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%INCONSEQUENTIAL HABITUAL RESPONSES 781227
People tend to specialize their response patterns.
Those types of responses which work satisfactorily a few
times tend to be tried over and over, even in situations
in which they are inappropriate. Such indiscriminate
responses may be occasioned by habit and/or by the lack of
ability to discriminate between situations so as to select
a response appropriate to each situation. If someone is
unable to discriminate between different situations, they
are likely to respond to many situations with a response
which has worked before---even though the situation in
which it worked was quite different. A person may fall
into the habit of responding in just one or a few ways,
regardless of the situation.
Scientists tend toward habitual: asking questions,
analyzing, describing, classifying, measuring,
manipulating, planning, computing, systematizing, etc.
Religious legalists tend toward habitual: passing
judgment, articulating moral and ethical regulations,
rejecting and excommunicating nonconformists, condemning
violators of their rules, attacking those who expose their
idolatry, etc.
Timid people tend toward habitual: withdrawing,
retreating, submitting, being victim, obeying, etc.
Insecure people tend toward habitual: blaming,
insulting, repressing, suppressing, hating, ordering,
attacking, etc.
No compulsive pattern of habitual responses to
various situations is as wise and helpful as a responsive
life in which each situation is seen in its wholeness and
the personal response life in which each situation is seen
in its wholeness and the personal response is congruent
with the wholeness of the situation. Such a responsive
life will involve the recognition of people whose life is
dominated by a compulsive habitual response pattern which
is not congruent with the various situations encountered.
When recognized such people may be helped to transcend
their limited lives and live to see more vital ways of
responding to people and situations with greater
integrity.
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