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Psychologist Abraham Maslow's theory of self-actualization contends that individuals are motivated to fulfill their potential in life. Self-actualization is typically discussed in conjunction with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which posits that self-actualization sits at the top of a hierarchy above four "lower" needs. Origins of the Theory During the mid-20th century, the theories of psychoanalysis and behaviorism were prominent in the field of psychology. Though largely very different, these two perspectives shared a general assumption that people are driven by forces beyond their control. In response to this assumption, a new perspective, called humanistic psychology, arose. The humanists wanted to offer a more optimistic, agentive perspective on human striving. The theory of self-actualization emerged out of this humanistic perspective. Humanistic psychologists claimed that people are driven by higher needs, particularly the need to actualize the self. In contras...

Everything I know about a good death I learned from my cat To say a cat and I have one thing in common is an understatement. We both have nine lives. My cat has been dying for the last four years. It's a slow death. It is normal to me now — it is simply the state of affairs. There's a rhythm to her medication: prednisone and urosodiol in the morning, urosodiol again in the evening, chemo every other day, a vitamin B shot once a week. And now, toward the end, painkillers. Over these last two years, I've come to suspect that my cat has gotten better, more comprehensive planning around her eventual death than most people do. Fyodor Dostoevsky — Dottie, to her friends — is a cat I adopted in Brooklyn from a local vet; she made the round-the-world, cross-country hop with me to Sta. Barbara with minimal fuss. Her attitude, most of the time, is that of a 14-year-old Marxist in a mustachioed, Che Guevara on a T-shirt. One of her favorite moods is murder. Whenever, I inadvertent...

-- Cheers, John ( João ) A. Silva 805 291 6470 Mobile (VM) "The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours -- it is an amazing journey -- and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins." -- B Moawad, author      Share:   ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mike Dooley - TUT < fun@tut.com > Date: Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 9:07 AM Subject: My brush with health, healing, and miracles... To: < joaoa.dsilva2017@gmail.com > Jambo! I'm not sure if it's my age, but I'm hearing about more people than ever having their entire world turned upside down by pain, cancer, and illness. Of course, after hearing such news, I do my best to focus on the truth – life's magic a...

Reproductive Tech Will Let Future Humans Inhabit the Body They Truly Want When Caleb Wilvich read about the first woman in the U.S. to have a baby via a uterine transplant in early December, they were stoked. Wilvich, who uses the pronoun “they,” has always wanted to give birth, and never had a uterus. Wilvich is 29 and works an office job in a suburb of Seattle; in their free time, they’re a piano player and an a capella singer. They identify as genderqueer and transfeminine, assigned male at birth and living in a more ambiguous, feminine gender today. Their gender dysphoria, they tell me, “is hard to describe to a cis [non-trans] person.” Suffice it to say that being male-assigned, with a beard and leg hair, means it’s not easy for them to inhabit the body they imagine for themselves. “Since before puberty, I’ve wanted the ability to be able to just snap my fingers and become a cisgender woman. I don’t even care about conventional attractiveness.” Coming out as transgender was a l...

Seven ways to minimise the risk of having a stroke Reducing the Risk of Stroke Reduce medical stroke risks * High blood pressure. Most people can control high blood pressure by eating a low-salt diet with plenty of vegetables and fruits, by getting regular exercise, and by taking * blood pressure medications exactly as prescribed. * High cholesterol and atherosclerosis. ... * Atrial fibrillation. ... * Diabetes. Knowing the signs and seeking early treatment can lessen damage caused by a stroke, or prevent them altogether. Here are steps you can take, from monitoring your blood pressure to keeping cholesterol in check A CAT scan of brain and base of skull after a stroke. Here are seven ways to start reining in your risks today to avoid stroke, before a stroke has the chance to strike. * Lower blood pressure. ... * Lose weight. ... * Exercise more. ... * If you drink — do it in moderation. ... * Treat atrial fibrillation. ... * Treat diabetes. ... * Quit smoking. ...

We could move to another planet with a spaceship like this Our best guess for what it would take to get to planets that are really, really far away. Proxima b, our nearest neighboring exoplanet, is almost 25 trillion miles away. Even one of our fastest spaceships—the 31,600-​mile-​per-​hour New Horizons—would take hundreds of thousands of years to get there. Assuming we can’t figure out how to warp space-time (seems unlikely, but fingers crossed), we’re still looking at a couple-hundred-year trip in the best-case scenario, which leads to the real problem: No human crew could survive the entire ride. Science-fiction writers have long floated so-​called generation ships as a solution. Designers would outfit these interplanetary cruise vessels to support a ­community of adults and their children, and their children’s children, and their children’s children’s children…until humanity finally reaches a new celestia...

Winter Camping: How To Get Outdoors When It's Freezing Cold and Beyond... It can beat summer camping—if you plan it right.    Winter opens up a whole new avenue of transportation. You can ski, snowshoe. It’s actually easier than in the summer. There are no rocks, no mud. You’re on snowshoes or micro spikes or crampons. Snow is a durable surface, too. Just keep your body temperature regulated. Sweat is deadly. You want a sunny, high-pressure day. You can see forever. Great Gear ______________ The Ultimate Camping Gear Guide The Best Camping Gear for Kids The main thing is: You need a goal. You want something to accomplish. You want to climb something. My scouts always have a goal. I took my troop out camping once and it got down to minus 20. Even though they were absolutely frickin’ miserable, they never shut up about it afterward. Because we had a goal. Maybe it’s just learning to survive, or get from A to B in snowshoes, but when you achieve that go...