Cultural Society And The Subconscious Mind

By Mark David Peters

Your subconscious mind is continually recording new information from the world around you. Everything that you see, hear or experience has the potential to modify your subconscious mind. Why is this important?

Because information that has been recorded in the subconscious is expressed in your behavior, and what you believe to be possible or impossible for you to achieve.

A good example of this can be seen in young children, especially those under the age of 6. Since as children we arrive into the world with no ideas as to how to act or what to believe in, we therefore must first learn those things from our parents.

So in a very real sense, your parents not only made you, but they also made your mind. This is why children initially act and behave in a similar fashion to their parents, and may later grow up with their beliefs and views of the world.

However since we do not spend our entire lives with our parents, we therefore expose our minds to new sources of information. This is known as the effect of society on your mind.

A good example of this can be seen by cross comparing two culturally unique families. If you look at children in isolated African tribes you see that children grow up with extremely similar beliefs and behaviors to that of their parents.

This occurs because tribal African children do the same things as their parents did throughout successive generations. They have a set way of doing things, and so follow a traditional way of life. Since they live in an isolated tribe, there is therefore little or no external influences which will affect the way they have lived for decades or even centuries.

As a result, each successive family member grows up with a mind that is essential identical to that of their parent. Although in reality no mind is exactly identical because no life is exactly identical.

Now if you compare this to westernized children who are exposed to far greater sources of external influences, such as TV or music culture, you find that children often grow up to be very different to their parents.

Each generation tends to reflect the cultural trends at the time, showing that society plays a big role in modifying the subconscious mind.

However even though children may appear to be different from their parents, they may still share some of the core deeply engrained beliefs they acquired as children. For example, their level of self esteem.

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