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Wellness is psychosocial. < Back C07 General Principle List of all principles Wellness is psychosocial. Image: Pixabay – jplenio (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you address your personal needs to the neglect of your social situational needs, the less you can maintain wellness. The more you address your social needs to the neglect of your personal situational needs, you will also lose full wellness. Your wellbeing counts on a balance of all internal psychological factors with relatively equal attention to all external factors shaping your needs. Description Which do you think is more likely? Mental illness occurs only in the mind so changing one’s thinking leads to mental wellbeing. OR Mental and physical wellbeing results from a mix of internal and external wellness factors. Anankelogy Anankelogy recognizes how the quality of your wellbeing depends equally on internal and external factors. This challenges conventional thinking in your favor. Wellness remains elusive when failing to complement its internal contributors with its external contributors. Conventional thinking around wellness, at least in a Western cultural context, tends to bend toward internal psychological and biological determinants . Much of psycho therapy assumes if you change enough of your thinking and behaviors you will attain wellness. Much disappointment soon follows. Only recently has the practice of psychiatry and related fields begun to acknowledge external socioenvironmental contri butors to wellbeing . A biopsychosocial model emerged in the late 20th century, but the old model persists. If you seek out healing, expect the internally reductionist paradigm to persist. After all, it can be easier to get a struggling individual to adjust to a sick system than to cure an immensely large sick system. When the impersonal healer objectifies the body of those hurt by society, they don’t have to face the possibility that they’re contributing to the ongoing damage. If all of your anxiety about losing your job springs from unfair yet legally protected actions from your boss, psychotherapy may not be the answer. Perhaps the psychotherapist can help the client nail the source of their anxiety to a situation beyond their personal control. But then what? Need-response Need-response picks up there. As a new professional practice, it starts with the foundational premise that wellness is psychosocial . Anankelogy recognizes how your wellbeing gets shaped equally by internal bio-psychological factors and socioenvironmental factors. Instead of trying to integrate a new biopsychosocial model or vulnerability-stress model , need-response begins with a holistic premis e of wellness . Instead of assuming society functions well with its current alienating norms (privileging avoidant adversarialism ), need-response works to reconnect us with each other to optimize our personal and collective wellbeing. Need-response’s holistic approach goes further and includes a spiritual dimension. Anankelogy recognizes that recurring spiritual practices dependably correlates with resolution of needs. For example, the more you vulnerably trust Creator G-d when acknowledging being too powerless to face a crisis on your own, you “inexplicably” can find ways to rise above the problem and find a meaningful solution. Social sciences recognize moderate correlations between two variables as significant because of the complexities involved. Anankelogy dares to apply this to the objective fact of each unchosen need . Reactive Problem The less we appreciate wellness as equally internal and external, the more we can get pulled into what anankelogy recognizes as psychosocial imbalance . You either address your sensitive self-needs at the expense of your affected social needs , or you address your sensitive social needs at the expense of your affected self-needs . For example, exaggerating your self-need for privacy to the point of neglecting your social need for intimacy . Or becoming overdependent on others to satisfy your social need for supports that you underserve your self-need for self-initiative . Your body then warns you with emotional pain that something here is not quite right. We often react to this emotional pain with “psychosocial vacillation ” of swinging between the extremes of “reductionist individual ism ” and “ex aggerated collectiv ism ”. We attach ourselves ideologically to generalizations trusted to ease this emotional tension. We take a political side to cope with our troubled psychosocial orientation . Full wellness remains disturbingly elusive the more we cling to civic legalism for relief. That’s when we prioritize obedience to laws or to social norms over serving the needs for which laws and norms exist. Wellness actually declines the more avoid its psychosocial foundation. Where do you go for professional help to address a load of anxiety overwhelming your life from some situation? Seeking psychotherapy can be fruitlessly stigma tizing if implicitly expecting to adjust only your internal factors. Seeking legal or political help can become counterproductive if only offering some pain relief after adjusting some external factors. Responsive Solution Need-response was created to equally address the internal biopsychological factors and externa socioenvironmental factors impacting your wellbeing. No other professional service exists that recognizes wellness as psychosocial from the start. Only need-response sets you up to resolve your affected self-needs and social needs equally. Only need-response provides for psychosocial balancing your self-needs and social needs . Only need-response seeks to fully resolve each other’s affected self-needs and social needs . Responsivism begins at the individual level. But when held back by impenetrable social pressures, such responsive services can segue into a robust wellness campaign . The service client learns how to speak truth to power (STTP ) in ways those powerful are incentivized to listen to those impacted (LTTI ). Everyone’s wellness requires psychosocial balance . For example, many among the wrongly convicted innocent cannot be adequately served by either psychotherapy or legal resources. Psychotherapy may help them get through the consequences of an unresponsive judicial system, but the external contributors must be addressed. The legal system of the adversarial judicial process has yet to faithfully identify and address each viable case of wrongly convicted innocence. Innocence projects cannot serve each viable case of compelling innocence. If the available facts of the case do not present a path to reverse the wrongful conviction, even if they can see grounds for innocence, such innocence litigators typically will not serve the innocent claimant. This includes a population estimated in the tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands. But our current legal system lets them all rot. Responsivism takes a different approach. Instead of the court’s binary options (i.e., pass-fail, guilt-innocence, defendant-complainant), “responsive innocence ” automatically scores the viability of an innocence claim. It invites the claimant to compare the details of their case to known exonerations . The more the claimant can cite factors producing other wrongful convictions (e.g., misidentification, official misconduct, tunnel vision, debunked forensic science, coerced confession), the higher the innocence viability score. This unique approach goes even further. It upends this impersonal and adversarial legal framework to serve the needs for which laws exist. The falsely accused claimant identifies what they see as the affected needs of the accuser or accusers. Then they can raise their own impacted needs. They respond to the needs of all involved, including the prosecutor and law enforcement authorities. The self-needs and social needs of all get addressed, toward better wellness for all. 