How We Maintain Certainty

We maintain certainty by obsessively checking , PROTECTING and AVOIDING anything that may take away certainty.

We eat familiar food, we think familiar thoughts, we surround ourselves with familiar things, we do things in familiar ways, we trust only people we know, we buy things we can be sure will give us a known experience.

We fear the unknown so much we will delude ourselves into thinking that by obsessively checking, protecting and avoiding anything that takes away our certainty that we will be safe in this moment and our future moments.

We BACK this DELUSION by LUMPING it all in together with PHYSICAL experiences we CAN be certain about. We CAN be certain that IF we walk slowly across the freeway with our eyes CLOSED that we WILL most certainly be killed.. OR if we climb in the cage with a rogue GORILLA that its almost certain we will be attacked.... OR if we make a person angry they may attack us.

BUT our MISTAKE in THINKING is that we assume experiences that are PSYCHOLOGICAL threaten us physically in the same way which is NOT true... SO our fundamental thinking is seriously flawed because often we are safe in this moment NOT because of our sense of certainty BUT because there is NO threat in that moment.

There CAN be an UPSIDE to this flaw in thinking.

Protecting our certainty can lead to improving our current position, upgrading our skills, learning to be better in our work relationships, increasing our marketability.. all lead to a positive benefit from what is still a mistake in thinking.

Unfortunately the DOWNSIDE costs us dearly BECAUSE the sense of safety, trust, certainty, permanence is based on an ERROR in thinking

The amount of energy required to hold our illusion permanently in place is staggering that it eventually eats in to our health.

TO WHAT EXTENT is the SOLUTION to LEARN to take away our FALSE certainty HEALTHILY and learn HOW to take CALCULATED risks Important? OR is it best to trick ourselves into getting an UPSIDE from what is clearly a DELUSION?