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By Wallace Salzman, on May 5th, 2009
See -OPT & Script PAGE for a general introduction to Ortho-Para concepts.
 Setting the Stage for Resolution:
The work of schooling is so complex. It is dependent on so many factors that precede the schooling process. Let us list a few so that we might comprehend the multifaceted reasons for learning failure.
1) Perceptual health – good vision and hearing are essential to the gathering of the data being taught.
2) Cognitive health – to see and hear requires a means of integrating the information and comprehending its objective and subjective relationships to our lives.
3) Inner environment health – feeling good about ourselves so that we can focus on the outside world and learn its positive and negative significances, instead of introspectively focusing inward and remaining blind to outside data. That is depression.
4) To be born without the chemistry for managing emotional extremes. To be born too Ortho makes us hyper-reactive to outside stimuli and prone to disintegrative hyper-reactivity. To be born too Para makes us hypo-reactive to the outside world and prone to endogenous depression.
5) To be born into a family where love and understanding surrounds us for the first six years (and most importantly the first three years) of life. It is not just a question of good parental training and intent. In the limiting context of the nuclear family, there is the Mother-Infant emotional dyad that is dependent on a certain degree of “chance”. It is nearly impossible for an “Ortho” Mother to incorporate and tolerate the hyperactivity of an Ortho child. It is nearly impossible for a “Para” Mother to stimulate and activate the hypoactivity of a Para child. Where the balancing necessary for a healthy functional dyad does not exist, we have extremes of behavior in both Mother and child. The emotional environment can be destructive to both. Thus, the benefit and importance of extended family and community must be recognized. It is true that it takes a village to raise a child.
6) To be born into a culture where love, rather than abuse, is accepted as an essential part of the early growth cycle. The culture must understand the important role of early egocentricity, self evaluation and self serving, and only if the infant has blossomed to an awareness of all inner feelings, should it be open to the outside world, its rules, repressions, sublimations, and subductions. In other words, natural law must completely blossom before social law designs its imposed restrictive covenants.
7) Finally, the school and its teachers must be able to discover each child’s strengths, and nurture these positive qualities while he/she struggles with his/her weaknesses and fragilities.
By the time we’ve reached six years of age, most of the damage and good regarding our schooling potential has already been programmed into us. It is not that there is no way to turn this around, but if the inner feelings related to education and growth are negatively internalized, the commitment to growth and activities is not endogenously mature and is very difficult to positively sustain.
Para Conflict:
“School was always difficult for me. I was a very poor student.”
Analysis:
Poor students like yourself are mostly not born that way. They’ve had multiple imprints from the social contacts that influenced their preverbal unfolding, and your Script will be that much more difficult to follow.
You have some firmly implanted feelings of inferiority that must be dealt with while you’re redesigning an active life. You must slowly decondition these negative feelings and replace them with new and positive ones .
There is a place for all of us in the highly structured world we live in. The Creative discovery of your route is your first responsibility.
Ortho Conflict:
“School was always difficult for me. It would have been easy if I wanted to waste my time in school. I had other things to do.”
Analysis:
There is no need for any of us to cry “sour grapes” and try to justify our poor grades and unfocused education. You suggest, in your answer to the question on schooling, that you felt it to be a waste of time. At times this is true. There are terrible school programs and terrible teachers, and if they were all concentrated in the system of your growth it was unfortunate, and I’m sure it has taken its toll in the actualizing of your potential.
What is important is that you not assume that your rocky foundation is uncorrectable. So much of what we learn in school dies the death of atrophy because it is not used. The Script you must follow should positively incorporate the facets of education that allow for the implementation of a specific goal, that when completed, can sustain you and become the new foundation for the many life goals that follow.
There is really no short route for any of us, and the more we achieve and fulfill our destiny, the more inner awareness we gain of our inestimable worth, and the great good we can all accomplish in our short life span.
© 2006 by Wallace Salzman “Ortho-Para IV; The Ortho-Para Test and its Interpretations”
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By Wallace Salzman, on April 14th, 2009
See -OPT & Script PAGE for a general introduction to Ortho-Para concepts.
Setting the Stage for Resolution:
As we move into each environment of interaction, our inner strengths and attitude regarding ourselves play a big role in our perception of others. In the public arena, we are living in a pecking world.
Two or more people meeting for the first or fiftieth time are forever, subtly, structuring their relationships with everyone around them. Whether it is in natural or cosmetic beauty, strength of form or character, skill in movement or speech, mentally knowledgeable, brilliant or wise, everyone seeks as high a place that he or she can comfortably hold and jockey for a better position.
