Un-conditioning Your Children

Have we ruined the health of our children by preconditioning them?

The moment our child begins to understand, we begin to condition the child’s mind about what is right and what is wrong to be healthy, don’t we?

• Do not go to anyone with cold, cough, or a fever ,you will get it!

• Do not drink tap water, you will get a stomach upset!

• Do not eat ice cream, you will get throat pain!

• Do not eat chocolate, you will cough!

• Do not get wet in the rain, you will get a fever!

• Do not eat so and so food, its not good for you!

• Don’t stay hungry, you will get acidity!

• Do not walk bare feet out doors!

• Do not play in the sun!

• Do not eat fried food!

• Do not eat spicy food!

• Do not …..!! Do not…..!Do not!!

If all the above teachings were correct, why are our kids falling ill left right and centre! If you and I were bought up the way mentioned above, why are we the most messed up in terms of health, the maximum cancer, kidney, BP, Diabetes and psychological issues ever.

We have a conscious mind, which is right now active, and a subconscious mind which stores all the information from our womb (some believe, from our previous lives too). This is where all the information from the childhood gathers. The subconscious mind is open to all the instructions and knowledge that is passed on by the parents, grand parents, and family because they are the ones we trust blindly at that crucial age. But as we grow up and start questioning, we shut down/push back our subconscious mind, and we open it only to instructions that makes sense to us. As an adult one also opens the subconsciousness to people they deeply trust, like doctors, religious heads, etc.As a child, most of what is taught remains in the subconscious mind, and it remains as a command for life, till it is modified or altered by a therapist!

How does this conditioning harm?

The main intention behind these instructions were to protect the child from falling ill, but in reality aren't you conditioning the child how to fall sick?

Whatever you may instruct to the child, as and when he gets an opportunity, he will anyways go near a sick person, eat chocolate and ice cream, and also get wet in the rain! The problem is once he does what he was told not to do, he subconsciously realises that he went near someone with a cough, and he remembers the instruction given to him, and he begins to panic, his immune system is compromised and he surely ends up with cough!

When the human body is under threat, it first freezes then it decides whether to fight or flight. The freeze moment is the time when your brain evaluates the threat and decides to fight or flight, THAT, is the weakest moment where our immunity plummets and we fall sick.

Similar is what happens with all the preconditioning that you have done to the child!

Ask yourself a question? After having put all the above restriction on your child aren't you still visiting the doctor every month or two? If yes, might as well let the child enjoy his ice creams and chocolates, right?

Those in their 40's plus, recollect your childhood; did our parents ever put fear of rain, sun, hot, cold, bare feet, sickness, darkness, wilderness, etc, in us? Did we ever fall sick the way this generation falls sick?Once you answer the question, then ask yourself, how much are you subconsciously advising the wrong thing to the next generation. Do not listen to all that you have read in the books, or all that you have heard from the elders, just listen to your heart, listen to what makes sense to you and then advise the next generation. Remember the generation you are advising to are very, very smart; what ever you advise has to make sense to them. They will not listen to you just because you are older. Let's start advising the younger generation only messages that makes sense to you!

-Dr.Manoj Kuriakose