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Glossary P pain (n. ) Your body warning you—with an unpleasant experience to compel your awareness—of a likely threat to your ability to function. Prompts you to remove the threat or remove yourself from the threat, so you can continue functioning unabated. The greater the threat to your ability to function, typically the more intense the pain. If managing the presenting threat without fully removing it, the result is typically experienced as a dull yet tolerable level of pain or bearable discomfort. You either respond to the needs your pain reports or you react to your pain by prioritizing relief. Effectively responding to the underlying needs of your pain removes cause for that pain. Reacting to your pain tends to leave you in more pain , as your body persists to warn you of the persisting threat. You typically prefer the pain you feel over any pain you fear . You know how to handle the familiar discomfort of repeated disappointments from a friend who rarely arrives on time, for example, than the unfamiliar pain of confronting their lack of punctuality at the risk of losing their friendship. When the means to fully remove the threat or remove yourself from the threat remains elusive, you tend to gravitate toward pain-relieving alternatives. When such alternatives become your routine, you tend to become emotionally attached to their familiar provisions for comfort. These can increase your risk for addiction to pain-coping behaviors. (See symfunction capture .) Once your body senses all threats are satisfactorily removed enough for your life to fully function, it has no more cause to provoke painful awareness. Your pain only exists to warn you of threats to your ability to fully function. Absent of any threat, you do not experience any pain . Any persisting pain stems from your body continually trying to warn you of some apparent threat or threats to remove, so you can return to full functioning. Each painful emotion brings you awareness of a particular threat. Outside of that threat, you cannot feel that particular emotional pain unless eliciting it from memory of a threat-provoking situation (i.e., vicariously). alienation - Outside of a felt need to connect more deeply with others, you feel no alienation . anger - Outside of a felt need to reject some apparent threat, you feel no anger . confusion - Outside of a felt need to make sense of something, you feel no confusion . depression - Outside of a felt need to redirect your energies, you feel no depression . disappointment - Outside of a felt need for others to be trustworthy, you feel no disappointment . disgust - Outside of a felt need to remove something offensive, you feel no disgust . embarrassment - Outside of a felt need to cover something exposed, you feel no embarrassment . fear - Outside of a felt need to handle something menacing, you feel no fear . frustration - Outside of a felt need to have things go as planned, you feel no frustration . grief - Outside of a felt need to adjust to a deep loss, you feel no grief . guilt - Outside of a felt need to restore your respect for others, you feel no guilt . insecure - Outside of a felt need to avoid any risk of harm, you feel no insecurity . jealousy - Outside of a felt need to enjoy what another enjoys, you feel no jealousy . loneliness - Outside of a felt need to connect with someone, you feel no loneliness . powerlessness - Outside of a felt need to control your situation, you feel no powerlessness . regret - Outside of a felt need to reconsider your actions, you feel no regret . restlessness - Outside of a felt need to promptly get something done, you feel no restlessness . sadness - Outside of a felt need to deal with some loss, you feel no sadness . shame - Outside of a felt need to guard your social image, you feel no shame . stress - Outside of a felt need to meet some high expectation, you feel no stress . You cannot fully function when such threats persist. There is no such thing as pain apart from unresolved needs . Your pain serves your need for awareness to do something about such threats. Pain is not the problem as much as the threats your pain tries to report . You either let your emotional pain serve you, or you may find yourself serving your pain . passive-aggressive pain relief (n. ) - DEFUNCTION A defunction of reacting to the discomfort of unresolved needs by immediately trying to ease its discomfort in both unassertive and hostile ways. Similar to the defunction of reactive pain relief and in contrast to the strategic pain relief and discomfort embrace . pathological pragmatism (n. ) - DEFUNCTION [see pragatism creep below] The defunction of emphasizing what seems more practical or easier to achieve in the moment, permissively lowering standards in ways that risk perpetuating painful problems. Distinct from the grace of affirming progressive steps towards reaching a standard for resolving needs. Correlates with symfunctionality . pathology (n. ) - DEFUNCTION Condition of diminished wellness that prevents continued functioning at a level necessary to effectively respond to needs, both to your own needs and to the needs of others. Typically results in sustained pain as the body continually warns of the perceived diminishment of functioning. Too often, one feels compelled to relieve the pain instead of removing cause for this pain, which tends to create a vicious cycle that can reinforce the pathology. Such compulsion to prioritize relief may correlate with a sense of powerless to do much if anything to resolve the affected needs, such as those needs constrained by power problems and more acutely with structural problems . The more powerholders or others benefit in any way from such pathology, the less inclined they are to support resolving the affected needs, which anankelogy defines as evil . peakfunction (n. ) Highest level of a person's or entity's ability to function focused on promptly resolving all needs. Sits just above symfunction in the function array. politics (n. ) The art of generalizing how to agreeably address needs in different social situations. This anankelogically-inspired definition presents three components that are easily compounded in conventional politics: Generalizing over specifics . Generalizing to as many as possible to build coalitions typically includes generalizing in the sense of avoiding specifics that risk undercutting such widely cultivated agreements. The less your specific needs resolve, the more pulled into political overgeneralizing offering you some relief that keeps your needs