On Denial (in answer to nats)

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To me, there is also an operative side to memory or what you hold in your consciousness at a particular moment, like people say it's to remain functional, or there is not point either in visualizing all your memory all the time when this memory doesn't bring a relevant information to the situation without it to be really denial in that sense.

What makes it more confusing is that the relation between deinal or non denial and behavior is not necessarily as direct as just denying some fact or other.

Like let say at some point you want to put a screw in the wall, then there are memory that are factual, but also psycho-sensorial-motor , specially if you do this over and over again all day, there is whole neural pathway and automatism that build up in the mind to the point that you don't even have to think about it to put the screw. It's like memorized automatism that is also physical, motor, or physiological, and all sort of reaction-memory, that is alike to training in general, when automatic reaction are built up to face a situation, and usually for that you don't have much to think about in order to do it automatically.

When the mind undergo a stressing situation, or situation of danger or whatever, specially if it's repeated, it will also build automatism in reaction to it, which can also be more or less automatic, or beyond this side of only power to deny something or not.

In cognitive therapy they say that you can overcome most situation with the power of though basically, well i think even artifically maintaning a positive outlook on situation by default in case you can't be sure is a little bit the goal of this, and it's clear it's very easy to manipulate one's emotional state depending on what he believe about elements involved in a situation, and if those belief can be changed toward more positive look on a situation in itself i don't see why one's shouldn't do it or try not to deny possibily of things being a way or another if there is no reason for it, it might be more important in a way to be able to maintain positive state of mind about something than being right about it :p

buddha said all is illusion, and if you follow this, there is no special reason to be attached to a particular version of what we can think being the reality, or to deny some things about how we might think it is, as the goal is more toward reaching happyness or nivernaa in general rather than about denial, even if in the 4 way to happyness, it need recognizing dukka/suffering and understand the source of it. Denying a source of suffering will not get you toward hapyness i guess, but then as for being into risking bad trips just for the sake of not denying something, i'm not sure what the point of it :p