SYNERGY-NET on http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump RE: Things are out of control ! OK, you are nervous, easy to anger, see mountains in every mole hill, quick to blame others, resentful, feel your life, body, family, community, nation is out of control - join the crowd.. The American People experience: Frustration Aggression Insecurity Loneliness Uncertainty Resentment Emptiness = FAILURE They are out-of-touch, disconnected, jerked around, reactive, greedy, slothful, covetous, horny, fearful, selfish, The nine " defensive positions" from the Enneagram ( "What Really Matters" Tony Schwartz) So take a couple of deep breaths and relax, think positive - take up running, improve your diet, will that get rid of, exorcise the demons ? Sense of Direction Understanding Courage Charity Esteem Self-confidence Self-acceptance = SUCCESS (Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics) Calm, focused, centered, grounded, proactive, empowerment The demons are not so easily appeased and driven off - There seems to be no quick fix. There is a long history of "positive self image" from Dale Carnegie, to Steven Covey, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Wayne Dyer, Norman Vincent Peel to Nightingale, Dennis Woley, Bishop Sheen. William Glasser "Control Theory and Reality Therapy" suggests that: If you keep doing what you do You keep getting what you get and if you don't know where you are going you end up somewhere else The art of government has the same root in semantics as cybernetics ( Dr. Norbert Wiener 1948 ) in the concept of the steersman on the ship of state - guidance of the Polis to safe harbor. The internal control system either can be on auto pilot or under conscious control and direction. How much can training and education, positive images and experiences replace infant programming ? So how much control do we have ? Are we responsible - control our ability to respond ? Do we really have choices ? Things - institutions, politics, communities, values, families, business, money, congress are "out of their minds" , living in a dream world, walking in their sleep ? ( Or is it just my over active imagination ?) TOO BIG - TOO MUCH CHANGE - TOO FAST and there is nothing we can do about it ! We can never understand the relationship between ourselves and the universals ? There are many simple actions that will make our lives and our schools, or families, or communities, or nation better but be are frozen - unable to move - First we need the sense to make sense - the freedom to make choices - I have said for years - first you need a system capable of reform - then reform will happen. Public Education as now structured so as to be incapable of reform, so is the national political process, so are most of us. SYNERGY-NET on http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump is where YOU can collaborate with the future using Interactive Education and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free. ** Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ******************************************************** SYNERGY-NET on http://emporium.turnpike.net/~pflaump or http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaum [log in to unmask] ** Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 [log in to unmask] *****************************************************************