less resolved. Here is where conventional politics manifests avoidance culture . Relieving pain over resolving needs . Appealing to the majority who experience normalized pain risks adopting policies perpetuating that pain. The more emotionally attached to familiar politically shaped relief, the less open to engaging more disciplined solutions that could remove cause for pain. Here is where conventional politics also manifests avoidance culture with such defunctions as normative alienation and mutual defensiveness . One's own versus another's situation . Selfishly prioritizing own interests at the expense of respecting the needs of others fuels conflicts and reinforces polarization. The more you push against other's inflexible needs , the more their inflexible needs push back . Here is where conventional politics manifests oppo culture with such defunctions as psychosocial imbalance , indulgent side-taking and conflict porn . popgen (n. & adj. ) - DEFUNCTION Short for "popular generalization" or "popular generalizing" that privileges (with social norms) overlooking many specifics necessary to resolve the relevant needs. Akin to the notion of a "lay" version of something. See relief-gen . Also a type of defunction , such as a popgen version . popgen version (n. ) - DEFUNCTION A popularly generalized watered down form of an accepted theory or philosophy, presenting with generalizations that are typically more politically normative than academically descriptive , and often discounted by opponents as too ideological. Opposite of critical version . EXAMPLES : popgen liberalism popgen existentialism & popgen rational choice theory popgen postmodernism popgen microaggression popgen race theory popgen identity politics & popgen intersectionality popgen transgenderism popgen libertarianism popgen gun rights popgen free market dynamics Each of these grew out of a critical version with some merit, but then watered down to relieve some felt need with little to attention to the affected needs of others. Opponents to these watered down normative versions who seldom or never acknowledge the merit of its original critical version readily indulge in oppo culture and avoidance culture as part of the power delusion . See relief-gen . power delusion (n. ) - DEFUNCTION Rigid belief in holding socially privileged influence over others and calling it power, or rigid belief in others holding socially privileged influence over you, contrary to all evidence that such coercive-leaning influence typically detracts from resolving needs, which mostly perpetuates pain and problems. Can also refer to conflating the lesser "power" of privileged social influence with the greater power of nature that shapes the needs that in turn prompt widespread desire for this lesser power. pragmatism creep (n.) DEFUNCTION [formerly patho-pragmatism ] Gravitating toward what can be more easily accomplished, personally or collectively, which increases the risk of normalizing unresolved needs. As such needs persist unresolved, they typically alert attention to compromised capacity to fully function. In other words, this produces more pain. To cope with such pain, we tend to seek practical alternatives. Which risks pulling us into a downward cycle of decreasing levels of functionality. When primary resources seem or actually remain inaccessible to resolve needs, readily available alternative resources often fill the gap. Symfunctionality emerges as a pragmatic alternative to unattainable peakfunctionality . Once normalized, full wellbeing of peakfunctionality may appear so unfamiliar as to be regarded as impractical, and a potential threat to reliably sustainable symfunctionality. When alternative resources seem or actually remain inaccessible to ease needs, easier to attain substitute resources help to relieve the consequential mounting pain. Dysfunctionality emerges as a pragmatic substitute to unattainable symfunctionality . Once normalized in pain coping mechanisms of addiction, the steadiness of symunctionality may appear so unfamiliar as to be regarded as impractical, and a potential threat to easier to reach pain-coping dysfunctionality. When substitute resources seem or actually remain unaccessible to resolve needs, pain overcomes as one can barely stay alive. Misfunctionality emerges as a pragmatic consequence to unattainable pain-coping of dysfunctionality . Once normalized as an overwhelmingly painful and desperate condition undermining one's existential reason to keep living, what may seem most pragmatic is active or passive suicide. praise sandwich (n. ) A more effective communication format that delivers a piece of bad news between two slices of good news. GOOD NEWS - positive: such as affirming another's affected needs. BAD NEWS - negative: such as bringing up one's own affected needs. GOOD NEWS - positive: such as inviting a continued diagogue covering each other's affected needs. Serves to build rapport for mutual regard, and to soften the risk for defensiveness. See image here and here . premature opposition (n. ) prematurely oppose (v. ) - DEFUNCTION The defunction of asserting one’s difference of flexible beliefs or flexible actions in contrast with another’s flexible beliefs or flexible actions without first relating to the inflexible needs behind such beliefs and actions. In other words, reacting to a difference in opinion in such a way that predictably provokes defensiveness. While trapped in mutual defensiveness, the affected needs remain painfully unresolved. That opinion typically serves as an outwardly less vulnerable and safer expression for an inwardly vulnerable need that cannot be easily changed. This could include instances of being needlessly confrontational, which may feed one's conflict porn . This defunction exists as part of the power delusion , and manifested in avoidance culture and oppo culture at odds with resolving needs and at odds with sustainable wellness. See indulgent side-taking . project wellness campaign (n. ) The second type of wellness campaign focused on resolving not only the identified wellness need(s) of the RI client but also those of the similarly situated. The other types are case and movement campaigns. proper adversarialism (n. ) Opposing other's beliefs and actions to critique their impact without opposing or resisting their inflexible needs ; most effective when also affirming their good points and appreciating their helpful behaviors (see "praise sandwich "). Contrasts with toxic adversarialism , to differentiate different types of adversarialism . properly resolve needs (v. ) To fully