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%REVEAL PARALLEL IMAGE FAMILY WITHIN MIND BODY SOUL 910413

     Some    revealing   parallels   may  be   drawn   and
comparisons     be   made    regarding   connections   and
relationships between  the members  of various "families":
Super-ego,    ego and id of individual  persons;   Parent,
adult  and child of the family of  origin;    and  Parent,
adult and child of  the  family within the grown person.

     In  each  "family"     there   may  be  dysfunctional
relationships  involving an absence of love,  power and/or
justice.

     In  each  "family"     there may be a pattern of  (1)
dis-integration    due    to   collusions,     addictions,
codependencies  and/or (2)   integration due to a balanced
pattern of love, power and justice.

     In  each  "family"   integration  and  disintegration
relates to the   amount and quality of communication among
the  members  of  the  "family";   is  the   communication
open,   honest,   mutual,  balanced,   relevant,   timely,
passionate,    vulnerable   and  intimate;    or  is   the
communication  secretive,  tacit,   implicit,   deceptive,
authoritarian,   unilateral,  tangential, procrastinative,
flat, defensive and formal?

     In  each   "family"     it  makes  a  great  deal  of
difference  whether  emotions  are (or are  not)    freely
claimed,  owned, affirmed,   expressed,   and respected in
integrative   ways whenever they are present;  or  whether
emotions  are  (or  are  not)     rejected,      disowned,
denigrated,   repressed  and ridiculed  in  disintegrative
ways  on many  occasions  of ignorance,   misunderstanding
embarrassment and conflict.

     In  each   "family"     it  makes  a  great  deal  of
difference  whether  or not clear  distinctions  are  made
between   healthy  and   unhealthy  patterns  of  thought,
desire,   assumptions,  beliefs, convictions,  fears,  and
behavior.    When  there  are no  clear   bases  for  such
distinctions being  offered  via role models,  principles,
theory,  stories, drama,  novels, song, dance,  ballet and
other   media---then---the   confusing  of   healthy   and
unhealthy realities is bound to  bind  the members of  the
community to their various prisons of mind, body and soul;
both individually and corporately.

     In each  "family"   there  may  be interactions among
"members"   of  the "family"   which are parallel  to  the
disintegrative   interactions    which  characterize   the
addictive/codependent  families   that  are  dominated  by
collusive games of  mutual self  deception,  manipulation,
perfectionism,      control,   confusion,      repression,
dishonesty  and  degenerating  self  esteem.      Insights
gained   in  recovery  of  addicts  and codependents   may
well  lead  to  parallel  insights  in parallel situations
each each type of "family".

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