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We rarely see how, or when we act against ourselves \u2013 or others \u2013 because of how instantly, easily we agree to identify with a legion of sleep-inducing thoughts and feelings that appear to serve one purpose: to justify a dark and self-defeating level of us for which there can be no justification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We rarely see how, or when we act against ourselves \u2013 or others \u2013 because of how instantly, easily we agree to identify with a legion of sleep-inducing thoughts and feelings that appear to serve one purpose: to justify a dark and self-defeating level of us for which there can be no justification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,511],"tags":[11,1325,567,288,184,651,565,2331],"class_list":["post-4280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negative-states","category-uplifting-quote-key-lesson","tag-awareness","tag-dark-feelings","tag-dark-thoughts","tag-identification","tag-justification","tag-mental-suffering","tag-self-defeat","tag-self-seeing"],"yoast_head":"\nStop Justifying Negative States - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2015\/08\/stop-justifying-self-defeating-states.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stop Justifying Negative States - 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