How To Become Aware Of Your Cultural Conditioning
In this post, we will try to pierce through layer upon layer of mental noise, to become aware of your cultural conditioning. I should remind you though, that you are most probably already aware of some of the coarser conditioning.
It is true to say that stress, restlessness and impatience block the ability to see clearly. Therefore, if you are of a restless nature, work on yourself whenever you feel centered and at ease.
Any reflections like this require a willingness to explore your inner world, or phrased differently, a willingness to explore your feelings and thoughts.
The way we will go about it, is first by comparing what the cultural conditioning was like hundreds of years ago, with how it is today. That will raise your awareness and stimulate your curiosity. Then, you will be asked a number of specific questions.
As usual, the more often you come back to the article and reflect on its statements and questions, the more progress you will make.
Before we start, what is cultural conditioning and what are the benefits of transcending it? Here is a link to an article that clearly explains the ins and outs of cultural conditioning.
It is true to say that stress, restlessness and impatience block the ability to see clearly. Therefore, if you are of a restless nature, work on yourself whenever you feel centered and at ease.
Any reflections like this require a willingness to explore your inner world, or phrased differently, a willingness to explore your feelings and thoughts.
The way we will go about it, is first by comparing what the cultural conditioning was like hundreds of years ago, with how it is today. That will raise your awareness and stimulate your curiosity. Then, you will be asked a number of specific questions.
As usual, the more often you come back to the article and reflect on its statements and questions, the more progress you will make.
Before we start, what is cultural conditioning and what are the benefits of transcending it? Here is a link to an article that clearly explains the ins and outs of cultural conditioning.
Cultural Conditioning Hundreds Of Years Ago
Take some time to contemplate the following section. Read slowly and pause whenever needed.
How was the cultural conditioning different hundreds of years ago, prior to the industrialization? Let's take a close look at it.
The modes of transport were slow and the infrastructure was very poor. As it were, most people traveled on foot, by horse, horse and carriage or ship. As a result of the limited possibilities, not many traveled long distances. It was also an expensive and potentially dangerous undertaking.
Without cars, trains and planes, it was rare to go to new places. For this reason, the people were exposed to few new impressions. As you know, when you travel you may visit new countries, try new foods and see how people live. That, directly conditions your way of thinking.
What is more, without newspapers, phones, radio, tv and the internet, they hardly knew anything about what was going on in the world. One could say, that their world was made up of their community and the neighboring villages.
Without electricity it gets really dark at night, no wonder they were superstitious and afraid of wild animals. How comfortable could it be to live without electricity and running water. These discomforts conditioned how they looked at life.
Most of them lived in the countryside and put in long hours on farms.
Further, imagine knowing every single person in your village by first and last name. This conditions how you perceive the folks around you.
Did they value the limited noise and air pollution, or were they unaware of it?
How many people owned books and knew how to read?
Some were fortunate to learn to read and write, while a select few were given privileges by kings and became powerful and wealthy.
Was there any justice, at all?
How did the church or temples treat the people? Were they forced to attend the religious services? How would that make you feel?
Women nowhere near had the same status in society as men, which had a major impact on cultural conditioning.
Since the culture and technology didn't change much over a hundred years, most things remained the same. The conditioning was greatly affected by that as well.
Picture a world without celebrities, fast food and shopping malls, a world without insurance companies, plastic and space tourism.
Moreover, imagine a world without contraceptives. How would that affect the conditioning?
At that time, the external conditions were vastly different from today, the hardship fueled hopelessness and frustration. In combination with the fact that the parents didn't know better, they beat their children; thus, most of them were afraid of their parents. That, had a truly negative impact on their cultural conditioning, which was passed down from generation to generation. Will this transmission ever be broken?
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How Have You Been Culturally Conditioned?
Take your time to reflect on the following questions, be really honest with yourself:
- How have you been conditioned by traveling?
- How have you been conditioned by radio, tv, mobile phones, computers and the internet?
- How have you been conditioned by music?
- How have you been conditioned by having your own car?
- How have you been conditioned by foreign foods?
- Are you aware of how you have been conditioned by religion and spirituality, or the lack thereof?
- Has your cultural conditioning made you a selfish individual?
- Are you negative, do you complain for the sake of complaining?
- Is it easier for you to hate someone who has hurt you, than to forgive him?
- Are you a racist, homophobic, islamophobic and sexist? How have you been conditioned to think about these issues?
- How have you been conditioned by your ethnicity?
- How have you been conditioned by your sexual orientation?
- How have you been conditioned by your sex drive?
- How have you been conditioned by your gender?
- Have you been conditioned to value gender equality?
- How have you been conditioned by your religion?
