This is part two of a two part series on external awareness.
By this point in your life, you know you are influenced by all things around you. In every instant your subconscious is in-taking all information from your surroundings and other possible inputs. You mind analyzes all this information, concludes what is valuable, then proceeds to label and sort into appropriate locations. Before I continue, I want to point out that we do not know how much information the brain can handle, however for the point of this post I will assume the brain can have a near infinite capacity as long as all is not focused, or what this means is if your brain has no limit to stop gathering information; then how come everything is not present in our conscious. To answer this we have concluded the conscious is finite, and we are unable to focus on all matters at once.
We already talked about in the first post how and when the conscious analyzes and uses the information accumulated from your past, however we did not talk about when this information is commonly acquired.
As I am sure you have noticed in your life, many of your traits come from childhood experiences. This is the time you learned language, how the world reacts under your guidance, cause and effect, and other such things. We will get back to this later, but what if we look back even further. Before you could talk, before you could walk, even before you were born. Something that all people have experienced is life in the womb. Some scientist say this is the most important time to create positive model on life. Why? Because, this is the time when you have no previous records of influence. You conscious is young, every new thing is given the utmost attention to detail. There is nothing the mind misses and everything is saved in your internal memory. However, this time in life is somewhat universal, the difference in people in respect to this era is not very different. The senses you have available while in the womb also limit your ability to conscious notice influences obtained while a fetus.
While in this fetus stage you are a virgin to knowledge. Thus considering what resources you have available you will accumulate everything. It is a difficult task determining what knowledge is acquired during this stage, and if you are more interesting I would look further into this, however for this purpose I will discuss what I know and deem important.
The most important thing you will learn as a fetus is the basic need for food and water. Because the fetus is being nourished by its mother, it is learning the importance food. The baby would become aware of the struggles and difficulties the mother is undertaking to provide these basic necessities. In life we do not go through a struggle for no result, the baby would become aware of this and thus learn how important food and water must be. Second, the baby becomes aware of itself. I cannot place a time or trigger for this event, but at some point in the fetal state the baby would become aware of its own existence. Whether or not it is aware of its body is debatable, but becoming aware of a conscious location in the universe is an enormous accomplishment you can only imagine the effect this would have on the mind. Thirdly the baby would become aware of the outside world. Like the previous entry, I am not aware of a trigger or event that would cause this to happen, but at some point the baby must become conscious that it is not alone. Obviously this would come after the baby is aware of itself, but before birth. Like realizing your not alone in a disorder, habit, or some other trait the baby would become engulfed the understanding what is out there. The action would be similar to standing at the door way of all information, but the door is closed. The mind would be so amazed in the existence of an outside realm that I imaging this might be close to the birth period.
Furthermore, the second step in a developing conscious is the first moments after birth. We can be certain that the mind is aware of these outside activities, and I motivated by the understanding of this outside world, that these moment would be especially powerful in your mental development. Your first breath of the outside air, the incoming sounds of doctors and nurses talking in some strange but somewhat familiar language, the smells, the feeling of being held. Input from all around you is swarming your sensory system. Of course, the brain as mighty and powerful as it is, is becoming aware all this happening around you. This information is then classified, evaluated, then used in later events. So what would be the most influential happenings right after birth? As was just stated the first breath, the understanding that outside air is safe. Consider this, you subconscious determines it is usually safe to breath because of a positive first response. However, easily the most important event you will undertake after birth is both the discovery of outside humans, also the discovery of parents. The connection between the baby and mother especial is truly a symbolic discovery in the history of life, the moment you realize this figure is what has allowed my survival for the past nine months.
Before I continue on in the stage of life, I want to point out the exception to some of these influences. We have discovered the amount of influence life has in this relatively short period from conception to birth,. These stages are often not diverse among individuals and can be minimally aware to the conscious. Also the you will receive an enormous amount of both positive and negative reinforcement to these perceptions. Thus depending on your birth scenario, you may be considered positively affect or negatively affected. However, under either scenario you will receive enough positive feed back to either reinforcement these influences, or create a positive perception.
As you continue in life you will face an infinite amount of new experiences that welcome your subconscious with new information. Thus is the beauty of the mind, it has the ability to rationalize all information. The possible variances of information I could list are infinite, so I won’t continue throughout out the life span. However there are key events everyone must watch out for, and become aware of to achieve external awareness. Most all people will at some point witness a situation like the following ones, but allow variance as everyones story is different.
A trip or excursion. In life you will most likely leave home. This may be for a short time, or a total migration. Either way a new habitat is always something that creates a new experiences for the mind. This is especially true when you traverse into a different climate and culture. You are getting a new perspective of how a new world functions that may be vastly different from your own. These new perspective can create a new way of looking at even the simple actions in your present habitat.
Meeting new people. This one is huge in your early years. Early socialization is one of the foundations to how you market yourself in the future. Depending on how often and how positive these exchanges will determine your future. By learning about someone one you learn about similarities they have to your own life, and from the actions they partake during a gathering you determine how you rank them on a social chain. You will create opinions that will motivate you to act with or against people or organizations all based upon a simple gathering or meeting.
Death. Death is something we all face, it is happening around us everyday and has become a way of life. How you adapt and change to death can also provide information deterring how you handled past uncertainties. Death is a powerful event that will affect your future, thus it provides an excellent resource to evaluate yourself.
On that note, birth. An equal to death is the appearance of a new being, a action that is perceived as a new light in the world. From birth you bring about a new creature that will shape your next similar decisions. They add a factor the socialization aspect of life, and also the struggles and benefits you receive can influence you change many views on the world.
All things that provoke fear. Fear is a topic I will devote a large piece to. It is undeniably the most determining factor in life. Every influence you have also has a fear. Do not interpret fear os negative, but as the desire to not do again. Fear represents every action you have had that you do not want to repeat. You can gain fear through direct actions, like an injury, or through socialization. Fear will cause you to react in all situations, and most of the time you have false fear, but nonetheless it influences you to act and react.
Among these topics are millions of other possible influences and the traits that can be acquired. Through time you will either enforce these traits or will erase and replace. For every possible action you are basing the results off your past, under new circumstances you are escaping the situation to the closest relative event. Many time you approach a new event blind, and in the past you determined blind faith was negative and thus are afraid of new situations. Many people loose out on opportunities because of the fear of something new, something unexplored. We must become aware when or how we are being approached by fear and uncertainty, or else we will not develop a more positive external influence.
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