Maslow:
Receptivity sounds easy until you begin to take a long look (below) at Maslow's description of how it is done. In true receptivity, time itself can disappear. It can be a total experience well worth it. Most likely, receptivity takes training and practice as in a lot of it.
Lindblom
"The good experiencer gets 'utterly lost in the present' . . .
He loses his past and his future for the time being and lives totally in the here-now experience. He is 'all there,' immersed, concentrated, fascinated."
In psychophysiological training, the client is encouraged to focus inward, concentrating only on mind/body activity and avoiding consideration or preoccupation with daily concerns.
"Self-consciousness is lost for the moment."
In order to concentrate on one's psychophysiological processes, one strives to recognize a particular kind of "self-consciousness," that is, certain attributes of the persona that involve self-protection, and focus with a different kind of self-consciousness: consciousness of the self as an ever-shifting matrix of mind/body activities.
"The experiencing is timeless, placeless, societyless, historyless."
MASLOW
Maslow, Abraham. (1966). The psychology of science: A reconaissance. New York, London: Harper & Row.
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