Returning to pursuits that provide you with
peak experiences of flow throughout life keeps your energy and creativity fresh, flexible, and alive in you, opening possibilities for further adventures and joys.
They could have more
peak experiences of living and ministry.
In plateau times, when life goes fiat, it helps to return to these jottings and enjoy reliving
the peak experience of a child's smile, a breathtaking sunset, a moving encounter with a person, a sexual high, a majestic strain of music, a feeling of connectedness with the flow of life and with the Spirit of the universe.
The fullest extension of this phenomenon occurs in
the peak experience of being one with the universe, which is the discovery that the individual act of becoming is «the universe incarnating itself as one» (PR 375).
Sure, they didn't actually give birth, and they have missed out on
the peak experience of a woman's life, but is that their fault?
Come together as a global conscious community at the Sattva Summit in the foothills of the Himalayas for
a peak experience of yoga, meditation, deep wisdom, inspiring movement and transformative service!
Thus, I left Chicago feeling
another peak experience of seeing Al Gore, enhancing my knowledge of how to give better climate change talks, and mentoring 20 Climate Reality Leaders.
Nothing else on the planet gets close to
the peak experience of Burning Man.
Not exact matches
These are the feelings
of hope, optimism and resilience, which team members need to
experience so they can perform at their
peak.
«In our
experience, markets tend to over-react to political shocks, as was seen in the example
of Tiananmen Square — where the Hang Seng fell 22 % in a single day, losing 37 % from its
peak over the entirety
of the protest period, before steadily recovering back to previous
peak over the following year,» the team wrote.
«Generally, people get it, because they've
experienced the
peaks and valleys
of agency work, and they know there will come a time when they're not that busy and they'll have more free time,» he says.
«However, an investor who bought the S&P 500 10 percent below its
peak without waiting for a bottom would have
experienced positive three -, six -, and 12 - month returns in 75 percent
of corrections.»
Chris is an author, consultant, and speaker with over 30 years
of experience assisting leaders
of business and government in engendering new and transformative possibilities that drive
peak performance cultures.
Less than two years ago, the company was riding high,
experiencing explosive growth, but things
peaked in the summer
of 2013, when it raised $ 150 million in funding at a valuation
of $ 1 billion.
In a
peak performance culture, everyone is expected to take difficult stands and have difficult conversations whenever they
experience a core operating principle
of the organization being violated regardless
of the perceived danger that creates.
Yet the fact that these 13 years have included three successive approaches (2000, 2007, and today) to valuation
peaks - at the very extremes
of historical
experience - is evidence that investors don't appreciate the link between valuation and subsequent returns.
And she also has the
experience of working for Launch Media, which started in 1999 and was later sold to Yahoo, when the search engine provider was at its
peak.
In fact, given that the U.S. labor market likely
experienced its cyclical
peak at the end
of 2015 and the Fed began raising rates too late in my opinion, current Fed Funds futures are pricing in essentially only one hike in 2016, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.
Tron, which currently ranks 14th at the time
of writing, has
experienced remarkable success in recent months since its $ 70 million Dollar ICO in 2017, with its value reaching a
peak in early January.
The shaded area shows the amount
of market gain that would be required to recover the
peak - to - trough drawdown
experienced by the corresponding stock index (S&P for Fed interventions, EuroStoxx for ECB interventions, FTSE for BOE interventions) in the 6 - month period preceding the quantitative easing operation.
By LEWIS JOHNSON — Co-Chief Investment Officer May 4, 2017 In December's Navigating Confused Seas, we noted our expectation that 2017 would likely
experience a stronger first half
of the year, followed by a mid-year
peak in the inventory cycle.
In fact, Flipkart had
experienced several valuation markdowns by American mutual funds, including Vanguard Group, Fidelity, Valic Co. and T Rowe Price, throughout 2016, compared to its
peak of $ 142.24 in June 2015.
Still, our stumble in the recent cycle, though far smaller than what the market itself
experienced in 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009, was quite awful in relative terms, as the speculation encouraged in this half - cycle by Fed - induced yield seeking has seen no equal outside
of the run to the 1929 and 2000
peaks.
Now, because the U.S.
experienced deflation during the Depression, Ezrati notes that the S&P 500 earned a real return
of about 1 % during the decade starting from the 1929
peak.
According to the chart, silver
peaked in 2011 when it ran from $ 33 to $ 50 without much pause, before collapsing and
experiencing the two years
of soft prices, bringing the metal as low as the $ 18 handle.
