At the North Star Mental Fitness Blog, I wrote a post regarding change blindness. Change blindness refers to our difficulty with perceiving visual changes, when we are briefly distracted.
Mental blindness is also possible. Let me explain what I mean by mental blindness. Neurolinguistic theory hypothesizes that we have a "reproduction" of the world in our head. Our psychic perception of the world is, oftentimes, out of sync with the external world. The external world always has much more opportunities and possibilities for change than the psychic re-creation of the world in our head.
Our psychic re-creation of the world is motivated to not change and maintain its existence. It is hypothesized that the psychic re-creation of the world operates on three principles.
- Integrate: Whatever perceptions, feelings or information that are consistent with the psychologically created perception of the world are allowed access into the psychologically created world and are used to validate psychological perception of the world.
- Delete: Whatever perceptions, feelings or information that are inconsistent with the psychologically created perception of the world are deleted and denied access into the psychologically created perception of the world.
- Distort: Whatever perceptions, feelings or information that are inconsistent with the mindset of the world and have have not been deleted are twisted or distorted. The inconsistent information is depreciated and a negated through the process of distortion.
These three unconscious processes can make us mentally blind to changes within our lives. Our perceptions of people will be resistant to change once we have drawn our conclusions about them. Our perception of life will be resistant to change.
Information that will challenge our belief system and values will fail to register in our minds, if the information is not consistent with our belief system and values. We will tend to distort other people's different and inconsistent beliefs and values in order to make them fit into our mindset.
Unconsciously, maintaining a resistant psychological perception of the world in our heads is motivated to provide psychological security and stability. Unfortunately, these unconscious processes prevent change and growth. Unfortunately, these unconscious processes will prevent us from recognizing external danger and the limitations in our perception of the world.
We need to be extremely aware of how our unconscious mind will limit us or blind us. We must pay attention to new information and changes around us in order to be adaptive, safe and growing.
Dr. Hal
Life and Mental Fitness Coach
At the North Star Mental Fitness Blog, I wrote a post regarding change blindness. Change blindness refers to our difficulty with perceiving visual changes, when we are briefly distracted.
Mental blindness is also possible. Let me explain what I mean by mental blindness. Neurolinguistic theory hypothesizes that we have a "reproduction" of the world in our head. Our psychic perception of the world is, oftentimes, out of sync with the external world. The external world always has much more opportunities and possibilities for change than the psychic re-creation of the world in our head.
Our psychic re-creation of the world is motivated to not change and maintain its existence. It is hypothesized that the psychic re-creation of the world operates on three principles.
These three unconscious processes can make us mentally blind to changes within our lives. Our perceptions of people will be resistant to change once we have drawn our conclusions about them. Our perception of life will be resistant to change.
Information that will challenge our belief system and values will fail to register in our minds, if the information is not consistent with our belief system and values. We will tend to distort other people's different and inconsistent beliefs and values in order to make them fit into our mindset.
Unconsciously, maintaining a resistant psychological perception of the world in our heads is motivated to provide psychological security and stability. Unfortunately, these unconscious processes prevent change and growth. Unfortunately, these unconscious processes will prevent us from recognizing external danger and the limitations in our perception of the world.
We need to be extremely aware of how our unconscious mind will limit us or blind us. We must pay attention to new information and changes around us in order to be adaptive, safe and growing.
Dr. Hal
Life and Mental Fitness Coach