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Bio-analysis principles

THE PRINCIPLES OF BIO-ANALYSIS

Modern life is about a search for identity. Modern disease is about not finding it. We eagerly take on foreign identities and interfere with our body’s comprehensive organisation by forcing unsuitable and fashionable habits onto our system. Every magazine, supplier of supplements and specialist we visit for advice promotes a piece of identity that we force upon our unsuspecting bodies. It is no surprise that most modern diseases which kill and disable us result from bewildered immune responses. To protect ourselves from this onslaught of outer identities we need to affirm an incisive sense of biological self.

Psycho-analysis has established itself, consciously or unconsciously, as part of our world-view. Freud is alive and well, living in our heads, on our billboards and TV screens, and behind our manipulation techniques. Even when we know nothing about Freud or psycho-analysis as such, we have all adopted the notion that maturity is the ability to understand our inner world and to stop identifying with others – to defend and maintain our unique personality. However, few people aspire towards the same independent selfhood for their biological self, or seek to become a distinct ‘body-self’. In fact, modern illness is little more than our body gradually destroying itself in its pursuit of an authentic biological identity. It is therefore important to develop a dynamic method for defining and exploring our biologic identity. In appreciation of the fact that body and mind are part of the same biological system, and that the basic principles of psycho-analysis are as valid for the body’s symbolic expression as they are for that of the mind, we chose to name our method bio-analysis.

Bio-analysis offers us the possibility of finding and upholding a unique, adult biological identity. In a similar way to any form of psychological analysis, bio-analysis explores the full spectrum of dynamic interaction between our inner ‘bio-logical’ processes and the outer world. It analyses the symbolic representations that we make during this complex, ongoing interaction. It also places our self-identity within the setting of a personal biological matrix or body.

Bio-analysis defines five dimensions in our biological organisation: dynamic structure, rhythm, intelligence, identity and coherence. This simplifies our understanding of the multi-dimensional network of interactions inside our system, and creates practical models to influence and maintain a healthy sense of biological identity. By regarding all five levels of self-organisation we become receptive to the natural choices that our biological system makes. We thus avoid the modern chase after fragments of health information which relate more to the whims of the outer world than to our body’s true needs.

 

Read about the principles of bio-analysis:

Introduction to Bio-analysis.

Biological Identity as a Dynamic Matrix.

Securing Identity with Rhythmic Order.

An Intelligent Mind for Integrated Organisation.

A Comprehensive Sense of Self.

Coherent Interaction with Outer World.

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A Bio-analytic lifestyle

 A BIO-ANALYTIC LIFE STYLE

Fragmentation of identity is as much a threat to our body as it is to our personality. The most immediate quality of a bio-analytic lifestyle is the ability to live as a unified whole. We can do this by finding the coherent patterns that our specific biological system uses to coordinate the diverse dimensions in which we function, from pure matter to the vaguest of energy exchanges. Our inner world interacts with the outer world all the time and our limited conscious ego has to cope with hundreds of decisions during this constant adaptation between inner and outer world. To stay reasonably sane and consistent we have to consciously protect and maintain our coherent self-identity, which is as much a physical entity as it is an emotional and mental phenomenon.

Our ego thus needs to communicate with our inner identity all the time. This is the first step towards well-being in an increasingly disjointed and overpowering outer world. When living a bio-analytic lifestyle, our ego never loses sight of our inner coherent self and places all our knowledge and experience within the context of our own inner world. In other words, even during an obviously physical situation such as spraining an ankle, we consciously or unconsciously, directly or symbolically, explore the experience and its effect in relation to our coherent identity. This creates a sense of meaning and order throughout our whole system and all its structural dimensions: body, mind and unknown potential. Only then can we find authentic and energy-saving ways of interacting with the outer world.

The modern outer world does not value an individual inner worldand is relentless in its attempt to sell us ‘commercial’ versions of a perfect model of well-being. Our conscious ego therefore needs innovative ways to secure a consistent and sincere relationship with our inner identity. In a bio-analytic lifestyle we analyze our personal feelings about the symbolic messages that originate from our inner self, instead of following outer collective representations. Inner feeling confirms the authenticity of any symbolic representation that we make of adaptation processes, and links our self-experience to our inner biological organization. By consistently analyzing our feeling, we develop an intuitive self-discipline that attends to a more holistic reality by taking both outer experience and inner symbolism into account. This allows for a multifaceted interaction with the outer world that is valid for all our functional dimensions, whether bodily sensations, heartfelt emotions, exact reasoning, intuitive hunches or meditative bliss.

 

Read how a bio-analytic lifestyle could improve your ability to cope with the health dilemmas of a modern world:

Introduction to a Bio-analytic Lifestyle.

Be a Multifaceted Whole.

Change with Measured Adaptation.

Adhere to the Authentic Script.

Live with Intrinsic Feeling.

Interact with Agile Acceptance.

 

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Mediated feedback

MEDIATED FEEDBACK

We are seldom aware of the numerous adjustments our system makes at any given moment. They happen during the slightest interaction with the outer world. Realizing that most of our inner organisation and decisions are carried out with very little input from our conscious ego could be somewhat paralyzing. Fortunately, this inner unconscious organisation is also ingeniously sensitive to the slightest meaningful influence. A smile or one teaspoon of sugar can start an inner revolution that reverberates throughout our whole being.

Close your eyes and smile softly. Now follow your thoughts, especially their feeling context – notice, for example, whether there is a sense of pleasure or discomfort when you think about going home after work. Even with wilful steering, you are seldom able to sustain negative thoughts, and should they become cynical or dark, there is always a glimmer of irony in the background – while thinking about your nasty neighbour, for instance, there might appear a somewhat sympathetic image of the way he and his bulldog often carry the same facial expression. Your face and even body muscles veer more and more towards a relaxed tone the longer you keep it up. Take the smile away and feel how your attitude and level of tension change.

