CallaFirestormBW
Posts: 3651
Joined: 6/29/2008 Status: offline
|
quote:
The question is less about the integrity of a controller than it is about the self esteem and virtuosity of one who chooses to surrender. I disagree with this -vehemently-. An authority-based dynamic is a binary system. In some cases, individuals may yield willingly as part of their nature, without such tendency to yield meaning that that person is lacking, in any way, in self esteem or virtuosity.... and in such situations, it becomes the responsibility of the one who accepts such authority to recognize what, exactly xhe is agreeing to in accepting authority from such a person. In the same manner, it is important that, for those individuals who do not yield easily, that the dominant party accepts the yielding party's need to know that the dominant party is capable and shares the submissive party's basic philosophies so that the submissive party can be comfortable enough to yield. In terms of "insecurity", it is possible for some individuals who are very insecure to be hyperconscious, and to have difficulty trusting and yielding... Unless one is a trained therapist or psychologist it is virtually impossible to determine an individual's level of either "self-esteem" or "virtuosity" by the manner in which said person yields authority, and sometimes, even when one -is- trained, it is still difficult, and subject to what the individual is willing or able to reveal about hirself. Calla
_____________________________
*** Said to me recently: "Look, I know you're the "voice of reason"... but dammit, I LIKE being unreasonable!!!!" "Your mind is more interested in the challenge of becoming than the challenge of doing." Jon Benson, Bodybuilder/Trainer
|