self-maintenance

And with their medicinal air, English terms for grooming can add to the impression that self-maintenance amounts to a litany of tedious chores: Remember to floss and stimulate those gums.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

And with their medicinal air, English terms for grooming can add to the impression that self-maintenance amounts to a litany of tedious chores: Remember to floss and stimulate those gums.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Worst of all, the author claims that the freedmen whose rights the amendments were supposed to protect "were utterly unsophisticated in either self-maintenance or self-governance," lacking "even rudimentary knowledge of social organization."

Lawrence Goldstone's "Inherently Unequal" 2011

This was not the first time La Forge had seen one of his people, or some other member of the Enterprise crew, take a brief respite from their duties in order to engage in a moment of “emotional self-maintenance,” as Dr. Hegol had once called it.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011

This was not the first time La Forge had seen one of his people, or some other member of the Enterprise crew, take a brief respite from their duties in order to engage in a moment of “emotional self-maintenance,” as Dr. Hegol had once called it.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011

Worst of all, the author claims that the freedmen whose rights the amendments were supposed to protect "were utterly unsophisticated in either self-maintenance or self-governance," lacking "even rudimentary knowledge of social organization."

Lawrence Goldstone's "Inherently Unequal" 2011

The same goes for psychological self-maintenance, but in reverse: first, you excrete shed the ego-dirt, the informational dust that gets in your mind's eye, the suffering of identification with what you are not; and, then, you "feed" yourself - through meditation and contemplation - with a sense of self, with a sense of "am-ness."

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

To the notion of psychological autopoiesis, to what an early 20th century Armenian mystic Gurdjieff used to call "self-remembering," to what I call "identity detox," i.e. to the work of psychological self-maintenance.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

When I say "psychological self-maintenance," I am not talking about emotional self-regulation mood management.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

But once a love is found, it does not mean that there is a happily even after automatically build in it and that it comes with this self-maintenance button that we can push.

Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: The Psychology of Heartbreak 2010