Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v8i5.5428
Abstract
Trauma-informed and restoration-oriented services have made suffering visible and remain indispensable. Yet educational and communitybased psychological support may become incomplete when understanding injury is treated as the endpoint of growth. This conceptual article formalizes Oriental psychology, a culturally grounded, non-clinical framework developed through sustained practice for moving from trauma recovery toward life construction. "Oriental" denotes a living civilizational tradition rooted in China and an integrated understanding of mind, body, relationships, nature, and life. The framework distinguishes a restoration layer from a life-construction layer; assesses distress as an experienced state separately from energy as underlying agentic capacity; and proposes neng–suo differentiation as a trainable reception-gating process that restores choice without suppressing experience. Life agency is organized as an open six-stage spiral: Halt, Disentangle, Embrace, Build Capacity, Take Root, and Flourish. Build Capacity is mission-guided, not deficit-driven, and includes capability development and embodied capacity. Composite practice vignettes illustrate proposed mechanisms without being treated as efficacy evidence. The framework is relevant to educational psychology, family education, student support, and community learning. Its task is to translate long-standing practice into ethically collected, operationalized, and testable evidence. Its aim is not to replace Western psychology, but to return people to authorship of their own lives.
Keywords
neng-suo differentiation; psychological reception gating; agentic energy; embodied capacity; self-reconciliation; community mental health
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