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Download this free interactive spreadsheet tool. Be sure to click 'Enable editing' so you can use it on your own device.
Enter your birthdate in the white field at the top right off the downloaded document. This instantly fills in the relevant text.
Scroll down and read the details of your life unfold with fresh insight. See the season you're in right now.
Don't quit just yet!
Before you break up for good
with your romantic partner, realize what's going on at a deeper natural level. The "seven year itch" arrives about the time you naturally yearn for a greater return on your emotional investments. You hit the "autumn" of your relationship cycle. Nature compels you to attend your neglected self-needs.
Your social needs will have to wait. Just because you need to winter in solitude for a while doesn't mean the relationship is over. Endure this natural shift and your relationship can rebound much stronger in its upcoming spring.
Your natural 'focal cycle'
Anankelogy identifies how you must shift your focus on different needs as they arise. This 'focal cycle'
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Prefocal: A need gradually comes into your awareness.
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Focal: A need takes center stage to be addressed.
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Defocal: Once addressed, it slips from awareness.
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Nonfocal: Once resolved, it drops from awareness.
Until evoked again. Rince and repeat.
As your self-needs resolve in your personal winter, your less addressed social needs "prefocal" in your relational spring. Nature ensures you focus on each set of needs in their proper season. To ensure the wellness of your psychosocial balance.
Recognize the season you're now in
The Western mindset generally assumes your relationships progress in a linear fashion. While moving forward in a linear direction, anankelogy appreciates how your relationships also cycle around in familiar seasons of growth.
You likely don't anticipate your relationships' cyclic pattern. You may be surprised by feeling passion one moment and then disappointment soon after. Let this tool's indigenous appreciation of cycles help you reconnect with the nature within.
Reconnect with nature
Everyone has indigenous roots. Look back to your own tribal beginnings to appreciate these cycles. While this learns from some of the pan-Indigenous teachings of the medicine wheel that has seeped into New Age ideas and practices, anankelogy affirms anyone's openness to reconnect with the balancing power of nature in terms familiar to them. But also warns to respect specific tribal peoples by not coopting their culture for one's own personal use. We will let nature balance us in the process.
Two columns layout
When opening the spreadsheet, you see two parallel columns. Reading down the left column provides context for the meat of this tool on the right. The text down the right column specifically applies to you, after you enter your birthdate.
Simply enter your birthdate
As soon as you add your birthdate, the text in the pages below it fill in with content specific to the seasonal cycles of your life. Each page covers a progressing cycle in your life. Each of these covers your relationships, development, and your evolving "psychosocial orientation". For 20 such cycles that could unfold in your life.
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Enter the birthdate of your friend and see how things line up. Or doesn't quite align. That could shed light on some conflicts you find yourself in.
A 4- to 6-year cycle
This tool is set at the default of a five-year cycle. I learned this from a source that cited a four-year cycle in this recurring pattern. But I observed a five-year cycle in my life. The first person I applied this to, beside myself, also presented a five-year cycle. If the pattern doesn't quite fit you, change the number here until you find it fits your life.
Optional 25 items
You don't have to answers any of these items for the text to automatically fill in below. If you do answer all 25 items, the text for your current cycle changes accordingly.
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Click on each white field and select the best option from the drown list. Indicate how true each item applies to you.
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Then scroll down to the current season you are in. This speaks directly to your current psychosocial orientation, which informs your political outlook.
Your psychosocial needs
How well you can resolve your self-needs relative to your social needs affects your political outlook.
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The more you can resolve both on par with each other, the less less emotional strain. You either enjoy psychosocial balance, or suffer some kind of psychosocial imbalance.
Your psychosocial orientation
The more you can resolve both on par with each other, the less vulnerable to getting pulled into political extremes.
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So let's unpack our political differences. And let our psychosocial wellness heal us from much of our social and political brokenness.
Left column
Read through this content to gain perspective of your life's natural seasons. Let it give you proper context for what you're going through in life right now. Gain deeper insight into life.
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You could skip this column and still gain value if jumping right into the right column content. If that material raises any questions, you can come back here to get some perspective.
Right column
Here you find the meat of this insightful tool. Read each page to discover the seasons you cycle in and out of.
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See your past cycles with 20-20 hindsight. Open yourself to epiphanies about your current cycles. Take a look at the patterns you can anticipate in the future. Discover how to work with nature, so nature can work her best in you.
Work with nature so
nature works with you
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