Key Psychological abbilities

Key Psychological abbilities

Our innate human psychological abilities are awesome and extremely powerful. Our psychological abilities define who we are and how we are. Nevertheless, most people, including members of the medical establishment, deny them or downplay their importance in shaping personality development and behavior.

Human beings (from the time we were inside the womb) possess innate psychological abilities that are not learned, nor are they acquired during a person's lifetime. These important psychological abilities include the ability to be aware and the ability to perceive, think, feel, and choose freely.

We can use these natural psychological abilities to discover in each new moment that which is truly right, loving, true, and lovingly responsible. We do not have to learn how to act on these important objective intelligent realities, but when we consistently do use them in positive ways, they will lead us to loving and nurturing situations, relationships, and experiences.

Unfortunately, we also do not need to learn how to be selfish and hurtful. Such abilities are a residue from our selfish ancestral past. Fortunately, however, the degree to which we are selfish is dependent solely on each person's choices. Because the ability to be selfish and hurtful is intact at the start and remains an operative potential throughout our lives, we must remain vigilant and aware as we go through our daily lives. Our selfish conditioning is deep and subconscious, making it easy for us to react and relapse into old and destructive selfish ways.

Most of us willfully and defiantly choose to control our awareness, block our perception, refuse to act rightly, refuse to express truthfully. We choose to act, and react using selfishly controlled subconscious intentions and ideas. As we make ongoing selfish choices, starting in the womb, we reinforce a selfish personality and become increasingly unloving, dishonest, abusive, and irresponsible.

On the other hand, by making consistent loving, right, honest, and lovingly responsible choices, we shape a personality that is positive and nurturing. Consistent right choices will weaken a selfish personality, making us and our experiences better in truly meaningful ways.

Most psychiatric and medical professionals might disagree with the above explanations of how we shape our personality. They rarely mention personal choice as a determining factor in personality development. They do not value "choice" and refuse to see it as the most influential factor in personality development and behavior. Curiously, psychiatric and medical professionals usually omit a person's choices when they consider or attempt to explain the causes of mental, emotional, behavioral, or sexual disorders. As long as we insist on putting the causes of our disorders outside of ourselves and our wrong choices, onto unfounded and unproven diseases, defective genes, or environmental toxins, we will continue to suffer and remain in pain.