resolve needs in ways that do not prevent others from keeping their needs resolved. This ranges from inconsequential inconvenience to the needs of others to positively impacting the needs of others, as identified by noting these four metallic standards. Bronz standard - mildly inconveniences others Silver standard - no impact on others Gold standard - helps others Platinum standard - helps everyone In contrast to improperly resolving needs, you properly resolve your needs when you can restore yourself to full functioning without hindering others from resolving their needs toward restored functioning. This can occur along four levels, each identified with a precious medal to make it easier for anyone to recognize. Bronz standard. Resolving one’s own needs in ways that mildly inconveniences others . For example, when in the winter you shovel out the snow in your driveway, you enable everyone in your family with a car to get in and out. But you inconvenience your neighbor who has to walk around the piles of snow you shoved aside near their yard. Silver standard. Resolving one’s own needs in a way that leaves no impact on others . For example, when you invest twenty minutes each day this week to stay in shape, you resolve your health need to stay fit. But your actions have not immediate impact upon others around you. Gold standard. Resolving one’s own needs in ways that actually helps others resolve their needs . For example, when you get your car fixed, you help your family members dependent on you for rides. And you help the mechanic make a living. Platinum standard. Resolving one’s own needs in ways that helps everyone resolve their needs . For example, when you keep a positive attitude and smile pleasantly at everyone you meet, you not only resolve your need to maintain wellbeing but also contribute a little something to their wellbeing. properly resolving needs (v. ); properly resolved needs (n. ); opposite to improperly resolving needs proxy (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] Someone serving on behalf of a campaigner, who subscribes as the campaigner but is not the person with the targeted wellness need. psychosocial balancing (n. & v. ) - REFUNCTION The refunction of cultivating an equilibrium between your pressing social-needs and pressing self-needs . Nature automatically pulls you to balance both through a process of psychosocial oscillation —compelling you to focus on seasons of self-needs and seasons on social-needs . See image here . Your spring : when your less resolved social needs emerge and demand your attention. Your summer : when your social needs dominate more than your self-needs . Your autumn : when your less resolved self-needs emerge and demand your attention. Your winter: when your self-needs dominate more than your social needs . The more your self-needs resolve and social needs resolve on par with each other, the more your natural needs can resolve, the more pain you can remove, and the more potential you can reach. The more you can match what you can do for yourself with what you can rely on others to provide what you cannot reliably do for yourself, the more psychosocial flow you experience. The less your self-needs resolve and social needs resolve on par with each other, the less your natural needs can resolve, the less pain you can remove, and the less potential you can reach. You experience this as the defunction of psychosocial imbalance . psychosocial blind spot (n. ) - DEFUNCTION Attention drawn to one's own psychosocial priority of needs tends to impede awareness of a viably different psychosocial priority of needs. For example, one's own dependence upon government services (presenting a psychosocial wide orientation) can blind oneself from appreciating the necessity of a small business owner to grow their business with less government interference (presenting a psychosocial deep orientation). See psychosocial orientation below. psychosocial flow (n. ) - REFUNCTION The refunction of unleashing your natural energy to resolve needs, to remove pain and to raise functioning, by syncing your internal potential with external supports. See psychosocial balancing . psychosocial imbalance (n. ) - DEFUNCTION The defunction of self-needs and social needs not resolving on par with each other. You either ease your self-needs more than your social needs , or you ease your social needs more than your self-needs . As this limits your ability to function fully, your body warns you with some form of emotional pain. If reacting to this pain instead of addressing your psychosocial needs evenly, you tend to reinforce such imbalance. And continue to suffer in pain . The degree of balance to imbalance correlates to the functionality array . See image here . Psychosocial oscillation : natural transitioning between addressing self-needs and addressing to social-needs , for sustaining psychosocial balancing . Correlates with peakfunctionality . Psychosocial vacillation : intense shifts between self-needs and social-needs , leading toward psychosocial imbalance . Can explain some political extremism; see psychosocial orientation . Correlates with symfunctionality . Psychosocial crystallization : settling into the familiar painful pattern of more severe psychosocial imbalance . Correlates with dysfunctionality . Psychosocial disintegration : neither self-needs nor social-needs adequately resolve, resulting in swings into violent psychosocial extremes. Correlates with misfunctionality . psychosocial orientation (n. ) The routine or regularly situated experience of psychosocial imbalance , manifested in one of two directions (i.e., two dominate orientations): WIDE-focused : less resolved social needs than self-needs ; tends to generalize how to ease unmet social needs while guarding one's relatively more resolved self-needs . DEEP-focused : less resolved self-needs than social needs ; tends to generalize how to ease unmet self-needs while guarding one's relatively more resolved social needs . See image here and here . When your self-needs continually resolve more than your social needs , you become predisposed toward liberal or progressive values. Politically left ideas provide outward expression for your inward psychosocial priority to ease (with public support) your less resolved social needs while guarding your more resolved self-needs from public pressures. For example, if your self-need for unique self-expression as a sexual or religious or ethnic minority is more resolved than your social need for inclusion as one of these historically marginalized minorities, you tend