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     %BEING WHOLE FREE ACCEPTED REJECTED COMPULSIVE 881026

     We  are  free  and  whole  persons  when  we  can  be
ourselves  with our whole being with friends who accept us
and our experiences in integrative conversation.

     We  are  imprisoned  and  victims  of  embarrassment,
guilt,  low self esteem, compulsive behaviors, addictions,
over responsibility,  paternalism, legalisms,  moralizing,
etc.   when we are rejected for being our whole selves and
so  are  unable to be with friends who accept us  and  our
experiences in integrative conversations.

     Embarrassment,  guilt,  low self esteem,   compulsive
behaviors,   addictions,  etc.  are symptoms  of  communal
patterns  of  behavior which threaten personal  integrity;
and so in turn threaten communal integrity.  The community
can  not  be whole and healthy if it does not  permit  its
members  to  be whole and healthy.  The key to  health  is
integrity,   being whole without guilt and  embarrassment.
People  cannot  be healthy without being themselves  in  a
whole  and unique way.  People lose their  integrity  when
they  try  to conform to externally required  patterns  of
thought, feeling and behavior. Such requirements undermine
both personal and communal health.

     Recovery of health entails changing communal patterns
of  conformal behavior in favor of alternative patterns of
behavior   which  promote  both  personal   and   communal
integrity  in  ways  which  are  mutually  supportive   in
balanced ways which are understood and promoted.

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