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Self-Actualizing Seven: Peak Or Mystic Experiences

March 3, 2010 in Self-Actualizing by Mystic Medusa | 33 comments

Self Actualizing Trait Number Eight:

“Maslow observed that self-actualizing individuals commonly had what he called peak experiences (also termed ‘oceanic feeling’). This term refers to moments of intense excitement and high tension as well as to those of relaxation, peacefulness, blissfulness and stillness. Representing the most ecstatic moments of life, such occurrences usually come from love and sexual climax, bursts of creativity, insight, discovery and fusion with nature. These people can ‘turn on’ without artificial stimulants. Just being alive turns them on.”

Abraham Maslow’s Self-Actualizing Traits

Self-Actualizing Six: Continued Freshness Of Appreciation

January 8, 2010 in Self-Actualizing by Mystic Medusa | 19 comments

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Abraham Maslow’s Self-Actualizing Trait Number Seven:

“Continued Freshness Of Appreciation: Maslow discovered that healthy, mature adults exhibit a capacity to appreciate even the most ordinary events in their lives with a sense of newness, awe, pleasure and even ecstasy. They seldom became bored with life experiences. Thus, for such a person, any sunset may be as beautiful as their first one, any flower may be breathtaking loveliness, even after he/she seen a million flowers. For such people, even the casual workaday, moment to moment business of living can be thrilling, exciting and esctatic.”

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Self-Actualizing Five: Autonomy

November 29, 2009 in Self-Actualizing by Mystic Medusa | 61 comments

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Abraham Maslow’s Self Actualizing Trait Number Six:

“Autonomy. Independence of Culture and Environment. Self actualizing people are not dependent for their main satisfaction on the physical and social environment. Rather, they rely on their own potentalities and latent resources for growth and development. Healthy people have a high degree of self-direction and free will. They regard themselves as self-governed, active, responsible and self-disciplined agents in determining their own destinies. They are strong enough to be oblivious to others opinions and affections; thus they shun honours, status, prestige and popularity.”

Self Actualizing Four: Efficent Perception Of Reality

October 30, 2009 in Self-Actualizing by Mystic Medusa | 20 comments

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Self-Actualizers Trait Number One:

“Efficent Perception Of Reality.  Perhaps the most universal characteristic of these superior people is their unusual ability to perceive other people correctly and efficiently, to see reality as it is, rather than as they wish it to be. They have a better perception of reality and more comfortable relations with it. They are less emotional and more objective about their perceptions; they do not allow their desires and hopes to distort their observations. Because of their superior perception, self-actualizing people are more readily able to detect the fake, the phony and the dishonest in others. Maslow discvoered that this ability to see more efficiently extended to many other areas of life, including art, music, science, politics and philosophy. For example; an informal survey indicated that self-actualizers are more accurate in their predictions of future events.  Self actualizers are really “with it” in a profound sense; they are realists. The self-actualizer isable to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainity more easily than others. She is generally unthreatened and unfrightened by the unknown. She accepts it, is comfortable with it and often is even more attracted by it than the known.”

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Abraham Maslow’s Self-Actualizing Traits

Self-Actualizing Three: Spontaneity & Simplicity

October 14, 2009 in Self-Actualizing by Mystic Medusa | 63 comments

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“Self Actualizing Trait Number 3:  The behaviour of self-actualizing people is marked by spontaneity and simplicity, by an absence of artificiality or straining for effect. This does not imply consistently unconventional behavior. It is the persons inner life (thoughts, impulses, etc) that is unconventional, natural and spontaneous. Their unconventionality is not intended to impress others and may even be suippressed in order not to distress others, so that they may even abide by ceremonies and rituals. However the Self-Actualizer refuses to be hampered or inhibited by social convention when it seems to interfere with an act that he or she considers to be important or basic…”

See Also: Self-Actualizing Two

Self Actualizing Two: Creativity

September 24, 2009 in Self-Actualizing by Mystic Medusa | 33 comments

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Self-Actualizing Trait Number 14: Creativeness

Not surprisingly, Maslow found that, without exception, creativity was more prominent in self-actualizers than in others. However, the creativeness mainfested by his subjects was different from unusual talent or genius as reflected in poetry, art, music or science. Maslow likened it to the natural creativeness found in children. This kind of self-actualizing creativity appears in everyday life as an expression of a personality which is perceptive, spontaneous and child-like. It does not necessarily involve the writing of books, composing of music or production of art objects. It may be humble in nature and can touch virtually all of the person’s activities. Basically, it revolves around the discovery of things new and novel that depart from conventional ideas.”

See Also: Self-Actualizing One.

Abraham Maslow’s Traits Of Self-Actualized Peeps

Self Actualizing One: Innocence

September 21, 2009 in Self-Actualizing by Mystic Medusa | 29 comments

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“One does not complain about water because it is wet, or about rocks because they are hard, or about trees because they are green.As the child looks out upon the world with wide, uncritical, undemanding, innocent eyes, simply noting and observing what is the case, so does the self-actualizing person tend to look upon human nature in himself and in others.”

Abraham Maslow

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