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     People's motivations spring from what they are living
for.   If  the dominant focus is avoidance of  natural  or
artificial sources of pain,  then the motivations will  be
towards  developing  techniques  to avoid the  sources  of
pain.    The sources of pain may well be in the  emotional
responses of others to certain patterns of behavior of the
self.   If the emotional responses of others be perverted,
so also will be the behavior patterns of  the self seeking
to avoid pain.

     If others communicate to the self disparate messages,
the self  may find motivation  and  behavior fragmented in
efforts to respond to  the disparate messages which may be
internalized  with-out  adult analysis.   In  frustration,
motivation may decrease, and lethargy set in.

     If   self   discovers  self  unable  to  live  up  to
expectations on repeated occasions,  self may decide  that
there  is  no  value  in  continuing  efforts.  Motivation
declines.    Self  may  internalize  negative  self-images
leading  to  non-helpful behaviors.   Thus the presence of
unrealistic expectations is debilitating.

     If self is approached as an 'It'  among objects---and
rarely  if ever as a 'Thou',  self will become as an  'It'
without  volition and without motivation.   Techniques  of
manipulation  of others as 'It'  undermine the possibility
of  them sustaining a hope and meaning in  life---even  if
the techniques be designed to maintain "proper"  standards
of human behavior.  Without hope and meaning in life there
is little motivation to engage in helpful behavior, and  a
apparent urgent need  to  develop  techniques  to maintain
standards  of human behavior.  The feed-back loop operates
to  intensify  the  dilemmas  which  the  techniques  were
designed to solve.

     A  self  without  motivation cannot through  its  own
decisions and action generate motivation which it does not
have.   Any real motivation to be helpful is generated  by
others who  accept  the self with self's real dilemmas and
through dialogue  help  develop  mutual  ways of resolving
those dilemmas.   In  a fail-safe context motivation grows
and   the  fulfillment  of  possibilities  for  creativity
becomes possible.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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