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     Emotional  and psychological blocks can partially  or
totally  inhibit analysis of important/difficult problems.
Commonly  it is taken for granted that any  difficulty  in
analysis      originates     in     imagining     possible
perspectives/models in terms of which understanding  would
be possible.   Granted that view---the blockage is  at the
point  of  lack  of imagination and creativity.   We  know
little about how to promote imagination and creativity ---
so  there  is  little  we can do to remove  that  kind  of
blockage.

     Blockage may exist,  however, between imagination and
creativity  on the one hand,  and the conscious expression
of  that imagination and creativity.   Cultural forces may
inhibit  overt expression of imagination and creativity---
to the point  that  they  do  not  rise  to  the  level of
conscious articulations. Problems which are both important
and difficult may  be  impossible  to  analyze  because of
blockages to the key insights which keep the insights from
reaching  conscious articulations.  If such is  the  case,
there  may be among us a great deal of wasted  imagination
and creativity and one  of  our most important tasks is to
remove the origins of the blockage.

     Intellectuals   and  rationally  oriented  people  in
general tend not to give much thought to the role of their
emotional   lives  in  creating  the  matrix   for   their
activities which usually appear to be relatively unrelated
to emotions. Yet, blockages of their analyses are far more
likely  to  be  related to their emotional lives  than  to
their  intellectual/rational  lives.   Blockages  tend  to
originate in fear of one form or another;  e.g.,  fear of:
being different,  making mistakes,   appearing silly,  not
succeeding,  the unfamiliar, punishment,  ridicule,  being
excluded, being excommunicated --- the last being the core
of most fears which generate blockages.

     To the  extent that this analysis  is  relevant---the
precondition  for helpful analysis is the conviction  that
you   will  be  accepted  and  loved  regardless  of  what
imaginations  and  creativity  you express  ---   and  the
repeated   confirmation  of  that  conviction   in   daily
experience  from  infancy through childhood,  adolescence,
young adulthood, middle age, and the final years of life.

                                                                                                                               
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