Existential Review Part 14 AFFIRMATION by Sasha Lessin, Ph.D.,
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[Based on Koestenbaum, P., The New Image of the Person: The Theory
and Practice of Clinical Psychology, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978.]

Now that you've familiarized yourself with the ideals in earlier lessons, continue the exploration of the existential model of
being starting with the next ideal; then share your results on this site.

SAY YES TO LIFE (AFFIRMATION) (Ideal 12)

Allow yourself natural optimism, joy and abundance. Affirm
life. "Make living itself the highest value." This is your moment
of eternal bliss and unique individual embodied pleasure, challenge
and reunion. Enjoy it.

This ideal, life, exists in the context of (and is a part of)
its polar opposite, death. Together life and death (limits) comprise
a dimension for embodied existence.

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

* List your joys, pleasures and fulfillments. Experience
the emotions, images, sounds, tastes, fragrances and intuitions
accompanying each. List and experience your appreciations.

Say "I am a beautiful and radiant, wondrous cosmic miracle."
Say it louder. Move your arms, trunk and legs, shout with all the
emotion, action and sound you can muster: "I am a beautiful and
radiant, wondrous cosmic miracle!"

* I Say yes to life by... (complete).
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Review: THE EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (See each on this site):

Realize the reciprocal INTERPLAY between you and what you
experience; learn of field theory, intentionality.

Experience yourself at several LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

Acknowledge that you are responsible; CHOOSE your attitudes
and reactions.

Consciously experience your ever-developing sense of yourself
as an individual and as humanity (phenomenologically SELF-DISCLOSE.)

Value PAIN and ANXIETY as opportunities to learn.

Use limits to make your life meaningful; reflect upon
NEGATION, FINITUDE and DEATH.

Live and reflect using phenomenological bracketing (EPOCHE)

Be INDEPENDENT, SELF-RELIANT and SUBJECTIVE (to balance out
love and commitment.)

Realize your own unique, creative INDIVIDUALITY.

Experience TRANSCENDENTAL SUBJECTIVITY; revere this core self
of each and all consciousness.

Realize you are free to CHOOSE your own values and self-
concepts

Accept GUILT for your choices as signals to do better.

Say YES to life. COMMIT yourself. Be REALISTIC.

LOVE and encounter others. Be FLEXIBLE and adaptable

Experience time living now, using the past, focused on your
future.

GROW; expand and transcend your self-definition.

Use contradictions, polarities, paradoxes and ambiguities as
opportunities to establish dialogues and DIALECTICS leading to
further growth.

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