This is http://www.essayz.com/a8611011.htm         
Previous-Essay      <== This-Essay ==>     Following-Essay
Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words.
{Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.}
==========================================================
  %REFLEXIVE CONCEPTUAL ROLE MODEL IMAGES DICHOTOMY 861101

     Dichotomies  are  signs  of the lack of  integrity in
reflexive conceptual role-model images.

     Through  our  images of what it means to be a  person
and what  we should be as a person we realize our concepts
and role-models through reflexive behaviors.   If there is
integrity  in  our  concepts,  role-models  and  reflexive
images  of  admirable  people  we  become  role-models  of
integrity  and  demonstrate  what  it is  to  be  free  of
tensions of various dichotomies.   If we have internalized
incoherent  concepts,  role-models and reflexive images of
personhood,  then we will experience and broadcast  images
of dichotomy in our personal and communal lives.

     If  we  have  the image of a person as a  link  in  a
chain,  we  may  regard internal tension in a person as  a
sign  of  external conditions.   If we have the image of a
person as an integrated set of coherent  ideals,   values,
concepts,  and images of persons of integrity, then we are
likely   to  regard  internal  tension  as   the   natural
consequences   of  the  internalizations   of   incoherent
elements which  are in tension with each other.  One image
looks to the external world for the resolution of tension;
the  other  image  looks to  the internal  world  for  the
resolution of tension.   In the former case the person may
be  powerless;   in the latter case  the  person is  in  a
position of power to resolve the tension.   The difference
in image makes quite a difference in practical terms.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
==========================================================