This is the next part of this series of articles.
Let’s define programming first
“It is the mixture of your attitudes, thinking and habits that make you who you are today and have determined how much progress you have made to date and where you will go in the future.”
These habits and responses are formed from the day you are conceived. They are learned through observation, trial and error, education and your feelings through these experiences.
Now imagine that you have just bought a brand new powerful computer. The computer has memory, a processor, input points, and output points. You load software to run the computer and are either taught how to use it or very often learn by trial and error. How you use these programs is different to the next computer user, and therefore the results are also different. The computer operates using electrical impulses. All tasks are converted into an electro magnetic form – all computers have this base process, how it is used by the each user is very different. The computer chip has many pathways and switches or “junction boxes” – a different result will mean different pathways and junction boxes are used.
Now let’s use this analogy and apply it to us – we can think of human beings as very sophisticated electro chemical processors – we run on electro-chemical signals – all our inputs are converted into electro-chemical form and all our outputs are converted from electro-chemical form.
These electro-chemical signals travel from one brain synapse to another – brain synapses are switches or junction boxes – the signals travel one junction box to another. There are billions and billions of these junctions or switches in your brain. They form bridges or connections through continued use.
Now imagine that you are standing in the middle of an empty green garden or an empty field. When a child is born, this is the state of his or her brain.
There are no pathways to anywhere. Once you start walking, small pathways form, the more often you walk on these pathways, the more definite these pathways become. They then become small roads, than large roads, then a dual carriageways, then motorways, and eventually, some will become super highways. The roads you take most often are the strongest pathways in your brain become your brain – these become your thought processes, attitudes and habits.
When they so strong, they then sit in our sub conscious and become our automatic responses, the responses we make without thinking. This is our ‘programming’ or our conditioning.
The next time you react without thinking, stop yourself and think about it – you have just caught one of your automatic responses. Once you have identified it, do you than know if this response is a good one or a poor one? Do you know where you learned this from? Remember that this is what our children copy and learn from.
The next article in this series will talk about the types of ‘programming’.
