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This-essay is a7805151.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %BALANCED AFFIRMATIONS 780515 An affirmation contributes to the firmness, the integrity, of that affirmed. Exclusivity undermines affirmations, whether the exclusivity be on the part of the focus of possible affirmation, or the source of possible affirmations. Exclusivity undermines integrity which is essential to firmness. Exclusivity breaks bonds of communicative inter-connection, and so undermines the possibility of complementary affirmations of variety and individual differences. Exclusivity calls for the affirmation of one value regardless of context---to the exclusion of values other than the one demanding unconditional affirmation. Such exclusive affirmation occasions fragmentation and so the undermining of integrity, as in: winning arguments by overpowering a loser, super-patriots, militarism, racial and ethnic discrimination, economic snobbery, educational snobbery; and patterns of exclusivity in business, residential neighborhoods, social gatherings, education, and religious institutions. Integrity is occasioned by balanced affirmations--- whether in intimate personal relationships or in more formal social interactions. Affirmations which contribute to the unbalanced growth of individuals and relationships are perverted affirmations---they do not contribute to the integrity of the individuals and relationships. They promote cancerous growth of but a part of the individuals and relationships. Genuine integrity involves balanced growth of all aspects: physical, emotional, sensory, contemplative, analytic, integrative, sexual, individualistic, communal, intellectual, affective, etc. Balanced affirmations promote the balanced growth of all aspects, not the outstanding excellence of one aspect at the expense of other essential aspects of a person and relationships which grow with integrity. Specialization tends to undermine balanced affirmations. Specialists do not value integrity---they value some narrow aspect of a whole person, without regard for the context which affirms that narrow aspect in only limited situations. Specialization undermines personal integrity and the integrity of personal relationships by unconditionally valuing fragmented aspects of real living. Balanced affirmations are possible only by people who recognize the idolatry of thoughtless specialization. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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