Conditioning

[PussyCat]

When one joins a sports team such as basketball, soccer or [cross country], many of their practices involve [conditioning]. [Conditioning] is basically running ([jogging] and sprints) that is meant to get one into shape to play said sport.

[Couch Potatoe]

The process of training or accustoming a person or animal to behave in a certain way or to accept certain circumstances.

[Monty]

This is the process of adaptation that occurs mostly in our early years. A child learns to adapt to whatever [dysfunction] is occurring in their home, like becoming chronically [anxious] because of an emotionally or physically abusive parent or parents. This anxious, felt often enough, becomes [a habit]. [A habit] that they will take with them when they leave home and they will continue to imagine they need to be anxious (even when they don’t), or even unknowingly create anxious situations, in an attempt to satisfy, what by then will have become an addiction. Once they have adapted to their home life situation they will often times loose their ability to do any further adapting and remain forever stuck in a perpetual reliving of their childhood drama. [Conditioning]’s major weapon is [feel-think]. These poor souls will react to various life situations by feeling a reflexive feeling and then believing whatever thoughts are generated by those feelings, all the while believing they are making conscious choices. They will literally be remembering, based on their earlier [conditioning], how to act in the present.