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Distraction - The Ego's Favorite Defense Mechanism

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

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The key is to ay mindful of the mechanism and not let your mind get turned outward too much. Some day, as you're so focused outward, you completely forget about the inward aspect of your life. Over time, you'll start to get a sens and o feel for what's really going on and why it's happening. And actually you start to appreciate the raw power of these defense mechanisms of the mind. Appreciate them. Don't demonize them. Theyre very sneaky traps. 99 point nine, nine nine % of people in the world are trapped by them, and they will never break free. If you show them all hundred or so of the episodes that i currently have

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