In this, we are no different than the creatures below us. If our self assessment is poor, anyone who waves their pecking weapon at us will appear to be putting us down. If our self assessment is good, we are more likely to recognize the pecking signal and respond suitably, so that the assertive struggle is rapidly ended and everyone feels comfortable again.
People who accept themselves are quite ready to accept others on any of many levels of relationship. Those who think poorly of themselves see enemies all around them and become sensitive even to a glance.
Para Conflict:
“I dislike having people near me who are smart asses and make me look bad.
Everyone seems to want to make me look bad. I don’t think they do it on purpose. I just tolerate the discomfort.”
Analysis:
Clearly, your capacity for self denigration needs very little prompting from outside to make you feel bad. Sometimes we just have to stop, and turn ourselves around. People will appear different to you when you pursue goals that make you feel good about yourself. The world will appear brighter as well.
It is in the area of self perception that we see the amazing process of projection and introjection taking place. We’ll discuss this later in our analysis. In our description of the effect of poor self perception on our poor perception of others (projection), or ourselves (introjection), the value modulator is the self, closed off to moderation by any powerful outside influence.
This can be, and must be balanced, if we’re to comfortably flow from the most central to the most peripheral system of life. Script can help you discover the way.
Ortho Conflict:
“I dislike having people near me who are smart asses and make me look bad. No, dislike is a mild term. I hate them.”
Analysis:
Clearly, from your vehement response to those who dare peck down at you, you’re insecure enough to find offense in anyone who dares test and discover your weaknesses. Your underlying belief is weak. It says “If no one sees, discovers, or makes public my weaknesses, then they don’t exist and I don’t need to change.”
If this were not the case and you felt secure and confident in what you are, you would look with understanding at the poor soul who was constantly fighting his Ego battles with a world that he sees as belligerent and disdaining.
What he sees is what he is. When you react so intensely to his smart ass assertions, you have merely indicated that your weaknesses and vulnerabilities are no less than his.
To hate a weak man, most frequently indicates the hate you have for your own weaknesses. Your poor self acceptance (all of us have weaknesses) puts you on the unhealthy track we take when we feel we cannot change (or when we want no one to see us in any light other than perfection.)
We are not perfect, and no one can be. Our expectation that we must appear to others as if we were, is a ridiculous, unrealistic fantasy. Under these circumstances we can only and always be angry at everyone.
© 2006 by Wallace Salzman “Ortho-Para IV; The Ortho-Para Test and its Interpretations”
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By Wallace Salzman, on April 14th, 2009
See -OPT & Script PAGE for a general introduction to Ortho-Para concepts.
Setting the Stage for Resolution:
The subject of potential and kinetic energy must be understood if we’re to design our activity schedules realistically. You can’t feel energetic when you lie immobile in bed. It is movement that turns on the bio-generator that begins to change potential energy into the kinetic energy that we sense (in overflow) and can then become the perpetual motion machine most thin, aerobic people appear to be.
What is potential energy? It is body structure. That which is designed solely for storage is fat. People who are fat tend to be relatively immobile before they get too heavy, rather than becoming immobile because they are too heavy. The present term used by dancers “body carving” is an excellent term. Every movement we make designs both that which will increase in volume, due to hypertrophy, and that which will decrease in size due to the mobilization of potential energy from fat storage depots, both under the skin, about the viscera and within the blood vessels. The Energy level, so dependent on mobility, is also dependent on the autonomic mechanisms of Ortho-Para balance.
Ortho people, with high levels of adrenaline (or catecholamines) like compounds in their system tend to be highly mobile. If their thyroid function is moderately elevated, their sensitivity to Ortho chemicals is exquisitely increased, so that ever increasing mobility to pathologic levels ensues.
Para people, with low levels of adrenaline like compounds, tend to be more tranquil and less driven. If their thyroid function is moderately depressed, their sensitivity to Ortho chemicals is even less, with the eventual problem of statuesque immobility of pathologic degrees.
Para Conflict:
“I never feel like I have enough energy.”
Analysis:
From your assertion that you never have much energy, we must ask whether it is due to:
a) Para dominance, due to absence of extrinsic stimulation.
b) Immobility, due to depression or negative motivation.
c) Immobility due to fear of failure.
d) Thyroid suppression.
e) Drug suppression or abuse.
