This is http://www.essayz.com/b0801011.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.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %LIFE JOURNEY LEARNING RESPONDING DEALING ADVERSITY 080101 %TRANQUILITY TRIALS COMFORTS TRIBULATIONS PEACE GOD 080101 %THREATS PEACEMAKING ROLE MODELS RISKS TRAUMAS AWE 080101 %THREATS ATTACKS PLEASURES PAINS HOPES EXPECTATIONS 080101 %EARLY MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES CONNECTIONS DISCONNECT 080101 %GETTING OUT WOMB FIRST MINUTES DAYS WEEKS MONTHS 080101 Each person's Life-Ways of dealing with: adversity, tranquility, trials, comforts, tribulations, peace, threats, peacemaking, risks, traumas, awe, threats, pleasures, pain, hopes, reverence, sexuality, etc. --- depends to a significant extent upon their early memorable-experiences of connections/disconnects between their notable-experiences of such realities IN: 1. The womb, 2. Getting out of the womb, 3. The first minutes after getting out of the womb, 4. The first few days/weeks after getting out, 5. The first interactions with people thereafter, 6. Learning how to communicate with other people, 7. Intimacies with those nearest and dearest, 8. Initial occasions of competition/conflict, 9. Initial occasions of conflict-resolution, 10. Learning how to play graciously with others, 11. Learning how to work graciously with others, 12. Dealing with conflicts that are not resolved, 13. Learning how to articulate all of the above, 14. Learning how to transcend some of the above, 15. Forming overall-frame-works for understanding, 16. Getting stuck in places of arrested growth, 17. Observing how others respond to the above, 18. Experiencing different kinds of real security, 19. Experiencing different kinds of false security, 20. Trying to minimize risks and costs ALONE. 21. Learning to minimize risks and costs TOGETHER. 22. Devising ways to deal with alienation ALONE. 23. Devising ways to deal with alienation TOGETHER. 24. Devising ways to augment Self-Esteem ALONE. 25. Devising ways to augment Self-Esteem TOGETHER. 26. Learning to Mitigate Alienative-Behavior-Patterns. 27. Learning to Mitigate Alienative-Responses-There-To. 28. Learning to deal with Finitude, Limitations, Death. 29. Learning to deal with Intimacies, Risks and LOVE. 30. Learning to let go of Negativity, Contentiousness.... Many patterns are set early in life regarding ways of coping ALONE and/or in Being-Graciously-Together-in-LOVE. Those early experiences play major roles in crystallizing each person's sense of how best to experience any security in the presence of: many, trials, tribulations, threats, attacks, and risks --- that are present in occasions of intimacies of open-and-honest-dialogues. Each person develops convictions about what is possible and what is not possible --- in regards to being Truly-Secure-and-Safe within Risky-Intimacies within Sanctuaries-for-All and/or within Great-Fortresses-Built-for-Just-a-Special-Few in an Exclusive-Club for Superior-People. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom. (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================