Think Bigger

Tana Hanley
Aug 27, 2017 · 2 min read

We need to think bigger! Thinking bigger simply means recognizing our own childhood conditioning in order to truly feel love and acceptance for ourselves, others and the planet we live on. Recognizing that the entire population (7.2 billion) are all expressing who they are based on their individual cultural, language, spiritual, gender, and educational conditionings. There are no truth to these conditionings. They are just stories passed down from one generation to the other. They are just agreed upon rules until the rules become out of date or unpopular. The majority of the people on the planet did not choose to grow up in a specific culture, speak a specific language, or learn and practice a specific religion — they were BORN into them. Consequently, we have been conditioned to believe that our culture, race, religion, language, family name, social class, talent, sexual orientation, school, etc., is better or the best! Well here lies the problem! Everyone is being taught or conditioned to believe the same exact thing!

The insanity is not the conditioning; the insanity is how we judge, criticize, hurt, abandon, starve, maim, kill, and hate because of the conditionings. It is the beliefs that some human lives are less valuable or worthy; therefore, they deserve to starve and be emotionally or physically abused. It is okay for some humans to live in extreme poverty while others have more of everything than they could possibly use in 100 lifetimes! I believe if we are going to solve the global challenges our planet is facing and assure a future for our children and grandchildren — we need to think bigger and get out of our bubbles! We need to recognize that each and everyone of us are only making daily choices based on our beliefs that were conditioned within the culture, language, race, religion, gender and families we were born into. Each of us have the choice to let our conditioned beliefs define us in order to perpetuate hatred and separation or we can acknowledge how our belief systems were developed and change them to be more loving and accepting towards humanity.

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