Cognition Filters and why Liberals lack them.

There is an importance to creating filters in the mind so that we prevent unwanted and/or painful thoughts to enter into conscious awareness so that they don't become bothersome. In the society we live in today, we are perhaps too open about certain topics, and have become brainwashed into believing we should over-think things that cause emotional pain to "get it out" (which doesn't actually work, but instead makes the problem even worse). Suppression is a good thing, if done right. The brain is designed to handle emotionally-disturbing thoughts by the use of unconsciously filtering them out. There are many topics that people run away from (like the thought of their grandparents having sex, or death), and this is a good thing. The "liberal" mind is wired to over-think everything to the point that they feel they understand everything. I've noticed that liberals tend to not respect the boundaries of others and they tend to psychologically damaged by their "thinking outside the box". "Thinking outside the box" is not a good thing because it removes important context anchors that ground people to reality. A "context anchor" is something that gives people a steady context so that they have a clear view of reality, which can only be perceived through the senses. Liberals lose touch with reality because they lose the awareness that their worldview is imaginary (everyone's is, we don't have telepathy). Essentially the problem is the disconnection from reality caused by certain types of thinking. I believe the cause of the liberal-progressivism that we see today is the television, internet, and music (to name a few). In order to watch TV (and understand it), we must remove the self from the equation; essentially TV forces the mind to ignore the body as a context anchor.

I plan to write more on this problem. Psychological problems are so pervasive in this society, and as a society our perceptions of reality have become so distorted that we have lost touch with reality. 

How to instantly rid the self of delusion.

Humans, in order to function well in complex society, must possess a certain amount of useful delusions. The main delusion that allows for this is believing that a past and future exist. The reality is that the past and future are us believing that are imaginations are real (when people imagine the past and future, they often believe it is). All that is created by the imagination is imaginary, and when we believe it is something more, this is delusion warping the perception of reality. For example, people with anxiety problems often worry about the future, but what they are experiencing when they worry is imaginary (at the time it seems real, which is why it affects them).

So, in order to rid ourselves of delusion instantly, we must bring ourselves to the awareness that there is no past or future (such things are imaginary) and perceive the world only through the senses (anything "outside" of the senses is produced by the imagination). This can be done by repeating the following affirmation, and believing it...

"there is no past or future, and nothing exists that I can be aware of beyond my senses..."

What is anxiety?

Anxiety, for the most part, is caused by the imagination (i.e. it is a response). For the sake of accuracy, anxiety must be perceived as a physiological response caused by imagination when it is, otherwise awareness of the cause will never be had (awareness of a problem is the first step towards fixing it). With this awareness that anxiety is a response to imaginary things (anything that is imagined is), it loses its emotional punch. No matter how believable the stuff we imagine  is, it should not pass into the realm of "reality" because this is a delusional mindset (like imagining what is going on outside of your senses, imagining what people think, and so on).

How to falsify beliefs to overcome anxiety.

It is false beliefs about reality that often underlie problems with anxiety. I've suffered and am still overcoming my anxiety issues (which I've had for as long as I can remember). Anxiety issues is the sort of thing that takes time to overcome, so, like a diet to lose weight, we shouldn't expect immediate results. In order to overcome anxiety we must change the way we perceive reality.

So take out a sheet of paper (or open Microsoft Word) and ask yourself "what am I worried about?" or "what am I scared of?". Then look at whatever comes to mind, and tell yourself "what I am experiencing is imaginary, it's not real" (this is literally true because all things imagined are imaginary. The problem is that we believe some imaginary things are real, and this causes it to emotionally effect us. Once we realize that the cognition that is emotionally bothering us is, in reality, not real, then it loses its emotional punch.

No matter what you are afraid of, this method works, but it takes a certain amount of understanding and awareness of this function of the brain in order to properly perceive it. Try to pay attention to this process, and when you notice your imagination is firing off, and especially when its causing emotional pain, make sure to perceive it accurately. If we tune out the awareness of our thought process, we can become distorted by it. It's kind of like how when people lose the awareness of what they are viewing on TV is being viewed on a television set, it emotionally effects them (same goes for video games as well). In other words, anxiety is NOT caused by the worry(ies) themselves, but the inaccurate perception of these day-terrors (like daydreams, they are literally dreams that occur while we are awake, but most of the dream is seemless with reality, so it typically goes under our radar of truth).

Domestic Abuse and how to come to terms.

During my first 18 years of life, I had to put up with fairly harsh domestic abuse. While the abuse I experienced wasn't physical (most of the time), it was still bad. In fact, many people don't even consider verbal abuse to even be a form of abuse--it is. My father would threaten to kill family members (including myself). In fact, this one time when he was in a "mood" he was loading and unloading his shotgun. It seemed like when he was mad at my mother, he was mad at all of us. Without going into too much detail (I will in future blog posts), what I want to talk about here is the things I noticed in my father, and what I believe is the underlying cause of most abusive fathers.

One thing that I often say is that if you were to take my father's brain and put it into the head of a 10 year old (assuming he would behave in the same way), people would tell him that "you need to grow up". If you are in a domestic abuse situation, could you say the same thing? Probably. I believe domestic abusers do what they do because of a psychological immaturity. When a child doesn't get what they want, they throw a temper tantrum. A tempter tantrum is exactly what happens during many domestic abuse situations. People are suppose to grow out of having tempter tantrums as a means of coping with the stresses of life, but some "adults" fail to grow out of it, and as adults, act like children. While perhaps not present in all domestic abuse situations, in my personal experience I noticed that when my father was mad at someone (typically my mother), he was mad at EVERYONE. This is another sign of psychological immaturity. Someone that is psychologically mature is able to become aware of what is emotionally upsetting them and has their frustrations dealt with in both an adult manner and focus is directed at what is actually upsetting. When a child is frustrated, they often are mad at EVERYONE, and the same is true for domestic abusers. See the trend here? Domestic abusers are immature.

The way to come to terms with past domestic abuse is to change the perception of it to something more accurate. In the mind of a person who is having an adult tempter tantrum, they are right. They are not evil, they are just underdeveloped (to put it nicely) in certain areas psychologically. People that are developmentally slow (when it comes to coping with anger) should not be hated, but understood, and as far as relationships are concerned, avoided. In other words, we shouldn't hate people for lacking something that they logically would desire to have if they had the choice (psychological maturity and self-control). These people have psychological problems that probably fall into the realm of mental disorder, so it's better to perceive domestic abusers as such--a person with a mental disorder/illness. Perceiving domestic abusers as being mentally deficient instead of evil helps us in taking away the negative emotions we associate with them, and even better, it allows us (especially women) to realize that they will not change because chances are they can't.

Domestic abuse can cause a great amount of anxiety and depression. It's important (I believe) to perceive the perpetrator as being psychologically deficient instead of evil, allowing a person to give up the false belief that the person is evil (people in the past used to believe people like schizophrenics had demons inside of them).  Coming to terms with this is as simple as changing our beliefs about the person, we should go from perceiving such people as "evil" to being "developmentally retarded".