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​   This morning I woke up and if you have a breath of life, you see what I see -- the world has a few problems. It’s so easy to get distracted by all the different challenges we face. I wish I could say I feel sorry for humanity but I don’t. When you dig deep into the available information, you start to see a reoccurring theme.
 
  I started with scratching the surface of the “belief system” in my previous blog; this should lead you in all kinds of directions of research. I laid out a specific path in my notes for this next blog, but even this morning I wanted to change a few of the topics, especially with all the death that is occurring. Most of us react by saying, “How can I save the world” More on this later.
 
 









    Did you know in 1936 Anna Freud theorized and classified a number of defense mechanisms which appear in the works of Sigmund? Today, there are upwards of 30+ theories and classifications for defense mechanisms. Below are six of theories that are still used today that I found very interesting:
 

• Repression: when a feeling is hidden and forced from the consciousness to the unconscious because it is seen as socially unacceptable.

• Regression: falling back into an early state of mental/physical development seen as "less demanding and safer".

• Projection: possessing a feeling that is designed as socially unacceptable and instead of facing it, that feeling or "unconscious urge" is seen in the actions of other people.

• Reaction formation: acting the opposite way that the unconscious instructs a person to behave, "often exaggerated and obsessive". For example, if a wife is infatuated with a man who is not her husband, reaction formation may cause her to – rather than cheat – become obsessed with showing her husband signs of love and affection.

•  Sublimation: seen as the most acceptable of the mechanisms, an expression of anxiety in socially acceptable ways.

•  Rationalization:  cognitive distortion of "the facts" to make an event or an impulse less threatening.  We do it often enough on a fairly conscious level when we provide ourselves with excuses.  But for many people, with sensitive egos, making excuses comes so easy that they never are truly aware of it.  In other words, many of us are quite prepared to believe our lies.

 
 
   Once you dig into just a few of the defense mechanisms, you find that most of what you are seeing comes from your unconscious. The unconscious contains all sorts of significant and disturbing information that we try to keep out of awareness. Psychologists have theorized that the unconscious acts as a repository for all the primitive wishes and impulses.  It really starts to make sense why our reasoning has not evolved collectively.  All defense mechanisms are responses to anxiety and how the unconscious and consciousness handle the stresses of a social situation(s). Pick any life situation and try to find the theorized classification. You will start to see how bat shit crazy we all are collectively.
 
   So, pick one the many problems that have been around for decades and start saving the world. You will always find opposition to an agreeable fact because of a belief system supported by a defense mechanism.

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