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      %ENCOURAGE DISCOURAGE FOCUS OUR OWN ATTENTION 940503

    The  qualities  of  our personal/communal lives depend
significantly  upon the extent/ways in which we  encourage
and/or discourage focusing of attention upon personal:

    DESIRES         FEARS              CONCERNS

    ISSUES          CONFLICTS          GOALS

    PURPOSES        TECHNOLOGIES       BELIEFS

    PERSPECTIVES    EXPERIENCES        REJECTIONS

    EXCLUSIONS      EXCOMMUNICATIONS   PROHIBITIONS

    PRESCRIPTIONS   APPEARANCES        TABOOS

    DOCTRINES       LAWS               REQUIREMENTS

    EXPECTATIONS    DESCRIPTIONS       THEORIES

    Our  lives become dominated by what we most  intensely
focus  upon,   and by what we most compulsively avoid. The
objects  of  our  intense focus of attention  and  intense
avoidance generate our tensions,   contentions,  conflicts
and violence.

    The lack of balance in our focus of attention leads us
and our relationships to  be unbalanced, and  so  prone to
catastrophes   which   occur  when  the  tensions  of  our
imbalance are released through sudden change---rather than
through   gradual   growth  and   evolution   in   healthy
integrative ways.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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