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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8911222.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.} ========================================================== %MODE COPE REASON LOGIC STORY METAPHOR SIMILE LIKE 891122 There are various ways of coping with the challenges of life. Different people cope in different ways, and lead different kinds of lives. The kind of life which a person leads depends greatly upon which mode of coping leads in choosing the ways of coping with the challenges which arise daily. Some people cope through the telling of stories of heroes who have coped in meaningful ways. In the telling of their stories they embody insights into the habits of spirit, heart and mind which led wisely in times of challenge. The stories do not tell them what they must or should do. The stories lead them to discover for themselves the leading insights which characterize their community, and which shed light on the issues of life and death. Some people cope through the use of traditional communal rituals which embody leading insights into the nature of life and death. Through slowly changing traditional rituals they maintain a context within which patterns of balanced communal life are passed from one generation to another. In the performance of the traditional rituals they convey the key habits of spirit, heart and mind which led wisely in times of challenge. The rituals do not tell anybody what they must or should do. The rituals lead them to discover for themselves the leading insights which characterize their community, and which shed light on the issues of life and death. Through their rituals they tell their stories about life. Sometimes stories are rituals, and vice versa. Some people cope through rational procedures which are used to figure out how to get from one place to another place in communal life. They learn many techniques for transport from one communal time and place to another desired communal time and place. They often change places and circumstances, and seek to be in control of where they are and how they travel. Hidden in their procedures are obscure suggestions of which times and places are better than other times and places, but their heroes are more preoccupied with the technology of communal travel, than with choosing wisely the most meaningful destinations and habits of spirit, heart and mind for the journeys of life. Some people try to cope through demonstrations of respect for prescriptive statements regarding what people should do in specified types of situations. When it is observed that such prescriptive statements often lead to tragic conclusions, they often demand greater respect for their misleading statements; or build a more complex structure of revised prescriptive statements to deal with more carefully specified situations. Some people contend that their particular style of coping is better in an exclusive way than any other particular style of coping. Such people seek to exclude from their daily lives elements of the styles of coping which are different from their chosen superior style of coping. Through their exclusivity they blind themselves to essential insights which make life meaningful. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================