B01 Basic Principle

Which do you think is more likely?

Your ability to function has little to nothing to do with your needs.

OR

Your ability to function has everything to do with your needs.

Anankelogy

This unique understanding of your needs recognizes that your every need relates to your ability to function. The less your needs resolve, the less you can function. And the closer to being unwell. The more your needs resolve, the better you can function and be well.

Accessible anankelogy refers to your level of functioning simply as wellness. Recognizing your wellness exists in gradient levels provides us with a deeper understanding. Anankelogy identifies four key levels of your ability to function.

1. Peakfunction: When you prioritize to promptly and fully resolve your needs. You reach more of your full potential. You enjoy sustainable wellness.

2. Symfunction: When you prioritize pragmatically easing your needs with help from others. You can sufficiently function. Just not at your best.

3. Dysfunction: When you prioritize relieving the pain of your many unresolved needs. You can hardly function. You typically cope with something addictive.

4. Misfunction: When you prioritize survival from too many unresolved basic needs. You barely hang onto life. You find yourself repeatedly at death’s door.

A need can be appreciated as a kind of metaphor for function. The more your need for water is satisfied, the better you can function. The less your body’s requirement for water can be satiated, the less you can function.

If you cannot satisfy your thirst, you will find yourself obsessing for something to drink. While you experience these subjectively, they begin from the objective reality for your life’s requirement for something to function.

This applies equally to your emotional needs. If you cannot satisfy your longing to be understood and appreciated by those closest to you, you will find yourself obsessing to be accepted. You must receive some social connection to function, or you will remain in the pain of loneliness.

Anankelogy recognizes a range between illness and wellness. Instead of suddenly becoming sick, you gradually lose the ability to function. You regressively shift from wellness into illness when your needs do not or cannot fully resolve.

Need-response

This new profession of need-response applies this central anankelogy principle. It can either complement or compete with other service institutions.

Need-response can complement the psychological focus of psychotherapy by adding the essential dimension of responding to the needs that the mind processes. Need respond can complement law enforcement and the judicial process, and even politics. Or it can compete with these institutions by creating better results when addressing the needs for which they ostensibly exist.

Reactive Problem

These service institutions of law and psychotherapy tend to follow the popular norm of relieving pain over addressing the needs prompting such pain. The more a court battle or ballot contest offers mere relief for the pain of publicly affected needs, the less we can function.

We tend to accept such relief is the best we can get. We accommodate to lower levels of being able to function. We cope with the increasingly pain of these unmet needs. We also get angrier and angrier at each other.

Responsive Solution

The more inspired to endure the discomfort of working through the painful portion of fully addressing our needs, the more we can fully resolve them. Pain is not the problem as much as the threat such pain exists to report.

The further you can remove the threat prompting the pain, the better you can function. The more your needs resolve, the more your wellness improves.

Once your functioning gets restored, the more capable of removing other threats. You then become less vulnerable to coping habits like addictions. 

As your wellness—your level of functioning—improves, the more your anger can shift toward grace, peace and love. The more your needs resolve, the more wellness you enjoy.

Responding to your needs

How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these:

• How can this apply equally to a physical need and an emotional need like the need for love?

• How long do I have to put up with the pain before I can enjoy restored functioning?

• Isn’t short-term pain relief okay, or is the only path toward better functioning is costly pain?

• If I’m already trapped in addictive patterns, how can this insight help me climb out of them?

Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below.