How Conflict Comes about?

The awareness is fragmented by decisions made in infancy and in childhood resulting in conflict. 

Note: Once a decision is made with feeling, it is the rule of action until unmade. 

Infant decisions — Infant Mind 

1. Pleasure equals happiness and pain equals unhappiness. 

2. It's important to have my way or to think a thing makes it so. 

Child decisions — Child Mind 

1. It's important to please others to gain pleasure and escape painful sensations. 

2. Accept or do what you are told; don't ask questions.

 

The so-called grown-up mind — The Chooser 

Try to please both A, the infant mind, and B, the child mind, at the same time. 

This results in conflict going on more or less all the time. 

For example: 

If "I" do this it will give me pleasure but they will disapprove of me, which is painful. Therefore I do 

want to do this but I do not want to do this. This is conflict. 

Note: A, the infant mind, and B, the child mind, together make up the so-called subconscious mind. 

C, the chooser, is the conscious mind; all are fragmented parts of the awarenes

Proposition # 24 from Notes on Personal Integration and Health