This is http://www.essayz.com/a8707251.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.} ========================================================== %GUILT'S OBSTRUCTION OF LEARNING 870725 Through the clear interpretation of our experiences we can learn how to cope effectively. We need to learn how natural consequences are follow from our decisions and actions. Clarity about such consequences enables future wisdom in making decisions. Many people have unfounded convictions regarding which decisions and actions are worthy of respect; convictions which are held without respect to connections between decisions and consequences. Their uninformed convictions are often the causes of the alienation which occur following the decisions and actions which they fear through their ignorance and prejudice. They believe that the alienation which they cause is ordained by natural laws. They can not clearly perceive the connections which they are responsible for, and project those connections upon the nature of reality in dishonest ways. Guilt often is self rejection occasioned by others' uninformed alienative judgments regarding connections between decisions/actions and social consequences of those decisions/actions. Guilt often obscures the nature of the connections between decisions/actions and consequences; and thus undermines integrative learning. Guilt often teaches alienation, not integration and integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================