cognitive dissonance

is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. the “ideas” or “cognitions” in question may include attitudes and beliefs, and also the awareness of one’s behavior.

the theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or rationalizing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

dissonance normally occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency among his or her cognition.

this happens when one idea implies the opposite of another. for example, a belief in animal rights could be interpreted as inconsistent with eating meat or wearing fur. noticing the contradiction would lead to dissonance, which could be experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states.

when people’s ideas are consistent with each other, they are in a state of harmony or consonance. if cognitions are unrelated, they are categorized as irrelevant to each other and do not lead to dissonance.

love
loving you even if it hurts.
you may not understand my way to your surface
now,
but you soon will.
we've left marks on each other.
not like scars but marks that
last for lifetimes.
illuminating the path way to
where our souls will meet once more.
a familiar occurrence occurring about
a perfected 360....

we are the truth we seek.
the change
the hope
can cease
without action that causes
a global shift in mind & spirit.
love
warming the globe. globally.
that's the ONLY carbon tax i'm willing to pay!

the absolute reason racism, classicism, and many other isms that plague this planet work is because we feed into it 100%. we give it the energy that it needs to spread like disease. throwing gas on a fire gets it extra hot, enough to burn bridges that have been built to withstand certain levels of destruction. like anything else the bridge has it breaking point.


i am a bridge & I've been broken because the energy that makes up me has been misappropiated and misdirected. separated at birth, umbilical broken, cut off from the TRUE connection. I couldn't have understood its meaning dwelling in a lower state of consciousness, however i am.....