Allowing Self Recovery
Introduction: This Tree is emergent from and contains all the elements. It comes into play when there is an impending or actual psychological collapse leading to doubt about whether you can repair the psychic damage and continue meeting demands of everyday life.
Emergence from PH3-Change
deals with a state of affairs of which you are a part. It includes how you manage matters, maintain stability, and represent reality. The adaptation you enable for yourself and your environment provides you with an identity that has practical and social relevance.
When stresses build beyond a certain point, you start to feel destabilized and doubt your adaptation is sufficient. If environmental changes directly target pillars in your adaptation (e.g. your home, your work, your partner, your family), your coping mechanisms may become ineffective. You then lose your equilibrium.
At a certain point, the degree of disruption and imbalance leads to a personal collapse. If traumatization is severe, depression builds and everything becomes increasingly difficult. Ordinary activities feel impossible, and paranoid defences may become active.
The options here are: to exit (i.e. commit suicide, have a serious illness, or fatal accident), allow dysfunction (i.e. be mentally ill), or take yourself in hand. «Taking yourself in hand» means using your awareness (better self) to see your self as broken—"I'm not coping" you say to yourself. You can then develop the determination to rebuild your self to be better adapted to the evolving environment.
The only way to repair psychic damage is to use a framework comprised solely of PH-L7 elements which transcend your current non-functioning self (psyche) because they function on the basis of selflessness. This framework is mostly applied in association with a close friend or therapist.
Despite or because of this selflessness, you can and must regard yourself as a unique person and concern yourself with the development of character.
Examples: To be completed.
More on Life's Necessity: Maintaining Inner Equilibrium.
Why the Framework is all PH-L7s
If your self is not functioning then you need to activate selflessness because this allows you to rise above your present experiences. Unless you do this, you will constrict your social life further, withdraw from friends and lose support from within and without. Your confidence will fall even further and coping will become even more difficult.
Investigations into the Root Projection to Primary Hierarchies suggested that PH-L7 elements (within their ) are constructed under a psychosocial pressure for selflessness (probably with a specific neurophysiological underpinning).
The Tree framework constituted solely out of PH-L7 elements can therefore be expected to be dedicated to providing selflessness. Being a Root Tree, each level (KL•) will also retain its usual psychosocial pressures.
Note: The process here assumes that you are prepared to genuinely engage in a mental exploration of the unknown within yourself, your life and in your relation with the cosmos i.e. there is a strong link to .
Reminder: All PH-L7 Elements
This list is taken directly from analysis of the Root Projection.
- is about forgetting yourself and simply acting from an unknown core and without trying to know what will eventuate. This selflessness often shows as rescuing or helping in emergencies without thinking.
- is about releasing the spirit of curiosity and allowing surprising answers to emerge, often in symbolic form. It is the only way forward when practical inquiry has become bogged down. Selflessness is necessary to enable unexpected or undesirable findings.
- is about a readiness to abandon a present identity and reality for a new identity-reality which is, by definition, non-self. Any urge to cling to past benefits and glories reveals unwillingness. The nature and implications of something wholly new can never be known.
- is about directing yourself to infinite possibilities of experience. The force of personal history and wishes for repetition, intrinsic to intuition, need to be transcended to enable the new. Selflessness is a pre-requisite for imagination to allow emergence of counter-intuitive ideas.
- is about maintaining the potential for receiving and sending meaningful communications. It is wholly prevented by egocentric and self-centred states. Selflessness permits a transcendence of superficialities and awareness of a hidden communications that would otherwise (or conventionally) remain unnoticed e.g. psychoanalysis depends on it.
- are about what has been universally and at all times viewed as good (or evil). They exist to take one beyond selfish concerns, beyond dogmatic philosophies, and beyond political realities. Selflessness opens the door to enlightened endeavours that paradoxically promote self-interest.
- moves from habitually trusting a narrow circle of family or intimates to assuming a beneficence in the universe. It includes taking trust to deeper levels in particular situations or relationships. Selflessness is most needed when extending trust to outsiders or those conventionally feared. (Selflessness is a feature of willingness at other levels, because it is intrinsic to .)
Renewal & Recovery
Summary Only: This is an abbreviated overview of the Tree with a focus on the . A fuller account is provided in the next topic. Understanding the various elements is assumed. For more details within the Architecture Room, review the relevant part of the Root Projection section.
The heart of the framework is . The cause of collapse is typically the loss of a previously trusted person (e.g. partner dies or leaves for another) or secure situation (e.g. job loss). As a result, personal collapse is often associated with both paranoia and depression. Depressive thinking views trusting as futile and deprives trust of energy and direction. Paranoid thinking is more pernicious and claims justification from what happened. It attempts to prevent you from attempting to trust by poisoning and attacking potential trustworthy people. Still, you must and feel good about it. The most basic object to is the cosmos (some would say 'God'), but more humane foci may need to be identified as well: close friends, a therapist, family members. Because your collapse has revealed that alone is potentially dangerous, it needs constructive feeds from other Centres.
Feeding into from above are the 5 Centres that enable renewal of a self that is re-integrated and can once again cope.
Once you realize that you are in a state of collapse, you must become to potential resolutions, to receiving help from others, to opportunities in your environment. Things will look bad, so your serves as a challenge to your .
should help you envisage a positive in yourself and your previous adaptation. It must focus on how your self can become utterly different; and on what transformed external arrangements you require. This ensures you become committed to trusting and supports the notion that there can be a good future.
By about yourself, your surroundings and related events, you can come to understand what has happened and what could happen now. That will make realistic and ensure it gets acceptance.
Feeding into from below are the 3 Centres that enable recovery in association with a new adaptation and perspective.
need to be activated in two ways. On the situational side, they must accord with to give credibility to your . On the other hand, you must insist on as an incentive and encouragement.
is the most crucial tool. You are in what feels like an utterly new and undesirable situation. You cannot rely on your emotions or intuitions. Instead, you must empty your mind, allow unformed and unexpected experiential states, and be ready to consider whatever possibilities come. By appealing to , you can energize (and vice versa).
Bypassing to connect Renewal with Recovery are two levels essential for : your and your . Your should validate your promotion of . Your justifies your insistence on your own .
Final Common Path. is a direct expression of effective social functioning and integration. So action that flows naturally from you and towards you, is concrete evidence that you are once again coping. won't just happen given your state: you must it and confirm (or discomfirm) what you .
- Examine all PH-L7 Centres and mutual influences systematically in more detail.
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See how the framework may be used (or misused).
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Now that All 7 emergent Trees have been shown to be frameworks relevant to a refusal to let a breakdown push you off course:
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Review findings and compare the 7 Tree frameworks.
Previously Updated: 24-Mar-2014. Last Updated: 23-Jan-2015.