- Are you aware of how you were conditioned by your childhood?
- Were you exposed to a lot of anger during your childhood? How does that play out now?
- Do you face anger in your daily life? How are you conditioned by that?
- How have you been conditioned by your parents?
- How have you been conditioned by your family?
- How have you been conditioned by your friends?
- How have you been conditioned by your interests?
- How have you been conditioned by your physical and mental health?
- How have you been conditioned by your education?
- How have you been conditioned by your social status, or the lack thereof?
- How have you been conditioned by bullying or being bullied?
- How have you been conditioned by your work?
- How have you been conditioned by your relationships?
- How have you been conditioned by being a parent?
- How have you been conditioned by the need to be successful?
- Are you aware of how you have been conditioned by your successes and failures?
- How have you been conditioned by your wrongdoings in life?
- How have you been conditioned by people who have lied and taken advantage of you?
- What has conditioned your fears?
- What have you been conditioned to be ashamed of?
- How have you been conditioned by death? Have you lost a loved one?
- How have you been conditioned by the comforts of modern life?
- What do you take for granted in your daily life?
- How have you been conditioned by news?
- How have you been conditioned by the globalization?
- How have you been conditioned by the world wars?
- How have you been conditioned by terrorism?
- How have you been conditioned by evil?
- How have you been conditioned by kindness?
- How have you been conditioned by democracy?
- How have you been conditioned by human rights?
- How have you been conditioned by freedom?
- Where do your ideals come from? How have they been conditioned, and by whom?
- How have you been conditioned by your nationality?
- How have you been conditioned by your culture?
- How have you been conditioned by fair wages and unfair wages?
- How have you been conditioned by justice and injustice?
- How have you been conditioned by your busy lifestyle and stress?
- How have you been conditioned by impersonal city life?
- How have you been conditioned by not knowing your neighbors?
- How have you been conditioned by the digital age?
- How have you been conditioned by the fast-paced technological advancements?
- How have you been conditioned by continuous online connectivity?
- How have you been conditioned by spending thousands of hours in front of a computer?
- How have you been conditioned by modern healthcare?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having a pension or not having a pension?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having health insurance or not having health insurance?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having life insurance or not having life insurance?
- How have you been conditioned by your appearance?
- How have you been conditioned by your body weight?
- How have you been conditioned by your diet?
- Have you ever felt out of place, while surrounded by people who are really different from you? What was it like? What feelings and thoughts came up? What did you learn from the experience?
- What do you wish were different in your life? What do you wish were different in your community? What do you wish were different in the world? Whatever comes to mind, is the fruit of your cultural conditioning.
- How have you been conditioned by the knowledge of the universe?
- How have you been conditioned by your positive and negative life experiences?
- How do you deal with restlessness and boredom? What is the root cause of this conditioning?
Take your time to reflect on these questions. Feel free to go over them again and again. This type of work results in self-knowledge or self-awareness.
Remember that cultural conditioning is made up of your thoughts, emotional reactions, habits, behavior, fears, beliefs, values, likes, dislikes, ideals etc.
One of the easiest ways to become aware of your cultural conditioning, is by removing yourself from your own culture, for long periods of time. The more foreign the culture is, the easier it is to become aware of your own cultural conditioning. Ultimately, the more you engage with the local population, the more you will learn about yourself.
Best of luck!
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axel g > General > How To Become Aware Of Your Cultural Conditioning
How was the cultural conditioning different hundreds of years ago, prior to the industrialization? Let's take a close look at it.
The modes of transport were slow and the infrastructure was very poor. As it were, most people traveled on foot, by horse, horse and carriage or ship. As a result of the limited possibilities, not many traveled long distances. It was also an expensive and potentially dangerous undertaking.
Without cars, trains and planes, it was rare to go to new places. For this reason, the people were exposed to few new impressions. As you know, when you travel you may visit new countries, try new foods and see how people live. That, directly conditions your way of thinking.
What is more, without newspapers, phones, radio, tv and the internet, they hardly knew anything about what was going on in the world. One could say, that their world was made up of their community and the neighboring villages.
Without electricity it gets really dark at night, no wonder they were superstitious and afraid of wild animals. How comfortable could it be to live without electricity and running water. These discomforts conditioned how they looked at life.
Most of them lived in the countryside and put in long hours on farms.
Further, imagine knowing every single person in your village by first and last name. This conditions how you perceive the folks around you.
Did they value the limited noise and air pollution, or were they unaware of it?
How many people owned books and knew how to read?
Some were fortunate to learn to read and write, while a select few were given privileges by kings and became powerful and wealthy.
Was there any justice, at all?
How did the church or temples treat the people? Were they forced to attend the religious services? How would that make you feel?
