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   %UNHEALTHY BEHAVIOR PATTERN RECOGNITION DESCRIBE 911115

     Patterns  of  human  behavior  often  have  far  more
meaning than do isolated individual decisions and actions.

     The  meanings  of decisions and actions  depend  upon
the context  in  which  they occur.    Previous  decisions
and  actions   of a person help to create the context  for
their  present decisions and actions.   The meanings of  a
person's   decisions    and  actions  depends   upon   the
collective  pattern  which  they create when viewed  as  a
whole.

     It  is   important   for  people  to  learn   how  to
recognize unhealthy  patterns in their own behaviors,  and
in   other people's  behaviors;    and to  recognize   the
collectively  unhealthy patterns in the behaviors of their
communities.  It  is  important  to learn how to  describe
and  discuss unhealthy patterns of all kinds,  so as to be
able  to work to   promote  healing  and  health   through
personal  and communal integrative behaviors.

     To recognize  patterns often requires recognition  of
how  the  elements  of  patterns  relate to  each   other;
yet   such  analysis  must  not stand in the way of seeing
the  whole pattern as a whole. Reductionists' analysis can
define  and create  a disintegrative pattern which  cannot
be  seen  as a whole by reductionists,   even  though  the
reductionists may be  intimately and blindly involved with
all the  elements of  the  disintegration.   Reductionists
cannot   see   their  whole     disintegrative    patterns
because    they    are compulsively  concerned  with  only
the elements,    to  the exclusion of honest participation
in   and   clear   perceptions   of   intimate    personal
relationships and dialogue.

     To see the  meanings  of patterns  we  need  to be as
interested  in  the  integrative nature of  relationships,
as   in   the isolated natures of the elements  which  are
defined by  the relationships  in  which the elements play
their  various roles.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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