PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peak Experience, Social Forces
16 Mar 2016
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Always posiive experience: being is neutral or good; evil comes from not seeing world as it is, true understanding leads to clarity, kindliness, compassion. Provides diferent view of reality: see thigns from other views, more open to diferent angles. Experienced as awesome, wonderful: st theresa of avila. Compassion: overwhelming and strong compassion, want others to share in your joys too, connectedness. Falling away from negaive emoions: become overall more posiive. More spontaneous and expressive: self consciousness is not self awareness; self consciousness is not aobut slef, concern about way we are being judged by others; not our own insincts. More efortless, natural: doesn"t feel like work, sense of pleasure or natural efortlessness. More fully funcioning: using all capaciies and fulilling all ability, funcioning to highest degree and standard of work, peak of abiliies; conident. More in charge: make criical decisions, less at the whim of social forces and not inluenced by social constraints/surroundings, follow your gut insincts.
