Carl R. Rogers Let me conclude by drawing together these observational threads into a more unified strand. As I have observed individuals who appear to have made important strides toward psychological health, I believe they may be thought of as moving toward an implicit goal - that of becoming a fully functioning person. I find such a person to be a human being in flow, in process, rather than having achieved some state.
Fluid change is central in the picture.
I find such a person to be sensitively open to all of his experience - sensitive to what is going on in his environment, sensitive to other individuals with wwhom he is in relationship, and sensitive perhaps most of all to the feelings, reactions, and emergent meanings which he discovers in himself. The fear of some aspects of his own experience continues to diminish, so that more and more of his life is available to him. Such a person experiences in the present, with immediacy. He is able to live in his feelings and reactions of the moment. He is not bound by the structure of his past learnins, but these are a present resource for him insofar as they relate to the experience of the moment.