Basic Postulate

• • First Postulate
  • refers to a living, changing, moving human being.

  Person's processes
• • to suggest that people move with a direction through a network of pathways or channels.
  • The network, however, is flexible, both facilitating and restricting people’s range of action.
  • In addition, the term avoids the implication that some sort of energy is being transformed into action

  Channelized
• People are already in movement; they merely channelize or direct their processes toward some end or purpose
• • suggests that people guide their actions according to their predictions of the future.
  • Neither the past nor the future per se determines our behavior. Rather, our present view of the future shapes our actions.

  ways of anticipating events