rationalise away

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rationalise away - substitute a natural for a supernatural explanation of; "you can rationalize away all the strange noises you hear--there is no poltergeist in the house!"

rationalize away

reason - think logically; "The children must learn to reason"

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Although health risks from most imaging tests are extremely small, fear can be hard for people to rationalise away. There is a one-in-a-million chance of getting cancer from a chest X-ray, Ritenour says, the same tiny chance of getting cancer from toxins in peanut butter.

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We often get caught up in loops of trying to rationalise away our feelings, resist them, try to normalise them, judge them, or analyse ourselves based on them - "what does this mean about me?".

When your own thoughts are the root of the problem; Our hectic lifestyles can occasionally overwhelm us, preventing us from thinking properly. Here, psychologist Kyle Davies gives some top tips on how you can successfully 'de-clutter' your brain

We cannot afford to ignore or even to rationalise away this decline as the cost of making progress on economic and development issues.