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                              %COPING WITH EMOTIONS 780710

     There  are  many  ways  in which  we  cope  with  our
emotions when they are a problem to us.  We may objectify,
ignore, repress, ritualize, analyze, sublimate, formalize,
verbalize, or politicize our problematic emotions.

     In  objectification  we treat emotions  as  objective
realities  caused by others who are responsible  for  what
they  cause.    We then can claim a right to  be  free  of
others causing disturbing emotions in us;  make it illegal
for them to bother us.

     When we ignore our emotions,  they tend to wither for
lack  of  exercise.    We become  less  sensitive  through
diversion  to  non-emotional  activities.    Our  emotions
become   displaced  by  our  focusing   on   non-emotional
concerns;   e.g.,   objective  or  analytic  concerns   in
exclusively technical activities.

     We  tend  to repress emotions out of fear,  and  they
tend to assume other forms and pop up in their new  forms.
The repression process then  becomes a full-time job which
demands major portions of our psychic energy and time.

     We  may use rituals to elicit,  channel,  or  repress
emotions.     Within  ritualistic  contexts  we   may   as
adolescents be trained to  experience traditional emotions
through   role  modeling.    Such  elicited  emotions  are
channeled by traditional role models.  Rituals may also be
used  on  occasions of high emotion---to repress awareness
of emotions by  tangential  responses  and  repressed role
models.  We may also invent rituals to serve as avenues of
expression of emotions---seeking formal ways of channeling
them when we fear we may not be able to handle them on our
own.

     We  may  analyze  our emotions in order  to  discount
their meaning and reduce their power to move us.   Through
analysis  we may seek to fragment them and deprive them of
the  holistic integrity which has power over us.   We  may
divert  our attention from our emotions to the analysis of
emotions in the abstract---thereby ignoring our particular
emotions.

     We may sublimate our emotions by expressing our  need
for  action in ways other than those directly motivated by
our emotions---deflecting their force.

     We   may  formalize  our  emotions  by  giving   them
expression  in  formal  action  or  language---possibly in
political action through formal political processes.

                                                                                                                               
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