LEARNED RESPONSES

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🎷📣📣 NEW INSPIRATIONAL WRITE UP; ✨✨🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉 TITLE: LEARNED RESPONSES ENJOY!!! In the year 1902, a Russian psychologist by the name, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (who lived between 1849-1936) carried out an experiment with his dogs. Anytime he fed those dogs, he rang a bell. He thereafter observed that the dogs associated the ringing of the bell with the presence of food such that anytime the bell was rung, the dogs began to salivate in an excited manner because they could not wait to eat. One day, Pavlov decided to do something different. He stopped bringing foods to the dogs but he continued ringing the bell that used to come with the food. Now, the amazing thing was that the dogs were still salivating even after the bell was rung. Pavlov found out that salivation was already what he called a controlled response from the dogs and that salivation came from the ringing of the bell. Now, why am I narrating all this story and why is it important to us as human beings? I am narrating this because as human beings, we have knowingly or unknowingly, allowed ourselves to be subject to certain conditioned responses. For instance, you find yourself on the road and in the midst of an heavy traffic and the next moment, you are upset and letting out angry words. Maybe your car develops a fault or you have a huge workload in your place of work and the next moment, you complain of having a bad day and so on and so forth. No! Regardless, you have got to change that approach and boldly declare that this is the beautiful day that the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it! Take a more informed perspective by not reacting to every situation.
Two things are very important here. Number one, you have to be adaptable and adjustable. You have to go with the flow rather than letting some minor interruptions steal your joy. Listen to this; Don't magnify any challenge. Magnify your God and watch the obstacles turn to miracles! You have to demolish those conditioned responses by switching from negative to positive thinking. You are more that you think and who you are is different from who you are allowing yourself to be!

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