Anankelogy Principles

The more you lack what your life requires, the more those things rise in importance. Whatever your life requires the most right now rushes front and center in your emotional needs. The next item your life requires sits next in line. And so forth. As soon as your life signals it must get something now to ease its most pressing need, that need gets evoked as the most vital thing to consider.

The more you fully satisfy what you need, the more you label this as good. The less you resolve a need to the point you’re left in some degree of discomfort, the more you characterize this as bad. Anything you ascribe as good points back to what helps you function. Anything you ascribe as bad painfully detracts from your ability to function. Judgments of good or bad apply only to what we do about our needs, never the objective fact of the needs themselves. If no bearing on your needs, then no moralizing.

The more you ignore what your feelings tell you about your needs, the more you become compelled to relieve those persisting feelings. You either consciously address your needs as reported, or you unconsciously react to these feelings in typically unhealthy ways. You either fully resolve your needs to dissolve their underlying feelings, or those pressing feelings persist to manipulate you.

The more your needs fully resolve, the more your thinking gets freed up for other things. The less your needs resolve, the less you can focus on anything but those emotionally pressing needs. You naturally prioritize functioning first. The more your needs resolve, the further you can reach your functioning capacity. The less you will then be distracted by emotional pressures or distorting biases. You can then absorb more input into what actually exists. Your expansive attention to soak in more truth can lead to a series of epiphanies. Instead of clinging to generalizations offering relief, you encounter more of reality.

The more you lack something your life requires, the more you will feel yourself compelled to do something about it. Your objective requirement to function or objective prioritized need will overrule your choices to do otherwise. The more pressing your needs, the harder to swim against the tide to choose a different course. All your choices ultimately serve your demanding needs.

Every core need exists independently of any other core need. For example, your need for friendship in one moment does not oppose your need for solitude in a different moment. Your inner core needs do not contradict the inner core needs of others. Their need for you to support them, for example, exists apart from your need to be left alone. Each core need for functioning occurs without regard or influence on other core needs. Only the chosen responses to such needs can come into conflict with each other. The unchosen needs themselves always remain distinct.

The more someone needs some core need to function, like maintaining their optimal body temperature, the more someone else needs something just as important in order to function. The more the spider requires food from the captured fly, the more the captured fly must try to break free from the web. No one’s natural core needs matters more than the natura core needs of others.

The more you address your personal needs to the neglect of your social situational needs, the less you can maintain wellness. The more you address your social needs to the neglect of your personal situational needs, you will also lose full wellness. Your wellbeing counts on a balance of all internal psychological factors with relatively equal attention to all external factors shaping your needs.

The less needs resolve, the more functioning suffers. The more functioning suffers, the more a problem persists. Beneath each problem are a set of unmet needs. The more those needs resolve, the further the problem clears up. The more other needs stand in the way, or conflict with a given solution, the less a problem can be resolved. The more needs get resolved, the more a problem gets solved.

The more you rely on simplifying reality, the more details of reality you likely overlook. We often keep it simple to avoid uncomfortable facts, or to hold together a coalition, often both. The more you courageously address each relevant detail, the more your needs can more fully resolve. The more you do, the more pushback from those relying on these oversimplifying generalizations.

The more gradual an adjustment to resolve some need, the more likely the change will remain. Too drastic of a change tends to disrupt patterns serving other needs. Those affected needs push back to undermine the change. Crash dieting can swing back to binge eating if the sudden change upends or ignores other needs. Slow change allows other affected needs to also be satisfied in their own way.

The more your needs fully resolve, the less your body must painfully warn you of threats. Emotional pain like depression and anxiety only exist to warn you of threats to remove. Once all threats get removed, it is impossible to feel pain as your body has no remaining cause to report any threats. Persisting pain points to lingering perceived threats. Fully resolved needs remove cause for pain.