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 %PREREQUISITES HEALTH JOY HAPPY INTEGRITY PARADIGM 881119

     The   prerequisites  to  health,   joy,    happiness,
integrity,  etc.   are not all objective realities.   Many
people  are  diseased,  ill,  joyless,   glum,   addicted,
codependent,   disintegrating,   etc.   in spite  of  many
"favorable" circumstances which are beyond the wildest and
fondest dreams of others who enjoy health,  joy, happiness
and integrity.  Many subjective factors are central to the
difference between such lives.

     The   differences   may   often  be  found   in   the
preconceptions of the people.  Perceptions and experiences
are profoundly colored by assumptions, attitudes, beliefs,
prejudices and convictions  which  constitute the paradigm
within which people live their lives.

     The  paradigm  envelops  the  individuals  and  their
community of intimate others who interact with them.   The
individual  is a product of and producer of the  community
when embodies the paradigm within which they live lives of
integrity or disintegration.

     The  identification  of the essential elements  of  a
healthy paradigm (in contrast to the tragic elements  of a
diseased paradigm)  is not easy for people who are trapped
within a diseased paradigm.   Even addiction to  respected
objectivity can  blind  people  to  the perception  of the
essential elements of each.   The preconceptions  of those
who are imprisoned  in  a paradigm  can  blind them to the
tragic nature of the consequences of their preconceptions,
beliefs, convictions, and knowledge.
     It is for these reasons that all people need to reach
out to those who are not trapped in their own paradigm for
insights which are not constrained by their own  paradigm.
Only  through  dialogue with those outside a paradigm  can
people  trapped  within a tragic paradigm hope  to  escape
their  prison.   Such efforts  will be  difficult  because
those  people who are most free of the entrapping paradigm
are  likely to be perceived as the enemy of  all  that  is
"known" to be good,  moral,  ethical, proper, traditional,
acceptable, communicable, and worthy of dialogue.  It will
be  difficult to associate  with them and learn from  such
people.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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