How many times people feel that their actions represent their thoughts!! I hope if everyone thinks sincerely they will get alarming lower numbers, especially for things which are not usual occurances.
But that’s not food for thought to your mind here, which i want everyone to explore within themselves.
The main point is whenever such dissonance happens, how much tension it creates inside them. Is it Negligible😊 or Manageable 👍🏻 or Alarming which we continue suppress to our unconscious so that it won’t bother us!! 🥵🤫😔
There has been lot of studies on dissonance and the ways people take up to get rid of it.
1)Some people will simply change their attitude towards that thing so that it no more feel against their thoughts,
2) Some might endure trivilisation so that importance of it becomes minimum and thus it’s presence doesn’t bother much and,
3) Some or very few will change their actions to meet their thoughts.
Now one point to be noted here is , whatever we do we want to get rid of this tension due to disparity between our thoughts and actions. And making it more humane, isn’t it a direct attack on our thoughts, attitudes which is demanding a change???
I think absolutely, but it doesn’t mean that changing your behaviour or actions as per your attitude or thoughts is correct option always. So all 3 methods have their own applications in their right context.
1) Sometimes we need to change our thoughts or attitudes . For example people who believe in so much of superstitious or baseless traditions or life style process,, need to opt for a change in their attitude.
2) Sometimes when we need to quit some bad habits we need to change our actions.
3) And we need to go for trivialisation for matters which are just a common day to day hassle.
So is Dissonance good or bad? I think it’s good to have dissonance as it indicates some change is required for normalisation with present scenarios. But taking action to remove it is more important, as if we suppress it then it will loose its very purpose or meaning. And we, from inside will either become inhuman or will get filled with lot of anxiety issues or depression.
What you people think about it?
What lies beneath our thoughts! 