This is http://www.essayz.com/b0803031.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 ========================================================== %LETTING GO PREOCCUPATION WITH ALIENATIVE BEHAVIORS 080303 %FOCUS UPON CLUSTERS IDEAS IDEALS VALUES RECONCILE 080303 People often find it difficult to Focus-Primarily upon Positive-Affirmations; Letting-Go of Preoccupations-With- Alienative-Behaviors --- And-Avoiding-Even-Negations-of- Alienative-Behaviors. When we are Preoccupied-with-Negations of Alienative- Behaviors and with the Defeat-of-Alienative-People --- we have NOT-LET-GO of the Alienative-Behaviors. When we recognize Alienative-People and their Alienative- Behaviors --- we need to WORK-HARD on: Recognizing, Acknowledging, Describing, and Affirming the Compensatory- Complimentary-Reconciling-Behaviors --- which will Graciously-Mitigate the Alienative-Behaviors after we have LET-GO-OF-THE-ALIENATIVE-BEHAVIORS. We Cannot-Mitigate ALIENATIVE-BEHAVIORS by focusing our attention upon the ALIENATIVE-BEHAVIORS or upon the people who engage in the ALIENATIVE-BEHAVIORS. Successful-MITIGATION entails an Intentional-Shift-of-our- Attention Away-From that which we seek to MITIGATE --- toward the --- --- --- --- Clusters-of: Ideas, Ideals, Values, Principles, Attitudes, Hopes, Aspirations, Visions, Dreams, etc. which will lead us to the kinds of Cooperation/Collaborations which will in fact MITIGATE the Alienative-Behaviors and Alienative- Responses to Alienative-Behaviors. Domineering-Bullies trick us into focusing our attention upon: Them, THEIR-Behaviors, THEIR-Questions, THEIR- Answers, THEIR-Threats, THEIR-Attacks, THEIR-Technologies, THEIR-Wealth, THEIR-Powers, THEIR-Strategies; Negations, Denigrations, Destruction, Insecurity, Vulnerability, etc. We then do not have left any time/energy to focus on: --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Clusters-of: Ideas, Ideals, Values, Principles, Attitudes, Hopes, Aspirations, Visions, Dreams, etc. which will lead us to the kinds of Cooperation/Collaborations which will in fact MITIGATE the Alienative-Behaviors and Alienative- Responses to Alienative-Behaviors. 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) ==========================================================