Author: Anna Godfrey

Understanding Cognitive Dissonance: Signs and Examples

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes. People tend to seek consistency in their attitudes and perceptions, so this conflict causes unpleasant feelings of unease or discomfort.
People act in ways that will lessen their discomfort because of the discrepancy between their beliefs and their behavior. Individuals take a variety of approaches to defuse this tension, including denying, rationalizing away, or ignoring new knowledge.
Signs of Cognitive Dissonance
Although everyone encounters cognitive dissonance occasionally, it’s not always clear what cognitive dissonance is. Here are a few indicators that your feelings could be related to dissonance:
Feeling uncomfortable before doing something or making a decision
Trying to justify or rationalize a decision you’ve made or action you have taken
Trying to hide your acts from other people because you’re feeling guilty or humiliated about what you’ve done
Feeling guilty or regretful about a previous action you took
following social pressure or succumbing to FOMO (fear of missing out), even when it wasn’t what you wanted to do
Examples of Cognitive Dissonance
How does this pain caused by inconsistencies manifest itself in daily life?
Here are a few instances of cognitive dissonance that you could observe in yourself:
You desire health, yet you don’t follow a balanced diet or engage in regular exercise. As a result, you experience guilt.
Even if you are aware that smoking and binge drinking are bad for your health, you yet carry them out. You use your elevated stress levels as justification for this behavior.
Although you’d prefer to save funds, you have a tendency to spend additional money as soon as you acquire it. Later on, when you have an unforeseen bill that you cannot afford, you regret making this choice.
Despite having a huge list of things to do, you choose to spend the day watching your favorite shows. You want to give the impression that you’ve been working hard all day because you don’t want your husband to find out.

Dealing with Fear: Confronting the Elephant in the Room

“Let your unique awesomeness and positive energy inspire confidence in others.”
1 — The elephant in the room
What is the thing that’s giving you the most trouble right now? What is the elephant in the room? Stare at it straight in the face and write it down. Describe it — where it came from, how it’s making you feel, what you would do about it if you could.
2 — Describing fears
Spend some time writing about one or two bigger fears you have. Let yourself really explore those fears for what they are. What do they feel like? What do they look like? Do they tend to crop up at certain times for you?
3 — Feelings & emotion
If you are feeling particularly emotional (be it sad, nervous, happy, or angry) about something, take some time to write about that emotion, what led you to feel it, and what you think it may mean for how you feel, overall. For example, if a family member told you they’d like to come and visit you and you found yourself feeling nervous about that, explore why that might be.
4 — Let go of control
List all the things in your life that you cannot control, and therefore, you cannot change by worrying about them.
5 — Strength
Reflect on a few times in your life when you were particularly strong. Maybe you overcame something very difficult or trying, or perhaps you found yourself very nervous about something but you persevered and did it anyway.
6 — Write a letter
If you are feeling particularly anxious about another person, use your journal to compose a letter to that person where you say everything you feel about them. Don’t actually send the letter, and decide you won’t send it before you start writing. This will free you up to really be honest with yourself (and your journal) about how that person makes you feel.
7 — List it
Make a list — like a grocery list — of all the things that are weighing on you, whether they’re things that are worrying you or things that you fear. Putting these things in a journal may help you see them for what they are: separate of you as a person, and rather things that you are experiencing and that will, eventually, go away.
8 — It’s OK not to know
What are you worried about that you definitively do not know the answer to, or do not know what the ultimate outcome will be? Write down, and recognize, that those things are elements of your life that you can’t see into the future to know the outcome of. Trust that it’s okay not to have the answers now, and know that you will be able to understand them when the time comes.

Tittibhasana: How to Master the Firefly Pose

What is Firefly Pose?
Firefly pose, or tittibhasana in Sanskrit, is an arm balance that requires flexibility, strength and focus. Similar to shoulder pressing pose, the yogi balances on the hands, but extends the legs to the sides.
Instructions
Begin in a squat with the feet wide.Lift the hips and thread the arms between and behind the legs. Place the palms on the floor behind the heels.Lower the hips and shift the body weight back.Inhale and lift the heels from the floor. Extend the legs to the sides.Breathe while holding the pose.Exhale and release the feet to the floor.
 

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