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Conditioned Response

5/8/2014

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Have you ever heard of Pavlov's dog? To simply explain the experiment, it was proven that a dog could  be conditioned to salivate simply by hearing the sound of a bell. This occurred by repeatedly rewarding the dog with a treat when a bell sounded. Soon the dog was salivating for the treat just by hearing the bell...even when a treat was not produced. 

Just as the dog's salivation was a conditioned response to its' environment, so is how you respond to your pain a conditioned response. Now don't get me wrong please, I am not comparing you to Pavlov's dog. What I am saying is that how we respond to our pain and to our lives in general, are often conditioned responses that we have learned over our life-time. 

There are many behavioural experiments and studies that have taken place over the decades that have provided a great deal of understanding to why we do what we do and how we can re-learn to do things differently. Although I will not go into the various experiments or the behavioural theories here, I mention it because our behaviour can be mapped and it can be understood. 
Our responses to our environments are generally shaped by the rewards and/or consequences we experience in our lives. Just as being positively rewarded for good behaviour can shape how we behave, so can the negative things we experience.

Your personal experiences, thoughts, beliefs and perceptions of a life with pain will shape how you live within your life. To re-condition your thoughts on pain, you need to challenge your beliefs. Question how you think and feel about your pain and your life now that pain is a part of you.

We can learn to accept even the most negative things in life, if we change how we feel about them. Life doesn't stop because of your pain. Life stops because you stop believing your life is worth it. 

Re-condition your thoughts and you will re-condition your life. 

take good care of you
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