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    %CHANGE LONG HABIT PATTERN CONNECT SELF REFLECT 910506

     The longer  we have lived according to some  habitual
pattern the harder it is to change,  to grow out of such a
habitual  pattern.   Habitual patterns  inter-connect  and
create  a  woven web of thoughts,   attitudes,   feelings,
perceptions   which   make  the  habitual  patterns   feel
comfortable, natural and apparently inevitable.   The more
time  that  is  spent in the habitual  patterns  the  more
threads  are  woven into the fabric of habits,    and  the
harder it is to change the fabric.

    Some   habitual  patterns  are  integrative.     Other
habitual  patterns  are disintegrative.    The  longer  we
maintain  our disintegrative habitual patterns the more we
disintegrate.    If  our disintegrative habitual  patterns
include dishonest habits.   The longer we persist in those
habits, the  more  difficult it is for us to  recover  the
honesty  with  which to see clearly what we are  doing  to
ourselves and to others whom we love.

     Habitual patterns of dishonest thought,   perception,
emotion  and behavior  tend  to  have a perverse coherence
which seems  to  make sense when we are trapped within the
patterns; the more so according  to  how  many  people are
trapped  within  the pattern as members of a community  of
collusive  thought,   perception,  emotion  and  behavior.
Even  disintegrative patterns  can appear  to make  sense;
to have a coherent logic of  their own.
    People  who are trapped within disintegrative habitual
patterns of thought, perception, emotion and behavior need
to  be  stimulated to shift their attention in ways  which
help  them  perceive the lack of  integrity  within  their
habitual  ways and their ideals,  values and goals.   They
need   encouragement   to  examine  honestly   their   own
experiences   to  see if there may exist signs which  tell
them  that   they  need to make some  changes   in   their
habitual  patterns  in order to fulfill their own  dreams,
visions, needs, and desires.

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