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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 (or patho-pragmatism for short) [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. pistiscentricity (n. ) DEFUNCTION Clinging to what one thinks is true or untrue, guarding themself from critique of such views. Contrasts with continually interacting with sources of information, to remain dynamically open to checking assumptions and keeping accountable to impactful objective reality. Anankelogy posits such centering upon beliefs as the immature portion of three reliance levels that mirror Lawrence Kohlberg's moral development levels. Beliefer - Guards what one thinks as true or untrue, and typically defensive toward any challenge of such views. It too tends to be egocentric. “Beliefer ”. Mirrors preconventional moral develpment: Moral reasoning relies on avoidance of punishment and seeking rewards. It tends to be egocentric. Faither - Accepts as true or untrue based largely on social cues, such as what one’s group accepts as true and untrue. Also tends toward social conformity. “Faither ”. Mirrors conventional moral develpment: Moral reasoning relies on social norms, as agreed upon by the collective of one’s social universe. It tends toward social conformity. Truster - Vulnerably relying on the most dependable over which one has no control, such as a Supreme Being, while ready to question whatever can be found as not fully dependable. It likewise points toward human flourishing. “Truster ”. Mirrors postconventional moral develpment: Moral reasoning relies on universal principles that can transcend individuals and cultures. It tends to lead toward human flourishing. 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 (see hyper-individualism ) 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 [dynamic for 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

Glossary D defunction (n. ) Anything that diminishes one's ability to function fully, compromising their wellness. Opposite to a refunction . disciplined discourse (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION A refunction of accountably communicating all the relevant needs in a conflict or situation, by thoroughly challenging any distractions like loaded language , cognitive biases and distortions , formal and informal fallacies , disclosure avoidance, and mischaracterizations, and any applicable defunctions and refunctions . Participants are tasked to "flag" suspected distractions and invite agreement to pause the discussion to remove any identified distractions. drift (n. ) - DEFUNCTION The gradual and often imperceptible change from fully resolving natural needs to only easing such needs. Consequently, optimal functioning shifts to suboptimal functioning, from peakfunction to symfunction . This tends to occur when the means to fully resolve needs persistently declines. See symfunction capture . The shift from symfunction into dysfunction is identified more specifically as deviation . The shift from dysfunction into misfunction is identified as departure . But the simpler language of accessible anankelogy may use “drift” to cover all these shifts into lowered levels of functioning. dynamic relating (n. ) - REFUNCTION Actively relating to the needs and experiences of others instead of relying on assumptions, expectations or impersonal rules. Counters normative alienation . dysfunction (n. ) Level of a person's or entity's ability to function focused on relieving pain from many unresolved needs. Sits above misfunction and below symfunction . 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

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Resolved needs improve your understanding. < Back C03 General Principle List of all principles Resolved needs improve your understanding. Image: Pixabay - Tama66 (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more your needs fully resolve, the more your thinking gets freed up for other things. The less your needs resolve, the less you can focus on anything but those emotionally pressing needs. You naturally prioritize functioning first. The more your needs resolve, the further you can reach your functioning capacity. The less you will then be distracted by emotional pressures or distorting biases. You can then absorb more input into what actually exists. Your expansive attention to soak in more truth can lead to a series of epiphanies. Instead of clinging to generalizations offering relief, you encounter more of reality. Description Which do you think is more likely? Your feelings must continually be checked by rational thinking and democratic laws. OR You can understand more when your mind is not compelled to focus on pressing needs. Anankelogy Everything you understand fits in some way with your ability to function. If anything gets in the way of your capacity to fully function, your mind can hardly focus on anything else but its priority to keep your life going. If you did not understand how falling off a tall cliff could kill you, your mind could entertain fancy ideas of gliding over the edge with a pair of untested homemade wings. But once aware of the