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Seldom does that change even when we accept and assimilate perceived new things. We can't help it, it is human survival thing and our past memories affected by both past and present biases and dissonances tend to shift, adjust and modify what is perceived as new through a process of justifications through confirmation bias along side cognizant dissonance, etc.
It takes considerable effort, self-awareness and open-mindedness, to mention a few concepts, to actually, I mean to actually see that which is new and divergent from what we already know. This is one very critical reason why we all must test consciously and diligently and progressively that which we perceive as relevant change to see past the gossamer fog that covers our eyes to the very thing. We must stop fooling ourselves and see past the fog to perceive, see, hear and literally breath reality.
In my recent article inspired by Abernethy Sensei’s vBlog on “the way” it comes to mind that this is one of the major benefits of the study of karate and martial arts, to see past the natural tendency toward bias and dissonance to see what is possible then embracing that is possible to ‘make it so’. Even if we can foster a gradual and incremental acceptance and change some day as time passes we all will suddenly, as one can visualize, find ourselves in a proverbial state of self-enlightenment.
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