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< Back The Need-Response podcast 1x07 Does innocence even matter? Steph opens up about the wrongful conviction still hampering their full potential. The video will appear here in a moment Video version of the full audio podcast Show notes Steph opens up about the wrongful conviction still hampering their full potential. The Need-Response podcast Anankelogy Foundation 00:00 / 37:30 Episode transcript PDF transcript for this episode Click on the button to view the full script of this episode Featured video clips These are the video clips featured in this episode. Click on the title to view it on YouTube. You also The video will appear here in a moment The video will appear here in a moment First video feature for this episode Second video feature for this episode Audiogram shorts View the snippets of this episode we posted online. Audiogram one will appear here shortly Audiogram two will appear here shortly Audiogram three will appear here shortly Audiogram four will appear here shortly Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Audiogram one will appear here shortly Audiogram two will appear here shortly Audiogram three will appear here shortly Audiogram four will appear here shortly Clip 5 Clip 6 Clip 7 Clip 8 Summary update Check here for a brief update on the progress of the need-response service. 1x07 Summary update 00:00 / 00:38 Summary update Engagement Does innocence even matter? Public Engagement Interact with the content of this episode by leaving a comment at our YouTube channel. Engage 1st video feature Engage 1st video feature Engage full episode We are cultivating a love-inspired culture of how best to engage each other. If we reply to your comment, or read a comment we leave for someone else, observe our uniquely responsive approach. Member Engagement You can learn more about how we cultivate more of our potential to be more loving toward one another by engaging us, and each other, by becoming a member of the Need-Responder Community . You can start for free, as a Follower . Follow the development of the need-response serve. Give your input Become a Supporter to help shape this new service. Engage us personally. Become an invested Contributor to help co-create this new service. Become one of its first professionals. Explore your membership options More Engagement NRC Follower $0 $ 0 Follow developments of creating this service Valid until canceled Select Receive updates on this service’s progress We engage your feedback on its development Follow its development Choose one that works for you best Already a Follower? Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! Discuss at Need-Response creation forum text We invite you, financially invested subscribers, to give us your feedback to this episode. And to discuss its content amongst yourselves. If you are a Follower, you can upgrade your subscription to join the discussion here . Already a Supporter? text Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! Discuss at Need-Response creation forum More Engagement NRC Supporter $5 $ 5 Every month Invest and co-create the need-response service Valid until canceled 7 day free trial Select Receive updates on service’s progress Engage your feedback on its development Apply your ideas to the service Vote on decisions shaping service Support its development Choose one that works for you best More Engagement NRC Contributor $25 $ 25 Every month Take the lead in developing this much needed service Valid until canceled 7 day free trial Select Receive updates on service’s progress Engage your feedback on its development Apply your ideas to the service Vote on decisions shaping service Test the need-response service Shape the need-response service Contribute to its development Choose one that works for you best Already a Contributor? Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! text Discuss at Need-Response creation forum Next time In the next episode, we take you further into the journey of creating this pioneering service for you, with your helpful input. Previous episode Next episode

< Back The Need-Response podcast 2x09 Prove your innocence without lawyers Instead of filling out and sending paper forms that take forever, consider this better alternative. The video will appear here in a moment Video version of the full audio podcast Show notes Instead of filling out and sending paper forms that take forever, consider this better alternative. The Need-Response podcast Anankelogy Foundation 00:00 / 26:10 Episode transcript PDF transcript for this episode Click on the button to view the full script of this episode Featured video clips These are the video clips featured in this episode. Click on the title to view it on YouTube. You also The video will appear here in a moment The video will appear here in a moment First video feature for this episode Second video feature for this episode Audiogram shorts View the snippets of this episode we posted online. Audiogram one will appear here shortly Audiogram two will appear here shortly Audiogram three will appear here shortly Audiogram four will appear here shortly Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Audiogram one will appear here shortly Audiogram two will appear here shortly Audiogram three will appear here shortly Audiogram four will appear here shortly Clip 5 Clip 6 Clip 7 Clip 8 Summary update Check here for a brief update on the progress of the need-response service. 