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%RECOGNITION DYSFUNCTIONAL MOTIVATION FEAR 990718
It is often helpful to recognize the inter-connected
ways in which dysfunctional motivations arise --- often in
association with fears and related factors which can be
mitigated:
1. Fears of change and/or growth often paralyze
needed change and/or growth --- by generating
dysfunctional motivations and behavior patterns. There
is a sense in which such fears are fears of the unknown
and the unfamiliar. They may be rooted in fears of making
mistakes while dealing with new situations --- because in
the past such mistakes have lead to punishments, rejection
and and alienation. Recognizing the ways in which such
motivations/fears have arisen and functioned --- can
suggest ways in which to mitigate them.
2. Dysfunctional motivations may arise due to
ignorance, misinformation, confusion, prejudice, faulty
logic/reason, and/or misleading traditions. Fear may,
or may not, play a major role in conjunction with such
motivations. Here again, recognizing the ways in which
such motivations/fears have arisen and functioned --- can
suggest ways in which to mitigate both them and the
associated thoughts, feelings, decisions and behaviors.
3. Incoherent and misleading sets of ideals, values,
principles, desires --- can engender dysfunctional
behaviors because of unresolved conflicts. Conflicts
between and/or within people are often rooted in conflicts
between and/or among whatever leads, guides and/or
motivates the people. Dysfunctional behavior often flows
from incoherent sets of ideals, values, principles and/or
desires --- due to the conflicts between/among them.
Dysfunctional conflicts within and between people can
better be resolved in creative (not conformal) ways when
the people involved have come to recognize the conflicts
between the incoherent sets of ideals, values, principles
and/or desires which guide/lead them.
4. Communicable dis-eases, collusions, traditions,
group-dynamics, mob-psychology, and thoughtless loyalties
often play roles in engendering dysfunctional motivations,
thoughts, approaches, attitudes, decisions and actions.
In these instances dysfunctionality is rooted in
dysfunctional relationships which debilitate peoples. We
cannot well mitigate such occasions of dysfunctionality
when we are driven by ignorance, misinformation, confusion
and/or prejudice --- regarding what has and is happening
which leads to personal and communal disintegration.
Rarely does skill and diligence in placing blame/shame
help anybody in any way.
5. Dysfunctional motivations are often rooted in
patterns of blame, shame, regrets, resentments, revenge,
punishments, coercion, violence, alienations, judgments,
excommunications --- which engender each other in
confusing ways. It is usually not easy to sort out when
such factors are debilitating --- from when they play some
positive roles. Which is which is often dependent upon
the background, the foreground, the framing --- and so the
point of view of the viewer.
6. Dysfunctional motivations often flow from
dysfunctional personal relationships. They relationships
are often characterized by:
ALIENATION MISUNDERSTANDING CONFUSION
COERCION CONTROL ISSUES
MISLEADING-EXPECTATIONS JUDGEMENTALISM
LEGALISM SHAME BLAME
GUILT ADDICTIONS DEPENDENCY
EXCLUSIVITY IMBALANCE EXTREMISM
DICHOTOMIES DISTRUST PERFECTIONISM
Dyfunctional motivations cannot helpfully be traced
to any one or a limited number of sources. Dysfunctional
motivations are rooted in complex webs of inter-connecting
factors. It is futile, but common, to try to find THE
SOURCE, and to lay shame, blame and responsibility at the
feet of THE SOURCE.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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