to find more support from left leaning supporters who rely on public policies to protect both their negative right (what the government must not do) to freely be their unique selves, and their positive right (what the government must do) for greater social inclusion against patterns of historical discrimination. When your social needs continually resolve more than your self-needs , you become predisposed toward conservative values. Politically right ideas provide outward expression for your inward psychosocial priority to ease (with public support) your less resolved self-needs while guarding your more resolved social needs from public pressures. For example, if your social need for family cohesion in a local community is more resolved than your self-need for personal freedom to explore your life’s potential, you tend to find more support from right leaning supporters who rely on public policies to protect both their negative right (what the government must not do) to never infringe on their gun rights to protect their own families, and their positive right (what the government must do) provide security with a professional police force so they can be in public to explore their personal potential without fear. You gravitate towards others who experience the same or similar unchosen priority of similar psychosocial needs as you, in contrast to others experiencing a different priority of needs . This provides the seeds for partisanship affiliation. The rational choice myth of debating which side presents the better idea for shaping public policy overlooks this dynamic of unchosen needs . The more you can resolve one set of needs closer on par with the other set, the more open to gravitate toward the other political side. The less you can resolve one set of needs relative to the other set, the further you tend to shift to a political extreme. This illuminates why there can be tension within each political side. See image here . Need-response offers to replace the mutual defensiveness of conventional politics with mutual regard and social love . Instead of emphasizing each other's different yet unchosen priorities , which prioritizes easing the pain of psychosocial imbalance , need-response provides a disciplined path toward mutually resolving each other's affected psychosocial needs . The process aims to remove the pain of psychosocial imbalance by cultivating more psychosocial balancing . A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < back to glossary menu

We typically prefer the pain we feel over the pain we fear. < Back D07 Pain Principle List of all principles We typically prefer the pain we feel over the pain we fear. Image: Pixabay – jplenio (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you become familiar with a recurring pain, the more you tend to favor it over the unknown pain of a less familiar way to deal with it. Natural pain tends to be sharp, in contrast to the relatively dull pain of partially eased needs. You know how to handle the dull pain of your partially resolved needs. Risking an unknown solution could produce results you’re unsure how to handle. Description Which do you think is more likely? All pain we suffer is pretty much the same. It comes down to making rational choices. OR We often prefer pain we’ve learned to handle over the frightening pain of the unknown. Anankelogy This one goes to Margaret and Jordan Paul, authors of Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved by You? They describe how couples getting into a fight will either remain guarded and closed off from each other, or remain empathetic and open to learn what each other needs. Couples develop ways to cope with the frustration, the disappointment, and feelings of betrayal. Then soldier on with familiar coping mechanisms. They grow accustomed to their manageable pain. They will then typically find it easier to cope with this familiar dull pain than risk the sharp pain of facing the unknown. They know how to handle another day of disappointment. They have so far. But they don’t know if they can handle the far less familiar path of being vulnerable and known for who they truly are beneath their guarded surfaces. They still have each other in some dysfunctional way, but to risk the unknown could result in devastating rejection. One of them may remain more open than the other. And this potentially inspires their partner to drop their guard a little more. The more uncomfortably exposed, the greater the potential to relate better to each other’s neglected needs. The closed partner can see their more open partner demonstrate a better way. And then test the waters of disclosing something never revealed before. Otherwise the relationship suffers, along with those trapped in it. The relationship may have to end. Often, this dysfunctional relationship stumbles into the future in ways limiting the full potential of its individual members. In typically painful ways. This aptly applies to any kind of relationship. Professional relationships rely more on mutually agreed terms defined mostly by impersonal laws. And we intuitively know the more powerful in such relationships can interpret and enforce those laws in their favor. We generally accept those terms as given. We grow accustomed to any disadvantages that emerge. We become familiar with a reduced capacity to function. We get used to the pain that results. We learn to cope. Powerholders in these professional relationships suffer in less obvious ways. The effectiveness of their leadership declines. Their reputations sink. They too grow accustomed to the resulting levels of discomfort. They too favor this familiar path over the less familiar path of relating more personably to your affected needs. They see little alternative, since such alienation is the norm in our society. In our current norms of preferring to avoid the discomfort of engaging the unknown, these powerholders rely more on impersonal norms. Which easily keeps us mutually estranged. They don’t know what they don’t know. Like the dysfunctional couple, they then fail to be effectively responsive to the needs of their constituents. Problems abound. Along with plenty of pain. Need-response Need-response exists to address this problem of normative alienation . Reactive Problem Runaway liberal ideas have strayed far from their ideal roots. The more we honor our interpersonal differences, the less we know and engage each other. We no longer intimately know those closest to us. Estrangement emerges as the new normal. Breaking the ice to truly know another feels alarmingly painful. We generally