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06. Conditioning & Trauma Awareness Self-Reflection

The first years of your life, 0-7 years old, are the most influential and impressionable, including physical, emotional, mental and spiritual patterns and conditioning. From conception through early childhood, you are a sponge, absorbing all the information in and around you, learning from your internal and external experiences to help you understand what's going on. 

Although you may not fully process and integrate the information at this age, you are perceiving everything through your energy field and body, and pick up much more than you realize. You are learning how to Be in the world, while going through the developmental stages physically, mentally and emotionally. Your experiences create deeply engraved conditioned patterns within you which typically alter your sense of Being and are at the root of many health issues.

 

Your initial environments, people and experiences affect how you feel, what you believe, what you think, how you act, react and behave in life and certain situations. Biologically you are wired to care about your basic survival needs, and as a human infant you must completely rely on others to keep you safe, warm, fed, loved, etc. to live. You learn how to Be to seemingly ensure your safety, conditioning yourself to live a certain way.

 

You may even decide to hide or reject parts of yourself that may challenge the status quo of your current sense of safety. These conditioned patterns can even become a part of your identity as you conceal or exile other parts in the shadow of your subconscious. These patterns then play out in various areas of your life and can create imbalances within you. 

This reflection exercise is designed to bring awareness to your potential conditioning so you may understand yourself more deeply and reclaim conscious choice and free will. 

As you begin to acknowledge conditioned perceptions, beliefs, habits, behaviors, etc. you are able to assess if these are actually true to you and if they are serving your greatest good.

Typically the healing process involves shedding that which is not yours or is no longer serving you, so you may embody more of yourself. Highlight these influential areas with curiosity rather than with judgment, shame, blame or criticism.

Start with what easily comes up and let things come to you as you continue to reflect. You may find reflecting on later years in life helps you trace back to the influences of these early years. With more awareness of these influences you may reclaim your power and release anything that is not true to you.

 

Reflect on the prompts below for ~10-20 minutes for the next 3 days. *Unless otherwise directed.

  • You may use your journal to reflect or draw a chart or timeline to help you remember. 
  • Perform this self-reflection again in about 4 weeks to assess your progress and to gather any new information to continue to support you and your greatest good.
  • Optionally, use your testing technique to determine your optimal frequency and duration to use this reflection.

 

Conditioning & Trauma Awareness self-reflection prompts:

From ages 0-7 years old: 

  • What are your most prevalent memories or influential experiences from this time ranging anywhere from joyful to traumatic? 
  • Who were the most consistent or influential people in your life?
  • What beliefs did these people have about the world, other family members, other people and themselves? 
  • How did the people in your life deal with their emotions? (repression, unhealthy expression, etc.)
  • What physical injuries did you have? Do you feel any of these still today?
  • Did you (knowingly or unknowingly) deny, repress or suppress any feelings, emotions, beliefs or dreams? 
  • Did you (knowingly or unknowingly) adapt, and/or take on a way of being or behaving based on your experiences?
  • Did you (knowingly or unknowingly) conclude anything about yourself, others or the world based on your experiences?
  • Does your conditioning feel collectively related or connected to societal influences?
  • Does your conditioning feel ancestrally related or deeply embedded within the family?
  • Does your conditioned beliefs, patterns, way of being, etc. serve your highest and greatest good?

 

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