Quotes About Conditioning

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

All this conditioning is designed to prepare us for the workforce, where we will be expected to follow the same rules, conform to the same expectations, and perform tasks efficiently without questioning our purpose. Keep in mind that governments make most of their income from employee taxes, so it benefits them by producing employees who will pay taxes and become the income source for the state.

The environment shapes people's actions.

Nobody's feeling, after 10 days of playing every day, 100 per cent ready or fit.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

Are we really ever completely our own person or have we been conditioned in ways beyond our own imagination?

This attachment to the body also deeply conditions our fear of death. The more we cling, the harder it is to let go.

In the second training, we develop energy, concentration, and mindfulness. These are the meditative and life tools that enable us to awaken. Without them we simply act out the patterns of our conditioning.

You are living in a psychological prison of your own making, and you are bound by your beliefs, opinions, training, and environmental influences. Like most people, you are a creature of habit. You are conditioned to react the way you do.

This is true, but the difficulty is that the conscious mind always interferes with its five-sense evidence based on outer appearances, leading to the sway of false beliefs, fears, and mere opinion. When fear, false beliefs, and negative patterns are made to register in the subconscious mind through psychological, emotional conditioning, there is no other course open to the subconscious mind except to act on the blueprint specification offered to it.

Como sabe, los pensamientos que se repiten regular y sistemáticamente se hunden en la mente subconsciente y se tornan habituales.

Know that your train of thought is being engraved in your deeper mind, and it becomes a conditioned state of consciousness.

All the little Indians in a half circle around Aunt Emily are getting an imprinting that will last for life. The sound of her voice reading will condition how they look upon themselves and the world. It will become part of the loved ambience of Battell Pond, a glint in the chromatic wonder of childhood. These small sensibilities will never lose the images of dark woods and bright lake. Nature to them will always be beneficent and female.

Stress acclimatization is about measuring precise doses of stress followed by waves of recovery and then repeating these cycles very specifically. There must be time for adaptation to take place and there must be enough training, repeated over time, to help it stick as well as reinforcing the conditioning.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

By all accounts, John Frankenheimer was singularly obsessed with The Manchurian Candidate, a film that, according to Daniel O'Brien, the director regarded "as his first truly personal project, feeling that the story made an all too valid point regarding the political manipulation and conditioning of American society.

If you think of physical conditioning, technical understanding and tactical appreciation as forming three legs,' Wayne Smith tells writer Gregor Paul, 'the stool isn't balanced unless you have psychological strength as well.

Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.

They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!

People can have strong emotional reactions when their meditation gets towards the cessation of the ego. Panic and terror often become quite strong at those times. One can feel as though one is dying ? that is the message you can get from the conditioning of the mind.

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

Physically, I feel extremely well, perhaps fitter than ever.