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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9406261.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.} ========================================================== %DISSONANCE CONFLICT TENSION RESOLUTION INTEGRATION+940626 %COERCION VIOLENCE COMPETITION BATTLE WAR TERRORISM 940626 We cannot wisely deal with many daily situation without some sense of the differences between the various kinds of dissonance, tension, competition, conflict, coercion, violence, battling, terrorism and war which causes distress to us day by day. Our sense of such differences may, or may not, be consciously verbalized, talked about or written down. Yet, if we have no sense of such differences, we are likely to respond to different situations as if they were not different, and so not be wise in our responses. War, terrorism, battling, violence, coercion, competition, cooperation, and being together in love---are different from each other in a spectrum of levels of disintegration and/or integration. We act like fools if we have no sense of the differences between them. To survive with personal and communal integrity we need to respond to each kind of reality in a way which is integrative within the context and presence of each different kind of reality. Many of our external forms of war, terrorism, violence, coercion and competition originate in similar internal forms within our own personal being and doing. We cannot deal wisely with the external forms---in the absence of dealing with the internal forms from which the external forms grow. Neither can we deal wisely with the internal forms---in the absence of dealing with the external forms which nurture the internal forms. Internal and external forms engender each other. It is foolish to seek one unique source, just as it is foolish to try to discover a unique source of chickens without being aware that eggs come from chickens; or to discover the unique source of eggs, without being aware that chickens come from eggs. Some processes are cyclic rather than linear, and it is foolish to pretend otherwise. If we insist on seeing all cyclic processes as linear processes, we are bound to experience inner dissonance as we encounter processes which are more cyclic than linear in nature. If we insist on seeing all linear processes as cyclic in nature, we are bound to experience inner dissonance as we encounter processes which are more linear than cyclic in nature. As we experience inner dissonance because of our insistence on an either/or pattern of perception we are likely to project our inner dissonance out upon others whom we may choose to see as the cause of our inner dissonance---and so engender external conflict which will engender in yet others inner dissonance in an additional cyclic process. If we do not perceive the dynamic interplay between the different inner and external processes we are unlikely to be able to deal wisely with them. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================