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Why Should You Embrace Your Individuality?

What we are learning: How can a person aspire to the patterns of societies that match his pattern of individuality and why?

What is new: How can we develop within the framework of our heredity?

What we will learn: How can we separate the inherited psyche from the acquired?

1. In many ways, each person is like everyone else. Biological and psychological processes—development, consciousness, perception, memory, thinking, motivation, and emotion—are essentially common to all of us. However, in other ways, each person is different from everyone else. Each of us is characterized by a certain pattern [capacity, ed., author], abilities, beliefs, attitudes, motives, emotions, and personality [individual, ed., author] traits that make us unique (Atkinson R.L., et al. 2003) [1].

2. Striving for a model of individuality. Family, our close social circle, work, army, a state with its political system, religion, etc., strive for certain patterns or models of human personality that would correspond to their needs [69]. We, as individuals, can in return strive for such models of societies that correspond to our capabilities, abilities, beliefs, attitudes, motives, feelings, emotions, temperament, and character. Such relationships with different types of societies can make us happier. However, to achieve such mutually beneficial relationships between different societies and human individuality, it is necessary to know your model of the uniqueness of the body and psyche. Let's start with the visible model of your uniqueness - the physical body.

3. The uniqueness of my body. Uniqueness always implies that no otherhuman has a body like mine. Awareness of this will be demonstrated by the fact that a person will not compare himself to anyone or look up to anyone. Why should you not compare yourself to others? Because we have genetically inherited our bodies from our parents and all previous generations of our relatives. This means that the structure of our body or a certain type of figure (morphology), as well as the structure of cells, tissues, internal organs, and systems, as well as their interaction (physiology), are genetically programmed. This internal program of our genome, interacting with the environment, can change, maintaining health or harming it, depending on the knowledge of the uniqueness of our body. The uniqueness of our body is evidenced by external individual characteristics: the size of the body and the structure of its parts, the color of the eyes, skin, and hair, the size and location of subcutaneous fat, fingerprints, etc. (I fr. 15. 1, 2, 4-6; 16. 3-6; 17. 1, 3-5). In addition, there are internal individual characteristics.

• "Summarizing the material on anatomical variability, it can be noted that it is observed for all structures and characteristics - for the brain, nerves, muscles, tendons, bones, and blood, for the weight of various organs, including endocrine glands, etc. The data presented show that this variability is great and that structural differences are mainly under genetic control" (italics author) (Williams R. 1960) [2].

About the brain, there are also differences in the relative position of its parts (configuration).

• "Each human's brain is slightly different from the brains of other people, has a unique "configuration", and we all solve problems differently" (italics author) (Gazzaniga, Michael. 2017) [3].

Of course, in the process of growth and development, the human body may be subject to deviations from heredity due to nutrition, physical activity, and environment [4, 5, 6]. However, these deviations will not fundamentally change either the external individual characteristics or the internal differences described above. Given the above, a human who has realized the uniqueness of his body will develop it within the framework of his heredity.

* We are discussing an individual with a relatively healthy psyche and no current psychical disorders (including eating behaviors leading to obesity, anorexia, and bulimia), which makes their psyche and body different from the innate ones.