What The Heck is Cognitive Dissonance?

Here is my video on What the Heck is Cognitive Dissonance? I hope you will listen and if you would like to read about it, have a look below the video.

In our world today, there is so much new information being revealed and shared everywhere.

There are so many people who cannot cope with accepting certain possible realities. Why? Because they have been brainwashed in endless ways by the mainstream media, governments, educational systems, science, etc. This leads them to believe many things.

Our perceptions have been manipulated to accept certain limitations as being valid and authentic. So when given a new concept, we cannot psychologically cope with it.

These ingrained beliefs must not be questioned, and if the person feels threatened in any way, they will attack, defend, and fight to hold on to an idea. They will completely block it out and disregard what is obvious evidence or fact which is undeniable to protect their conditioning.

They are, of course, not aware of their conditioning, or brainwashing, so when a new concept is perceived as being so dangerous it becomes easier to pretend that it’s not true so they can continue doing what they’ve always done.

This narrow-mindedness or choosing to be ignorant is a defense mechanism. People are afraid and therefore decide to remain in denial. They have two conflicting thoughts and choose the one they can accept.

I’m sure all of us have experienced this.

Looking back at when I was in an abusive relationship with a narcissist comes to mind. I was in a relationship with someone who was supposed to love me and be kind to me, yet his actions were completely opposite to this.

So look back at some points in your life when a specific piece of information was just too shocking or too disturbing to
accept. Here are some more examples that will cause cognitive dissonance to give you the idea:

• When your father, who is supposed to protect you, is also abusing you.
• When your husband, who agreed to be your loyal partner is cheating on you.
• When the charity asking you to do a 20K walk to raise funds for cancer research is also involved with a pharmaceutical company that produces drugs known to cause cancer.
• When government agencies tell their citizens they will keep their children safe, but they are also engaged in running pedophile rings.

Cognitive dissonance is also happening on a mass scale in our world now.

We’ve all experienced it personally, especially if we have been involved with a narcissist.

Now it’s happening on a global scale. People experiencing cognitive dissonance suffer significantly because of their inability to accept new evidence.

These unique and alternative perceptions are contrary to their brainwashing. These perceptions make it impossible to reason with them.

You can try to use logic or offer undeniable evidence, with these people, which is frustrating for those of us observing this because they choose to suffer instead of surrender to the truth. They are deciding to resist instead of accepting or even considering another perspective.

Many of us may have experienced this frustration when we wanted to tell someone in our family or a friend about our narcissistic partner that is abusing us or did, but we could not cope with the information. It was blatantly right in front of our eyes, but we struggled to accept two contradictory truths.

We were unable to accept that the person we love is also the person who is abusing us so we did nothing.

We are seeing this on a mass scale now. Many people on the planet aren’t aware of the conditioning. They’ve struggled to accept two contradictory truths. Much misinformation has been presented as truth and is not.

So, for example:

• The pharmaceutical industry they believed was helping them was harming and profiting off them.

• The food people thought was nourishing them is making them sick

• The celebrities in Hollywood they admired and looked up to are merely puppets used to condition them socially.

The list goes on and on. There is so much information being revealed every day that humanity is struggling to comprehend the deceptions.

Those of us awake will not be as affected, but there are masses of people who don’t know that they are intentionally being kept in the dark. When you’ve done the groundwork personally and invested in doing your shadow work, confronting both the good and the not-so-good aspects of yourself, you’re no longer as shocked, surprised, or resistant to new evidence.

Evidence that may be contrary to what you’ve been led to believe.

We need to remember that everyone’s waking up at a different pace.

Some people can integrate and accept new information, but many are still in denial. They find comfort in refusal and endless arguing.

Symptoms of cognitive dissonance can include shame, regret, negative self-worth, anxiety, embarrassment, or stress. So dissonance is a feeling of being misaligned, and this, of course, can manifest physically as headaches, muscle aches, insomnia, or indigestion.

It is important to remember to accept yourself and other people wherever they may be on their awakening journey. Be patient with yourself and others and don’t engage in judgment or conflict because both are counterproductive to your physical and mental health.

Instead, take care of yourself.

What is occurring is for your good and the greater good. There is a much bigger picture that this is not just about a virus, religion, or politics. It’s so much more.

It’s about humanity waking up collectively. No longer accepting the lies and all the ways we’ve been enslaved.

This is like collectively doing shadow work. looking at all those things that have been too painful.

Things may feel like they are getting worse but they’re just getting clearer. They will, however, get worse for those who still want to lie, deceive or hide the truths.

Once you wake up, you can no longer go back to being asleep. You can not unsee what you have seen.

Self-awareness is key to this global situation.

It is inviting all of us to sit with this internal discomfort and find a new vibration. To discover what is in alignment for us rather than lying to ourselves.

People don’t have to have a meltdown if given information that contradicts a previous belief. If they are open, flexible, and humble, it’s going to become easier to navigate these murky boundaries.

It’s time now more than ever to love ourselves and others. Begin to notice our attachment to things and remember that illusions are being destroyed.

This time in our history has never been experienced before. We need to see past the fear and the lies and trust that this will not only pass but we will no longer be enslaved. Focus on what you want to see your life and our world as. See it in your mind, write it down, and think about it often throughout your day.

The confusion will dissipate, and this uncertainty will be replaced with a crystal clear clarity because the truth will set us all free.

I know how cognitive dissonance played a part in my relationship with my ex-partner. It was so painful for me to admit what he was doing and how he was treating me was wrong. Instead, I tried to ignore it and kept trying to say it was not happening until I believed this. This was how I coped with the abuse.

Eventually, I could not live with the deception any longer.

I saw the truth but it took years for me to see the facts. It had to become so painful that I began to tell people the truth.

Perhaps that is the key- the pain has to be so unbearable to begin to allow the truth in. Also, maybe that is the key to for people to wake up on a global scale.

The pain. It has to reach people and cause them to accept the truth. Something to think about.

I hope you found this to be helpful. Please reach out to me here or on Instagram or Facebook.

I’m also available via Zoom for one-on-one mentoring, and I do 1:1 healing sessions if you are ready to finally let go of the trauma you have suffered due to your abuse. I have been an Energy Healer for years. I am an Inner Liberation Practitioner and also Beyond Quantum Healing sessions.

Take care and love to you
Debbi