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B-Values

According to Abraham Maslow, B-Values (Being Values) represent the ultimate goals of human existence, focusing on intrinsic, rather than extrinsic, qualities. These are things like the appreciation of beauty and the awesomeness of creation, the embracing of and expression of truth, the manifestation of one's calling, alignment with natural laws, modest dignity and pride, etc.[1] They are linked to the peak experiences and self-actualization stages of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.[2]

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B-Values > Alignment, Seven Essential Needs

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Notes

On the LP, B-Values and B-Needs and subsumed within the more comprehensive Circle of Seven Essential Needs.

According to Abraham Maslow, B-Values are the values that emerge when people have satisfied their basic needs. They represent a healthy expression of our human nature. [3]

Maslow characterized B-Values as B-Needs (Being-Needs) or Growth Needs. He suggested that motivation that drives us to satisfy these needs as Metamotivation. Maslow suggested that deprivation of the B-Needs led to Metapathology.

...the Being-values obviously are not Deficiency-needs. They are metaneeds,and they have a different quality. What I am describing now is growth motivation, and growth-needs are quite different from Deficiency needs. For one thing, you never get bored with growth. Never. This is indirect contrast to the basic needs, which can definitely become satiated....somehow, I have come to the hypothesis that to be deprived of Being-needs leads to emotional illness, or what I am calling metapathology. [4]

Maslow compared those living in the B-Realm to saints. He suggested that every one had saintly qualities which are variably expressed, and that people repress and block this aspect of themselves because of fear.

In his article Living the the World of Higher Values, Maslow provides suggestion on how to cultivate and live in the realm of higher values.[5]

Maslow suggests/implies that the goal of Human Development is to internalize these "Being-Values." he asks how we can create the Good Person, "how can we help move larger numbers of men and women to identify more fully with these values?" He suggests we begin our definition of the good human being by assuming the active presence of the Being-values and then providing specific methods for heightening these in everyone." He suggests a "meta-counseling" approach "combining the roles of "regular counselors, psychotherapists, and educators."[6]

Quotes

  1. Wholeness: Unity, integration, tendency to oneness, interconnectedness, simplicity, organization, structure, dichotomy transcendence, order.
  2. Perfection: Necessity, just-right-ness, just-so-ness, inevitability, suitability, justice, completeness, “oughtness.”
  3. Completion: Ending, finality, justice, “it’s finished,” fulfillment, finis and telos, destiny, fate.
  4. Justice: Fairness, orderliness, lawfulness, “oughtness.”
  5. Aliveness: Process, non-deadness, spontaneity, self-regulation, full-functioning.
  6. Richness: Differentiation, complexity, intricacy.
  7. Simplicity: Honesty, nakedness, essentiality, abstract, essential skeletal structure.
  8. Beauty: Rightness, form, aliveness, simplicity, richness, wholeness, perfection, completion, uniqueness, honesty.
  9. Goodness: Rightness, desirability, oughtness, justice, benevolence, honesty.
  10. Uniqueness: Idiosyncrasy, individuality, non-comparability, novelty.
  11. Effortlessness: Ease, lack of strain, striving or difficulty, grace, perfect beautiful functioning.
  12. Playfulness: Fun, joy, amusement, gaiety, humor, exuberance, effortlessness.
  13. Truth: Honesty, reality, nakedness, simplicity, richness, oughtness, beauty, pure, clean and unadulterated, completeness, essentiality.
  14. Self-sufficiency: Autonomy, independence, not needing other than itself in order to be itself, self-determining, environment transcendence, separateness, living by its own laws.[7]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Maslow, Abraham H. “Living in the World of Higher Values.” In Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow, edited by Edward Hoffman, 73–77. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/future-visions/book8426.
  2. ↑ A. H. Maslow, Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition) (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968).
  3. ↑ Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow, edited by Edward Hoffman, 88–98. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/future-visions/book8426.
  4. ↑ Maslow, Abraham H. “Higher Motivation and the New Psychology.” In Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow, edited by Edward Hoffman, 88–98. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. p. 93. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/future-visions/book8426.
  5. ↑ Maslow, Abraham H. “Living in the World of Higher Values.” In Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow, edited by Edward Hoffman, 73–77. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/future-visions/book8426.
  6. ↑ Maslow, Abraham H. “Living in the World of Higher Values.” In Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow, edited by Edward Hoffman, 73–77. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. p. 92. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/future-visions/book8426.
  7. ↑ A. H. Maslow, Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition) (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968). p. 83.


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