This is http://www.essayz.com/a9801022.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.} ========================================================== %HEALTHY INTEGRATIVE CONSTRAINTS RESTRAINTS COMMAND+980102 %PRESCRIPTION PROSCRIPTION LAW LEGALISM 980102 How are we to recognize when constraints, restraints, commandments, prescriptions, proscriptions, laws and legalistic systems are INTEGRATIVE? Under what conditions? Within what contexts? In what situations? Always? That is not a credible response. The question merits a better answer. The answers to the above questions depend in part upon the attitudes, assumptions, convictions, and motives of the people who originate and/or enforce any constraints, restraints, commandments, prescriptions, proscriptions, laws or legalistic systems. Are they preoccupied with issues of control in the manner of addicts and their codependent supporters? If so, their efforts are not likely to be integrative --- no matter how well intentioned their efforts may appear to be. When some kinds of efforts appear to be integrative, we may well yet ask if some other kinds of efforts might in reality be more integrative. Descriptions of alternatives which have been envisioned --- may be helpful in transcending the limitations of that which is already familiar. Descriptions of the limitations of that which is already familiar --- may open up the doors to visions of better alternatives. Descriptions are often more helpful and integrative --- than are prescriptions, proscriptions and literalistic interpretations of ancient scriptures. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================