About Self Transformation
Tree of Life
“The purpose of our lives is to develop virtues. Tests can be seen as opportunities to practice these virtues. When we do not actively seek these opportunties, then God brings them to us. These tests are the tools God uses to help us learn how to reflect His qualities.” (Written By Justice Saint Rain)
Self-help or self-improvement refers to self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—most frequently with a substantial psychological or spiritual basis. (Wikepedia)
Self-Actualization: People that have reached self-actualization are characterized by certain behaviors. Common traits amongst people that have reached self-actualization are as follows:
- They embrace reality and facts rather than denying truth.
- They are spontaneous.
- They are interested in solving problems.
- They are accepting of themselves and others and lack prejudice.
(For the self-help techies…..here’s more detail…”For Goldstein it was a motive and for Maslow it was a level of development; for both, however, roughly the same kinds of qualities were expressed: independence, autonomy, a tendency to form few but deep friendships, a “philosophical” sense of humor, a tendency to resist outside pressures and a general transcendence of the environment rather than a simple “coping” with it.”)
Self-Actualization Again: A more explicit definition of self-actualization according to Maslow is “intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately of what is the organism itself…self-actualization is growth-motivated rather than deficiency-motivated.”
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
