Get Oriented to Coping
Life is a Challenge
Life was not meant to be easy. The notion of «» may bring with it an automatic creative response, but the success of any particular endeavour cannot be taken for granted.
Too many consecutive failures of important endeavours are unhealthy. We start to doubt others, we start to doubt the wider environment, and sooner or later we start to doubt ourselves. Positivity, as an essential creative force, can fade away and we become unwilling to commit and even act.
Fortunately, a protective system exists within the Root Domain. This system, found within , is our way of taking control of endeavours. It has the same form as the control complex in the Primary Domains. In this Domain it guides our choice of endeavours and constructive entanglements with reality.
Life is Endeavour
The simple discovery in THEE, now assumed valid, is that human life is composed of endeavours that are driven by . The analysis of these personal endeavours revealed both the and the essentials of human creativity. Just as every level of Will creates (or emanates) its own complex Primary Domain, the as a whole creates a complex Root Domain.
The fundamentals of the Root Domain have been developed as shown in the diagram: is the vehicle for the Will, is the effect of genuine endeavours, and a with reality is the field within which Will, its endeavours and creativity operate.
Primal Quests Optimize Endeavours
The vehicle has its control in , elaborated as a nested Typology as usual. This Root Typology, posted in the Better Self satellite, consists of , which are paradigms that govern a person's choice of endeavours.
Life is just a series of endeavours, and work, mainly silently, to optimize our life for us. We gravitate to just one or two Quests and ignore, minimize or actively reject the others.
However, as in other Typologies, all are perceived to contain values that are generally applicable and widely accepted.
are nested within and there is further nesting within the . This led to identification of the . These various structures enable humanity's ethical codes: for existence, for rightness, and for goodness. See details and click on thumbnail at right.
function like other Typologies in seeking to optimize the choice of endeavours. However, the instinctive psychosocial pressure of the Root Domain is for survival, and so something more basic can be expected to be found in the Spiral that draws on the Quests. This basic personal striving is proposed to be «».
The Spiral trajectory represents a temporal development of «», the essential «means» that drives and develops and other Root fundamentals. The essences of the Spiral modes then generate a Tree, which contains the determinants of an essential «need», taken to be «». The is the origin of a triplet that via the structural hierarchy and its Tree, which is believed to enable «».
It is time now to commence this investigation of (the psychosocial pressure), (the need), (the means) and (the conjectured field for thriving).
Coping with Living or Severe Adversity
The is posited to be about coping with the human condition in general. It is not about coping with some specific disaster or extreme adversity.
Coping in such situations is about maintaining mental stability and ensuring a capacity to continue without giving up. It is about , which is the Q6-Arena in PH4 Experience.
is much broader than that. It is about how a person can and should manage life overall to maintain physical and mental health, to provide a roof over one’s head and food on the table, to be a valued member of a family and community. contributes here as part of .
Before pursuing the investigation in detail, it is helpful to consider:
- THEE Path to the Spiral and beyond.
- Differences in the Root Spiral.
Originally posted: 9-Dec-2022
