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SELF-ACTUALIZED
You've made it to SELF-ACTUALIZATION! Unfortunately,
the journey doesn't stop here, but the 'needs' does. You no longer
have a deficit, you now have what Maslow called 'growth motivation'.
This is the continuous desire to fulfill your potential, to be all
that you were created to be, to go beyond, to reach new levels,
to expand and to continuously grow. This is where you seek to be
your most Fullest Self, your God Self or your Actual Self.
The Center helps the self-actualized person by
continually offering life-expanding courses, workshops, books and
articles. We further assist the self-actualizer through support
and mastermind groups.
Only through satisfying our lower needs can we
consider self-actualization. If you are hungry, your only thought
is that of food. If you are homeless, your only thought is that
of survival. If you lack love, your only thought is to find love.
If you lack self esteem, your only that is to find approval. If
you lack self-fulfillment your only thought is to find fulfillment.
Yet, once these needs are met you are ready to reach for the stars
and it is in your highest essence of self that self-actualization
exist.
Self-Actualizers View of the
World
The self-actualized person views the world totally
different than those who carry unsatisfied needs or blockages.
- They have great discernment, which means they
can differentiate between what is absolute and what is illusion.
- They are solution-centered, meaning they don't
take problems on as difficulties they handle them first hand.
- They feel that the journey is just as important
as the end.
- They enjoy being alone and require privacy.
- They relying instead on their own intuition.
- They are not susceptible to social pressure.
They are nonconformists, to say the least.
Their gentle nature makes them appear to be conservative, although
they are nonconformists.
- They treasure diversity, and individualism.
- They are compassionate and care about humanity.
- They shy away from shallow relationships but
enjoy intimate personal relations with a few close friends and
family members.
- They have a great sense of humor.
- They are inclusive. They accept others as they
are. In other words, they don't seek to change others.
- They are completely self-accepting. Meaning they
enjoy their uniqueness.
- They are spontaneous and simple.
- They are appreciative and have an ability to
see the miracle in things.
- They are, of course, creative, inventive, and
original.
- They tend to have more spiritual experiences
than the average person. A spiritual experience is one that takes
you out of yourself, that makes you feel very tiny, or very large,
to some extent one with life or nature or God. It gives you a
feeling of being a part of the infinite and the eternal. These
experiences tend to leave their mark on a person, change them
for the better, and many people actively seek them out.
According to Maslow the self-actualizer has certain
driving requirements in order to be happy. They require:
Truth, rather
than dishonesty.
Goodness, rather than evil.
Beauty, not ugliness or vulgarity.
Unity, wholeness, and transcendence
of opposites, not arbitrariness.
Aliveness, not deadness or the
mechanization of life.
Uniqueness, not bland uniformity.
Perfection and necessity, not
sloppiness, inconsistency, or accident.
Completion, rather than incompleteness.
Justice and order, not injustice
and lawlessness.
Simplicity, not unnecessary
complexity.
Richness, not environmental
impoverishment.
Effortlessness, not strain.
Playfulness, not grim, humorless,
drudgery.
Self-sufficiency, not dependency.
Meaningfulness, rather than
senselessness.
The self-actualized person's characteristics are
unique indeed. Some would say that they are born this way, while
others would protest that they have become this way. In either case,
all would agree that our world would be a much better place if we
all aspired for self-actualization.
The Center for Self-Actualization, Inc. is driven
to see Maslow's dream come to life: the dream of self-actualization
becoming a primary quest for the majority of people.
WE ARE:
Enthusiastic
Encouraging
Efficient
Effective
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