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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9004023.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.} ========================================================== %WORSHIP NEGLECT AFFIRM ACKNOWLEDGE ADDICT CODEPEND 900402 The process of falling into addiction and codependence includes the increasing practice of neglecting to affirm uncomfortable truths about human limitations, imperfections, failures, weaknesses, etc. The dishonesty of addiction and codependence is rooted in neglecting to affirm truths; active denial and active dishonesty are only the extreme forms of such neglect. The majority of steps into dishonesty involve passively pretending that the truths are not known, through the process of neglecting to acknowledge uncomfortable truths through any regular rituals. Many religious services of worship serve the purpose of helping participants to regularly acknowledge essential but uncomfortable truths. In healthy religious worship services participants confess the importance of keeping present in daily life an awareness of human limitations, imperfections, failures, weaknesses, etc.; while keeping in mind that none of those truths mean that persons themselves are essentially limited, imperfect, failures or weak. Healthy religious worship services involve paradoxical affirmations of what appear to be mutually contradictory truths about human potentials and human limitations. Addictive and codependent behavior patterns involve avoiding such paradoxical affirmations through neglect which lays the foundations for more active dishonesty in later stages of the progressive disease. Pretending that we can perfect ourselves through our own effort involves neglecting to keep present in our daily lives the evidence that whenever humans try to perfect themselves through their own effort, they fail in systematic ways which reveal the implicit dishonesty in the pretense. Failing to participate in traditional rituals by which we confess in clear ways our own real limitations and imperfections, leads by stages to more and more active involvement in pretending that we have no real limitations and no imperfections. Any systematic pattern of neglecting to affirm truths about our limitations leads to confusion and active forms of dishonesty about our limitations; and to behavior which is tragic through its failure to deal honestly with our real limitations. Addicts and codependents are confused, dishonest, pretentious and negligent in their failures to acknowledge, confess, and affirm truths about what it means to be human with human limitations. They pretend to be super-human with abilities to perfect themselves through their own efforts. They pretend that they can make themselves acceptable. They pretend that the essence of their own salvation and redemption is to be found in their own efforts and successes. Such pretentions leads to more active forms of dishonesty which are dysfunctional and characteristic of the daily drama of addicts and their supporting cast of codependents. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================