prefer the mild discomfort of normalized estrangement. We rely more on written and unwritten rules to know how to respect each other. Responsive Solution Need-response aims to reconnect us with each other. We learn to accept the discomfort of being vulnerably exposed. We learn to prefer the sharp pain of the unknown, with its likely rewards, over the dull perpetuating pain of alienation. We also learn to replace mutual hostilities with mutual respect by prioritizing respect for each other’s needs over elusive expectations. We let go of the soothing by failed myth that we each make rational choices. We acknowledge our decisions are driven by painful needs in the moment, no matter how rational or irrational they seem. Need-response replaces the adversarial slant of impersonal laws with a more personable conciliatory style. Need-response enables us to be more responsible by being more responsive to each other’s needs. Need-response aims to replace your manageable pain-relief with ways to remove causes for such pain. Now we can stop settling for mild familiar pain while allowing the sharper pain of growth to enrich our lives. Now we can resolve more of our needs, reduce or even remove the pain, as we reach more of our overlooked potential. Now we can replace outrage porn with such neglected character traits as forgiveness, empathy, resilience, humility, generosity, and love. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: I can’t see this working in my life, so I’m open to anyone sharing how it helps them. I have tried enduring more of life’s pain, but I don’t see how to sustain this. 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The Unexonerated: innocence profile < Back Sabrina Williams TX Sabrina Williams Estimated innocence score: 81 % Likely innocent when compared to cases already exonerated coerced into plea deal by threats to take her kids away Highlights of this wrongful conviction - ex related to CPS official - previous wrongful conviction - witness lied to save self - threatened with life sentence Key contributing factors to this wrongful conviction not a factor - minor factor - major factor - central factor 1. Witness misidentification? 2. False confession? 3. Official misconduct? 4. Junk science? 5. Jail informant? 6. Inadequate defense? major factor central factor major factor central factor not a factor minor factor Other contributing factors How many other of 58 factors? 7 EIF version: E1.1 Click here to view more information at a separate website Click here for documentation to verify this innocence claim Wrongly convicted in TX of: child endangerment Wrongly convicted on February 20, 1998 Sentence: 12–15 years Custody status: probation Dive deeper into Sabrina's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Sabrina's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Sabrina's compelling innocence Dive deeper into Sabrina's compelling innocence Here is where the claimant admits the weak spots in their case. This is the "flip side" to their narrative. They put it out there to show they have nothing to hide. They proactively cultivate trust by being transparent. Nobody's perfect Synopsis This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will have a couple of sentences here that summarizes this compelling case of innocence. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. This serves as a placeholder profile. An actual profile will present here in about 2000 characters the story how this wrongful conviction happened. It vies context this compelling case of overlooked innocence. And can suggest what is wrong with our current adversarial legal process to repeatedly neglect this miscarriage of justice. Summary Accuser's needs Other's needs See claimant's full Estimated Innocence Report Post-Conviction Journey Appeal results Every exonerated person had their case first reviewed by the judicial appeals process. Every time, the panel of judges overlooked the injustice of that miscarriage justice. The appellate process focuses on procedural standards. Is it possible to faithfully follow every procedural norm and still find an innocent person guilty? Yet, this happens much more frequently than many would like to admit. Most innocence projects remain under-resourced. Only a handful of lawyers, and often only law students or paralegals, invest hours going through case documents. They don't always find something that can be reversed in court. They tend to seek something they can trust will have a greater chance of being granted a hearing in court. And has a greater chance for success of a conviction reversal. They could risk their funding streams if championing cases with a harder, or little, chance to prevail in court. So they tend to serve those "low hanging fruit" cases of greater promise for overturning a wrongful conviction. Where does this leave the countless souls who are innocent in prison and beyond, who cannot get an innocence litigator to go to bat for them? That's what this Public Exoneration option is for. Innocence Movement Results Add your name to the petition to support exonerating Sabrina Innocence support petition What do you think about this claim of innocence? First, select the innocence claimant "With what I know of the case, I think the claimant is...* First name* Last name* Email* Submit Your first name Your last name Email Based on what I know, I think the claimant is... Submit Thank you for your support. If we get enough supporters, we may launch our own Public Exoneration campaign. Learn more below. tally count Latest tally of feedback to this innocence claim. Clearly guilty 0 Likely guilty 1 Likely innocent 21 Clearly innocent 33 Appellate Process Presents mission creep of prioritizing its institutional needs over the needs of the public. Innocence Project Replicates this mission creep when working exclusively within the adversarial legal process. Public Exoneration Corrects this mission creep by prioritizing needs over institutionalized adversarial legalism. After the adversarial options repeatedly fail, the new professional service of need-response counters with a mutual process that responsibly addresses each other's needs. When hate keeps failing to produce desired outcomes, it's time to try the power of love . Learn more "I am exploring the option to build up a campaign that takes my pursuit for overdue exoneration to the court of public opinion." of Sabrina Williams Follow my Public Exoneration campaign. Consider becoming an active supporter for as little as $4.99 per week. Invest in restoring claimant’s freedom. Invest in yourself. Proxy for innocence claimant: Carlos Ruiz Public Exoneration progress: 0 How you can help us free Sabrina The Public Exoneration campaign unfolds in five phases. We love for you to participate in this alternative approach to exonerating her. 