Conditioning
To understand conditioning better one can look at the works of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who had received the Nobel Prize for the research of this field.
This Mr. Pavlov had found that alone the steps of the owner feeding the dogs stimulated the salivation. He connected the whole thing then still with the
famous bell, which alone did not trigger any reaction of the dogs. However, after he connected the feeding with the bell, the bell alone triggered the salivation of the dogs.
bell again triggered the salivation, even without food.
Another important discovery was made by Pavlov in 1927, after he repeatedly gave morphine to a dog and it vomited as a result. This vomiting
occurred even when the dog was injected with a neutral saline solution instead of morphine, this experience is considered to be the origin of placebo and nocebo research.
Of course, this is not to say that I think animal experiments are good, but they did happen.
But back to conditioning. Of course you may ask now, what do Pavlov's dogs have to do with us humans?
Quite simply, the principle is the same, with the difference that our world is somewhat more complex than the world of a dog.
What is it about for us, especially our unconscious? The unconscious wants to get away from pain and towards pleasure. In Mr. Maslow's pyramid of needs, the
priorities according to which we act. The absolute basic needs that we desperately need to survive are air, food, warmth and so on.
Then come security needs, social needs, individual needs, and finally then self-actualization.
At all these stages we learn what is best for us, what protects us from danger and what brings us quality of life. Especially in childhood we learn many strategies,
partly through experience, but to an even greater extent through our caregivers. By adopting their strategies. In addition, there are always the manipulations such as advertising,
which are psychologically sophisticated to ensure that certain conditioning is set.
And so we always react to key stimuli in the same way, like a computer that runs a special program on command. These key stimuli can be totally different,
and often they don't rise above the threshold of our consciousness at all.
What is the point of this in the first place? Originally, it was about behavior in dangerous situations, because if our ancestors, when encountering a saber-toothed tiger, would have
would have thought long and hard about what to do, it would rarely have ended well. In addition, however, we have automated many activities, so hardly anyone needs to
hardly anyone needs to think about which foot we have to move and when in order to move. And this goes so far that we can even rehearse very complex sequences
such as playing the piano. Without these abilities to let the unconscious control a great deal, many things would simply be impossible for us.
The other side of the coin is that in many situations we react automatically, the same way over and over again, and one might think that we react like a computer that does the same thing over and over again in response to a command.
the same thing over and over again in response to a command. But we as humans have a huge advantage over most other creatures, we can reflect on why
we act the way we do. In my opinion, this is exactly where human free will begins. The ability to reflect allows us to recognize when we are acting automatically
and we can then change the programs.
Most of these programs have been "programmed in" while we were emotionally very involved. In order to eliminate these imprints, it is useful to remove the emotions from the underlying events.
from the underlying events.
And of course, this programming doesn't just refer to activities we do in response, it refers just as well to thought patterns,
that run the same way over and over again. Until we change them.
The mind clearing system is the tool for this.
Excursion: Developement of brain waves