2x09 Summary update 00:00 / 00:38 Summary update Engagement Prove your innocence without lawyers Public Engagement Interact with the content of this episode by leaving a comment at our YouTube channel. Engage 1st video feature Engage 1st video feature Engage full episode We are cultivating a love-inspired culture of how best to engage each other. If we reply to your comment, or read a comment we leave for someone else, observe our uniquely responsive approach. Member Engagement You can learn more about how we cultivate more of our potential to be more loving toward one another by engaging us, and each other, by becoming a member of the Need-Responder Community . You can start for free, as a Follower . Follow the development of the need-response serve. Give your input Become a Supporter to help shape this new service. Engage us personally. Become an invested Contributor to help co-create this new service. Become one of its first professionals. Explore your membership options More Engagement NRC Follower $0 $ 0 Follow developments of creating this service Valid until canceled Select Receive updates on this service’s progress We engage your feedback on its development Follow its development Choose one that works for you best Already a Follower? Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! Discuss at Need-Response creation forum text We invite you, financially invested subscribers, to give us your feedback to this episode. And to discuss its content amongst yourselves. If you are a Follower, you can upgrade your subscription to join the discussion here . Already a Supporter? text Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! Discuss at Need-Response creation forum More Engagement NRC Supporter $5 $ 5 Every month Invest and co-create the need-response service Valid until canceled 7 day free trial Select Receive updates on service’s progress Engage your feedback on its development Apply your ideas to the service Vote on decisions shaping service Support its development Choose one that works for you best More Engagement NRC Contributor $25 $ 25 Every month Take the lead in developing this much needed service Valid until canceled 7 day free trial Select Receive updates on service’s progress Engage your feedback on its development Apply your ideas to the service Vote on decisions shaping service Test the need-response service Shape the need-response service Contribute to its development Choose one that works for you best Already a Contributor? Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! text Discuss at Need-Response creation forum Next time In the next episode, we take you further into the journey of creating this pioneering service for you, with your helpful input. Previous episode Next episode

< Back The Need-Response podcast 1x03 Where does it hurt? Do you settle for options that merely ease your pain? Why not let us help remove its cause? The video will appear here in a moment Video version of the full audio podcast Show notes Do you settle for options that merely ease your pain? Why not let us help remove its cause? The Need-Response podcast Anankelogy Foundation 00:00 / 42:03 Only need-response understands your pain can only exist from your unresolved needs. Only need-response exhausts all means to help you resolve those needs. Episode transcript PDF transcript for this episode Click on the button to view the full script of this episode Featured video clips These are the video clips featured in this episode. Click on the title to view it on YouTube. You also The video will appear here in a moment The video will appear here in a moment First video feature for this episode Second video feature for this episode Audiogram shorts View the snippets of this episode we posted online. Audiogram one will appear here shortly Audiogram two will appear here shortly Audiogram three will appear here shortly Audiogram four will appear here shortly Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3 Clip 4 Audiogram one will appear here shortly Audiogram two will appear here shortly Audiogram three will appear here shortly Audiogram four will appear here shortly Clip 5 Clip 6 Clip 7 Clip 8 Summary update Check here for a brief update on the progress of the need-response service. 1x03 00:00 / 00:38 Engagement Where does it hurt? Public Engagement Interact with the content of this episode by leaving a comment at our YouTube channel. Engage 1st video feature Engage 1st video feature Engage full episode We are cultivating a love-inspired culture of how best to engage each other. If we reply to your comment, or read a comment we leave for someone else, observe our uniquely responsive approach. Member Engagement You can learn more about how we cultivate more of our potential to be more loving toward one another by engaging us, and each other, by becoming a member of the Need-Responder Community . You can start for free, as a Follower . Follow the development of the need-response serve. Give your input Become a Supporter to help shape this new service. Engage us personally. Become an invested Contributor to help co-create this new service. Become one of its first professionals. Explore your membership options More Engagement NRC Follower $0 $ 0 Follow developments of creating this service Valid until canceled Select Receive updates on this service’s progress We engage your feedback on its development Follow its development Choose one that works for you best Already a Follower? Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! Discuss at Need-Response creation forum text We invite you, financially invested subscribers, to give us your feedback to this episode. And to discuss its content amongst yourselves. If you are a Follower, you can upgrade your subscription to join the discussion here . Already a Supporter? text Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! Discuss at Need-Response creation forum More Engagement NRC Supporter $5 $ 5 Every month Invest and co-create the need-response service Valid until canceled 7 day free trial Select Receive updates on service’s progress Engage your feedback on its development Apply your ideas to the service Vote on decisions shaping service Support its development Choose one that works for you best More Engagement NRC Contributor $25 $ 25 Every month Take the lead in developing this much needed service Valid until canceled 7 day free trial Select Receive updates on service’s progress Engage your feedback on its development Apply your ideas to the service Vote on decisions shaping service Test the need-response service Shape the need-response service Contribute to its development Choose one that works for you best Already a Contributor? Follower? Upgrade to join the discussion! text Discuss at Need-Response creation forum Next time In the next episode, we take you further into the journey of creating this pioneering service for you, with your helpful input. Previous episode Next episode

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Glossary A Acknowledged Impactor [AI] (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] A person or entity recognizing they impact another of relatively less social influence more than they are impacted by the other in a social power difference. Prior to acknowledging such potent influence, the AI is regarded as an Ascribed Impactor . adversarialism (n. ) Opposing others largely for the sake of opposition. [Gordon Fellman] See indulgent side-taking and oppo culture . adversarialist (n. ) One who opposes others ostensibly to hold them accountable but often to try to subdue them and coerce them to fit one's own interests with little if any regard for their affected inflexible needs . See proper adversarialism and toxic adversarialist . See image of both definitions here . Also see indulgent side-taking and oppo culture . anankelogy (n. ) The disciplined study and understanding of experiencing needs. Ascribed Impactor [AI] (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] A person or entity identified as likely impacting another person or entity of relatively less social influence more than they are impacted by the other in a social power difference. Once publicly recognizing such potent influence, the AI is regarded as an Acknowledged Impactor . avoidance culture (n. ) Social norms that privilege evading awareness or engagement of others whom one affects. Instead of being responsive to the affected needs of others, these set of norms rationalize the acceptability of overlooking others in pain. It expects impersonal norms to be enough. See oppo culture . Avoidance culture can manifest itself in different ways. Demonstrating an intent to simplify complex matters into palatable soundbites, to the point of evading uncomfortable details one would prefer to ignore. Being dismissive toward the views of others by characterizing a weakness in that view as emblematic of the whole idea, as grounds to not face strong points in that view. Investing more focus (consuming limited time and energy) on one point over another, effectively missing what that other point could offer. Accepting motivated reasoning to rationalize not investigating further, effectively reinforcing blind spots. Easing needs or relieving pain from unresolved exposed needs , while ignoring the likely consequence of perpetuating the problem as those needs persist unresolved, compromising functionality while seeming to fix the problem (which can then be blamed on the individual for not properly applying the avoidant solution). A relatively simple conflict requiring discipline and uncomfortable sacrifices to settle gets characterized as too complex to solve, if only to bypass such disciplie and sacrifices. And somefime to preserve the familiarity of the conflict over the fear of the unknown. Citing established norms and routine procedures as reason enough not to fully address a problem, preferring not to upset the status quo which likely has elements necessary and best preserved while also including elements to be excised for the sake of resolving needs more effectively. Denouncing any attempt to understand all sides to a conflict as "bothsidesism" or "moral equivalency" that avoids identifying and addressing the inflexible needs of one or more sides. Heralding one side in a conflict that more effectively conveys its message, or gets it out to a wider audience, to the point of dismissing any helpful critique of any opposing side, regardless of the intent of any of the sides. Exists as an element of toxic legalism , as complemented by adversarialism . Can be considered an element of the larger construct of reactive culture . 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

