Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie to headline event - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com
When someone seriously neglects, abuses, and disregards their OWN health and well-being, to what extent should YOU trust him/her with YOURS? Poor Hillary, rightful candidate in 2008, was politically forced out by the "barack-machine" via Soros-Saudi money and bully-muscle.
Prostituting herself politically, she agreed to serve the "Barack-Machine" as its Secretary of State ...and we sadly (couldn't help but pity her) watched her age fifteen (15) years in four (4). She had to have gained at least fifty pounds (50)....perhaps sixty (60). Her sheer haggardness made me wince each time the media caught a shot of her bloated, etched face, bedraggled by limp lackluster locks...no more Goldilocks ...no more Boldilocks...progressively more Hillary Left-Over, ... clearly, "run over" by a baRACK truck!
Out of sympathy, empathy, pity ... I'd almost want to vote for Hillary... as we've been cheering with more gusto this season for Tiger Woods. Why more? Because he'd been visited by The Phoenix of Human Nature ... who revived his GOLF GAME, post total devastation. When we witness an icon overcome the odds, our sheer relief naturally (through "mirror neurons") can embolden ourselves as observers, modelers, bystanders hoping to cure our own ills and rise above our own devastations.
Tiger's game seems to have (last time) survived his devastating divorce (based on duplicitous behavior). He seems to have sustained a stellar recovery ... but recovery of what? Recovery of the superficial, easily observable devastation (i.e., his golf game)? Or recovery of that which precipitated the devastating divorce which in turn resulted in the devastated golf game (i.e., addiction to elements inherent in the cheating dynamic)?
Clearly,Tiger's personal life (in the news once more) reveals he is boldly engaging his drive to double-talk, be duplicitous in intimate relationships (thus pitting his his ex-wife and latest girl-friend against each other). But this time his kids are older, more aware of their dad's M.O. His kids (and the observing public) are getting a repeat performance of the deleterious effects of a CHEATER-personality dis-organization.
SEEMS is the operative word because while Tiger's professional game seems recovered from devastation, Tiger-the-person clearly has not recovered from his addiction to entertaining duplicitous relationships. And THAT's what brought him down the first time ... attention-wise, confidence-wise, performance-wise. His personal life subsequently impacted his "professional" life. And while time marches on, and wounds scar over, and the American people are a naturally generous breed, idioms develop based upon reason: Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me!!
Tiger's dynamics -both those easily visible and those dynamics underlying albeit precipitating -are analogous to the dynamics of both Hillary Clinton and Chris Chrystie. All three seem to bounce back from devastating circumstances, but that which precipitated their devastations still lie inherent within themselves. And until they change their inner workings, all that they touch will bear those markings. Our lives cannot not reflect an Achilles Heel.
Some lives leave a footprint of "out-of-order" so enormous, we can't miss it (e.g. Chris Chrystie: need for approval, obese, unable to sufficiently regulate emotions). Some lives leave messy fingerprints in all the wrong places (Hillary Clinton: deferred to the Barack-machine, entertains Saudi-Connect, sustained Benghazi Cover-up). And others' lives are harder to put your finger on because they're in pretty-distracting packages (Lindsay Lohan), or well-oiled Smoking Guns (Soros'-Saudi's Democratic Party), or appearance-changing chameleons (e.g. Barack Hussein Obama: promising something for everyone, still Smoker-in-Chief, despite reaping all the resources in this world to master his addictive personality).
Until each heals (brings into balance) their personal Achilles Heel, what they say cannot be trusted. Words for addicts are tokens to get what they want: access to more power. Their words do not determine what they do as follow-though. Instead, what they say they will do is subject to the dynamics of addiction. The food & need for approval (Chrystie), furious frenzy (Clinton), and fight-flight (Barack's literally endless campaign via AF1)are simply personalized presentations of a psyche's underlying attempt to gain control of the chaos-within through controlling that which is outside...all of those unsuspecting pawns to be manipulated and circumstances to be transformed. This is the essence of sociopathy.
It is also the essence of social injustice. Its full maturation manifested through political machines is known through variable forms of fascism -we'd rather not acknowledge. Because once we acknowledge what is true and threatens our well-being, both individually and together in community, our psyches are compelled to do something to save ourselves and each other. If we also suffer the afflictions of addiction, we're in trouble...because we're compelled to do something...and that something is likely to come from our affliction, not our balance.
If we're able to retain our internal balance, we engage whatever research is needed to bring about necessary and sufficient discernment of truth, leading to right judgment, thus prompting us to take a variety of appropriate actions. But if our own addiction is triggered (through perceived threat and mirror neurons) then we are catapulted to a critical point: crisis. A crisis can serve as a noteworthy call to engage healing practices, prompting us to restore order/balance within so we are more likely to bring healing to that which surrounds and scares us. However, the more we allow our psyches to engage the overwhelm of our own addiction, the more worried we become, the more likely we engage addiction-sets, or we shut down (go to sleep), or distract ourselves, or lie to ourselves, or project our thoughts onto others, even demonize those who speak what scares us, displacing our feelings onto others. Or we can grab the invitation to recognize this crisis as our opportunity to get up off our mat, kick the dust from our feet, and transform ourselves. This, empowers us to transform the world around us.
An internal ever-clamoring climate-within causes human beings to neglect, abuse, and disregard not only competing personal responsibilities, but professional responsibilities. Charity does in fact begin at home: the person's psyche (like the fetus in Mama's womb) will get what it needs first. Our drive toward life is more powerful than our inclination to give up. Mother Nature will have her way so we'd better learn to accommodate. Living out of balance with Life's Principles is in fact a matter of Life-Death -or Deceit's Variable Faces. Ultimately, our egos are no match for Mother Nature.
The truth eventually outs itself. It can't not express itself...even weeds break through pavement! We are driven to quiet, or balance, the elements that produce one's health (physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual). As social beings, we accordingly engage dynamics that quiet, or balance, those elements within self ... and within our environments. Neglecting, abusing, or disregarding our psyche's positive promptings (to re-examine and re-organize our perceptions of reality) results in a series of very unfortunate downfalls. Public figures afflicted with glaring Achilles Heels are further subject to bringing themselves down repeatedly, until they heal themselves...and they don't go down alone. Public figures with multiple ties to vast circles of people, bring the people down with them.
When I watch Tiger play now, the Robert Palmer soundtrack surrounds his golf game, playing loud and clear, " Addicted to Love."
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