Violence Is A Choice
- Date: 2007-08-10 - Word Count: 386
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To fully understand violence and the anger that pushes it, one has to understand the 4 basic causes of anger. But even deeper than that, one has to go to the deepest sense of who we are, our individual way of being.
There are two ways to be; one is responsive and the other is resistant. A responsive person is open and kind to those around them; while, a resistant person is closed off and rude. Resistant, self-deceived criminals commit violent crimes from the deepest sense of who they are.
-Resistant people commit violence in their hearts before doing it with their hands.
-The sign of violence is not a hit, but a way of being.
-Being violent is a choice.
-Nonviolence, like violence, goes deeper than merely behavior.
-Resistant people separate themselves from the feelings of themselves and others.
-Resistant people think, �I violate others by marginalizing their reality and reducing them to an object. In this process I elevate myself.�
-Resistant individuals allow this thought pattern into their lives, �I fight for control without mercy or kindness.�
-When children are violated, future generations are devastated.
-�When I violate others, I produce a violence in them that justifies me in violating them�
-Resistant people bring problems into their lives, not solutions.
-Violent people endeavor to portray themselves in ways that make the wrong they do appear to be right.
-Resistant people inhibit the flow of life's energy, repel other people, and live selfish lives.
-Violence springs from the very essence of who I am, and who I am destroys me.
Violence in a society comes about because of the citizen's way of being. To remove violent behavior, an individual has to leave his or her resistant ways and become responsive. This involves an entire change of being.
Any program that doesn�t approach people at the deepest level will, without a doubt, fail. Behavior modification and other anger management methods are just short-term fixes that do not go deep enough to make life-long changes. Cognitive restructuring, when done properly, allows men and women to become �self aware� and thus more eager to change their individual way of being. Cognitive restructuring isn�t a force but an invitation to change. It gets involved at the deepest level where lasting changes can take place.
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There are two ways to be; one is responsive and the other is resistant. A responsive person is open and kind to those around them; while, a resistant person is closed off and rude. Resistant, self-deceived criminals commit violent crimes from the deepest sense of who they are.
-Resistant people commit violence in their hearts before doing it with their hands.
-The sign of violence is not a hit, but a way of being.
-Being violent is a choice.
-Nonviolence, like violence, goes deeper than merely behavior.
-Resistant people separate themselves from the feelings of themselves and others.
-Resistant people think, �I violate others by marginalizing their reality and reducing them to an object. In this process I elevate myself.�
-Resistant individuals allow this thought pattern into their lives, �I fight for control without mercy or kindness.�
-When children are violated, future generations are devastated.
-�When I violate others, I produce a violence in them that justifies me in violating them�
-Resistant people bring problems into their lives, not solutions.
-Violent people endeavor to portray themselves in ways that make the wrong they do appear to be right.
-Resistant people inhibit the flow of life's energy, repel other people, and live selfish lives.
-Violence springs from the very essence of who I am, and who I am destroys me.
Violence in a society comes about because of the citizen's way of being. To remove violent behavior, an individual has to leave his or her resistant ways and become responsive. This involves an entire change of being.
Any program that doesn�t approach people at the deepest level will, without a doubt, fail. Behavior modification and other anger management methods are just short-term fixes that do not go deep enough to make life-long changes. Cognitive restructuring, when done properly, allows men and women to become �self aware� and thus more eager to change their individual way of being. Cognitive restructuring isn�t a force but an invitation to change. It gets involved at the deepest level where lasting changes can take place.
NOTE: Use of this article requires links to be intact.
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