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Physiologically counter-productive effects of daily ‘Sur-Vival’ in society ‘Survival’ reactions and extremes are directly implicated in stressrelated, low-grade ‘diffuse’ chronic syndromes with acute flare-ups. Yet they are purposefully induced for socially-adaptive daily life & to keep-up with complexity. Double-binds result from the related problem of their opposite value – technical and human– (e.g. self-centered actions, aggressive commercialism, strong sex drive, pain killing, mental filters). Ultimately, all these arise from a sense of urgent and pressing need (or even critical emergency) to deploy means of SurVival (‘rising’ to the occasion): for example, our reactions to climate change, epidemic risks, ‘natural’ disasters toll, our stress associated with societal ‘advances’ (‘higher’ speed or [re]developments), the many dire costs of globalised economy, and other crises due to ecologic ‘human pressure’ (damage to planet, unexplained drifts in human health/sanity and overpopulation crowding). Needs-driven SurVival behaviour, acute stress and chronic battling response mode, are found in many aspects of the human world (and in animals or plants living in difficult or overstimulating conditions), and can be creative, but also destructive. Topologic Ecology therefore approaches this global situation through its general topologic properties [words in italic], independently from [de/]valorisations. This topologic study shows that ‘Sur-Vival’ solutions (‘vitality’: survival re-activated or ‘pushed’) always produce counter-productive effects, later or elsewhere, for individual daily existence (e.g. a sense of inevitable or necessary urge to ‘speed up’ or ‘keep up’, or of being ‘pushed’ and pulled down). These inverted effects induce and drive the periodic re-deployment of daily life habits, diets, cultures, civilised lifestyles & habitats. Based on a systematised strategy of brain-mind driven compensation, the ecology of adaptive health turns into a ubiquitous human pressure to raise survival mechanisms, with consequent stress and exhaustion. Evolutionary rationalisations do not account technically, for some senseless anomalies such as post-menopausal fast decline in women, childhood illnesses to ‘grow out of’, or teenage folly. These ‘normal’ behaviours auto-reinforce into man-made crises whose generalised physically damaging effects on our world and us, we do not know how (or want) to stop. In short, Some of our Sur-Vival behaviours are taken so far that they end up threatening the very survival (physical) they are to ensure. We ignore methodically, and all our theories miss, some low-cost « basic options» that do not produce these inverted / counter-productive effects for the physical world and animal body (humans included), but allow an ease in keeping safe & sound even under a measure of pressure. These options involve spontaneous behaviours such as de-focusing vision, walking, feeding to nourish rather than ‘energise’ or ‘fix’, and a crucial role of water in physiology, unrecognised. The Topologic Ecology exploratory research program aims to find and implement those practical basic options that could help reduce need & damage.
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Ease of Health Findings from The Peckham Experiment (1930’s Britain): ‘Ease is one of the outstanding action-patterns of health. It appears, for instance in the infant as serenity.’ (p.188) […] ‘Between the “immune” and the “insusceptible” there is a difference in the body’s action-pattern. We do not, however, yet know on what this attribute of insusceptibility rests.’ (p.238) Williamson G., Pearse S., Innes H. 1965. Science, synthesis and sanity, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Findings from Topologic Ecology (2006-2012):
Ease of Living exchanged for Survival The ‘Ease of Health’ has topologic properties that are absent from the common deployment, under ecologic and human pressure, of survival mechanisms, adaptive behaviour, and the induced ‘spontaneous’ healing ‘spirit’ or overactive ‘vitality’. Drawing on the body as a ‘resource’, survival processes reduce its physical integrity, suppressing basic vegetative functions and viability. General activation, inventing to make life ‘easier’, targeting specifically to compensate, efforts to ‘balance’ imbalance, or fulfil and feed a ‘lack of’ energy, all lead to the struggles and syndromes of adaptive exhaustion. The survival capacity is then judged ‘lacking’. Reactivating or suractivating has broad counter-productive and compounding effects in many people’s lives and for cells, physiology (e.g. epigenetic changes), and brain function. Survival never quite recovers the initial state, instead drifting away from Ease.
Ease (‘Proto-Health’) does not produce these ‘increased needs’.