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FIT BASE phase TEAM phase GROW phase GOAL phase BASE phase Set a firm foundation Sets a foundation to display your innocence Leverage your innocence Gain need-responsive skills Solve personal problems Invite peer supporters Learn More... Review your Estimated Innocence Report with your need-responder. Develop strategies to optimize its strengths and address any weaknesses. Together, you craft your dynamic “exoneration plan”. Learn to proactively endure discomforts, to resolve conflicts with authorities, to relate more integrally with reality, and more. Sharpen these skills to later incentivize unresponsive authorities. Get any personal problems out of the way. Improve yourself where you can. Remove any doubt that you are innocent of the conviction. Set the tone for your immanent exoneration. Invite friends and family who believe in your innocence. Learn to show them how they can back your efforts. And how they can attract more backers to support your case of compelling innocence. TEAM phase Build your support team Publicly establishes your innocence Onboard peer supporters to your team Practice your new skills Solve interpersonal problems Invite professional sponsors Learn More... Incentivize your followers to upgrade as supporters and contributors. Show them how they can personally benefit by becoming more centrally involved. Or at least by participating. Guide your contributors to develop the same need-responsive skills you recently sharpened. Invite your supporters to watch, to encourage them to develop these skills on their own. With these new skills, work on any interpersonal problems. Practice solving problems. Demonstrate your capacity to endure discomforts. Publicly validate your innocence. Introduce innocence lawyers and other innocence activists to this alternative to adversarial legalism. Invite then to sponsor your campaign to boost their legitimacy. Incentivize their involvement. GROW phase Engage innocence lawyers Expand awareness of your innocence Leverage your growing support Onboard professional sponsors Learn to solve power problems Practice speaking truth to power Learn More... Let your growing support network publicize your innocence, your testament to human endurance, your readiness to face conflict with respect for each other’s affected needs, and more. Demonstrate these skills to supportive professionals. Incentivize them to improve their responsiveness to neglected needs with such skills. Vouch for their improved responsiveness. Assess the responsiveness of professionals to your compelling case of innocence. Demonstrate how mutual regard for each other’s needs create s better results than legalistic adversarialism. Invite the most supportive professionals to practice these skills with you. Learn to speak the truth of your innocence in ways that authorities will openly listen. 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Resolving needs improves wellness. < Back B01 Basic Principle List of all principles Resolving needs improves wellness. Image: Pixabay – Bessi (click on meme to see source image) Summary Wellness is another word for function. All needs exist to serve function. The more you resolve your needs, the better you can function. The more you eat well, the better you can function. You eat, breathe, connect with friends and enjoy moments of solitude all for the sake of being able to function through life. The less your needs resolve, or the less you attend to your prioritized needs, the less you can function. Or the less well you will be. Where there is no function to serve, there is no need. Description Which do you think is more likely? Your ability to function has little to nothing to do with your needs. OR Your ability to function has everything to do with your needs. Anankelogy This unique understanding of your needs recognizes that your every need relates to your ability to function. The less your needs resolve, the less you can function. And the closer to being unwell. The more your needs resolve, the better you can function and be well. Accessible anankelogy refers to your level of functioning simply as wellness . Recognizing your wellness exists in gradient levels provides us with a deeper understanding. Anankelogy identifies four key levels of your ability to function . Peakfunction : When you prioritize to promptly and fully resolve your needs. You reach more of your full potential. You enjoy sustainable wellness. Symfunction : When you prioritize pragmatically easing your needs with help from others. You can sufficiently function. Just not at your best. Dysfunction : When you prioritize relieving the pain of your many unresolved needs. You can hardly function. You typically cope with something addictive. Misfunction : When you prioritize survival from too many unresolved basic needs. You barely hang onto life. You find yourself repeatedly at death’s door. A need can be appreciated as a kind of metaphor for function. The more your need for water is satisfied, the better you can function. The less your body’s requirement for water can be satiated, the less you can function. If you cannot satisfy your thirst, you will find yourself obsessing for something to drink. While you experience these subjectively, they begin from the objective reality for your life’s requirement for something to function. This applies equally to your emotional needs. If you cannot satisfy your longing to be understood and appreciated by those closest to you, you will find yourself obsessing to be accepted. You must receive some social connection to function, or you will remain in the pain of loneliness. Anankelogy recognizes a range between illness and wellness . Instead of suddenly becoming sick, you gradually lose the ability to function. You regressively shift from wellness into illness when your needs do not or cannot fully resolve. Need-response This new profession of need-response applies this central anankelogy principle. It can either complement or compete with other service institutions. Need-response can complement the psychological focus of psychotherapy by adding the essential dimension of responding to the needs that the mind processes. Need respond can complement law enforcement and the judicial process, and even politics. Or it can compete with these institutions by creating