dangers, your understanding bends to prioritize your survival . Your biases prioritize your need , your self-continuance. You believe what your life requires you think as true or not . If they didn’t, you risk not being around to contemplate less important things than your own survival. As soon as you perceive any threat to your wellbeing, this priority for your self-continuance commandeers your understanding. Everything else must wait. This innate priority to persist unscathed fuels your motivated reasoning . To paraphrase Upton Sinclair , it’s difficult to get someone to understand something when their paycheck requires them to not understand it. Your interpretation of the situation will tend to amplify what seems beneficial, potentially exaggerate what could hold you back, and filter out what seems irrelevant. Your reasoning serves your motivation to continue without painful risks to your wellbeing. This dynamic often kicks in to avoid the pain itself. Your ability to think clearly can easily fall off the cliff when compelled to avoid the very warning that serves your self-continuance interests. Pain is not the problem as much as the threats they exist to warn you about . The more your needs resolve, the less pain to distract your thinking or to twist your understanding. Need-response The more your needs resolve, the more reliable your intuition. Your instincts serve you well when grounded on the reality of what previously led to your full wellbeing without infringing on others. Your more accurate conclusions provide a more reliable lens for framing your perceptions. Of course, the opposite is true. The less your needs resolve, then the less reliable your intuition. Your unresolved needs prioritize your attention toward their increasingly urgent relief. Your innate priority to ensure your continued functioning willingly takes cognitive shortcuts. As your needs resolve, your attention can soak in more of what you observe as actually there. Your mind integrates this input. When seeing what attracts other’s interest in you, for example, you don’t have to stumble around trying to get on their good side. Your understanding improves to appreciate what is real. Each time a familiar need recurs, you instantly can rely on your perceptions. You can rely on your understanding of what’s happening. You can respond quickly, without much reflection. You can enjoy your need resolving again. That’s the wonder of your reality-cultivated intuition. Reactive Problem Bombardments of stimuli in modern society tend to overtax our mental capacities. The less we filter out the less relevant, the more sensations we feel pulled to process. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. To manage this cognitive load, we often draw on our generalizations and categorizations. Instead of processing the inputs ourselves, we accept other’s processing as sufficient. Sometimes, that is not enough. Worse, the generalizations and categorizations of others may throw you completely off . Consequently, we’ve become a hyperrational society. We process less emotionally rich content. And try to force our needs to fit neatly into rational constructs that avoid messy details. When this results in poor outcomes, we typically revert the same failed routines trapping us in pain. When someone complains of a need they cannot resolve, we’re slow to listen and quick to argue. We’re slow to empathize and quick to take an opposing side. We’re slow to fully understand and quick to categorize and overgeneralize—for our own relief ultimately at their expense. If honest with ourselves, we’d admit we endure the slow burning pain of many unresolved needs. You likely don’t feel fully understood by anyone. You likely don’t feel fully accepted for who you uniquely are. You likely don’t enjoy the peace of living up to your full potential. We’ve all become accustomed to living lives of quiet desperation. And if honest, we don’t really understand why. Responsive Solution Responsivism —the belief and practice to respond better to the needs of others—counters the limits of “adversarialism ”. The more personally responsive to the needs of others, the less we feel we must oppose others we don’t actually understand. The more you can replace habits of avoiding others with routines of engaging each other, the better you can understand others and understand yourself. The more you can replace habits of alienation with norms of mutual encounters, the more you can face the reality that our hyperrationality easily ignores. This speaks to an advantage of anankelogy over other social sciences. Anankelogy recognizes how the biases of the anankelogist can be reduced or cleared up when the anankelogist is held accountable to promptly and fully resolve each need. The more responsive the need-responders to their own needs, the more they can be trusted to be professionally responsive to the needs of others. With responsivism , you can develop the skills to become a professional need-responder . Responsivism equips you to rebuild your interpersonal routines. You’re incentivized to resolve needs, and not settle for self-defeating relief from your unmet needs’ recurring pain. You sharpen the habit of engaging others despite the momentary discomforts while being vulnerable. You shift from develop the skills of cultivating mutual understanding, shutting down reason for mutual defensiveness that keeps us in the dark. You open our world to fresh understanding. You take in new insights that can liberate your life. As more of your needs fully resolve, and you support others to resolve their needs, you find a depth of understanding you may not have realized even existed. You can then richly understand the underappreciated scope of the full power of 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: Surely I will not fully understand reality simply because my needs are better satisfied. I suspect there is more to cognitive distortions than unaddressed needs. What about false beliefs that form from trusting bad sources? Doesn’t motivated reasoning have a lot to do with conflicts of interest? 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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Glossary R reactive culture (n. ) Set of social norms privileging feel-reactive reactions over need-responsive considerations. Features toxic legalism . Contrasts with responsive culture (see below). Also see avoidance culture . reactive pain relief (n. ) - DEFUNCTION A defunction of reacting to the discomfort of unresolved needs by immediately trying to ease its discomfort with little to no thought of how ignoring the unresolved needs evoking such pain tends to persist and potentially intensify the pain ineffectually avoided. Defunction similar to passive-aggressive pain relief . Contrasts with the refunctions of strategic pain relief and discomfort embrace . Recognized Impactee [RI] (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] A person or entity recognized as impacted more from those in positions of power than they impact the social power relation. Prior to such powerholders acknowledging such potent influence, the RI is regarded as a Reporting Impactee . reflexive correlation (n. ) An empirically observable association between two or more variables that seem to change each other, which can suggest a cyclic relationship between the identified variables. While correlation is not necessarily causation , social science research typically anticipates one variable (the dependent variable ) to change as an apparent consequence of another preceding variable (the independent variable ). See cyclic correlation . The nature-based paradigm of academic anankelogy anticipates a string of dependent variables looping together to suggest that anything definable as an independent variable requires it to be isolated as a predecessor to a particular dependent variable in that part of the ongoing cycle. Each independent variable to a particular dependent variable can then be viewed as a dependent variable to a preceding variable in that cycle. refunction (n. ) Anything that raises one's ability to function more fully, improving their wellness. Opposite to a defunction . relational knowing (n. & v. ) - RK (abbr. ) - REFUNCTION To directly understand something by identifying how one thing appears to go along with another, allowing you to create your own testable hypotheses. You identify for yourself the associations between two or more things affecting your needs. You observe four types of associations: more-more : more of this, then more of that (“positive relation” as both move in same direction) more-less : more of this, then less of that (“negative relation” as both move in opposite directions) less-more : less of this, then more of that (“negative relation” as both move in opposite directions) less-less : less of this, then less of that (“positive relation” as both move in same direction) See image here . reliance taxonomy (n. ) Three levels of dependence, from less effective outcomes to excellent outcomes. Beliefer : One who defensively guards what they think is true or untrue, actively resists critique, demonstrating a low tolerance for ambiguity, high level of emotional pain from unresolved needs, and is likely dysfunctional . Faither : One who gravitates toward what others in their group finds reliable, often evades critique, craves certainty over tolerating ambiguity, likely endures mounting levels of emotional pain from unmet needs, and is primarily symfunctional . Truster : One who humbly relies on trustworthy others, invites helpful critique, demonstrating high tolerance for ambiguity, promptly embraces pain to identify and remove threats to resolve needs, reaching peakfunctionality . relief-gen (n. ) relief-generalizing (v. ) - DEFUNCTION The defunction of oversimplifying a reaction to some need to gain broad support for relieving its pain, typically resulting in more pain since the overgeneralization overlooks the specifics necessary to fully resolve the needs. This typically results in more pain from these unresolved needs, which in turn feeds this vicious cycle of continually generalizing for relief. See popgen . Reporting Impactee [RI] (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] A person or entity asserting they are impacted more from those