The pattern of thinking that breaks the truth and makes a fool of oneself prevents one from accepting the truth, forcing one to believe the truth.
This is a kind of strategy to make yourself comfortable and always protective, even if you are not really comfortable. We are lying to ourselves, depriving ourselves of the truth
Self-deception is really an unconscious act, because the mind will not accept deception if it knows it is.
While the self-deception here is obvious, it often takes much more subtle forms, such as those that psychoanalysts track - defense mechanisms like denial and repression. All such mental maneuvers are part of a psychological calculus in which painful truths and soothing denials are the main variables
In the game of happy family, for instance, the rules call for twists of attention to bolster the pretense that nothing is wrong. Such psychological charades require that family members orchestrate their attention in an exquisitely coordinated self-deception.
It puts someone in the dark and prevents them from receiving information that they do not want to accept ... that information is often true.
Self-deception causes you to lose the truth from others, because you have already deprived yourself of the truth, so it is not right for you to see that you are already lying. By doing this, you maintain your self-deceptive reality even to the people around you and make you a liar and mislead the people.
Self-deception is a sign of emotional and psychological weakness towards reality which makes it difficult to make choices that make us who we want to be. Self-deception can also be evidence of our failure to control things and situations
Self-deception is accompanied by the risk of making choices due to insecurity, which is dangerous because choices are made not by weakness but by force.
The reason most people engage in self-deception is that they cannot handle the truth.
The greatest symptom of self-deception is our ability to lie to ourselves and the only way out of self-deception is to kill the lie and embrace the truth. And lies live in our minds, make the whole fight mindful .....
Choose to accept the reality when we confront self-deception in our minds.