All Thought & No Action or Prisoner of Belief System
Saw this tweet from @CoachDeb – Growing up under the Protestant Work Ethic, I thought “sweating” was pious & the key to success. Then I realized I was slave 2 theory.
It seems to me that being a slave to theory can take a couple of forms:
- A tendency to live more in the conceptual world where we have more “talk” and less “walk”
- Living in a closed system – prisoner of our beliefs – little, if any, openness to outside influence or feedback
The conditioning of our mind by our early environment is a hard thing to break free of. Our minds, bodies, and consciousness were “impressed” by these “beliefs” hundreds and thousands of times a day in blatant and subtle ways. As infants and very young children the parental and environmental demand to “see the world as we see it” is a survival issue – who’s going to feed and house us if we don’t accept the party line?
The really difficult part is that much of this conditioning exists at a pre-verbal level in our consciousness – we don’t have the capacity for objective thinking until 5 to 7 years of age. That makes working with it, dealing with it and seeing through it very challenging.
This pre-verbal conditioning exists in the body and mind as tension patterns which also exist as an energetic comfort range. Many people think they are in control of their lives, that they choose what they want to do when in fact most actions they take are simply reactions to others,events or incessant mind-chatter. These reactions manifest within the constraints of the conditioning. The conditioning is actually in control and making the decisions. The conscious mind is mostly under the influence of the conditioning.
More could be said. Interesting to see the thoughts triggered by – Slave 2 Theory
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