Applying Principles to Generate a Spiral
As Usual
We each find ourselves guided by one or two . However, most people regards certain features intrinsic to each as relevant and potentially necessary in their everyday life.
Without accepting a particular in full, a person can still be guided by some of its principles towards surviving and thriving on life. Using this perspective each of the can be converted into a that may be used by anyone. Looking around, they do appear to be widely exhorted and generally used. Each of these modes is, as usual, constituted by a characteristic set of interlinked assumptions and values.
Each of us must cope and potentially thrive within complicated socio-physical situations that we found ourselves in, having partly created them. So the field for is the unavoidable with other people, communities and various practical-physical environmental constraints.
Coping & Thriving
depends on making the best of the hand you are dealt and it starts by ensuring you with whatever life throws at you. It is built on the psychosocial pressure to survive, but seeks to go far beyond that.
We can say that modes enable «» to be developed in a way that is likely to ensure survival and provide the basis for «», with each mode making its own distinctive contribution to functioning.
So:
- is the Primal Means
- is the Primal Need
- Surviving is the psychosocial pressure.
- is proposed controller of
involves in the face of stress or challenge without knowing what the end-result or long-term consequences will be. So all necessarily commences in the ) where the pressure for survival is met by «working hard».
As usual, to sustain and strengthen , modes must be activated in a series of Stages. Values of each mode cumulate progressively, and the Stages reflect an increasingly complex . This natural order for strengthening coping beyond hard work shows up as a typical Spiral trajectory on the TET diagram, and as usual we expect to discover 2 cycles.
A person can stop the strengthening process at any Stage if there is personal satisfaction with and it is regarded as socially sufficient.
As usual there are two Cycles:
Cycle-1 involves Stages 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 to give more and better control over your constructive entanglement with reality.
Cycle-2 involves Stages (μ1) → 5 → 6 → 7 and allows you to develop capacity to withstand unexpected stresses while continuing to discharge life's responsibilities.
Mode Structure
Each mode is built around:
a) promoting survival (the psychosocial pressure) by:
- the essence for in that
- the benefit provided by the effort to survive
- the means whereby survival is ensured or confirmed
b) handling the socio-physical environment by:
- participation: engaging within that Quest-mode
- interaction: handling the situation
- individualization: expressing and asserting yourself
c) channeling personal functioning:
- to enable endurance
Drivers for progression from one mode/Stage to the next include:
- competition, support and expectations from others
- personal ambitions and aspiration
- environmental and practical survival pressures
- wishes to overcome limitations or excesses of the current Stage.
Start now with:
- Values intrinsic to the Creative mode-1.
Originally posted: 9-Dec-2022.