Choose one of the Models or Theories focused on Human Existence and Universal Energy discussed in this module, define it, and examine literature about the theory identifying other concepts used in theory.
Choose one of the Models or Theories focused on Human Existence and Universal Energy discussed in this module, define it, and examine literature about the theory identifying other concepts used in theory.
The SUHB is built upon three central principles that describe the nature of this field interaction, and literature analysis identifies several key concepts derived from these principles:
1. The Principles of Homeodynamics
Rogers proposed three principles of homeodynamics that govern the nature of the development and changes in the human-environmental energy fields: Resonancy, Helicy, and Integrality.
Resonancy: The continuous variable change in the intensity of the human and environmental fields. It is identified in the literature as the ever-changing nature of the wave pattern or frequency of the field.
Helicy: The unpredictable, rhythmic, and continuous process of change along the space-time continuum. It implies non-repeatability and unidirectionality, meaning that life processes never exactly repeat and move forward in an innovative, evolutionary way (Rogers, 1990). Literature often uses the concept of "evolving consciousness" to capture this directional change.
Integrality: The continuous, mutual, and simultaneous interaction between the Human Field and the Environmental Field. They are inseparable. This concept highlights the importance of the non-linear, reciprocal relationship where both fields affect and are affected by the other at the same time (Malinski, 2017).
choose Martha Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings (SUHB), a theory focused on human existence and universal energy, for analysis.
The Science of Unitary Human Beings (SUHB), developed by nurse theorist Martha Rogers, is a grand nursing theory that views the person (the Unitary Human Being) as an irreducible, four-dimensional energy field continuously and mutually interacting with the Environmental Field. The human and environmental fields are dynamic, open systems, integral to each other, and cannot be understood by reducing them to their parts. Health, in this model, is not a state to be achieved, but a continuous process and an expression of the patterning of the human-environmental field (Rogers, 1990).