Whatever the cause, you have the power to change a life of low energy and the consequences of immobility, into a dynamic, moving one. In this way, you can redesign your body and your activities, both at the same time. In that part of Script where activities are described, there will be an outline relevant to your personal needs.
Ortho Conflict:
“My energy is boundless. I never seem to have enough to do. I feel this energy as stress.
I never stop moving and despite this, I frequently don’t finish what I must complete.”
Analysis:
Your assertion that you feel most of your energy as stress, tension and anxiety suggests that:
a) Your mobility is not as integrated as it might be, for the proper use of your abundant endogenous supply.
b) You might have an overactive thyroid.
c) You may be Ortho dominant without the proper systems necessary to incorporate and subdue the high energy availability, so that the peace and tranquility essential to regenerating potential energy, is rarely present.
d) Your external environment may be too demanding of you and you haven’t developed the integrated priorities that allow you to fulfill them without sensing the chaos and confusion that leads to failure at every level.
e) Drug abuse can be the cause of both the depression and anxiety that comes from Ortho-Para unbalance.
Whatever the cause, you have the power to change a life of chaos and stress into a fulfilling life of accomplishment. With the help of Script, an awareness of your system failures should help you focus with greater insight on the areas that require better control, and in what way you can design a more effective central system where your source of Para quality of life can be found.
As we’ve described before, an Ortho in high gear is a war machine, not a love machine, and only in the presence of a powerful Para system can the chemistry of your extreme be incorporated and properly channeled into the love drama capable of depolarizing your excess energy (and the self destruction it could ultimately represent).
© 2006 by Wallace Salzman “Ortho-Para IV; The Ortho-Para Test and its Interpretations”
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By Wallace Salzman, on April 14th, 2009
See -OPT & Script PAGE for a general introduction to Ortho-Para concepts.
Setting the Stage for Resolution:
When we’re passive listeners (or receivers), gathering in the data from the multi-system environments in which we function, language is the tool of communication and learning.
Language is also a tool of pecking power and war when it is actively and aggressively imposed on those who willingly or unwillingly listen to its warnings and threats.
Language is the means by which the anxious let off steam; titrating their hyper-kinesis through verbal discharges.
Language is the means by which the depressed are awakened to causes and goals; elevating their energies, creating responsive, malleable followers.
Language can take on extraordinary power, when it weaves soft webs of poetry about matters of Love and Beauty.
Add music and rhythm, and language can evoke feelings of sadness and joy; awakening the heart while dissolving the fears that enslave us.
Para Conflict:
“I have as incessant need to read and learn. I love to read novels, romances and true love magazines. I’m sure that what I’ve learned through these magazines has helped me in my life.”
Para Analysis:
In your response to the question on reading, you radiated your passions for reading novels, especially those that dealt with Love and Romance. To choose the poetry of love over the prose of science is to find a means of injecting into your life, vicariously, more of that which you need.
We frequently read about that which we have not, or cannot live. Reading can be to Living and Loving what war games are to war.
There are inner fantasies that need to be acted out, but cannot be in the real world which demands the frustration of personal appetites for the sake of the health of marriage, family and a predictable and safe society.
What you’re reading is not destructive as long as these fantasies are not substituted for the realities of living and loving.
If the reading consumes you to the point of putting your work aside and feeling inadequate to the demands of intimacy, you’ve substituted for living and loving a dream world where the characters in your books do everything and you do nothing.
If when you put the book down, you feel like nothing, it is because that is exactly what you’ve become. To discover balance may require your putting your books away so that you can begin living like the people in your dream world.
Ortho Conflict:
“ I am prone to reading on rare occasions but when I do, I enjoy reading about war heroes, sports heroes, and those men of the world who have led exciting and very successful physical lives.”
Ortho Analysis:
In response to the question on reading, you indicated that although you read only on rare occasion, you enjoy books about war, sports and political heroes who’ve led exciting, successful, physical lives.
Your reading outlet seems healthy. You’re apparently not substituting reading for living, and what you’re reading adds a successful energizing dimension to your life when your energies are low.
Our concern would be heightened if you tended to use the lives and techniques of these admired “battlers” in your private life, or in the battles that must be won in your work.
Many of the most successful men and women are poor role models because the sacrifices of life and family they made, were in the long run, rarely worth the momentary glory they achieved.
We sense your high energy. Don’t forget the balanced priorities of Life in your hopes for fame.
Be aware; infamy is more easily come by than fame.
© 2006 by Wallace Salzman “Ortho-Para IV; The Ortho-Para Test and its Interpretations”
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