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                   %FEAR OF GUILT IS DISINTEGRATIVE 871027

     It   makes   sense  to   consider   carefully   those
circumstances  over  which one has  little  control,   and
perhaps even to fear the consequences and take appropriate
action to deal with the consequences.   Yet imprudent fear
is   itself  something  to  be  feared  about  all   other
circumstances.    Fear  tends  to  paralyze,   to  prevent
integrative thought, perspectives, decisions and actions.

     The  fear  of guilt is the fear  of  self  rejection.
Fear  of guilt is not a reality which is unavoidably under
the control of others; it is a reality which is subjective
and  may  be  subject  to  one's  own will.    It  is  not
integrative to fear guilt in the same way which one  fears
that over which one has no power.  Fear of guilt paralyzes
one,   and  prevents one  from  wisely  dealing  with  the
possibility of self rejection.

     There  are people who teach us to  reject  ourselves.
Those  people lack personal and communal  integrity,   and
they  sow  seeds of personal and communal  disintegration.
The  way  to  deal with fear of guilt  it to learn  how to
transcend the temptation to reject our selves.   The usual
way   to try  to deal with guilt is to try  to avoid doing
what  others threaten  to  use  as behavioral excuses  for
rejecting   us;     this  way  puts  into  the hands    of
disintegrative  people the power  to  control us.     Such
unrestrained power corrupts them and disintegrates us.  We
have no responsibility to grant them such power.

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