in positions of power than they impact the social power relation. Once acknowledged by the powerholder of such potent influence, the RI is regarded as a Recognized Impactee . residual pain (n. ) resolution path (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION Identified steps to resolve a need or needs. Once identified and announced to others for their feedback, the identified steps get appropriately adjusted to include respect for the affected needs of others. Once concluding such inputs, the process commits all involved to enable resolution of the identified natural needs on all sides, and to also confront any selfish impediment resisting resolution. Applies to the "avowal" phase of the need-response cycle in a wellness campaign . resolution-friction (n. ) - DEFUNCTION Any resistance to fully resolving needs. Does not have to be intentional, but frequently results from an intent to avoid the pain of reported threats to functioning. This includes well-established social norms like the adversarial approach of legal systems in the judicial process and in politics. The historical way these legal structures favors a relieve-over-resolve approach tends to resist a resolve-over-relieve effort to fully resolve needs. The resulting pain typically reinforces the norms to prioritize relief over fully resolving needs that could remove cause for such pain. There is no such thing as pain apart from the body reporting a perceived theat to functioning . resource need (n. ) Something to redress experiencing a need. In the need experience funnel , it follows after core need and precedes access need . Anankelogy identifies three types, each correlating with a level of functionality. Primary resource (AKA fulfilling resource ): Something to restore one to full functioning, by helping to return to an optimal level of homeostatic balance. E.g., water to quench thirst, trustworthy friend to satisfy the human need for deep social connection, and space alone to satisfy the need for autonomous solitude. Correlates with peakfunctionality . Alternate resource (AKA placating resource ): Something to ease the requirement to function just enough to avoid pain but not enough to restore full functionality, by helping one to return to an adequate level of homeostatic balance. E.g., soda pop or coffee to ease your thirst, a distant friend willing to take some time to listen to ease feeling lonely, and enduring an occasional interruption to adequately self-reflect. Correlates with symfunctionality . Substitute resource (AKA relieving resource ): Something that does little to nothing to restore functioning but provides relief from discomfort from the warning from the body that lost functioning is not yet restored, by helping the brain feel closer to some homeostatic balance. E.g., overindulging some alcohol, depending on social media "friends" to 'like' your post to relieve feeling isolated, and wearing headphones to listen to anything that drowns out the noise while trapped in a crowd while desperately needing some privacy. Correlates with dysfunctionality . The lack of any resource correlates with misfunctionality . response conflation (n. ) - DEFUNCTION Another name for the defunction of moral conflation . response distinction (n. ) - REFUNCTION Another name for the refunction of moral distinction . response reputation (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION One's informally or officially recognized trustworthiness to respect the needs of others. responsive culture (n. ) Set of social norms favoring need-responsive considerations over feel-reactive reactions. Counters toxic legalism . Contrasts with reactive culture (see above). responsivism (n. ) The belief and practice that responding to the unchosen needs of others, before addressing any chosen responses to such needs, can produce more favorable results than adversarial alternatives. Counters the moral conflation inherent in avoidant adversarialism with moral distinction , as a way to more effectively address and solve social problems. Need-response is the profession while responsivism is the activity. Examples: Personally Responsive to apply moral distinction Responsive Supervision Responsive Depolarization for depolarizing politics Responsive Innocence for the wrongly convicted innocent responsivist (n. ) One dedicated to applying responsivism to address social problems, as an alternative to adversarial activism that easily slips into the problem of moral conflation , which tends to perpetuate pain and problems. rhetorical need (n. ) The widely accepted reference to a flexible or optional way to restore functioning, in contrast to anankelogical reference to an actual 'need' as inflexible (in contrast to flexible options), innate (in contrast to arbitrary experience), natural or organic (in contrast to humanly constructed), unchosen (in contrast to chosen responses ). A rhetorical need is not recognizable as objective fact , as it can be characterized as subjectively flexible, arbitrary, constructed, or chosen. Timing provides the basic distinction. The actual need occurs first, prior to awareness. The rhetorical need then follows, in