$ 34.95 We are
experiencing a period
of unprecedented charitable giving in America (it
peaked in 1989 and was precipitated,
of course, by what liberals have identified as «the politics
of greed»), and we....
But thousands
of youth dabble in drug use, particularly «pot,» to share in a peer - group ritual, for a «
peak experience,» or simply to try something exciting
of which the square adult world vigorously disapproves.
In Religions, Values, and
Peak Experiences, social psychologist Abraham Maslow noted how the great religions of the world developed around the religious experiences of the prophet and his or her early
Experiences, social psychologist Abraham Maslow noted how the great religions
of the world developed around the religious
experiences of the prophet and his or her early
experiences of the prophet and his or her early followers.
Anyone who doubts this ought to reread that brilliant, genreconscious postmodernist (not existentialist) Soren Kierkegaard on sin, grace and the decentered Christian self Even the otherwise happy recovery
of the traditions
of Christian spirituality in our day are also in danger
of becoming further fine - tuning, further new
peak experiences for the omnivorously consuming modem self.
For the pragmatist James the cross-cultural study
of religion was essential because it presented human beings at the passionate
peak of their shared
experience.
Consider the following argument: [4] If the property
of moral goodness is identical with the property
of neurobiological well - being, then one inhabits the
peaks of the moral landscape when and only when one
experiences neurobiological well - being.
Psychologist Abraham Maslow regarded such moments as «
peak experiences,» little moments
of self - actualization which are one
of the ways we grow.
Peak experiences are invaluable resources for handling constructively the accelerating losses
of the mid-years.
When television first began, the mainline churches were
experiencing the
peak of their membership and influence in society.
Abraham Maslow describes the «
peak -
experiences» which are the raw material
of religions.13.
The emphasis on the value
of experiencing pleasure, love, and
peak experiences, makes for a whole new and freer approach to sex on the part
of many young people, an area which is particularly distressing to parents who view the new morality
of youth as immorality.
Have you ever had any sort
of mystical
experience, or as A. H. Maslow puts it in humanistic terms, a
peak experience?
For an excellent discussion
of this issue, cf. Abraham H. Maslow, Religions, Values and
Peak -
Experiences (New York: Viking Press.
If the aborted child seems forgotten in Nathanson's focus on her own suffering, that is only a temporary lapse; the child is, after all, another means to self - actualization: motherhood envisioned as an «unparalleled
peak of the mountain»
of personal
experience.
Second, growth counseling involves a variety
of growth - stimulating methods to help people use more
of their potentialities by (1) developing better communication with self, others, nature, and God — the four basic relationships within which all growth occurs; (2) developing new skills
of relating in mutually - affirming, mutually - fulfilling ways; (3) growing by making constructive decisions and taking responsible action; (4) using the growth possibilities inherent in each life stage; (5) learning to use the pain and problems
of unexpected crises as growth opportunities; (6) learning better methods
of spiritual growth — the maturing
of one's personal faith, working values, sense
of purpose,
peak experiences, and awareness
of really belonging in the universe.
The resonance model for revelation also fits the
peak -
experience data
of man's religious
experience (RVPE; TPB 71 - 114).
At the end
of an intensive group it is well to point out that something
of a letdown is natural after any mountain -
peak experience.
It is difficult to explain the
peak experience in terms
of a simple expansion
of consciousness because the type
of consciousness exhibited in this
experience seems to represent a transcendent disconnection from the ordinary, discriminate modes
of consciousness:
The only respect in which the LSD
experience might fail to qualify as mystical would be in terms
of the definition
of mysticism as a process; and then the failure would not be a failure
of the
experience itself, but a failure by a subject to integrate the
peak experience into the greater whole
of experience.
More Importantly, it illustrates the exponential character
of the
experience that contributes to the feeling
of peak experience as ultimate and climactic.
The feeling
of ultimacy in the
peak experience derives from the transmutation into contrast
of the subject / object polarity that one feels ordinarily as an opposition.
If, instead, we use the notion
of LSD as an amplifier
of mental processes, which in turn results in intensification
of feeling due to the development
of contrast, we can provide an explanation
of peak experience as a logical extension
of the lower level phenomena.
In response to many
of the comments about extra liquid which I did not
experience: I whipped real egg whites by hand with a pinch
of cream
of tartar as stabilizer and had stiff
peaks inside
of 3 minutes.
Especially at its
peak, everything it did pertained to its brand
of providing a refined, cultural
experience.
From their hidden source in the forest to their glory on the table, North America's finest culinary truffles are presented at their
peak of ripeness at the height
of the winter season, offering an authentic truffle
experience found nowhere else on this continent.