Karen Monroy

Conditioning. We all have it. (BTW: you can ‘plug and play’ other terms like habit, belief, thought for conditioning) Most of us don’t experience the limits our conditioning imposes. We miss the experience of our experience and pass the conditioning (or memes if your prefer) from person to person, generation to generation, like a virus of the mind.

The tentacles of conditioning are in every part of our life.

In a relationship, you know if you say X, she’ll say, Y and off you go with the square dance to hell.

In creativity, we struggle for flow paddling against the current instead of allowing and going with the current.

In work, we ‘should’ each other. Each perceiver thinks they are the alpha and omega of ‘what is’. Someone is right and someone is wrong.

These Giant Octopi of Conditioning seem to have endless tentacles, and the more we see the tentacles’ suction cups upon us, the more discouraged we become, focusing on what is wrong, why ‘it’ won’t work and why ‘it’ can’t happen.

I was reminded by @TyBennett during our rockn’ call  (you can listen here: http://tobtr.com/s/976471) we can get clarity by experimenting with the unthinkable. Calling into question what we can and can’t do.

You think things need to be perfect? Take two days and let them just be. Be on the floor, on the desk; let it all go to pot.

It isn’t possible to intellectualize this. You must actually ‘do it’ to reap the rewards of the teaching: the change in perception that can pull you back from the hamster wheel of hell.

In my book /workbook/journal I have the reader burn a $20.00 dollar bill in conjunction with key observations about objects in their familiar surroundings. Just sit, watch it burn and take notes as the observer. You think you can intellectually grasp this—but then you ‘do it’ and the switch is flipped –you ‘get it’ in a way you can’t intellectually.

We loosen the suction cups and get rid of the tentacles of conditioning, by being present with Life. By having an experience of life. By re-framing our story to see the deeper truth.

To be human is to be conditioned. It’s your purpose to learn, release the tentacles of conditioning, and be free of the conditioning, to be a little bit better each day, every day.

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