response to it. Anankelogy recognizes how your core needs exist as objective facts independent from subjective experience. Your life's requirement to function occurs prior to your emotional responses to such needs. We colloquially refer to many of these responses as a need . "I need a pencil" for example, but a writing utensil itself can never restore me to optimal functioning. I say I need a pencil as it rhetorically symbolizes how I prefer to respond to my objective need to not forget my thoughts. Anankelogy characterizes any rhetorical need as more of a "preference " than an actual need. If there is any flexibility for how to restore wellness, or functionality, then it is more likely an arbitrary rhetorical need and not a specific objective need in the anankelogical sense. Examples: "I need a 'bottle' of water." You can get water from out of a cup or another way. Water is the actual, objective need, not the container for it. "I need a 'map'." You can find a route in alternative ways. Travel direction is the objective need. "I need your 'email address'." You can contact others in different ways. Social connection is the actual need. "I need 'to go home'." You likely could go to other locations to satisfy this purpose. Shelter is the objective need. "I need to replace the oil in my car." You can function without replacing your car's oil. Transportation security is the actual need. "She needs my phone number." She could contact you in other ways. Interpersonal communication is the objective need. "My boss needs me to come in early." Arriving the usual time only affects you indirectly. Economic security or resource security is the actual need. We generally prefer to convey to others how we prefer they respond to our actual needs by citing such rhetorical needs . There is some safe room for change if they refuse. We generally prefer to avoid the uncomfortable vulnerability of directly expressing an actual need that we cannot change. We easily slip into conflicts when failing to distinguish between these actual needs and our rhetorical references to them. Anankelogy identifies this problem as moral conflation . And corrects this problems with moral distinction that affirms your inflexible actual needs before questioning any flexible rhetorical responses to them. This may include character refunctions that could make it easier to recognize and acknowledge the difference. See the four anankelogical levels of experiencing your needs . RI client (n. ) [wellness campaign terminology] Another identifier of a campaigner . Or the person with the targeted wellness goal in a wellness campaign led by a proxy . More broadly, can apply to wellness campaign members who hold no official power over others in the campaign, typically in the TEAM phase. 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There is no greater human authority than resolving needs with love. < Back H03 Love Principle List of all principles There is no greater human authority than resolving needs with love. Image: Pixabay – PublicDomainPictures (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you can effectively resolve your needs while supporting others to resolve theirs, the less cause for human authority to intervene. Such authorities typically emerge to address those needs not already resolved. The more you can stay atop of your needs, while engaging and supporting others to resolve their needs, you negate the role of impersonal authorities in your life. Description Which do you think is more likely? Since no one is above the law, we all must submit to every authority. OR The ultimate authority stems from being able to function well enough to respect each other. Anankelogy The more your needs fully resolve, the less of any role authority plays in your life. When social love incentivizes you to respect the needs of others in ways inspiring them to respect yours, you fulfill the purpose of authority. You model a greater authority. The more your internal motivation of love enables you to fully function, the less you require any external motivating pressure of authority. Rational-legal authority typically assumes an extrinsic motivation . You’re expected to respect the requirements of law out of fear of punishment if you don’t. Once drawn to a situation, authorities typically doubt your respect for needs that laws exist to serve. If they must get involved and you’re assumed to violate some rule, then you must deserve some kind of harsh treatment to motivate your conformity to law and order. Consequently, law enforcement typically overlooks intrinsic motivations . Such authorities generally presume that you only respect the needs of others if facing a reprimand. Such a presumption gets baked into law enforcement culture. Which easily blinds them from your intrinsic love-incentivizing motive to treat the needs of others as your own. Need-response Need-response seeks and encourages need-responders with a love-inspired intrinsic motivation to more fully resolve needs. Especially among lawyers and counselors disillusioned by the shortcomings of law-based and psychological-based services and institutions. If you’re motivated more