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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9104021.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.} ========================================================== %SUPPORT GROUP TALK SPEECH SILENCE TABOO AFFIRM 910402 Many children and adults are victims of active and/or passive abuse of their constitutional right to express openly and honestly their true experiences, perceptions, emotions and convictions. Many families, schools, work-places and professions enforce rules of silence; taboos which forbid honest talk, speech or other expressions pertaining to topics which are forbidden under the rules of their collusive games of mutual self deception. The lives and ways of addicts and codependents involve the enforcement of such inhibitions of honest expressions. To recover from being the victim of such inhibitions requires the experience of being accepted in groups of people who are demonstrating their freedom to transcend the role of victim of such inhibitions, by openly and honestly expressing in communal settings what has formerly been impossible to express. Healthy and full recovery entails honest and charitable demonstrations of the freedom to express what was formerly impossible to express. Thus full recovery requires free participation in a support group of some form; formal or informal. Recovery from dishonest abuse is not just a cognitive, intellectual and rational process. It is also an affective process. In the absence of affective affirmations by healthy people of healthy expressions of unique experiences, feelings, perceptions and convictions---there is only incomplete recovery. There are some occasions in which to tell someone something which is true, will most likely be experienced as being coercive; because the fact of telling the truth in that context will carry significance beyond the truth which is told. In such situations and contexts, it is the implications of deciding to tell the particular truth in that particular context---and doing it---which is significant. It is true that in some situations it is unkind to decide to tell a particular truth. The value of honesty can depend upon the context of the honesty. It is not always wise or helpful to tell a particular truth without consideration being given to the possible significance to other persons of telling the particular truth in the particular context. This can be the case in both public and private situations. Unfortunate interpretations if truth-telling may be less likely between intimate friends, but even between intimate friends there needs to be care taken to be considerate of the contexts in which particular truths are shared. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================