This-essay is a7708111.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %EMOTIONAL FITNESS 770811 It is often recognized that physical fitness depends upon regular physical exercise---and that the physically "unfit" can become physically "fit" by engaging in a regime of increasingly more strenuous physical exercise. It would seem that a similar situation would pertain to emotional fitness. Emotional fitness depends upon regular involvement in emotional exercise---and the emotionally "unfit" can become emotionally "fit" by engaging in a regime of increasingly more strenuous emotional exercise. Many of us have avoided regular physical exercise because of physical laziness, fear of physical exhaustion, fear of sore muscles, and by being seduced by technocratic solutions to physical problems. Many of us have avoided regular emotional exercise out of emotional laziness, fear of emotional exhaustion, fear of sore psyches, and being seduced by technocratic solutions to emotional problems. Our highest values have tended to make us shy away from trying situations which might tempt us to break down and fail. We fear to have others perceive our weaknesses because in the past weakness has been an occasion for rejection---and so we hide our weaknesses and/or devise technocratic responses which help us get along while remaining physically and emotionally weak. Failure is so feared that we avoid trying situations. This has even been institutionalized in the religious injunctions to avoid temptation. We are urged to avoid compromising situations---as if the essence of real living involved never compromising. So long as we use technical "solutions" to relational problems we will be emotionally unfit to live real lives. Legalistic approaches to human relationships are technical solutions to relational dilemmas; legalism promotes emotional flabbiness. Many technical solutions are not legalistic in nature, yet they help us avoid emotional exercise and so promote emotional flabbiness. Driving individual cars in commuting protects us from meeting each other in going to and from work. Living in luxurious homes and apartments protects us from encountering each other in our neighborhoods. The television industry helps keep us entertained so we don't meet each other within our homes. The cosmetic industry helps us emphasize skin deep appearances and so avoid genuine personal encounters. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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