How many times have people made a conscious decision to live in denial just so that they wouldn’t be inconvenienced by the truth? I think that’s the case more often than not when you’re not taking personal responsibility.
Yes, I believe that one makes a conscious decision to live in denial, it isn’t a contradiction in terms. The problem I see with the suggestion that denial is subconscious is that one would have to deny, deny and deny again every second of every day the factual evidence that shows you how the violence happening in your home is affecting your children, for example.
In other words, you have to brush aside what’s right in front of you and pretend it isn’t there and that takes conscious effort. Denial therefore is one of the biggest barriers to taking personal responsibility.
And yes, for the most part, especially at the beginning when you’re just starting to take back your power and practice personal responsibility, it is an inconvenience.
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