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I thought for a long time about what would be new to tell you in my article, and the topic came to my mind naturally during consultations with clients. Many have heard about the Tilt "Injustice", but where do the roots of this tilt grow?
- Why is life sometimes unfair?
- Is there any justice in the world at all, and what is it?
- Will I be rewarded for all the injustice I have encountered?
Every person has asked themselves all these questions more than once. Therefore, I decided to analyze in detail what a sense of injustice is, why it manifests itself in us, and what is justified in our lives.
1. What is a sense of injustice
At the moment, it is seen as a personality trait that serves as an indicator of susceptibility to cases of injustice in our lives and is built on several levels of our mental life: cognitive, emotional and behavioral reactions to injustice. Simply put, most often the feeling of injustice is similar to the feeling of resentment or guilt when a person feels some kind of weight that has fallen on his shoulders, and which he seems unable to overcome.
It includes four components:
- the frequency with which a person notes injustice in the surrounding reality,
- intensity of emotional reactions to injustice,
- a tendency to constantly scroll through the same anxious or depressing thoughts or memories about injustice in the head,
- motivation to restore justice.
The feeling of injustice reflects your inner view that the world is negative towards you and does not give you enough. That is, you believe that somewhere you have really succeeded, but life shows you the other side; this causes a feeling of injustice. In poker, it manifests itself in one of the forms of tilt - tilt “Injustice”. Often, a similar Tilt occurs among players who believe that they are not getting what they supposedly rightfully deserve, since they are (according to their inner conviction) more worthy than others.
Players here are based on three core beliefs:
- That the variance should only return everything to them;
- That their level of play is better than others (even if this is real, then Tilt can still occur, since only strategy is evaluated, but both psychology and other aspects of the game that are also important are overlooked).
- And finally, that their оpponents should only lose.
For people who hold this position, poker seems unfair and unfair when they start to lose and experience setbacks. Thus, responsibility is removed from oneself or, on the contrary, too much selfishness manifests itself, they say, everyone owes me. Communicating with such players, I often note that they remember only bad moments for themselves, the failures that happen to them. When the variance is favorable to them, this is taken for granted and not at all valuable. There is also a global sense of injustice – but this is already a clear syndrome of the fact that you need to deal with this condition by a psychologist as soon as possible.
In order to understand more deeply the feeling of injustice, it is necessary to analyze the reverse phenomenon, namely, the feeling of justice. Many psychologists who consider a sense of justice have come to the conclusion that it is based on a sense of one's own success multiplied by your egoism. Egoism comes in different forms, and underestimated egoism is also worth taking into account. Often, a sense of injustice appears in people who have problems with self-esteem, you can read more about it in this article. The sense of justice is built on the control of reality. That is, the feeling that the world is fair, gives a sense of control over your life, the impression that everything is going according to your plan. But this is an internal misconception.
The search for justice is a protective mechanism of the psyche against the unpredictability and danger of the surrounding world.
The main function of a sense of injustice is an unconscious search for security in everything that happens to you. But as we know, in real life not everything is subject to our control and is safe for us. That is, often a feeling of injustice is felt when a person feels himself a victim of circumstances, which means that he himself absolves himself of responsibility.
Let's consider the mechanism of injustice schematically:
In fact, if we dig deeper, when we feel a sense of injustice, we want the circumstances to be successful for us, and as if they themselves saved us. It should be noted that behind the “sense of justice” there is often a wounded Ego. If you rephrase "the world around me is cruel" to "why I feel the cruelty of the world", then I wonder what will come to the fore.
2. Work on the sense of injustice
What unfair things happened in your life, why is it still so hard for you? Working with this feeling is extremely important primarily because the lack of responsibility in life = a childish position, and a childish position is always a “blind spot” of work on oneself, which are not visible or seem insignificant. As long as you have a wounded child inside you who is ill, you will see his reflection in the outside world.
How to start working on a sense of injustice in life and play:
- Think about what part of the responsibility you take off yourself?
- Evaluate and analyze what is good that is happening to you, and in what situations do you not notice, and why do you notice only negative things?
- Start looking for confirmation that everything that happens in your life is going well for you. That this is a necessary and important experience for YOU.
As for poker - start appreciating the dispersion, and not scolding it, because it is thanks to it that poker is alive! And it has opportunities for everyone, not just experienced players who understand all the nuances of the game in detail. Thanks to the dispersion, everyone can win in the end! I would like to note once again that working with a sense of injustice is extremely important and will help you discover new facets of your "I". Many successful people say that their success is their responsibility, the ability to see and grab luck by the tail at the right moment. If you want to learn how to do the same, I invite you to my consultation, where we will better understand this aspect of your life.
