This is http://www.essayz.com/a9011282.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %HEALTHY LIFE BALANCED PREOCCUPATION ADDICTION 901128 The healthy life is a balanced and integrated life as regards: work, rest, recreation, relaxation, sleep, exercise, solitude, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, prayer, meditation, study, conversation, silence, celebration, mourning, pain, pleasure, eating, fasting, etc. No such individual aspect is dominant within or excluded from, a healthy life. When any one aspect of a healthy life is a compulsive preoccupation of a person, the preoccupation may be either an addiction to, or a rebellion against efforts to exclude the aspect in an unbalanced way. In such instances complimentary efforts need to be made to be personally honest, balanced, tolerant, charitable, open-minded, communicative, responsive, integrated and humble. Balance is not achieved by oscillating between excess and deprivation in compulsive counter-compensations which involve fascination, guilt and shame. In healthy balance there is equanimity, serenity and peace while there is motion from one focus to another focus of a healthy life. The healthy life is characterized by freedom within a non- coercive structure which gives dynamic stability and meaning to relationships, processes, experiences, activities, memories and anticipations. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================