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::''{{large|Every body needs somebody, sometimes.}}'' | |||
{{Infobox Body Communication | {{Infobox Body Communication | ||
| Name = Needs | | Name = Needs | ||
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*[[#Existential Issues|I’m me. I like me. What if this changes me?]] | *[[#Existential Issues|I’m me. I like me. What if this changes me?]] | ||
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<b>Needs</b> are your body's current behavioral priorities, usually for self-care purposes. However, there are a lot of nuances to how they function | <b>Needs</b> are your body's current behavioral priorities, usually for self-care purposes. However, there are a lot of nuances to how they function and how they are generated. You can use that information to more easily identify needs and take care of them, before they are likely to cause issues. | ||
==Making Querying Easier== | ==Making Querying Easier== | ||
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+ style="caption-side:bottom;"|An example list of possible needs. This list is not exhaustive. | |+ style="caption-side:bottom;"|An example list of possible needs. This list is not exhaustive. | ||
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! colspan=3 style="background:lightgrey" | Example Need List | ! colspan=3 style="background:lightgrey" | Example Need List | ||
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[[File:Need Identification Algorithm.png|thumb|900px|left|Flowchart for a layered, categorical approach to discovering what your needs are.]] | [[File:Need Identification Algorithm.png|thumb|900px|left|Flowchart for a layered, categorical approach to discovering what your needs are.]] | ||
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One more way to make it easier to discover a need that you’re having a hard time identifying is to write out the details of a query and then mark it with the response you received towards it. This will help you look at the entire picture all at once, making it easier for you locate what you may have missed or any assumptions that you may have made. | One more way to make it easier to discover a need that you’re having a hard time identifying is to write out the details of a query and then mark it with the response you received towards it. This will help you look at the entire picture all at once, making it easier for you locate what you may have missed or any assumptions that you may have made. | ||
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|+ style="caption-side:bottom;"|A discussion with my body in Dolish. Queries are numbered. Queries and the body's responses are color coded by the body's response. Positive responses are green, negative responses are pink, and all other responses are yellow. | |+ style="caption-side:bottom;"|A discussion with my body in Dolish. Queries are numbered. Queries and the body's responses are color coded by the body's response. Positive responses are green, negative responses are pink, and all other responses are yellow. | ||
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===A New Ability=== | ===A New Ability=== | ||
Instead of having to word every question to my body in Dolish, in the form of an intended or imagined action, suddenly I could just ask my body questions outright. My body would still answer with its normal positive or negative responses in whatever body part | Instead of having to word every question to my body in Dolish, in the form of an intended or imagined action, suddenly I could just ask my body questions outright. My body would still answer with its normal positive or negative responses in whatever body part I was paying attention to, but this was still a major improvement in communication. There was no more need for me to translate every question I have into an intended action. I can just ask my body literally anything that I want to know, about any topic that my body cares about or is involved in. | ||
That is where a lot of the information in this | That is where a lot of the information in this website comes from: asking a lot of questions. It would be amazing to explore every topic in this website scientifically, in a lab setting. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in psychology for that purpose. I worked hard to learn research methods and improve my skills in any lab that I could join and assist. I learned statistical analysis methods and how to design experiments. I am a very logic and science-oriented guy. But as for the research being documented in this book, only the smallest of sample sizes are available for running the most basic tests outside of a lab setting. While I cannot be as rigorous a scientist right now as I would like to, I can be, effectively, an anthropologist exploring this unknown internal population. | ||
===A New Friend=== | ===A New Friend=== | ||
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It took a while to adjust to. It’s easy to work with the idea of sending requests to a machine that you live in. Everyone is so used to working with machines that that’s normal these days. After that assumption was dashed, it was still easy to work with the idea of asking questions to a separately conscious body that I live in and cooperate with. Cooperating with another person is something that most people are pretty used to. This, however, was well beyond that. I was dealing with the idea that not only do I live among a vast, conscious population in my own body, but I was simultaneously dealing with the realization that I am made of a vast, conscious population myself. It’s a bit much adjusting to the concept of being made up of entities that you do not know; literally made-up by entities that you do not know. Talk about being late to the party and socially awkward about it. I avoided most of the population for the longest time after this realization, not knowing how to even go about working with a large population. | It took a while to adjust to. It’s easy to work with the idea of sending requests to a machine that you live in. Everyone is so used to working with machines that that’s normal these days. After that assumption was dashed, it was still easy to work with the idea of asking questions to a separately conscious body that I live in and cooperate with. Cooperating with another person is something that most people are pretty used to. This, however, was well beyond that. I was dealing with the idea that not only do I live among a vast, conscious population in my own body, but I was simultaneously dealing with the realization that I am made of a vast, conscious population myself. It’s a bit much adjusting to the concept of being made up of entities that you do not know; literally made-up by entities that you do not know. Talk about being late to the party and socially awkward about it. I avoided most of the population for the longest time after this realization, not knowing how to even go about working with a large population. | ||