We all are able to learn ways in which we could influence our ‘unconscious’ inner organisation in a conscious and wilful way. Amongst diverse therapy techniques for the treatment of modern stress related conditions, one mutual principle always emerges. Pharmaceutical medication, psychoanalysis, yoga and positive thinking are all effective because they have an impact on the coherent organisation inside our system. When we eat an apple, or choose a career, or meditate upon a dream image, we re-organise our system into a new coherent self. In other words, we survive any kind of adjustment because we are able to re-organise ourselves into a distinct self each time. This means we can also use the smallest of activities to influence our whole system, because even small changes are amplified throughout our whole being with the help of hundreds of interconnecting feedback loops.

Feedback loops are circular cycles which are able to form interconnected, dynamic patterns. They are sensitive to manipulation at any point within a specific cycle and anywhere in a dynamic network. When we feel uneasy our heart beats faster and sends more blood to our brain, which allows more connections between different brain cells to be made. In this way we can find novel ways out of the anxious situation. But the increased brain activity may also be channelled through cycles of habitual worrying. The outcome depends on other connected cycles, such as remembering the excitement of getting out of a tight spot during a computer game, or a learned association that unease and fear always follow physical punishment and the best way to reduce pain is physical inactivity. Feedback loops allow for a massive amount of possibilities when we need to manipulate the outcome of inner cycles. It is therefore more important to our health to understand how these cycles function, and what they are sensitive to, than to have statistical proof of the effect produced by some outer ‘treatment’.

Mediated feedback is a technique associated with bio-analysis that helps us to mediate or cut in during our natural biological and psychological feedback cycles. It teaches us to adapt our own conscious understanding and allow our system to be susceptible to the right kind of inner and outer encouragement in order to influence our system without endangering its coherent organisation. In other words, mediated feedback trains us to change certain dysfunctional feedback cycles through conscious observation of our inner feelings during interaction with the outer world. Any technique that helps us to analyse our feelings consciously can bring us in contact with the inner processes that maintain our distinct identity. In mediated feedback, we make sure, however, that all our functional dimensions are represented, namely, body, emotional experience, rational control, coherent self-definition and intuitive connection. This ensures that we define ourselves in the context of our total environment as well as our own past and future.

Only then are we able to compare potential gain and probable sacrifice during conscious choice, without excluding any part of our coherent identity. In other words, we select, change, maintain, relate and create according to what is best for the organisation of our whole system. Such a conscious trade-off between gain and sacrifice avoids erosion of parts of our system by preventing dysfunctional and habitual feedback cycles, and ultimately prevents physical damage and illness.

 

Read more about how mediated feedback could improve our everyday well-being:

Introduction to Mediated Feedback.

View with Participating Observance.

Move with Connecting Mobility.

Plan with Comprehensive Understanding.

Adapt with Expressive Flexibility.

Respond with Negotiated Reform.

 

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Bio-analysis

BIO-ANALYSIS

Bio-analysis is about understanding the symbolic patterns that we use to explain the unconscious processes inside our biological system. It is also about applying them to strengthen the coherent organization of our system. We all use symbolic similes of biological processes to understand and experience health and illness in a personal context. Studying these vague and broad symbolic descriptions may seem unscientific to some clinicians. However, connecting symbolic patterns to their physiological counterparts ensures that they do not peter out into the impractical fantasies of alternative medicine. At the same time we do not deny our bodies the healing opportunities that are imbedded in our symbolic encounters.

In previous generations these symbolic patterns were never questioned, and health and healing were never severed from the symbolic expression of inner bodily processes. Today, science has broken down the mythology of preceding religious eras, astronomy has destroyed the notion of a god in the heavens who decides on life and death, medicine has removed the notion that there are spiritual forces which control our biological body and physics has proven that the matter in gold and crystals has no mystical power. We are left with the one-dimensional language of contemporary medicine, which excludes all symbolic description outside that of the metaphorical images used by medical research models.

Although this has brought consistency and simplicity in description, it denies most patients their individual, personal experience of illness and well-being. We have found, however, that although symbolic patterns are more difficult to research within the parameters of empirical science, they do have enough consistency to give us a reliable model to work with. We all have a ‘core’ way of experiencing our personal health and well-being. It is based upon patterns of biological self-organization which have been developed over the whole spectrum of our existence as human beings, maybe even our existence as living entities. The language we use to describe this ‘core’ and explain our personal health patterns is never randomly thrown together, but follows the patterns shaped by our shared biological heritage. In other words, it consists of symbolic descriptions of the concrete organization of our inner system, based upon the universal associations that we have accumulated over time.

Bio-analysis studies this symbolic language (words, feelings and actions) which interprets what is going on inside our biological system. It teaches us to respond to this interpretation in a logical and coherent way. Most importantly, it prevents us from forcing foreign interpretations of how our system should function upon an inherently intelligent system. In other words, in searching for the archetypal within our individual self-description, we again ‘ground’ ourselves in the nature of our biological system and protect ourselves from identifying with fragments of impersonal medical information.

The discussion of bio-analysis is done through two complementary routes: one takes each of the five functional dimensions of our system’s organization through the principles, practical application and therapeutic technique of bio-analysis and the other takes each dimension through its specific bio-analytic experience. They are an exact copy of each other in terms of contents, but choosing one or the other to read and then scan through the other may amplify the bio-analytic concept of us being a multidirectional dynamic system.