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  %HEALTHY LIVING BALANCE ACCEPT INVEST RETAIN GIVE 941210

     Healthy living entails maintaining a delicate balance
as  regards accepting,  investing,  retaining,  and giving
gifts.

     We   die  spiritually  if  we  cling  to  our  gifts,
clutching  onto them as if our lives will be  enriched  by
holding onto them.

     We  die  physically  if we do not prudently  use  our
gifts  to take good care of the integrities of our  minds,
bodies, souls and communal spirits.

     We  die  intellectually  if we do not wisely  use our
minds to think  clearly  and  critically about differences
and  similarities  as  they  pertain  to  our personal and
communal integrity.

     We    die    emotionally  if  we  do  not    honestly
share    our perceptions,  feelings,  desires,  fears  and
affections with others.

     We die technocratically if we seek security and power
in  manipulative  systems  and  programs  of  control  and
achievement.

     We  die apathetically if we let go of all our  ideals
and values---as if they were worthless.

     We  die  in  wars  and conflicts if  we  worship  our
personal ideals and values  as  if they were divine and of
ultimate importance---requiring sacrifices of openness and
honesty to fulfill them in thoughtless service.

     We  die  emotionally if we withdraw from  each other,
holding  our  gifts  close  to  our  selves  in  fear   of
vulnerability  through  reflexive  involvement  with  each
other.

     We die of indifference if we hold onto and refuse  to
reveal  our  gifts as if holding them for  ourselves  will
make all the difference we need to make.

     We   die  of  addictions  and  codependence  in   our
collusive  prisons if we are not honest about the gifts we
have,    and the  gifts we do not have;   and so live in a
false  world of pretense and deception.

     In the light of the above we need to recognize,  name
and  talk about why parents,  religious leaders,  teachers
and professors often: manipulate, alienate, discourage, do
not help, complicate relationships,    neglect   students,
objectify,  de-personalize people---and so fail to promote
personal and communal integrity.

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