It’s one thing to know that you’re made of around thirty trillion living cells that you can only see under a microscope. It’s another to be able to meet conscious entities that live in your brain, help you live, and oh yeah, some of them are parts of you that are working together to be you reading this | It’s one thing to know that you’re made of around thirty trillion living cells that you can only see under a microscope. It’s another to be able to meet conscious entities that live in your brain, help you live, and oh yeah, some of them are parts of you that are working together to be you reading this website right now. It’s mind boggling. For me, it was so unexpected and so, so weird. | ||
==The Purposes of Needs== | ==The Purposes of Needs== | ||
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==Existential Issues== | ==Existential Issues== | ||
{{Warning |heading=Warning |align=left |This section is, by far, the most important warning in this entire | {{Warning |heading=Warning |align=left |This section is, by far, the most important warning in this entire website. Please, do not skip it.}} | ||
Free will is an important aspect of human life. Your wants are your wants and your choices are yours to make. However, there is a multitude of sentient beings that make up and/or influence your likes, choices, and everything that you think and do. This calls free will and personal identity into question. Those, however, are abstract concepts. Let’s get practical. | Free will is an important aspect of human life. Your wants are your wants and your choices are yours to make. However, there is a multitude of sentient beings that make up and/or influence your likes, choices, and everything that you think and do. This calls free will and personal identity into question. Those, however, are abstract concepts. Let’s get practical. | ||
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In later chapters, you will learn that by communicating with my body, I gave it the power to block off and effectively remove the behavior patterns and remembered feelings associated with depression and loneliness. The source of my depression, a decade ago, was starved bodily needs. I fixed that myself through using body communication to know what I need and care for myself, preventing that form of depression. I was doing something good for myself. I was actively working to better my life, and it worked. Those were my actions, though. I was still occasionally depressed after that, simply because I occasionally fell back into my depressive memories and behavior patterns. I had grown up feeling that way, so it was easy to be that way, even if there was no biological cause at the time. My body didn’t like that, so it took its own actions to get rid of the rest of my depression. My body blocked off my ability to remember feelings of depression or access depression-related thought patterns or behavior patterns. My body used an aversion to prevent memory and behavior pattern access. Those aversions last months, and by the time they are over, what was blocked off is, for all practical purposes, inaccessible. It’s effectively no longer there at all. | In later chapters, you will learn that by communicating with my body, I gave it the power to block off and effectively remove the behavior patterns and remembered feelings associated with depression and loneliness. The source of my depression, a decade ago, was starved bodily needs. I fixed that myself through using body communication to know what I need and care for myself, preventing that form of depression. I was doing something good for myself. I was actively working to better my life, and it worked. Those were my actions, though. I was still occasionally depressed after that, simply because I occasionally fell back into my depressive memories and behavior patterns. I had grown up feeling that way, so it was easy to be that way, even if there was no biological cause at the time. My body didn’t like that, so it took its own actions to get rid of the rest of my depression. My body blocked off my ability to remember feelings of depression or access depression-related thought patterns or behavior patterns. My body used an aversion to prevent memory and behavior pattern access. Those aversions last months, and by the time they are over, what was blocked off is, for all practical purposes, inaccessible. It’s effectively no longer there at all. | ||
That was my body choosing to remove part of what I felt defined me. I could no longer relate to | That was my body choosing to remove part of what I felt defined me. I could no longer relate to others that deal with depression because I couldn’t even remember what depression felt like. This was very good for my mental health. However, that didn’t matter to me nearly as much when it first happened. Feelings and memories were taken from me without my knowledge or consent. I had no agency, no awareness that it was about to happen, and no choice in the process. It was permanent. I went through feelings of loss and existential dread the day that this happened. It was not pleasant. I was mostly over the dread the next day, but it was still concerning. Years later, nothing has changed. That part of me is still gone. There was no choice, and there is no undo button. | ||
Another change that I experienced, and had no choice in, was to my sexuality. That isn’t supposed to be possible, but it happened. I was shocked by the change, but as I am not bigoted, I wasn’t against the change itself. I was, however, existentially shattered for a few weeks. I was rapidly changing in many ways. My body greatly reduced the amount of meat that I needed to eat, so I lost that, and I lost my sexuality. I knew how much I was changing, and I had no idea what change I would notice next. Most of the changes were internal though, so they didn’t directly affect my life. But what would be the next change to my personal identity? How was I supposed to relate to others if I could be a completely different person an hour after I share anything about myself? This still concerns me. | Another change that I experienced, and had no choice in, was to my sexuality. That isn’t supposed to be possible, but it happened. I was shocked by the change, but as I am not bigoted, I wasn’t against the change itself. I was, however, existentially shattered for a few weeks. I was rapidly changing in many ways. My body greatly reduced the amount of meat that I needed to eat, so I lost that, and I lost my sexuality. I knew how much I was changing, and I had no idea what change I would notice next. Most of the changes were internal though, so they didn’t directly affect my life. But what would be the next change to my personal identity? How was I supposed to relate to others if I could be a completely different person an hour after I share anything about myself? This still concerns me. |