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As an interdisciplinary exploration within the fields of physiology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy, I have identified five theoretical characteristics of personal peacefulness: sentience, allostasis–homeostasis, spirituality, and self–personhood. These characteristics constitute a basis for a wholeness of peaceful well-being through their interface with three common elements manifesting (albeit differently) throughout all of the five characteristics. They are: caring from within the nature of presence, self-relating relation, and thoughtful (caring and cognition) syntaxic awareness. Then, there are four areas within the homeostatic–allostatic field of characteristics: organic foundations of personal peacefulness, describing the plateau of constancy, organic self-relating, and undifferentiated personal caring. These phenomena become aspects of our personal and interpersonal consciousness, attitudes, and behaviors through the structures of self and personhood. Nine Synthesizing Summaries embedded within the characteristics and common elements serve as a coherent statement of the model. There are two overall goals: (1) to provide an educational model for learning and personal practice and (2) to lay a foundation for a basic science of personal peace using the broadest possible range of parameters.
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Sims, G. (2014). Towards a Theoretical Model of Personal Peacefulness. In: Sims, G., Nelson, L., Puopolo, M. (eds) Personal Peacefulness. Peace Psychology Book Series, vol 20. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9366-2_8
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