This is http://www.essayz.com/a9809171.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.} ========================================================== %IDENTITY IDENTIFICATION BEING BEHAVIOR ACTION OWN+980917 %POSSESSIONS CLOTHING APPEARANCES DEEDS WORKS SINS+980917 %TERRITORY ACHIEVEMENT BADGE LABEL BELIEF DOCTRINE+980917 %AFFIRMATION CONFESSION DENY DENIAL SELF OTHERS+980917 %SPOUSE FAMILY TRIBE CITY STATE NATION WORLD LIFE 980917 The central issues in our lives relate to our senses of our identity and means of identification --- upon and they relate to what they do, might, should, can, and will depend; e.g., upon our: BEING BIRTH FAMILY TRIBE CITY NATION STATE PLANET GENETICS INHERITANCE GIFTS ABILITIES EXPERIENCES ACHIEVEMENTS LABELS APPEARANCES COSMETICS FAILURES NAMES CLOTHING HOUSING CARS WORK WORKS GROOMING TRAINING EDUCATION IDEAS RELATIONSHIPS ALIENATIONS ENEMIES IDEALS FRIENDS INTIMACIES SEXUALITY DESIRES FEARS HOPES ASPIRATIONS INTENTIONS MEMORIES PRETENTIONS ROLES SUCCESSES FORGETTINGS DECEPTIONS REGRETS RECONCILIATION CONTROLS DISCIPLINES RITUALS RELIGIONS SKINS EYES HAIR BODIES CONNECTIONS DISCONNECTS AVOIDANCES COMPULSIONS Our health, well-being, sicknesses, illnesses, etc. --- all depend greatly upon the integrity (or lack of integrity) which prevails in our lives as regards our sense of and perceptions of our respective identities and identifications. We cannot be well and do well so long as we are in conflict internally and within our inter-relationships as regards our identities and identifications. To be well and do well we need to cooperate with all others in our processes of becoming integrated in regards to our identities and identifications. Our personal and communal integrities depend upon our processes of becoming integrated in regards to our identities and identifications. Many of our fears, anxieties, conflicts and failures are rooted in the persistent conflicts which we fail to address openly and honestly---in being true to ourselves and each other---as regards who we are. We cannot be well together if we do not address openly and honesty who we are in our true being --- within true relationships which are coherent and integrative. We will be fearful and sick together---so long as we are content to be in-coherent and in conflict within ourselves and with each other---in endless patterns of misunderstanding, confusion, prejudice, pretense, and deceptions. If we do not let go of those patterns---we fall apart and die (disintegrate) through alienation and isolation. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================