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 %RESPOND REACT CHANGE GROWTH REVOLUTION STAGNATION+941004
  %SECOND ORDER ACCELERATION NET FORCES LAWS NEWTON 941004

     We respond to change according to what kind of people
we  are.    How we respond depends upon  how  we  perceive
change,  and how we think and feel about change;  what our
attitudes towards change are, and what we fear.

     If  we  are getting richer while others  are  getting
poorer  because  we are getting richer---we  may  perceive
such change as good, and think that God is being  good  to
us because of our righteousness.    We  may have favorable
attitudes towards such change.

     If we  are  getting poorer while  others  are getting
richer  through  our  getting poorer---we  are  likely  to
perceive  such change as bad or evil.   We are unlikely to
think  that  God  is being good to those who  are  getting
richer;   especially,  we are unlikely to  think  that the
reason for  their  favored treatment is  because  of their
righteousness.  Our attitudes are likely to be sympathetic
to a paradigm shift and a revolution.  We are likely to be
alienated from the rich people.

     If we are  in a comfortable airplane  traveling at  a
steady velocity we  may perceive our changing  position as
not really  change,  but as a good process which is stable
and to our liking.  A process of change may be regarded as
good  stability which is to our liking.   In that event  a
change  in  the  process may be  regarded  as change,  and
perhaps not to our liking.  Second-order change may appear
to us to be  change,  while first-order  change appears to
involve no change.     Newton's  laws of motion focus upon
such second-order change which is called acceleration, and
is related to net-vector-sum-forces.   It is  second-order
change which most draws our attention.

     If we  are  un-loved and insecure we may  respond  in
defensive ways to prevent any change  which we perceive to
threaten  us,   and we are likely to encourage any  change
which we perceive will threaten our perceived enemies.

     If  we  are  loved and have received  many  gifts  of
security  known  as the freedom to be  safely  vulnerable,
then we may respond in creative ways which help to sustain
people  of integrity in communities of integrity.   We and
others are likely to grow together with integrity,  rather
than  grow  apart  through alienation.   Our  changes  are
likely to be integrative, rather than disintegrative.

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