Glossary E earned legitimacy (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION The refunction of establishing trusted responsiveness to vulnerable needs of those relatively less socially powerful, based empirically on measurable impacts on the needs of those under a powerholder's influence. E.g., positive or negative changes in health outcomes like chronic anxiety, major depression, and addictions. Posited as a higher form of legitimacy than widely accepted "ascribed legitimacy ", which is prone to manipulation and privileged unresponsiveness . Applies a response reputation or "response rating" to those in positions of of power. easement orientation (n. ) - EO (abbr. ) One's relatively fixed or routine way to experience discomfort, which all stem from unresolved needs; either prioritizing relief-over-resolve or prioritizing resolve-over-relief . The Anankelogy Foundatdion addresses the challenge of improving one's EO with the NR101 Personal Need-Responder program. Other relevant terms: discomfort avoidance , discomfort embrace ; feel-reactive , need-responsive , passive-aggressive pain relief , reactive pain relief . engage (v. ) - REFUNCTION To openly explore each other's affected needs to resolve a conflict, as opposed to debating or disputing or arguing; to show intent for mutual regard making room for social love over norms privileging avoidance and opposition that tend to perpetuate pain and problems. Contrasts with the defunction of mutual defensiveness . engaging mutuality (n. ) - REFUNCTION Responding personally to what others may need in ways that encourage reciprocal respect for one’s own needs. Counters avoidant adversarialism . See responsivism . engaging query (n. ) A formatted invitation to consider thinking beyond an accepted assumption about something to reflect on a more specific and relevant perspective that could empirically result in resolving more needs. Invites a transition from being feel-reactive to being more need-responsive . Format: Opens with a question to compare two or more perspectives. E.g., "Which do you think is more likely?" or "Which would you prefer?" Then offers a widely accepted assumption, typically a more feel-reactive belief. "Or" to set up the illuminating comparison. Finally, a more specific and relevant perspective is offered to challenge the earlier assumption(s), as a more need-responsive belief. See examples in the openers to most blog entries here. evil (n. ) - DEFUNCTION Benefiting from diminishing the functioning of others or of oneself, overlooking less harmful or unharmful alternatives, and often correlating with a lack of sufficient awareness of the painful results. In other words, causing pathology + benefiting from it. Elements of anankelogically defined evil (the “D” element not essential but common): A ctions resulting in damage to others (or to oneself). B enefiting from the results of such harmful actions. C hoosing harmful options over benign alternatives. D esensitized to causing harm in others. See improperly resolving need s . evoked need (n. ) A requirement previously dormant now necessary to function. exposed need (n. ) Any core need or resource need or access need or psychosocial need easily impacted by any privileged social norm or structural problem . Compare with vulnerable need that is easily impacted by anyone in a privileged position of social influential "power" or by a power problem . Accessible anankelogy may use these terms interchangeably. 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

< Back 1. Balancing masculine rationality with feminine emotionality Do you see yourself championing rationality to keep your emotional impulses at bay? Or do you experience yourself as emotionally intelligent, who's wisely in touch with your own feelings? Masculine focused If you're more rational than emotional, your needs best met with a more emotional emphasis naturally seeks some balance. One way nature prompts you to fill this void is through sexual energy, to compel you to pursue the complementary emotionality you currently lack. Whether stereotypically in a woman or perhaps in an emotionally attuned man. The less you integrate your rational qualities with emotional maturity, the more prone to swing between extremes of irrationality and unemotionality. For example, _________ The more you blend your rational qualities with emotional maturity, the more needs you can resolve and remove cause for pain. For example, becoming both reasonable and intuitive enables you to _________ Feminine focused If you're more emotional than rational, your needs best met with a more rational emphasis naturally seeks some balance. One way nature prompts you to fill this void is through sexual energy, to compel you to pursue the complementary rationality you currently lack. Whether stereotypically in a man or perhaps in a rationally minded woman. toward balance Cyclic balancing of these gender-associated traits Vacillating between opposing extremes When locked into opposing extremes, you can be irrational one moment and then unemotional