The Actuality of Reality
By
Richard
H. von Gremmler
The term “reality”
is customarily referred as how we interpret and choose to identify certain
circumstances as reality. This can be
very misleading, as the actuality of an individual’s genuine reality, dependent
on his or her respective stress threshold, may be totally remote from this
misconception; with the authenticity actually restricted within the
subconscious or unconscious inner-Self.
(Refer to my blog on Consciousness/Subconscious/Unconscious inner-Self)
The majority of
individuals in today’s society are resolute that they are unequivocally
sensitive of their exclusive world of reality, whereby considering it normal
for everyone to embrace his or her own unique reality. This would be very convenient if it were that
simple. But unfortunately, there is only
one true and genuine reality; and this exemplifies everyone!
This delusion begins
from the time we are infants; through clandestine (unconscious inner-Self)
emotional dynamics, which manipulate us to restrict our consciousness from experiencing
the reality of particular critical complications of duress; resulting because
of respective stress-producing situations (stressors) we may have experienced
and are incapable of confronting. (Refer
to my article on Stress/Anger Conflicts)
It’s quite normal to
unsuspectingly deviate from experiencing various conflicting feelings, which
are out of harmony while nursing our needs to experience only comforting
feelings and thought processes. And this
is when our emotional needs will lead us awry.
With the assistance of our ego-defense mechanisms, we will only perceive
what we have needs to believe as accurate, rather than possessing
inner-emotional awareness, whereby defining the actuality of the specific
situation for its authenticity. (Refer
to my blogs on Ego-Defense Mechanisms, and Emotional Needs)
The difficulty
arises with our consciousness of Self-awareness; whereby, our ability with
being capable of adequately determining and accepting the actuality of critical
circumstances, or, the inability with accepting reality of such. Because of our emotional needs and
overpowering ego-defense mechanisms, and the stressors responsible, it’s nearly
impossible to properly evaluate and determine the actual reality, and not as we
need to believe. We will actually
misrepresent the genuineness of the respective culprit, whereby distorting the
situation to be or appear as something other than for what it truly is.
And again, the key
element here is, Self-awareness. As long
as we have emotional needs and are sustainable with consciously surviving in
denial (ego-defenses), we will always be predisposed to avoid facing our
genuine world of reality. The problem
being though, this dismissal may provide us with immediate gratification and
falsifying, as an emotional safeguard, but the stress-producing situation will
still exist, except secreted within a different level of our psyche.
What occurs is,
should we fail to accept the reality of a specific stressor, the elucidation of
this particular element will either be suppressed into the subconscious, or
repressed into the unconscious inner-Self.
Within the
subconscious, less stressful thought processes will be consciously processed
and suppressed at our discretion, and will be restricted from observation only
on a temporary basis, whereby illuminating into consciousness
periodically. Considering the
unconscious inner-Self, this incorporates the more critical stress situations
of which we are totally unaware of, whereby being repressed without our conscious
awareness.
The significant
factor here is that, with the subconscious, since the stressor is not
permanently removed from consciousness, we will have opportunities to resolve
and eliminate the respective stressor.
Whereby, with repression of criteria, this information is recessed into
the psyche without our conscious awareness, and with the information becoming
totally lost from consciousness.
Thus, the criteria
contained within the unconscious inner-Self become the hidden treasure of our displaced
reality. And all of this information is
what formulates an individual’s unique personality. This is why most of us walk around in life
aimlessly searching for that unknown phenomenon, “the actuality of
reality.”
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