Second Term Third Journal : Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow wanted to understand what motivates people. He believed that individuals possess a set of motivation systems unrelated to rewards or unconscious desires.

Maslow (1943) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fulifil the next one, and so on.

The earliest and most widespread version of Maslow's (1943, 1954) hierarchy of needs includes five motivational needs, often depicted as hierachical levels within a pyramid.

This five stage model can be divided into basic (or deficiency) needs (e.g. physiological, safety, love, and esteem) and growth needs (self-actualization).

One must satisfy lower level basic needs before progressing on to meet higher level growth needs.  Once these needs have been reasonably satisfied, one may be able to reach the highest level called self-actualization.

Every person is capable and has the desire to move up the hierarchy toward a level of self-actualization.  Unfortunately, progress is often disrupted by failure to meet lower level needs. Life experiences including divorce and loss of job may cause an individual to fluctuate between levels of he hierarchy.

Maslow noted only one in a hundred people become fully self-actualized because our society rewards motivation primarily based on esteem, love and other social needs.

The original hierarchy of needs five-stage model includes:

1. Biological and Physiological needs - air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep.

2. Safety needs - protection from elements, security, order, law, limits, stability.

3. Social Needs - Belongingness and Love, - work group, family, affection, relationships.

4. Esteem needs - self-esteem, achievement, mastery, independence, status, dominance, prestige, managerial responsibility.

5. Self-Actualization needs - realizing personal potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences.

Here is a video of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. The video explains what these needs are. You can see these needs in anyone's routine life. You can understand well what the needs I have written are thanks to this video. Actually these needs are so basic for our life. People and the all creatures have some basic needs for surviving and I think Maslow states these needs in a good way. I hope you will understand  all what I mean after watching this video.

Second Term Second Journal : Astal Travel

     Aatral travel is an interpretation of out of body experience that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it. Astral projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving the physical to travel in the astral plane.

     The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife in which the consciousness' or soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an... out-of body experience, where in the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dreambody or astral body) into ‘higher’ realms." It is therefore associated with near death experience sand is also frequently reported as spontaneously experienced in association with sleep and dreams, illness, surgical operations, drug experiences, sleep paralysis and forms of meditation.

       It is sometimes attempted out of curiosity, or may be believed to be necessary to, or the result of, some forms of spiritual practice. It may involve "travel to higher realms" called astral planes but is commonly used to describe any sensation of being "out of the body" in the everyday world, even seeing one's body from outside or above. It may be reported in the form of an apparitional experience, a supposed encounter with a doppelgänger, some living person also seen somewhere else at the same time.

     Through the 1960s and 1970s, surveys reported percentages ranging from 8 percent to as many as 50 percent (in certain groups) of respondents who state they had such an experience.The subjective nature of the experience permits explanations that do not rely on the existence of an "astral" body and plane.

 3 Ways to Perform Astral Travel :

1-Prepare the body and mind for astral travel   
   -Start in the morning.
   -Create the right atmosphere.
   -Lie down and relax.
2-Move the soul from the body
   -Reach a hypnotic state.
   -Enter a state of vibration.
   -Use your mind to move your soul from your body.
   -Return to your body.
3-Explore the astral plane.
   -Confirm that you are projecting your soul from your body.
   -Explore further.
   -Always return to your body.

I think this video is so clear that you can understand exactly what astral projection is. Even though I am keen on dreams and spiritual concepts, I am afraid of all of them. I have never tried experiencing astal projection.  But, researching this subject and informing you about that are enjoyable. I hope this video will help you. Enjoy watching. :)