We do have a lizard brain, the one which is very irrational and emotional. And it is quite an irony that it also rules so much of our behavior. It takes training and a lot of mental work to wash away old lines drawn in the mental sand.
Questions and answers.... I know what you are saying and I do think that we need to take ourselves out of the comfort zone and ask. Ask ourselves, ask relatives, ask. The answers might not always satisfy us, but getting out of our old story is what it counts.
The past generations didn't know about emotional nurturing. It was all about survival: I have given birth to you, I have fed you and I provided a shelter. Too many parents think of themselves as Gods for doing that, forgetting that a child also needs spiritual food. And this is how adults end up messing their love life, professional life, everything. They function with the conditioning they were taught as babies.
The work on ourselves is very hard, but I guess that change comes when the pain of staying in the same pattern is bigger than the pain of changing and wanting to see what else can this thing called life be.... This can explain why we see many divorces now. Some stay in decades of pain, thinking that is love. Some awake and realize that abuse is not love. Tough lessons a child should not see from the parents, but so very often they do. Our society needs more people to ask questions. To themselves.
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