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Do you want to solve relationship
problems, cultural stress or emotional bonds?
Cultural Stress & Systemic Diagnosis
The rabies virus causes infected animals to bite other
animals - even their own young. This spreads the virus before the virus kills
the hosts. Although a rabid dog is dangerous - rabies is not the dog's fault.
Rabies is a symptom - not a cause.
People subject to prolonged cultural stress show predictable
symptoms: depression, anger, fear, suppressed sexuality and loss or denial of
reality. People stressed by their culture's behavior and values may sacrifice
themselves and their children. The Maya, faced with this challenge, tore out
the hearts of their best young men, to honor the Sun. The Phoenicians, faced
with this challenge, burned their eldest children alive, to honor the Moon.
The German Nazis killed populations to honor their god of Destiny. Today many
people sacrifice themselves and their children to honor the great god Mediocrity.
Symptoms of cultural stress can include:
- Men abuse women and children
- People enslave or kill other people
- People damage their own environment
- Authorities proscribe and limit sexuality
- Authorities use dogma and propaganda for indoctrination
- Authorities pronounce what is evil and who must be punished
These symptoms ensured the deaths of millions of people,
and the misery, suffering and poverty of billions more. These symptoms
motivate religious and moral wars, and the genocide of native peoples.
These symptoms continue unabated in today's world
following unquestioned faith, unquestioned morality
and unquestioned compliance. Such denial of reality
can justify any behavior, from child abuse to a Holocaust. If
"morality channeled from a god accepted on faith"
replaces human intelligence and understanding then irrational
obsessions and compulsions lead to political and religious control.
Lost Reality
How you perceive your external, objective reality reflects
the state of your internal, subjective reality. Much systemic coaching
concerns the exploration and renovation of inner emotional reality as a
basis for making changes in the external world.
In a similar way that a loss of identity can produce a
state where "My life does not make sense", a loss of reality
can produce a state in which "The world does not make sense".
This can result in depression or existential
crisis. This may occur in what is often called a mid-life crisis, although
such a crisis can happen at almost any age in which people search for
answers that make sense.
It seems that a lost sense of reality can be
accelerated by retreating into fantasy and distractions - TV,
cinema and music can be vectors of cultural disease.
Other indicators of cultural stress include:
- anger and a desire to hurt people
- fear and a desire to scare people
- guilt and a desire to blame people
- depression and a desire to sadden people
- denial and cannot challenge dogma or propaganda
- limited contact with reality and a desire to
spread fantasy
- suppressed sexuality and a desire to control others'
sexuality
Child Abuse
A key indicator of cultural stress may be child abuse.
Many children suffer physical and / or emotional abuse from angry parents,
depressed teachers and other adults. If parents are insensitive, angry,
impatient and blaming, children may sacrifice their happiness, playfulness
and sense-of-life to avoid losing expressions of parental love.
Children are born with fight/flight/freeze instincts
for avoiding animal predators. These instincts do not protect them
against human predators. Cultural diseases are infectious and may lead
people to harm themselves, their children and other people. Victims of
cultural stress may victimize others.
Other consequences of cultural stress are that people:
- cheat people for pleasure and economic gain
- abuse employees and people perceived as weak
- hurt people of different color, sex, religion or
culture
- support murderous governments, military aggression and
genocide
Systemic Diagnosis
Symptoms of cultural stress arise in families and
teams as well as in cultures. The irrational symptoms are often
invisible within in the relationship system although they can be
perceived from outside the system. Cultural diseases are unlikely
to be ended by further dogma or indoctrination. Instead we can
recognize their causes, redirect their focus and change their consequences.
Our coaching can touch everyone, from a child who
has experienced domestic abuse; a teenager addicted
to drugs; a working mother caring for a disabled parent; parents coping with
an ADHD child; a college student who
struggles with anorexia; a young adult
who suffers from mental illness; an adult who mourns the death
of a partner; a family that seeks freedom from conflict; and couples that
want a better partnerships.
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