The Mental Conflict You Don't Know You're Fighting

When two conflicting beliefs collide inside your mind, your brain doesn't just sit with the tension. It takes action — sometimes the wrong action.

Cognitive Dissonance is when a person has two conflicting personal views on any given topic, idea or belief they believe to be true about something.

The inner conflict of what's the right decision creates a psychological tension that results in a person taking an action that may go against there normal behavior, just to release or reduce that tension. [Frustration, Anxiety]

In many instances, people fight over what things are or should be called by their own personal set of rules, meanings and references.

Every person on earth has a mental filing system, that is organized and structured in a way that makes sense to them. It contains a database of words, images, symbols, to everything they've seen, heard and experience in their life.

Every reference points to persons life is associated and label in their mental filing system and stored for later retrieval. [Who, What, I AM - Identity]

Example: If you have even been to a hotel and attended their continental breakfast, you would noticed that many have a fork and spoon combined into one utensil. If a person asked for a fork or a spoon they would be usually receive the same utensil. [2:1 Utensil]

Someone call's it a fork, another person say's it's a Fapoon. (half spoon, half fork) Their could be a conflict between two individuals between what something is or isn’t to what something should be called or not.

Who's right, or wrong, Does it really matter?

The way something appears is defined by our understanding and reference to something that we have heard, seen or experienced before.

Decisions & Boundaries: What Right, What's Wrong?

The Chain of Thought:

1. Is this something that I would do, am I that type of person?

2. Is this the right place or time to act or behave this way?

3. Is it just me or is other people doing this. Will people think I'm crazy?

4. Does it really matter what other people think. No. It's my decision

Validation & Response: I might not be the type of person, there is not a right place or time, it doesn't matter what everyone else thinks.

Result: It's my decision, my life. I don't care, I'm going and that's final.

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