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’m in therapy now with an MSW and she does address the social dimensions of my problem. Sounds like psychosocial imbalance may have a lot to do with political extremism. Where does the spiritual dimension fit into this psychosocial balance approach? Correlations spotted in spiritually related results seem highly disputable. 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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Power is not really ‘power’ unless resulting in resolved needs. < Back F04 Authority Principle List of all principles Power is not really ‘power’ unless resulting in resolved needs. Image: Pixabay – kareni (click on meme to see source image) Summary Any authoritative power not resolving needs acts more like a coercive force. The more those in position of power serve their own interests at odds with the affected needs of the powerless, the less legitimate their influence. The power of the socially influential only exists because of the deeper power of nature shaping our objective needs. The more any social power invests their social influence to resolve nature-created needs, the more meaningful and legitimate its influence. Otherwise, it’s often guilty of coercive exploitations. Description Which do you think is more likely? We must respect those in positions of power over us to extrinsically maintain the social order. OR We must reserve “power” for what restores full wellness to intrinsically sustain the social order. Anankelogy The concept of influential power depends largely on the greater power of our underlying natural needs. Apart from needing another’s approval, for example, no one has any influential power over me. The deeper power of nature driving my need for another’s opinion of me fuels the existence of influential power. When indigenous people speak of power, they typically refer to this deeper power of nature driving our needs. Nonindigenous discourse tends to regard the “power” of social influence on par with the “Power” of nature. Without nature’s power to compel us to depend on others, there is no influential social power. The more we flow with the greater power of nature to resolve our needs, the less potent the “power”of social influence. The less our needs resolve, the more vulnerable we are to the influence of those we trust to hold things together. The more those in influential positions of power impede resolving our needs, their “power” presents more like a privileged weakness. Only when power leads you to resolve your needs can that power be respected in full. Social influence that manipulates us away from resolving needs, and coerces us to endure more suffering, lacks legitimacy . When forcing us to settle for less than our full functioning wellness, it is power in name only. Need-response The other social sciences generally accept the conventional definition of power. They see power as compelling social influence. Anankelogy’s nature-based paradigm requires a deeper view of power. Anankelogy and need-response recognize the deeper forces of nature shaping our needs. Apart from the greater power of nature driving our needs, there would be no lesser power of social influence. The more we try to control nature, the more we alienate ourselves from the power of nature to resolve needs. The more alienated we become from resolving our needs, the more drawn to social influence to cope with the resulting pain. The more we settle for the lesser power of social influence to manage the pain, the fewer of our needs can actually resolve. Pain is not the problem as much as the threats our pain exists to report . The more we allow social power to distract us from our pain and needs, the more that pain likely returns . There is no such thing as pain apart from unmet needs , but we generally prefer our familiar yet dull pain of unmet needs over the sharper pain of unknowns of fully resolving a need. In other words, social power easily robs us from enjoying natural power. Reactive Problem The less your needs resolve, the more your body persists in grabbing your attention with intensifying emotional pain. To cope with that pain to address needs beyond your control, you naturally seek some kind of relief from outside of yourself. Professional pain-relievers come along and offer you hope. You latch on. You’re soon pleased by gaining some relief. Any relief will do. Now you’re hooked. Your psychiatrist hooks you on reuptake inhibitors , so you never have to resolve the needs causing you depression. Your favorite news outlet hooks you on outrage porn , so you never have to resolve the needs driving the conflict. Your political leaders hook you on indulgent side-taking , so you never have to resolve your need for community cohesion or address your painful feelings of isolation. You give them “power” over your unresolved needs. Your unresolved needs persist to alarm you with ongoing pain. The longer you feel alienated from others, for example, the more you suffer loneliness and agonizing despair. So you return to your familiar source of pain relief. You socially give “powerholders” your permission to influence you. And for some reason we call this “power”. But such social influence is actually weakness. We have it tragically backwards. We resign to regarding such potent social influence as “power” when it would not even exist if we related better to nature’s power driving our needs. Settling for the “power” of social influence exposes us to manipulation, exploitation, coercion, and settling for alternatives to resolving needs . All in the name of power. Responsive Solution Let’s now get right to how this principle can solve that problem. . For now, this serves as placeholder text. When I find the time, I will post the full deal here. How does this speak to your experience of needs? 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 . 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Glossary U unchosen need (n. ) Any requirement to function that automatically exists, independent of any volition. E.g., solitude, water, social acceptance, sleep, self-determination, food, comradery. This points to the principle that a natural need is an objective fact . This works as another term for an inflexible need or natural need . Contrasts with a chosen response to such a need. unchosen priority (n. ) Any required necessity to address something essential to function that automatically exists ahead in importance of another essential matter for functioning, independent of any volition. E.g., requiring solitude now instead of social interactions or requiring sleep now instead of physical activity. This points to the principle that an organically prioritized need is an objective fact . 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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