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  %FUNCTION WELL HEALTH DEAL HONESTLY LIMITS IDEALS+020630
   %RESPOND IDEAS DESIRES DEMANDS COMMANDS COERCION+020630
  %SELF OTHER DOUBLE BIND ANTICIPATE EXPECT PLANNED+020630
  %DISTRUST RESPECT CRITICIZE SUPPORT COOPERATE SIN+020630
   %ENCOURAGE RIDICULE TOLERATE DENIGRATE DIFFERENT+020630
   %COOPERATE COLLABORATE SUBVERT SANCTUARY WEAPONS 020630
                                                          
     To function well in life we need to deal honestly    
       with the limited extent to which we can control    
         how other people respond to our ideas, ideals,   
           desires, demands, commands, coercion, etc.     
                                                          
     Only to a limited extent can we influence others.    
                                                          
     When we try to go beyond those limits, our efforts   
       to control others most often lead to responses     
         which we never anticipated or imagined possible; 
           especially in regards to how other people:     
                                                          
     1.  Trust and/or distrust us.                        
     2.  Respect and/or criticize us.                     
     3.  Support and/or fear us.                          
     4.  Cooperate with us and/or attack us.              
     5.  Are honest and/or deceptive with us.             
     6.  Encourage and/or ridicule us.                    
     7.  Tolerate and/or denigrate our differences.       
     8.  COLLABORATE with us and/or subvert our efforts.  
     9.  Build more sanctuaries and/or weapons of war.    
    10.  Promote health/healing and/or dis-ease/sickness. 
    11.  Respect coercive-power or cooperative-approaches.
    12.  Treat people who are weak, poor and vulnerable.  
    13.  Deal with addicts, codependents and colluders.   
    14.  Respond to attempts to manipulate their fears.   
    15.  Respond to attempts to mislead/confuse them.     
    16.  Respond to immature domineering people.          
    17.  Respond to others to treat them as evil people.  
    18.  Respond to people who are ignorant/prejudiced.   
    19.  Respond to attempts to control/manipulate them.  
    20.  Resist fools who do not understand them or Love. 
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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