In my ever-so humble (yet definitive, he said with laughter crinkling his old wise eyes) opinion, peak experiences are moments of being just awe-soaked happy. Nothing complicated about them; enjoy the [bad word, capitalized. Select from extensive menu] out of them when they happen, then strive to remember them because the memory of being so happy will sustain your spirit through tough times.
I know whereof I peak.
Perhaps, as an asperger, I have been putting the Eightfold Noble Path of self-actualization into practice, full-bore, since I was four. The only hurdles are a wiring issue (asperger makes a convenient verbal label)that makes it hard for me to actualize what those AROUND me are thinking and feeling, (despite a heartfelt want and will to do just that!!) and the plain fact that poor health, especially the stealthy conditions such as clinical depression, directly attacks the experience-and-evaluate component of the consciousness.
Imo peak experiences are the times when we are most likely to practice unconditional self-acceptance. Maybe I've never had trouble with that, and have learned only through extensive reading that incomplete self-acceptance appears to be a pandemic issue of psychic hygiene.
In the immortal words of Soren Kierkegaard: Lighten up, Dude. It's a party!!
cheers js |
