Developing a Positive Personality

CREATION PLAN OF GOD of being influenced by the external environment keeps increasing until man becomes wholly conditioned. In the quest for truth, the seeker needs to understand this conditioning, and accordingly, he should set about deconditioning his mind, returning it to its natural state. He should make himself a man of nature rather than remaining an artificial man and a victim of conditioning. Recently, a view that has gained tremendous popularity in psychology is called behaviourism. In this school of psychology, it is believed that conditioning is man’s persistent state. It is as if a man is a prisoner of his conditioning and is simply a passive product of it. A deeper study of man’s personality disproves this theory. Recent discoveries about the genetic code raise serious questions about the above hypothesis. It has been proven that every person’s complete personality is present in the genetic code by birth. Moreover, as the child grows, its personality development, it is said, is only an unfolding of this genetic code. If this is true, it would be more proper to say that the conditioning exercised by the environment is like an artificial curtain placed over man’s natural being. It is as if a man’s character is like an onion. Inside the onion is a marrow-like pea. Over this inner ‘pea’ are many layers of skin-like curtains. If these layers of skin are removed, the inner kernel of the onion will emerge. The same is true with man. Through conditioning, artificial curtains are placed over man’s actual being—curtains created by