This is http://www.essayz.com/a9210182.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.} ========================================================== %ROLE EMOTION FEEL KNOW LISTEN BODY GUIDE DESCRIBE 921018 When we have not really known anybody who can serve as a role model to us of how to deal with our emotions, how are we to be guided in dealing with our emotions? It is not helpful to repress, confuse, hide, or misrepresent our emotions. It is not helpful to pretend that our emotions are other than they really are, or to overlay upon them misleading interpretations. It is helpful to listen to our body tell us things we would not otherwise know were we do not listen to our emotions; and to share what we learn with others for our mutual enlightenment. Preoccupations with control, coercion, conformity, and propriety are not helpful in regards to our emotions. We need to respect our own and other people's emotional responses to events in our lives; but we need not be dominated by our own or other people's emotional responses. It is not helpful to leave our own and each other's emotional responses as nameless realities which cannot be distinguished from each others; ghosts to haunt us in the nights of our confusion. It is helpful to face, name, and describe our emotions so that we can integrate our emotional lives and our cognitive lives into a coherent whole; and be healthy with personal and communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================