better results when addressing the needs for which they ostensibly exist. Reactive Problem These service institutions of law and psychotherapy tend to follow the popular norm of relieving pain over addressing the needs prompting such pain. The more a court battle or ballot contest offers mere relief for the pain of publicly affected needs, the less we can function. We tend to accept such relief is the best we can get. We accommodate to lower levels of being able to function. We cope with the increasingly pain of these unmet needs. We also get angrier and angrier at each other. Responsive Solution The more inspired to endure the discomfort of working through the painful portion of fully addressing our needs, the more we can fully resolve them. Pain is not the problem as much as the threat such pain exists to report . The further you can remove the threat prompting the pain, the better you can function. The more your needs resolve, the more your wellness improves. Once your functioning gets restored, the more capable of removing other threats. You then become less vulnerable to coping habits like addictions. As your wellness—your level of functioning—improves, the more your anger can shift toward grace, peace and love. The more your needs resolve, the more wellness you enjoy. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: How can this apply equally to a physical need and an emotional need like the need for love? How long do I have to put up with the pain before I can enjoy restored functioning? Isn’t short-term pain relief okay, or is the only path toward better functioning is costly pain? If I’m already trapped in addictive patterns, how can this insight help me climb out of them? Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. 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6 < Back to list A. Character refunction 6 A grace Grace , as used here, is meeting someone where they honestly are at in their development or in their situation; while humbly allowing others to meet you where you honestly are at in your development or situation. 6 .1 A Need experience Behind the idea of grace is unearned favor. When you don’t have to work for something you receive as a gift, you experience grace. When giving unconditionally, the giver is being gracious. Grace flourishes with humility and honesty. When you can humbly admit your honest imperfections, you make it easier for others to meet you where you are at. Grace can only meet you where you are at instead of where you hope to be, present yourself to be, or believe yourself to be. You may demand another to respect you, then realize they can’t. So you meet them where they are honestly at. You recognize how it only takes one disturbing incident to traumatize the vulnerable, and only one traumatic event to instill a sense of debilitating powerlessness in them. You let go of your rigid expectation for respect when being gracious to their situation. You make it easier for them to be gracious back to you. 6 .2 A Defunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction relationally lowers your ability to fully function. It is typically framed with more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 6 .3 A Refunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction could be turned around to raise your ability to function. It also uses more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 6 .4 A Example(s) This subsection offers some examples of this defunction you may observe affecting your life. Usually more than one example is provided. If reading this, there are no examples yet to this defunction. 6 .5 A Associated defunctions This subsection points to similar or applicable defunctions. If reading this, there are no defunctions specifically associated with this defunction. 6 .6 A Relevant refunctions This subsection points to relevant or complementary refunctions. If reading this, there are no relevant defunctions to correlate with this defunction. 6 .7 A Applicable principles This subsection points to those anankelogical principles that aptly apply to this defunction. If reading this, there are no anankelogical principles related specifically to this defunction. 6 .8 A Referenced blog posts This subsection points to those blog entries that relate to, or cite, this particular defunction. If reading this, there are no blog entries yet related specifically to this defunction. Date created: 8/26/23 Type: Date revised: A. Character refunction The more you humbly admit your current imperfections, the more your needs resolve. Admit where you are honestly at in life, and not quite where you or others expect you to be. Release yourself from unrealistic expectations, and appreciate getting to your goals one step at a time. Allow room for unavoidable setbacks. Meet others where they are at, instead of where you may expect them to be. With more grace, observe more needs resolving. Previous Next Discuss at our Engagement forum

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Needs get queued and then evoked. < Back B11 Basic Principle List of all principles Needs get queued and then evoked. Image: Pixabay – jplenio (click on meme to see source image) Summary 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. Description Which do you think is more likely? You can cognitively control how you experience your needs with enough will power. OR Your needs tend to take over your cognitive processes to serve a list of urgent needs. Anankelogy Anankelogy recognizes how you experience many needs all the time. Most needs promptly resolve and pass from your awareness. Other needs fail to resolve then remain in your periphery for some time. You may need water to drink, safety from some threat, to rest your weary feet, and to find a friend to listen to you all at the same time. Your life automatically puts the most urgent need at the top of the list of items calling for your attention. Your weary feet can wait for rest if you must first get out of harm’s way from some threat. You can find a friend to share your concerns after you’ve quenched your thirst. Or perhaps you must first unload your cares before giving another thought about your encroaching dehydration. You could be in a situation that puts your need for rest ahead of your need for safety if that risk remains remote. But when that threat suddenly confronts you, it can be easy to forget how tired your feet feels when you must quickly get up and run away. Anankelogy recognizes you prioritize needs as they occur. Depending on how much your need resolves, you experience what anankelogy