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==Rejecting Painful Truths== | ==Rejecting Painful Truths== | ||
Denial, in ordinary English usage, is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true. The same word, and also abnegation (German: Verneinung), is used for a psychological defense mechanism, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. An individual that exhibits such behaviour is described as a denialist or true believer. [[Denial]] also could mean denying the happening of an event or the reliability of information, which can lead to a feeling of aloofness and to the ignoring of possibly beneficial information. | [[Denial]], in ordinary English usage, is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true. The same word, and also abnegation (German: Verneinung), is used for a psychological defense mechanism, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. An individual that exhibits such behaviour is described as a denialist or true believer. [[Denial]] also could mean denying the happening of an event or the reliability of information, which can lead to a feeling of aloofness and to the ignoring of possibly beneficial information. | ||
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* projection: admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility by blaming somebody or something else.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial Denial]</ref> | * projection: admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility by blaming somebody or something else.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial Denial]</ref> | ||
It is important to note what makes denial denial and not just refusal to admit to or accept a truth or fact rests in the degree of individual's awareness of the existence of the truth or fact. In denial, an individual does not see or is mostly unconscious of existence of the truth or fact. The choice to refuse reality, then, is unconscious as well. Refusal to admit to or accept a truth or fact differs from denial in that the individual recognizes or is conscious of the existence of the truth or fact but consciously refuses to accept it as such. | |||
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[[Doublespeak]] | |||
[[Trust, Building Trust]] | |||
[[Fundamental Human Needs]] | |||
[[Category: Ascension]] | |||
[[Category: Newsletter]] | |||
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