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I attended a lecture in which the speaker was extremely smart to link two concrete concepts of psychology with the way satan attacks us; humans…Not only known to humans but these two techniques have been consistently used by satan and his team of allies to lead us astray. You maybe wondering what are these and how can satan be so intelligent to use them as his way of deviating people from obeying Allah.
Well the first one is Systematic Desensitization (popular in treatment of phobias) and the second one is Cognitive Desonance (A concept well known in Consumer Psychology).
So how does the satan use systematic desensitization, when the psychologists just know its use in behavior modification especially in treating of phobias?
Well, what he does is, he makes our shame and conscience desensitized. We are slowly and gradually exposed to sins, one at a time and make ourselves believe that it is not that bad. When we are gradually exposed to sins, the tendency to perceive it as a small sin and carry on with it. The intensity is increased each time and the sin does not appear to us as some devastating or major sins anymore. An example can be of women wearing less and less clothes everyday in commercials, on billboards, fashion shows etc. Once not covering instilled a feeling of disgust and shame in us, whereas now, it is a norm to see women half naked and not feel bad about it.
Similarly, the idea of cognitive desonance is the belief that a conflict arising between the mind and soul has to somehow be resolved. When you do something against your values you tend to change your perceptions about that act in order to remove the discomfort you once felt after doing that act. Slowly, you stop feeling guilty about it and do not consider it a sin anymore. The satan now takes control of our conscience and the act we initially were guilty of becomes a routine without any feelings of sorry for ourselves. And this also leads us not repenting, because the act is now not considered a sin anymore.
Found this interesting so thought I would share it with you people. Maybe one of us can benefit from it in one way or the other. We must be careful not to fall into such traps leading to our own destruction, and being a psychologist I could feel vulnerable to these techniques myself. Only when we know the problem do we find its solution.