Level I contains the ‘building blocks’ of information which serve as a foundation to the later levels – e.g., balance, reason, emotion management, family of origin, and more.

“[a man] must know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible”
~ Socrates

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a
human being can alter his life by altering his attitude of mind”
~ William James

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature;
It is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting”
~ Cicero

“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is”
~ Seneca

“The man who never makes a mistake
Must get tired of doing nothing”
~ Herbert V. Prochnow, Sr.

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown
into the world, he is responsible for everything he does”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter,
when they themselves have poisoned the fountain”
~ John Locke

Fight, flight, freeze or posture – four reactions to stressful events