This is http://www.essayz.com/a9602041.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.} ========================================================== %SPECTRA HUMAN FOCUS 960204 People are aware and respond in many ways which can be seen as spectra of various sorts. The spectra pertain to levels of awareness, kinds of awareness, and the nature of responses. The levels of awareness may be intentional or unintentional, high or low, healthy or compulsive, informed or un-informed, revealing or repressive; etc. The responses may be integrative or disintegrative, relaxed or compulsive, intense or casual, manipulative or liberating, gentle or coercive/violent; etc. In many instances we regard extreme to a spectrum as healthy, and the other end as unhealthy. In some strange instances our patterns of awareness and response may combine healthy ends of some spectrums, with unhealthy ends of other spectrums. The patterns do not always make sense for they often grow out of dysfunctional lives and patterns of perception, feeling and "thinking". In all instances it is helpful to see clearly and describe clearly what it is that we see---so that we may deal clearly with the challenges which confront us. Confusion is not helpful in dealing with the challenges which confront us. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================