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Real Self
In Abraham Maslow’s Framework, the Real Self represents an individual’s most authentic and true nature—an ideal state where one’s thoughts, emotions, and actions align harmoniously with their deepest identity, values, and potential. In Maslow's frame, the Real Self is uncovered through processes of self-actualization, where individuals meet needs and overcome societal conditioning and their own insecurities to reach their fullest, most genuine expression (i.e., attain .[1]
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The Real Self is important and healthy people, according to Maslow, are aligned and Connected with this self. By contrast, mentally and emotionally unwell people are misaligned and disconnected from this inner Real Self.
Thinking in this way has had for me at least the one special advantage of directing my attention sharply to what I called at first "the impulse voices" but which had better be called more generally something like the "inner signals" (or cues or stimuli). I had not realized sufficiently that in most neuroses, and in many other disturbances as well, the inner signals become weak or even disappear entirely (as in the severely obsessional person) and/or are not "heard" or cannot be heard. At the extreme we have the experientially empty person, the zombie, the one with empty insides. Recovering the self must, as a sine qua non, include the recovery of the ability to have and to recognize these inner signals, to know what and whom one likes and dislikes. what is enjoyable and what is not, when to eat and when not to, when to sleep, when to urinate, when to rest.
The experientially empty person, lacking these directives from within, these voices of the real self, must turn to outer cues for guidance, for instance eating when the clock tells him to. rather than obeying his appetite (he has none). He guides himself by clocks. rules, calendars. schedules. agenda. and by hints and cues from other people."[2]
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B-Cognition, B-Realm, B-Values, Being-Guilt, Big Problem, D-Cognition, D-Realm, Deficiency Diseases, Eupsychia, Eupsychian Education, Eupsychian Psychology, Eupsychian Theory, Eupsychian Therapy, Good Person, Good Science, Good Society, Good Specimen, Growing-Tip Statistics, Hierarchy of Basic Needs, Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs, Human Diminution, Humanistic Psychology, Inner Signals, Intrinsic Conscience, Jonah Complex, Normalcy, Normative Biology, Peak Experience, Plateau Experience, Real Self, Self-Actualization, Transcending Self-Actualizers, Transhumanistic
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