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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9010131.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.} ========================================================== %DESIRE CONTROL FEEL EMOTION AFFECT ADDICT SCI ZEN 901013 People who desire to control feelings, emotions, and affective behavior find themselves in an impossible situation; for feelings, emotions and affective behavior cannot be controlled. When one technology for attempting to control fails, such people seek another technology. They cannot believe that it is impossible to find, invent, create, or meaningfully use some technology to control feelings, emotions and affective behavior. They are compulsively driven by the desire to be in control. Can they find a way to control their desire to be in control? Can addicts and codependents who are driven by the compulsive desire to be in control find ways to control their frustrations when they fail to control as they believe that they should control, want to control, should be able to control, etc? If they cannot find physical means to control, they seek other means; psychological, chemical, economic, political, religious, spiritual, etc. So long as the desire to be in control and the desire to enjoy being in control drives people; they will be frustrated by their misguided desires, and by the impossibility of fulfilling their compulsive desires in satisfactory ways. If the desires persist, such people are driven to try more diverse and extreme techniques involving the use and abuse of: alcohol, drugs, work, sex, people, money, political power, leadership positions, natural resources, fuels, minerals, scientific instruments, military weapons, etc. They are all wasted away by compulsive unhealthy desires. The desire to be in control of desires, and the desire to be in control of the fulfillment of desires; both lead to frustrations, because such desires lead to strange loops of logic and to efforts which ultimately makes no sense and are devoid of real human meaning. The desire to be in control may be intimately related to the belief that one has a responsibility to be in control; and so in turn the desire to be in control may be an expression of the desire to fulfill a responsibility to be in control---as a means to achieving salvation within the paradigm/power which presumably created the responsibility to be in control. The desire to be in control may thus be masked as a responsibility to be in control. Such a sense of responsibility (which is in reality a masked desire to be in control) has much the same tragic effects as a more honest and openly expressed desire to be in control. The masked desire to be in control may in turn be a response to the belief that there is an Ultimate Power in the universe which seeks to control our behavior through threats of eternal punishment and promises of eternal reward if we don't/do conform to Her ultimate standards for good, moral, proper, respectable behavior. Our attempts to be in control are then but tragic echoes of the belief that She seeks to control our behavior. Such is not the nature of She who gave birth to the universe and who eternally engages in the works of Love. God is not ultimately objective in Her nature, nor in Her relationships. God is not the ultimate scientist nor the ultimately powerful and competent technocrat. God is not the supreme addict nor the supreme codependent. God is not the most powerful colluder. God manifests the ultimate powers of Her universe through Love, Power, Justice, Truth, Grace, Integrity, and Balance. The manifestations of God are a threat to the beliefs of addicts, codependents, colluders, technocrats and compulsively objective scientists. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================