Super, excellent article!

I've been trying to let go and transform trauma conditioning for almost 20 years. A big part is letting go of all my beliefs but still standing up to negative or abusive behavior, I started with my own behaviors dealing with my sense stimuli and conditioned reaction to sensory data.

After several years of meditation retreat work I started seeing much of my internal struggles were almost exactly like my external world. My thoughts were like the people around me, thoughts were activated by conditioned reaction to sensory data, people react to things they see, taste, touch, smell and their reaction is based on their own personal conditioning. Bare data is not inherently bad or good, but our reaction to bare data is parsed by our conditioning. Our conditioning can be colored by hatred, greed, envy and has a negative impact on self and other. I was barely aware of this conditioning when I started.

My teachers in Buddhism gave me some medicine to use for my negative conditioning, wisdom coupled with compassion, love, sympathetic joy, equanimity, and patience. Takes time to learn and cultivate these qualities but they've transformed my life.

No one has the same conditioning which makes everyone's reality a little bit different. Everyone just wants to be happy, however happiness isn't as profitable as misery. I've seen very few people really want happiness, there is very little monetary value, which is the foundation in our world today. Even our air and water have been monetized.

So the only way I've found to be truly happy, and build a happy community is to let go of the profits made from suffering. Let go of our trauma conditioning, learn to walk through hell and plant flowers along the way.

I haven't met a teacher or healer that hasn't profited from suffering and truly wants to cure the root causes because they would be out of a job.