calls focal ranges . At-rest . Fully resolving your need allows you to shift all of your focus elsewhere. You feel at peace, relative to this need. Aware . Partially resolving a need keeps a little of your focus on your mildly reduced functioning. You feel a modest level of unfulfilled desire or modest level of persisting discomfort. Alert . Barely resolving the need keeps most of your focus on your severely lowered functioning. You feel a distracting craving or a disruptive level of pain. Alarm . Not being able to resolve the need at all keeps your fully focused on your compromised functioning. You obsess on what you must but can’t have. You’re consumed by the agony. Life is good right now when few of your needs demand your primary attention right now. You feel thirsty, but gulping down some water instantly quenches your thirst. You require some solitude, and finding solace immediately frees up your attention. Life is not so good when a list of unmet needs piles up. Whichever your body deems as most important for your functioning will naturally top the list. Your attention to freely breathe, for example, is far more important than finding some privacy. Sometimes you have a need that adequately resolves, but then demands more attention to keep you functioning. For example, your need for help from others for the things you cannot provide for yourself can be sufficiently met until you slip into a crisis. You then instantly shift from being aware of your need for others to full alert that you must quickly get help. Most needs get evoked like this from some changing situation. Other needs simply get triggered as a rhythm in life. For example, feeling hungry at a meal time. Your habits can preclude a need being evoked, such as surrounding yourself with friends keeps you from ever feeling lonely. Need-response Think of what your life requires right now. You may feel a little thirsty but know that can wait. You wish your friend would call you, and feel you’ve waited long enough. You just remembered a bill you had to pay by the end of the day, and that need just took center stage. Your life functions on a long list of physical and nonphysical stuff your life requires. Life is good when you can promptly resolve each one. But who could be so fortunate? Your life and my life tends to bog down on those items we can never quite fully satisfy. The less we can respond to a need, the more we end up reacting the resulting pain. Reactive Problem The less we can resolve a need, from problems beyond our control , the more our queued-up needs remain on the list. The pain builds up, as our body warns of the threat to our ability to fully function. We feel ourselves pulled more and more to react to the situation, for prompt relief. Anankelogy recognizes this is not simply a cognitive experience. Limits to resolving needs often occur as “social facts ” you can do little about. You must do something about the mounting pain, and no mere mental exercise can make it better. Resolving queued and evoked needs involves a social context. Our conventional thinking tends to expect more from individuals than what is honestly possible. Responsive Solution Anankelogy illuminates how we orient ourselves to our recurring needs. The more elusive the means to resolve a need, the more we tend to adjust to the limitation. Anankelogy cites at least three such orientations that speak to our queued and evoked needs. Relational orientation (RO) – general-over-specific or specific-over-general . We either rely on generalizations that overlook relevant specifics of our needs but offers some relief, or we routinely get to the relevant specifics for resolving our needs. Queued and evoke needs resolve better when oriented toward specifics over generalizations. Easement orientation (EO) – relieve-over-resolve or resolve-over-relieve . We either seek relief from our painful needs or regularly prefer to resolve such needs to remove their cause for pain. Queued and evoke needs resolve better when oriented toward resolving needs over relieving their pain. Conflict orientation (CO) – guarded-over-open or open-over-guarded . We either stay defensive and guarded during a conflict, to avoid further hurt, or we habitually remain open to engage the unchosen needs on all sides of a conflict. Queued and evoke needs resolve better when staying open and engaging amidst conflicts. Anankelogy recognizes a psychosocial orientation where you either prioritize self-needs over social needs or you prioritize social needs over self-needs. But unlike these other orientations, one side of this orientation does not more effectively resolve needs than the other. Instead of being vertical in quality like the other types, this “lateral” type of orientation recognizes the objective fact of prioritized needs . Your queued self-needs and social needs intersect with these vertical types of orientation. The more specifics you address, endure the discomfort, and remain open despite conflict, the more your self-needs and social needs can fully resolve. Because of limitations, often beyond your control, you either resolve your queued self-needs more than your queued social needs or you resolve your queued social needs more than your queued self-needs. This shapes your political outlook . Resolving your public-facing self-needs more than your public-facing social needs predisposes you toward liberal or progressive stances. For example, your need for self-acceptance tends to be resolved more than your need for inclusion in society. Resolving your public-facing social needs more than your public-facing self-needs predisposes you toward conservative or right-wing stances. For example, your need for family cohesion tends to be resolved more than your need for encouraged self-initiative. Responsive depolarization seeks to address and resolve self-needs on par with social needs to take some of the sting out of such imbalance. So each time a self-need or social need clamors for your attention, you can more freely and fully resolve them, remove the discomfort, and reach more of your life’s full potential. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: Needs typically fail to fully resolve because of being personally irresponsible. I believe the richer you are, the easier to freely and fully resolve each need. Perhaps mental illness stems from too many unresolved needs in one’s queued list. I imagine you can endure a list of unmet low priority needs without much risk to functionality. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. 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