the next. You suppress your emotional outbursts to appear respectfully rational. You angrily yell at your son. Then collect yourself to sternly warn him with a straight face. He sees you act calm but likely wonders when that volcano may explode again. Immaturity traps you into swinging between extremes of emotional outbursts and hyperrationality. Maturity spurs you to complement these seemingly opposing sides. Balancing complementary sides The more balanced your life, the more you can integrate being reasonable with being intuitive . Each time you act reasonably for the situation and experience good results, the more you can trust your feelings, your intuition, to inform you of what best to do. You mature as you face challenges with both the option of being reasonable and being intuitive. You instantly temper your intuitive feelings of annoyance with reasonable ways to address the situation. You respond more to threats than react. Oscillating toward a balanced center The more balanced your life, the more you can integrate being reasonable with being intuitive . Each time you act reasonably for the situation and experience good results, the more you can trust your feelings, your intuition, to inform you of what best to do. You mature as you face challenges with both the option of being reasonable and being intuitive. You instantly temper your intuitive feelings of annoyance with reasonable ways to address the situation. You respond more to threats than react. Encountering the holistic center Your responsiveness becomes both intuitive and reasonable . You automatically blend these complementary qualities in your routine decisions. They no longer contradict. You learn you can trust your gut to express what you know is unacceptable to you. Your intuition reliably guides you to remove those threats of what's unacceptable, in ways others can trust as reasonable. You can now resolve more needs, remove more pain, and restore more wellness. Transspiritually compelled holism As a transspirit , I am spiritually compelled to transcend conventional opposites. Instead of a complementary opposite person outside of myself pulling me into balancing my reasonableness and intuition , an inexplicable force of nature within pulls me to balance these traits. This explains my asexuality. Much as the Apostle Paul described himself, I've never burned with sexual desire for another. And much like that New Testament writer, I relate to others on their own terms instead of imposing my own. I too spiritually stretch beyond the imposing divide between male and female . I am both masculine and feminine. I am both liberal-progressive and conservative. I am both complainant and defendant. I must be unitarily both, to more fully resolve needs and reach more of humanity's potential. Those insisting on one-or-the-other get easily tripped up by life's paradoxes. Their emotional attachment to a comforting familiarity of opposites tends to blind them. They often uncritically trust the veneer of contradictions, which easily obscures some profoundly complementary sides. From the myopia of their painfully unresolved needs and consequential diminished capacity to function, they tend to misinterpret every contradiction as mutually exclusive. They judge by appearances. They can't see the forest for the trees. They rely on adversarialism. Many of them oppose my transspiritual existence. They vehemently guard their familiar norms of opposing sides. They indulge in side-taking when unwarranted. They resist any discomfort of having their oppositional norms questioned. They avoid engaging me, who has the liberating wisdom that can free them from their pain. Some even project their avoided pain onto me. ...all my life... ...falsely accused, wrongly convicted, falsely imprisoned for a dozen years, lifetime sentence as a sex offender despite being asexual with no prior or subsequent history of criminality... As a sage gifted with wisdom, I reactivity of conformity enforcers (legalists) - Sf captured It's good to hold onto being reasonable and not let of being intuitive . For the one who integrates both can resolve far more needs, remove more pain, and reach more of life's potential. Conventional reaction to transspirituality The more attached to conventional norms, the more one tends to guard the comforting familiarity of pragmatism creep . text text Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 9:18:59 PM UTC Previous Next

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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Take the easy course, then life gets hard. Take the hard course, then life gets easy. < Back D08 Pain Principle List of all principles Take the easy course, then life gets hard. Take the hard course, then life gets easy. Image: Pixabay - Sonyuser (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you indulge yourself to avoid the discomforts of fully resolving your needs, the more your unresolved needs result in lingering pain. The more you face upfront the intense discomforts necessary to fully resolve your needs, the more you will enjoy some long-term fruits and suffer less lingering pain. Your life typically reveals a pattern of favoring one or the other. Description Which do you think is more likely? You pick the low hanging fruit of an easier