from a platonic love to honor the needs of others as your own, you’re naturally less concerned about minutia of laws or arbitrary demands of authorities. You see beyond mere cognitive processes or social order. You habitually fulfill the purpose of laws—which is to serve needs—by how you routinely and properly respect the needs at hand. The purpose of authorities then gets intrinsically fulfilled. With intrinsic motivation of your love, you likely rise above the minimal standards of law. You stretch beyond the law’s emphasis on harm reduction to resolve unmet needs that cause harm. You intuitively realize how resolving needs more fully removes cause for harm. The more incentivized by love, the more compelled to transcend those social norms that limit full human potential. If necessary, you risk transgressing some social taboos to properly resolve needs. You may even be willing to risk jail to stand up for a cause of systemically overlooked needs. Love compels you to a higher standard than mere law and order. Reactive Problem Shortsighted authorities abound. Confirmation bias and tunnel vision easily blinds them to their own projected ethical issues , projected moral failings , projected cognitive biases , projected cognitive distortions , project logical fallacies , and their own projected extrinsic motivations . Nature compels balance wherever imbalance creeps in. The more a society slides toward imposing social norms, the more nature compels some within that society to counter such repressive norms. They find some proactive way to respond more effectively to the needs those norms exist to serve. Wellness compels it. Shortsighted authorities may easily misinterpret these norm-defiers as lawbreakers, and totally miss their higher commitment to transcend imposing norms to directly serve our needs. Instead of appreciating the deeper love motivating this fulfillment of law’s purpose to serve needs, such authorities may seek to punish such need-serving nonconformists, to coerce them into line as they expect others would force them into fearful conformity. Their rush to squash need-serving nonconformists blatantly squanders the human capital to develop more of our full human potential. The lawfare against Julian Assange despite the lack of evidence that he ever induced Chelsea Manning to leak provides a clear example, after he helped alert us to U.S. war atrocities in the Iraq . Fully resolving needs often goes against the grain of law . Responsive Solution Anankelogy recognizes many need-serving nonconformists as “transspirits ”. I am one. A transspirit intuitively transcends divisive social norms to connect at a deeper level, to resolve needs. Even if resisted by the authorities. History provides many examples. Dr. King. Ghandi. Saint Paul. Jesus, Siddhartha Gautama, Lao Tzu, Hillel the Elder, and many more. Each transcended established norms to connect deeper with life, to address needs more fully and directly. Even if risking retribution from the authorities. As Jesus put it in Matthew 5:27: “I did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it.” To properly resolve the inflexible needs which laws exist to serve presents as a greater authority than merely complying with arbitrary social norms. To resolve needs incentivized by love works far more effectively than placating authorities out of fear of possible punishment. Such transspirituality prioritizes love to resolve needs that supports improving wellness over law to relieve pain that risks perpetuating unwellness. Need-response asserts the higher effective authority of such transspirits, of those mastering love over laws. It assesses authorities’ responsiveness to our needs. It accredits authorities with “earned legitimacy ” when their impact results in improve wellness outcomes among their constituents. Need-response empirically rates any involved authorities at the lowest level of earned legitimacy , which is offensive illegitimacy . If processed in a need-response action , this could warrant a more severe response enforcement . Any self-righteous reaction, no matter how violent or nonviolent, can be deemed as validation of need-responders dedicated bravery to resolve needs over power-hungry self-serving authorities lacking legitimacy to impact the public. By sharp contrast, the transspirit seeks to properly resolve needs with love. Properly means they make sure resolving one set of needs does not negatively impact other needs. Love means they honor the needs of others as if they were their own needs—recognizing we are all connected, so the needs of others ultimately are their own needs. In short, there is no greater human authority than properly resolving needs with 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: The more I try to respect others, the more some offensively disrespect me. While some authorities may indeed by shortsighted, I hate to be in a world without authorities. How can I tell the difference between a need-serving nonconformists and a selfish lawbreaker? I’d like to see how this works for others and the reactions they get before I stick my neck out. 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