Your Conditioning Is King

Your conditioning runs your habits – many of which you don't know you have.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Transcript

Your Conditioning Is King

Many years ago, I was lucky enough to go to not one, but two family reunions. It was a blast — full of laughs, memories, and, honestly, some eye-opening moments. You start to realize just how much conditioning shapes who we are.

It’s not just the family resemblance — though, sure, there’s plenty of that. It’s the way we talk, the gestures we make, even the way we laugh or roll our eyes. And it runs deeper: the attitudes we carry, the prejudices we’ve absorbed, and those automatic habits — good and not-so-good — that we didn’t even know we had.

I’ve got a name for this: the Hatfield and McCoy Effect.

It’s basically the idea that a lot of who we are gets passed down without us even realizing it. Like a handoff in a relay race — except it’s behaviors, not batons.

In radio, there’s a saying: “Frequency is King.” The more a commercial runs, the more likely it is to stick and actually work.

Same deal with how we’re conditioned. The more we see or hear something growing up — especially in those first seven years — the more it becomes part of our default setting. So yeah, conditioning is king.

Let me give you a quick story.

One of the events that weekend was a christening at my brother-in-law’s place. His four brothers were all there. We were hanging out in the basement, watching a basketball game, waiting for the call to come eat.

Then their dad walks in and sits down with us. A few minutes later, my sister-in-law calls down for dinner. 

The dad stands up — and as he does, he reaches back and tugs at the waistband of his pants.

And here’s the kicker: every single one of his sons did the exact same thing as they stood up. Like synchronized pants-adjusting. And not one of them realized they were doing it.

That’s conditioning in action. Totally unconscious. Picked up by osmosis.

That weekend didn’t just remind me of where a lot of my habits came from — it also reminded me how important it is to notice those habits. To catch them while they’re happening instead of letting them run amok in the background.

We’ve all got stuff on autopilot that doesn’t really serve us. And sometimes, we get lucky — we see that same behavior in someone else and think, “Wait . . . I do that too.”

That’s your ah-ha moment.

Next step? Catch yourself in the act. Interrupt it. Try something different, even if it feels awkward at first. 

That’s how change starts. Over time, those interruptions add up — and a new pattern starts to form. One that’s not inherited.

Conditioning may have gotten you here.

But noticing and interrupting?

That’s how you move forward.

In the end — Interruption is King.

All the best,
 John