Understanding Anxiety and Congruence

What do you believe? About God? About life? About your place in the world? About your relationships and your future? It is imperative to know what your core beliefs are if you want to understand why you make the decisions you make. But what happens in our hearts and minds when what we believe seems to be in constant conflict with what we do? In these seasons, it can feel like the ground is splitting right between your feet and pulling away in either direction. You have one foot planted on either side, but the chasm is getting wider and wider, and you need to make a choice on either end or fall into the abyss. You believe that one side leads to safety and the other side leads to destruction, so the choice should be simple, but then why are you still paralyzed with fear and unable to make a decision? Why do so many wait so long that they end up falling into the pit rather than choosing a side? When what we believe conflicts with reality, it can produce in us feelings of stress, anxiety and discomfort which we then will try to justify to keep our world making sense. The psychological term for this is known as cognitive dissonance and I believe this is a huge factor at the heart of many of our anxieties today. Stick around to find out why and what you need to overcome it in your lives.