Achieving mental health

• Life exists in the experience of every moment.
• For Rogers, a healthy self-concept is not a fixed identity but a fluid and changing entity, open to possibilities. The purpose of existence is not about reaching any kind of destination, because existence is less a journey towards an endpoint and more an ongoing process of growth and discovery that does not stop until we die.

Living "the good life"

• Fully in the stream of life
• One essential ingredient is the ability to stay wholly present in the moment. Since self and personality emerge out of the experience, it is of the utmost importance to stay fully open to the possibilities offered by each moment and to let experience shape the self.
• The aim is for experience to be the starting point for the construction of our personalities, rather than trying to fit our experiences into a preconceived notion of our sense of self. If we hold on to our ideas of how things should be, rather than accepting how they really are, we are likely to perceive our needs as "incongruent" or mismatched to what is available.