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To: Rambi who wrote (69916)	1/19/2009 12:16:31 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Self actualization, imo, is a lot like developing "mindfulness". You're really just trying to look at yourself, and make the most of your life, and each moment, while trying to see your strengths and weaknesses and deal with them. As we age some of us do this naturally. It's nice someone put a "name" on it, but still, the process came before the name. Really healthy happy people can do this without having a name to put on the way they go through life.

To: Rambi who wrote (69916)	1/19/2009 12:53:09 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

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