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   %OWN REFLEXIVE CONSEQUENCE CONFESS ADMIT PROBLEM 890219

     Jack regards himself as a respectable person.   There
are  people who respect his views.  Jack does  not  regard
himself  as inclined to bad things or prone to do  foolish
things.  He is always trying to do what seems right to him
and within his reasonable rights.

     Jack  is  having difficulties,  but to Jack it  seems
that  his  difficulties must be due to  bad  luck,   other
people's failures,  and circumstances which are beyond his
control. Jack does not feel it is reasonable to think that
his difficulties are a reflection upon his habits of mind,
heart  and  behavior.  In Jack's view he is doing what  is
right  and reasonable.  He does not find it reasonable  to
think  that  he  should own his own difficulties  and  the
roots  of  them.   He  does not regard  himself  as  being
responsible  for his own difficulties in  any  significant
way.

     Jack  is looking to find who else is responsible  for
his own difficulties. Who wants to own up to the role that
they have played in generating their own difficulties? Who
would  want to own that?  Jack does not regard himself  as
the  kind  of  person  who would  reasonably  own  such  a
responsibility,   and  so  does not  change  his  behavior
according to owning the roots of his own difficulties.

     Jack cannot  confess to himself or others that he has
made mistakes.  He cannot admit to himself or others  what
his role has been and is.  He is not free to reflect  upon
his responsibility and be responsive to himself and others
about  how consequences do follow from his  own  decisions
and actions.

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