path in life because of your moral failings. OR You would pursue the challenging path of resolving needs no matter how difficult at first, if this option was more open to you. Anankelogy Anankelogy introduces you to various need-experience orientations . These are relatively fixed ways you experience your familiar needs. This principle speaks to your “easement orientation ”. You’re either oriented to resolve your needs over relieving their pain. You take the hard course first. Or you’re oriented to relieve your pain over resolving the needs causing your pain. You take the easy path first. The less you can fully resolve your needs, the less you can function. Every unresolved need emotionally warns you of its threat to your ability to function. The less you can function over time, the more your pain builds up. The longer you must adjust to this mounting pain, the more you get used to coping with this manageable level of discomfort. If you cannot consistently access what would restore you to full functioning, but must settle on some alternative or substitute to get you by, you naturally become oriented to seek relief over resolving your pounding needs. In other words, it is not always simple to merely choose the challenging path upfront, to decide to endure the difficulties inherent when fully resolving your needs. Your life situation shapes your orientation to your needs. Options to live optimally may remain beyond your reach. Need-response exists to give you optimal choices. So you can accept, with little risk of falling flat, the difficult path upfront to fully resolve needs. Need-response Here is where we apply this principle to improve our need-responding skills. We contrast popular norms creating a feel-reactive problem with our preferable need-responsive solution . Reactive Problem Game theory and rational choice theory provide a helpful framework for understanding the specific choices we make in life. But this approach can offer only part of the picture. Need-response recognizes the role of needs as they actually occur, with empirical evidence. No matter how much you aspire to take the high road of nobly suffering to resolve needs, you likely find yourself having to settle for less. You needless feel guilty if you repeatedly take the law road of self-indulgence to cope somehow with your load of pain of unresolved needs. Responsive Solution Western culture biases us to primarily think of our individual choices. This lens can blind us from how our choices are limited by our social environments. Those able to access more resources to more fully resolve their needs often assume others enjoy about the same level of access. Need-response incentivizes those with greater access to resources to improve accessibility to others less fortunate. Instead of relying on political generalizations or impersonal policies to spread wealth, need-response personally connects the advantaged with the relatively less advantaged. Need-response offers the potential for all to take the challenging path to more fully resolve needs. And offers opportunity for the more advantaged to take the challenging path to support the full resolution of needs of others with a mutually beneficial conciliatory process. Because outrage is never as potent as the powerful incentive of love to mutually resolve each other’s affected needs. 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’ve tried to take this nobler path of accepting difficulties upfront, but find myself repeatedly pulled back to ease my unrelenting pain. I’ve tried this approach of taking the hard road first, but I can’t say it helped me much. I once took the more challenging route of hitting a problem head on and it turned out great. I already orient my life to take the challenging road first, and let me tell you how it really is. 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. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . 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There is no such thing as pain apart from unresolved needs. < Back D01 Pain Principle List of all principles There is no such thing as pain apart from unresolved needs. Image: Pixabay - Barbara-Iandolo (click on meme to see source image) Summary 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. Description Which do you think is more likely? Life is so painful that you must continually suffer some level of physical and emotional pain. OR Pain only exists to warn of unresolved needs, and once you satisfy all your needs you will find it impossible to experience pain. Anankelogy Nature-based anankelogy demystifies your pain. Your pain only exists to warn you of threats. Without any perceived threats, your body has no cause to warn you with this unpleasant feeling. Any pain, any level of discomfort, points back to some apparent threat holding back your ability to fully function. The less you can function because of it, the more intense the pain. A mild threat evokes only a mild discomfort. When someone failed to meet with you on time, this threatens your ability to function. You were counting on them to be punctual so you would have enough time to cover matters you rely on to function. The pain of disappointment conveys the upended expectation to continue functioning at the anticipated level. Let’s say the person