Is conscious conditioning plausible,
or an oxymoron? If referring to the individual being conditioned, as the same
individual which is conscious of the conditioning, at first this seems like it
wouldn’t work since the individual is aware of the deliberate manipulation.
Firstly, the term conditioning
should be understood in order to try to comprehend the whole concept of
conscious conditioning. In this context, the meaning of the word conditioning
is intended to be: having a regular subconscious reaction to a common factor.
To be conditioned to a common factor, can mean the individual has a positive,
negative, or neutral reaction. It is the fundamental function of the basic
subconscious mind, as a simple intellectual process. The subconscious mind of
people, as well as being the majorative (if not exclusive) mind function of
most or all animals, is a simple, less accurate, but perhaps more time
efficient, method of distinguishing differences in variables, and causing a
reaction to the variables at hand. Basically, conditioning is causing a certain
reaction from an individual, as a result of a common repeated scenario. The
reaction can be a physical reaction, which would typically be a developed
reflex, or more subtly muscle memory, created by a repeated scenario. But that
reaction as a conditioned reaction is always created, caused and influenced by
the minds interpretation of the reaction being positive or negative. The
reaction can be feeling positive, happy, and joyful –typically caused by
something beneficial to the individual to trigger instinctual positive
reactions in the brain-, or negative, sad, and painful –typically caused by
something harmful to the individual-. These subconscious reactions to scenarios
of repeated variables are the basic method of intelligence, and inaccurate at
distinguishing differences in variables within the repeated scenarios, but can
theoretically be manipulated to the benefit of the individual by means of
conscious control.
With conscious awareness of any
specific scenario, the individual can distinguish far more accurate differences
in variables, and be aware of minor differences which change the minds
comprehension from positive to negative, or vice versa. This is the basics of
conscious comprehension vs subconscious reaction, and when effectively
understood, can theoretically be applied to not only make far more accurate and
effective decisions using conscious comprehension, but also to condition
subconscious reaction to have the preferred outcome.
This can be done by simply being
consciously aware of a benefit to a scenario involving variables which your
subconscious does not recognize and
would typically have a negative reaction to, or being aware of the negative
aspect of a scenario which your subconscious mind would inaccurately have a
positive reaction to. By consciously distinguishing the more accurate
perception of a potentially complex scenario repeatedly, as being positive or
negative, your mind will receive that more accurate feedback of either negative
or positive, and in the future will remember that influence, and be much more
likely to make that more effective and accurately perceived reaction. Once your
mind begins to have this reaction automatically, without the need for conscious
comprehension, and accurate differential distinguishment, you have then
consciously conditioned your subconscious. Theoretically, there could be no
need to use subconscious thought, and therefore no need to condition it, if
someone was to make all decisions consciously –and therefore more accurately-,
but at this point of development of the human mind –at least as far as I’m
aware- conscious comprehension and decision making takes a much longer time
than subconscious reaction.
As an overview of conscious decision
making in ratio to subconscious reaction, it seems most efficient to use
conscious comprehension for decisions which seem important and significant, and
subconscious reaction for lower priority and less meaningful scenarios. The
significant advantage of conscious conditioning is you can consciously decide
what is most beneficial for mostly every scenario, even those seemingly less
important situations, and maneuver your subconscious reaction to be that
beneficial option from that point on.
Conscious conditioning is virtually
an optimal hybrid concept of the most efficient and effective application of
mind processes.
