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The De-Conditioning of a Conditioned Mind

is a fact that everyone is a case of conditioning. But
Professor Watson’s finding related only half of the truth.
He discovered the law of conditioning, but he failed to
discover the law of de-conditioning. According to his
research, everyone is bound to live in a conditioned
state. It is everyone’s fate and no one can escape from it.
But it was certainly an unnatural statement. It is a fact
that everyone is subject to conditioning but it is also a
fact that every form of conditioning can be reversed.
Conditioning is a phenomenon of thinking and it can
be changed by counter-thinking. Thinking and counter-
thinking are both well within the capacity of the mind.
The modern computer is a small mechanical model
of man’s mind. Everyone knows that a computer can
delete anything that you want it to delete. If you feed
some item into the computer, and then you want to
delete it; this can be done, simply by touching a small
key. Man’s mind is an inconceivably large model of the
computer. If a small mind can delete an item without
failure, how can a big model not do the same job? The
de-conditioning of a mind also has a small touch-button.
This touch-button is a simple phrase of just three words:
‘I was wrong.’ Say with complete sincerity: ‘I was wrong’
and you can delete any type of conditioning within a
second.

Watson himself is a proof that environmental
conditioning can be reversed in the later period of one’s
life. As a matter of fact, Watson first de-conditioned
himself, consciously or unconsciously, and only then was
he able to discover the phenomenon of conditioning.

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