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 %PROFITABLE DYNAMICS ELEMENTS DISINTEGRATION HABIT 890415

     For a community to cope effectively with the dynamics
of  disintegration,   members  of the  community  need  to
perceive and understand the dynamic ways in which elements
of  relationships  within the community and  its  members,
lead to either integration or lead to disintegration.

     Some habits of mind and heart lead to disintegration.
Other  habits of mind and heart lead to integration.   The
differences   between   them  are  not   always   obvious,
especially  to  those involved in the  integration  and/or
disintegration.

     We  respond to habits of mind and heart in  terms  of
the  reflexive  ways in which we perceive them.   We  find
ourselves  engaged  in  tragic dynamic processes  when  we
perceive  integrative processes in ways which lead  us  to
avoid  them;  and/or perceive disintegrative processes  in
ways which lead us to become involved in them.

     If individual members of a community are led by their
perceptions  to regard disintegrative processes as  likely
to be profitable to them, then such individuals are likely
to  be  lead into participating in such  processes,   even
though  such  participation  will  lead  them  and   their
community into disintegrative trends.

     If individual members of a community are led by their
perceptions to regard integrative processes as unlikely to
be profitable to them,  then such individuals are unlikely
to  be  led  into participating in such  processes,   even
though  such  participation  would  lead  them  and  their
community into integrative trends.

     It  is  important for individuals and communities  to
learn  to  recognize the consequences of their  habits  of
mind   and   heart;   to  see  clearly  the  elements   of
dis/integrative  processes  and  the ways  in  which  such
elements interact.

     The   elements   of  dis/integrative  processes   are
personal   and  communal  transactions  in  objective  and
reflexive  relationships.   Each  such transaction  is  an
elementary  part  of a web of transactions which  lead  to
either integration or to disintegration.  It is helpful to
be  able to perceive each transaction with regard to  what
role  it plays in the whole web of reflexive transactions,
as  they either knit or unravel the web  of  relationships
which  holds  the  community together as  a  whole.   Such
perceptions  are  not  objective  perceptions;   they  are
reflexive perceptions.  People who specialize in objective
perceptions  are  unlikely to be able to  offer  essential
reflexive  perceptions by which the community may  be  led
into integrative habits of mind and heart.

     Recognizing   what  is  missing  is  often  just   as
important as recognizing the significance of that which is
present.   The lacks of a community and its members  often
lead  to  disintegration.   It is difficult  to  recognize
lacks.   It is harder to recognize which unfamiliar person
who  belong in a group is absent,  than it is to  remember
the names of the more familiar persons who are present. It
is  harder  to recognize which  unfamiliar  but  essential
habits of mind and heart are absent from a community, than
to  recognize the more familiar disintegrative ones  which
are  present.  Yet it can be just as important to perceive
the significant consequences of missing habits of mind and
heart,  as it is to perceive the significant  consequences
of the present habits of mind and heart.

     The   following  absences/lacks  are  suggestive   of
disintegration in a community; the absence of: expressions
of affection,  compliments, eye contact, honest criticism,
requests   for   forgiveness,   acceptance   of   personal
differences, tolerance, clear personal convictions, openly
reflexive  expressions,  etc.  To people who lack these in
their  community,  it is difficult to recognize that there
is  a lack.  The perception of such lacks is an  essential
step  towards  the  recovery  of  personal  and   communal
integrity for those who suffer the lacks.

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