Confusion is a state of conflict between inner and outer stimulus. We choose the way we deal with our life events, now some of these life events may be complex and we may not know how to deal with them. Therefore how we decide to deal with our problem is the key to overcoming or managing them. What makes us confused and uncertain is what we don’t understand. Therefore we will become confused and can lose our way in understanding something.
What can help in dealing with our confused state is being compassionate. Compassionate towards ourselves and letting ourselves make mistakes in order to learn from them and grow. We need to be able to not self criticize but instead to be self compassionate when dealing with inner state of confusion. Self criticism creates a hostile environment for us and therefore it needs to be avoided, by knowing that our confusion is the result of our interaction with external world, we can help and eliminate it by creating a cultivating environment. This is where we encourage ourselves, we need to learn to be more compassionate towards ourselves, and not to be discouraged by external stimulus.
Confused state is an inner self phenomena and in order to overcome confusion we need to create a balance in dealing with others and their impact on us. This is between our perceived reality and reality itself. First step to manage confusion is to know how we deal with it to overcome it. We need to validate it, accept its impact on us and then work with it to make things better. Therefore finding out the reason for our confusion helps us overcome it. We need to put ourselves at the centre of what we are experiencing. And come up with how our feelings and behaviour affects our thoughts, our motifs, and also outer influences, this helps us control the situation and to regulate our thoughts and feelings. We then learn that a confused state is also an opportunity state, this is a place that transcendent happens, where we ca choose a new and more loved version of ourselves, with more optimised functionality based on wisdom, courage and and acceptance of responsibility.
We can creatively turn our confusion into a process of new self discovery and clarity. A learning process and a skill that can be learned. We need to remember that a confused state can also be a drive to move forward. It needs to be understood in order for us to be authentic and congruence in our dealings. Therefore this drive is something that is necessary for our life and we can learn to turn it to our advantage.
Minimising confusion result in a better functioning society and more aware individuals. Therefore when systems in society is too complex for human understanding, this may result in cognitive overload and it is better to understand the system better or improve system patterns to make it easier to understand. As human pattern matching is more accurate, human being become more aware of the environment. System instability and confusion can be overcome by feedback loop between system and human.
By quantifying uncertainty, to understand cause and effect within the system, this guides decision making between objective complexity and human mental overload. This confusion therefore may result in a more productive solution and more adaptive strategy. Therefore our human mind can navigate complex and unpredictable systems.