Women nowhere near had the same status in society as men, which had a major impact on cultural conditioning.
Since the culture and technology didn't change much over a hundred years, most things remained the same. The conditioning was greatly affected by that as well.
Picture a world without celebrities, fast food and shopping malls, a world without insurance companies, plastic and space tourism.
Moreover, imagine a world without contraceptives. How would that affect the conditioning?
At that time, the external conditions were vastly different from today, the hardship fueled hopelessness and frustration. In combination with the fact that the parents didn't know better, they beat their children; thus, most of them were afraid of their parents. That, had a truly negative impact on their cultural conditioning, which was passed down from generation to generation. Will this transmission ever be broken?
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How Have You Been Culturally Conditioned?
Take your time to reflect on the following questions, be really honest with yourself:
- How have you been conditioned by traveling?
- How have you been conditioned by radio, tv, mobile phones, computers and the internet?
- How have you been conditioned by music?
- How have you been conditioned by having your own car?
- How have you been conditioned by foreign foods?
- Are you aware of how you have been conditioned by religion and spirituality, or the lack thereof?
- Has your cultural conditioning made you a selfish individual?
- Are you negative, do you complain for the sake of complaining?
- Is it easier for you to hate someone who has hurt you, than to forgive him?
- Are you a racist, homophobic, islamophobic and sexist? How have you been conditioned to think about these issues?
- How have you been conditioned by your ethnicity?
- How have you been conditioned by your sexual orientation?
- How have you been conditioned by your sex drive?
- How have you been conditioned by your gender?
- Have you been conditioned to value gender equality?
- How have you been conditioned by your religion?
- Are you aware of how you were conditioned by your childhood?
- Were you exposed to a lot of anger during your childhood? How does that play out now?
- Do you face anger in your daily life? How are you conditioned by that?
- How have you been conditioned by your parents?
- How have you been conditioned by your family?
- How have you been conditioned by your friends?
- How have you been conditioned by your interests?
- How have you been conditioned by your physical and mental health?
- How have you been conditioned by your education?
- How have you been conditioned by your social status, or the lack thereof?
- How have you been conditioned by bullying or being bullied?
- How have you been conditioned by your work?
- How have you been conditioned by your relationships?
- How have you been conditioned by being a parent?
- How have you been conditioned by the need to be successful?
- Are you aware of how you have been conditioned by your successes and failures?
- How have you been conditioned by your wrongdoings in life?
- How have you been conditioned by people who have lied and taken advantage of you?
- What has conditioned your fears?
- What have you been conditioned to be ashamed of?
- How have you been conditioned by death? Have you lost a loved one?
- How have you been conditioned by the comforts of modern life?
- What do you take for granted in your daily life?
- How have you been conditioned by news?
- How have you been conditioned by the globalization?
- How have you been conditioned by the world wars?
- How have you been conditioned by terrorism?
- How have you been conditioned by evil?
- How have you been conditioned by kindness?
- How have you been conditioned by democracy?
- How have you been conditioned by human rights?
- How have you been conditioned by freedom?
- Where do your ideals come from? How have they been conditioned, and by whom?
- How have you been conditioned by your nationality?
- How have you been conditioned by your culture?
- How have you been conditioned by fair wages and unfair wages?
- How have you been conditioned by justice and injustice?
- How have you been conditioned by your busy lifestyle and stress?
- How have you been conditioned by impersonal city life?
- How have you been conditioned by not knowing your neighbors?
- How have you been conditioned by the digital age?
- How have you been conditioned by the fast-paced technological advancements?
- How have you been conditioned by continuous online connectivity?
- How have you been conditioned by spending thousands of hours in front of a computer?
- How have you been conditioned by modern healthcare?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having a pension or not having a pension?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having health insurance or not having health insurance?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having life insurance or not having life insurance?
- How have you been conditioned by your appearance?
- How have you been conditioned by your body weight?
- How have you been conditioned by your diet?
- Have you ever felt out of place, while surrounded by people who are really different from you? What was it like? What feelings and thoughts came up? What did you learn from the experience?
- What do you wish were different in your life? What do you wish were different in your community? What do you wish were different in the world? Whatever comes to mind, is the fruit of your cultural conditioning.
- How have you been conditioned by the knowledge of the universe?
- How have you been conditioned by your positive and negative life experiences?
- How do you deal with restlessness and boredom? What is the root cause of this conditioning?
Take your time to reflect on these questions. Feel free to go over them again and again. This type of work results in self-knowledge or self-awareness.
Remember that cultural conditioning is made up of your thoughts, emotional reactions, habits, behavior, fears, beliefs, values, likes, dislikes, ideals etc.