arrives just a few minutes late. And you get a text message letting you know the commitment you had after this meeting has been canceled. Your feelings of disappointment dissolve. You may still feel the unease of broken trust, but now that you can confidently cover all you came to the meeting to address, that threat to your ability to function has been removed. Once removed, your body has no cause to alarm you of that threat. If all threats suddenly went away, you would suddenly feel no pain. If you suffer an overbearing load of pain, then you’re facing an overwhelming load of threats. Removing all these threats removes all your pain. Apart from a need to connect more deeply with others, you feel no alienation . Apart from a need to reject some apparent threat, you feel no anger . Apart from a need to make sense of something, you feel no confusion . Apart from a need to redirect your energies, you feel no depression . Apart from a need for others to be trustworthy, you feel no disappointment . Apart from a need to remove something offensive, you feel no disgust . Apart from a need to cover something exposed, you feel no embarrassment . Apart from a need to handle something menacing, you feel no fear . Apart from a need to have things go as planned, you feel no frustration . Apart from a need to adjust to a deep loss, you feel no grief . Apart from a need to restore your respect for others, you feel no guilt . Apart from a need to avoid any risk of harm, you feel no insecurity . Apart from a need to enjoy what another enjoys, you feel no jealousy . Apart from a need to connect with someone, you feel no loneliness . Apart from a need to control your situation, you feel no powerlessness . Apart from a need to rethink your actions, you feel no regret . Apart from a need to promptly get something done, you feel no restlessness . Apart from a need to deal with some loss, you feel no sadness . Apart from a need to guard your social image, you feel no shame . Apart from a need to meet some high expectation, you feel no stress . Easier said than done, right? Exactly! That’s where need-response can help. Need-response No current option helps you resolve all of the needs creating the conditions for your pain. Only need-response is designed to fully remove the cause for pain by fully resolving every need. As James Hightower put it, “The problem isn’t that people fall through the cracks. The problem is that there are so many cracks.” Need-response fills those cracks with improved responsiveness to every type of need. Reactive Problem Our legal systems, such as the judiciary and politics, do not help you resolve needs. By design, they primarily try to ease the pain of the winning side in a court battle or ballot contest. The losing side gets to keep their pain. The needs on both sides typically remain unresolved. Their pain persists. While the winning side enjoys some relief, their functioning potential gets compromised. They may blame the losing side, but that will not restore their wellbeing. As Dr. King put it, hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. We are so accustomed to this lower standard of win-lose outcomes that we don’t even look for a win-win alternative. What if there was an option seeking to identify, address and ultimately resolve each impacted need? Then the pain would finally clear up, and allow all involved to reach more of their functional potential. That’s what need-response is for. Responsive Solution First, we readjust your orientation to be more open to the natural pain occurring in your life. Then we invest your improved resiliency to thoroughly address the sources of unnatural pain , such as power relations. The more you’re equipped to process your natural pain, the better positioned to take on unnatural sources of pain. With a team of supportive need-responders , you will gain the courage to speak truth to power . And do so in a way that incentivizes them to listen to those impacted . In the alternative, you invite a qualified need-responder to advocate for you. Once they agree, they advocate mostly for all the needs affected by the power relationship. Not only does this help you resolve your impacted needs, it helps the powerholder in the relationship to more responsibly resolve their needs. In the process, the powerholder identifies and addresses their need to be more responsive to you. Their professional reputation depends on their demonstrated leadership skills. We incentivize them to support you in resolving your impacted needs by linking the results to their measurable leadership skills. Eventually, there is much less pain to go around. 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 imagine a life without all the continual pain I endure. Maybe this offers some hope. I want to envision a life without as much pain. I want to explore this option. I am disillusioned with adversarial justice/politics and am open to considering this alternative. After resolving my needs I still feel some pain. So what’s that about? 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. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . See other principles in this category - Foundational - Basic - General - Pain - Conflict - Authority - Law - Love - Previous Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Next