ASSUMPTIONS

Parse’s (1981) original nine assumptions

1. Man is coexisting while co-constituting rhythmical patterns with the environment.
2. Man is an open being, freely choosing meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for decisions.
3. Man is a living unity co-continuously constituting patterns of relating.
4. Man is transcending multidimensionality with the possibles.
5. Health is an open process of becoming, experienced by man.
6. Health is a rhythmically co-constituting process of the man- environment interrelationship.
7. Health is man’s pattern of relating value priorities.
8. Health is an intersubjective process of transcending with the possibles.
9. Health is unitary man’s negentropic unfolding.

Parse (1987) cites the following distinctives of her theory

1. The belief that humans are more and different then the sum of their parts.
2. Human beings evolve mutually with the environment
3. Human beings cocreate personal health by choosing meaning in situations
4. Human beings convey meanings that are personal values, which reflect their dreams and hope.

The original nine assumptions are further synthesized into three assumptions on human becoming (1992)

1. Human becoming is freely choosing personal meaning in situations in the intersubjective process of relating value priorities.
2. Human becoming co-creating rhythmical patterns of relating in open interchange with the universe. 
3. Human becoming is contranscending multidimensionally with the unfolding possibilities.

Parse’s latest revision (1998)

1. The human is coexisting while coconstituting rhythmical patterns with the universe.
2. The human is open, freely choosing meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for decisions.
3. The human is unitary continuously coconstituting patterns of relating.
4. The human is transcending multidimensional with the possibles.
5. Becoming is unitary human- living-health.
6. Becoming is a rhythmically coconstituting process of the human- universe process.
7. Becoming is the human’s pattern of relating value priorities.
8. Becoming is an inter-subjective process of transcending with the possibles
9. Becoming is unitary human’s emerging.