What If Our Senses Were Even Greater

Chapter 11

Discussion

Rogers’ five qualities—(a) Openness to experience, (b) Existential living, (c) Organismic trusting, (d) Experiential freedom, and (e) Creativity—help to bring about the ideal self, which is what drives the actualized self. For an individual to be self-actualized, he has to be tapped into each of these five qualities. The qualities that I think are most important for full-functioning are openness to experience and experiential freedom. One not only has to be open to experience but one also has to have the freedom to indulge in experience. If one is had without the other, the experience required for development of the actualized self cannot be obtained.

The least important quality is creativity. This is not to say it is not required at all because it is still essential, but it comes after organismic trust, which is the ability to value what the self is telling you, and the existential living, the ability to live one’s life and exist in it. Creativity comes last in that it is a driving force that enables the actualized self to manifest itself in creative ways—so of course it is vital but it is conditional in a sense upon the other qualities.

Rogers’ view compares with Maslow’s in that Maslow had developed a hierarchy of needs that individuals had to have met before they could reach self-actualization. The hierarchy started with basic human needs like shelter and security and climbed upwards to love, friendship and esteem, and finally to self-determination. Adler’s approach was similar in that people are basically just trying to survive with the cards they’ve been dealt in life. He rejected the determinism of Freud and Jung and view people as conscious beings making choices based on their environment and what they desired to achieve for themselves.

Response to Peer: Michelle Pogas

These qualities, I would agree, are related to personality—but I think the relationship is probably more complex than we are able to explain. For me, it is like a chicken and the egg type of problem: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Which came first in the human, the personality or the qualities? I imagine there is some kind of fluid relationship between the two. I would also say that the way in which these qualities go along with the personality is that they all inform one another. The qualities and the personality are like two peas in one pod: they have incubated together, grown together in the same person. So it should not be surprising that they exist together and that they are linked in different ways.

Chapter 12

Discussion

The Wellness Center is a wellness facility that offers holistic therapies, traditional therapies, yoga, and other options for people looking for wellness. There are also health education classes available and classes for pregnant women, along with yoga classes for pregnant women, speech therapy and multiple other types of care provided. The business is run by a speech language pathologist and a school psychologist with a specialty in yoga and disabilities.

The cost of services depends upon the type of service provided—and there are a lot of different services, from massages to tutoring to exercise training. All different types of people are eligible for receive the services. There is essentially something for everyone at the Wellness Center.

Individuals can access the Wellness Center by making an appointment online or by calling the Center for an appointment. One can also simply go to the Center and make an appointment in person or get to know the staff and team in charge of providing all the different services that are available for the patrons. The address is: 13385 W. McDowell Rd., Goodyear, AZ 85395, and the phone contact number is: 623-986-5110. Email contact information is also available: [email protected].

Response to Peer

The My Hope Health and Wellness Center looks like a good place to go for people who have suffered some type of injury and are in need of rehabilitation. Whether one has been in a car accident, is just suffering from back or neck pain, is in need of physical therapy, wants a massage, needs to lose weight to get into a healthier state, is looking to have laser surgery, or has suffered a sports injury, this Center offers all the things an individual might like to have for treatment.