One of the easiest ways to become aware of your cultural conditioning, is by removing yourself from your own culture, for long periods of time. The more foreign the culture is, the easier it is to become aware of your own cultural conditioning. Ultimately, the more you engage with the local population, the more you will learn about yourself.
Best of luck!
Related: Personal Growth Political Correctness Collective Fear
axel g > General > How To Become Aware Of Your Cultural Conditioning
- How have you been conditioned by traveling?
- How have you been conditioned by radio, tv, mobile phones, computers and the internet?
- How have you been conditioned by music?
- How have you been conditioned by having your own car?
- How have you been conditioned by foreign foods?
- Are you aware of how you have been conditioned by religion and spirituality, or the lack thereof?
- Has your cultural conditioning made you a selfish individual?
- Are you negative, do you complain for the sake of complaining?
- Is it easier for you to hate someone who has hurt you, than to forgive him?
- Are you a racist, homophobic, islamophobic and sexist? How have you been conditioned to think about these issues?
- How have you been conditioned by your ethnicity?
- How have you been conditioned by your sexual orientation?
- How have you been conditioned by your sex drive?
- How have you been conditioned by your gender?
- Have you been conditioned to value gender equality?
- How have you been conditioned by your religion?
- Are you aware of how you were conditioned by your childhood?
- Were you exposed to a lot of anger during your childhood? How does that play out now?
- Do you face anger in your daily life? How are you conditioned by that?
- How have you been conditioned by your parents?
- How have you been conditioned by your family?
- How have you been conditioned by your friends?
- How have you been conditioned by your interests?
- How have you been conditioned by your physical and mental health?
- How have you been conditioned by your education?
- How have you been conditioned by your social status, or the lack thereof?
- How have you been conditioned by bullying or being bullied?
- How have you been conditioned by your work?
- How have you been conditioned by your relationships?
- How have you been conditioned by being a parent?
- How have you been conditioned by the need to be successful?
- Are you aware of how you have been conditioned by your successes and failures?
- How have you been conditioned by your wrongdoings in life?
- How have you been conditioned by people who have lied and taken advantage of you?
- What has conditioned your fears?
- What have you been conditioned to be ashamed of?
- How have you been conditioned by death? Have you lost a loved one?
- How have you been conditioned by the comforts of modern life?
- What do you take for granted in your daily life?
- How have you been conditioned by news?
- How have you been conditioned by the globalization?
- How have you been conditioned by the world wars?
- How have you been conditioned by terrorism?
- How have you been conditioned by evil?
- How have you been conditioned by kindness?
- How have you been conditioned by democracy?
- How have you been conditioned by human rights?
- How have you been conditioned by freedom?
- Where do your ideals come from? How have they been conditioned, and by whom?
- How have you been conditioned by your nationality?
- How have you been conditioned by your culture?
- How have you been conditioned by fair wages and unfair wages?
- How have you been conditioned by justice and injustice?
- How have you been conditioned by your busy lifestyle and stress?
- How have you been conditioned by impersonal city life?
- How have you been conditioned by not knowing your neighbors?
- How have you been conditioned by the digital age?
- How have you been conditioned by the fast-paced technological advancements?
- How have you been conditioned by continuous online connectivity?
- How have you been conditioned by spending thousands of hours in front of a computer?
- How have you been conditioned by modern healthcare?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having a pension or not having a pension?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having health insurance or not having health insurance?
- How have you been conditioned by the idea of having life insurance or not having life insurance?
- How have you been conditioned by your appearance?
- How have you been conditioned by your body weight?
- How have you been conditioned by your diet?
- Have you ever felt out of place, while surrounded by people who are really different from you? What was it like? What feelings and thoughts came up? What did you learn from the experience?
- What do you wish were different in your life? What do you wish were different in your community? What do you wish were different in the world? Whatever comes to mind, is the fruit of your cultural conditioning.
- How have you been conditioned by the knowledge of the universe?
- How have you been conditioned by your positive and negative life experiences?
- How do you deal with restlessness and boredom? What is the root cause of this conditioning?
Take your time to reflect on these questions. Feel free to go over them again and again. This type of work results in self-knowledge or self-awareness.
Remember that cultural conditioning is made up of your thoughts, emotional reactions, habits, behavior, fears, beliefs, values, likes, dislikes, ideals etc.
One of the easiest ways to become aware of your cultural conditioning, is by removing yourself from your own culture, for long periods of time. The more foreign the culture is, the easier it is to become aware of your own cultural conditioning. Ultimately, the more you engage with the local population, the more you will learn about yourself.
Best of luck!
Related: Personal Growth Political Correctness Collective Fear
axel g > General > How To Become Aware Of Your Cultural Conditioning