In ancient times, Chinese people, making a transition through the jungle where the tigers were carried out, put on the back of the head mask with the image of a human face. They knew that the Tigers have a habit of sneaking up on the victim and gang up on her from an ambush. Taking the mask on the back of the head of a human face, Tiger thinks that a man looks at him and realizes that sneak up silently fail. If the tiger is not hungry and irritated, as a rule, in which case he does not attack. Thus, the tiger, making erroneous conclusions based on certain information it receives that falls into the set by it for the person psychological trap.

Psychological trap - a situation in which a person (or any other living creature), for whatever reason, is unable to perceive and evaluate incoming information, and erroneous acts, in particular, to their own detriment. In the psychological traps get people doing the wrong conclusions based on insufficient or wrong information is interpreted, given the excessive emotional involvement in the situation or for some other reason.

There are many types of psychological traps that people deliberately arranges for other people. These include the Chinese stratagems, different ways of manipulation, fraud and deceit. After falling into the trap set by others, people tend to eventually realizes his mistake. Psychological traps, puts other people or circumstances prevailing in a special way, we call the external psychological traps. Avoid the pitfalls of external help us experience, intelligence and ability to calmly collect and analyze information. Becoming a victim of external psychological traps undoubtedly unpleasant and offensive, but much worse and more dangerous to fall in the internal psychological traps, ie traps that man himself without realizing it, puts himself.

Once in the network of its own wrong conclusions or delusions, the person usually does not notice it. Having made one wrong action, he has backed his new series of erroneous actions and conclusions. The further a person follows the path of misconduct and false reasoning, the harder it turn from this path. Admit one small error, as a rule, is not difficult, but to recognize all his misguided life strategies, their way of thinking and acting very seriously. Paradoxically, the people at the subconscious level rather prefer to be miserable, than wrong - so they maintain their self-esteem. That's getting into your own psychological trap leads people to neurosis and depression, makes over and over again to make the same mistakes, to feel suffering and lost.

A consequence of falling into the internal psychological traps are all sorts of psychosomatic disorders such as vegetative dystonia, headaches, insomnia, functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, etc. Thinking errors and behaviors characteristic of people who have been victims of internal psychological traps, become the basis for the development of character flaws - personality traits that hinder our spiritual growth and development, preventing establish cordial relations with other people achieve their goals and, ultimately, not allow a person to feel life satisfaction and personal fulfillment.

Some psychological traps begin to act as a psychological defense mechanisms, then transformed into neurotic behaviors that deny people the right orientation, and forcing him to act inappropriately, ineffective, and to their own detriment.

Trap positive past

This is one of the most common pitfalls, which mainly fall into those over 30 years. Instead of live for today, a person with a nostalgic longing looks back on the past, dreaming of return to the golden days of childhood, first love, friends, lost sense of lightness and carefree life, etc. As a result, he has a sense that "the best is behind us, that never again will not be so happy, and other thoughts of this kind. Living in the past, people not only squanders his emotional energy on the nostalgic feelings, but also programs the self that "he never would no longer be so good." It is quite natural that under such circumstances he has neither the strength nor the desire to seek out positive experiences in real life, the events occurring at the moment.

Kontrpriemom can not be selectively positive memories of the past, but more full of memories, in which a good neighbor with the bad, pleasant and unpleasant. This will help to understand that childhood or youth, as life at the moment, apart from wonderful experiences was also filled with problems and conflicts. Remembering unpleasant episodes from the past, should rethink its strategy and vital to understand what the problem is not that worse now past, and that lost in nostalgic memories of people not making active attempts to make his now better, find more joy in it and opportunities.

The trap of negative past

Falling into this trap, the man instead of living in the present, to fixate on unpleasant memories of the past. Wasting your emotional energy on memories of past experiences, it is by analogy with the past, believes that more is not better, and perhaps even worse. Instead of detecting the present positive aspects, it is to confirm your world view, finds in the first place is bad. Thus, he not only suffers in the present but himself and program for future trouble.

Counterexample - regularly perform exercises on a more detailed recollection of the most enjoyable episodes of the past. Must be found in the present as many pleasant and positive aspects. Learn to enjoy the little things - a sunny day, the taste of food, music, etc. Track times the usual return to painful memories of the past. Once this happens, immediately turn our attention to daily activities, on any pleasant thoughts or memories. Try to look optimistically to the future, imagine all sorts of joyful events that await you.

Another option to get rid of the habit of loops on the negative memories (as well as from any other bad habit) - punish yourself, as soon as you start to think about past troubles. The penalty will choose for themselves - it could be 20 sit-ups, or multiplication in mind a two-or three-digit numbers, or apartment cleaning, etc. Desirable as punishment choose the occupation that can completely capture your attention, so you were forced disconnected from the memories. Periodic negative reinforcement will lead to the fact that gradually the habit to remember the torments of the past will come to naught. After the punishment, when you are distracted and stop thinking about the poor, as a reward do something nice for themselves - praise yourself, treat yourself to something tasty or watch a comedy, to get positive emotions.