good” mother. That’s a defense that will keep her conditioning in place and have her continue to pass it on to the impressionable minds she influences.

This isn’t about the two women in Walmart; it’s about us. How much of our conditioning are we defending that isn’t working causing people to ask what’s wrong with us?

When we begin to recognize and address that, then we won’t be getting in fights in the conditioner aisle of our local Walmart.

All the best,

John