[Neurons] Unleashed: A Guide to Your Ultimate Self-Actualization

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From: L. Michael Hall


I just realized that I have not been promoting the Neuro-Semantic book on Self-Actualization --- and so here goes. 

The book is entitled ---    Unleashed: A Guide to Your Ultimate Self-Actualization 
Pages:  312 pages
Softback 
Published by Neuro-Semantic Publications
Price:  $25   (there are discounts when ordering in volume)
Credit Cards:  Visa and Master Card
Shipping:   $5 in USA and $11 outside.

Contact:  L. Michael Hall
                 meta @ onlinecol.com   


What is in the book?   
Here is the Table of Contents:
And after that The Preface ---

UNLEASHED

A Guide to Your Ultimate Self-Actualization


Preface                                                                                                                         3

Waking Up to the Possibilities                                                                               6

1. The Vision                                                                                                                 8

2. The Metaphor                                                                                                            21

3. The Attitude                                                                                                               26

4. The Drama                                                                                                                 38

Act I: The Construct of Self-Actualization                                                             47

5. The Construct                                                                                                             50

6. Mastering the Construct                                                                                             66

7. The Quadrants                                                                                                             80

8. The Impulse Engines                                                                                                 98

9. Jumping to Warp Speed                                                                                         113

Act II: The Crucible of Self-Actualization                                                              124

10. The Crucible                                                                                                             125

11. Transforming Emotions                                                                                             136

12. Power Zone                                                                                                                 150

13. Choice Point                                                                                                                167

14. Ego Matters                                                                                                                 177

15. Safety Nets                                                                                                                   191

16. Synergizing                                                                                                                    199

Act III: The Zone of Self-Actualization                                                                         209

17. Flow                                                                                                                                213

18. The Stretch                                                                                                                     225

19. The Mirror                                                                                                                       237

20. Capitalizing Problems                                                                                                 252

21. Love                                                                                                                                264

22. Joyfully Playful                                                                                                                 271

23. Valuing the Highest and Best                                                                                       281

24. Toward a Self-Actualizing Culture                                                                                289

23. What they didn't tell you about Self-Actualization                                                       298

Here's to Your Full Unleashing!                                                                                             310

Appendix A: What's Next in Self-Actualization                                                                   313

Appendix B: Meta-Questions                                                                                                 314

Bibliography                                                                                                                              318

Index                                                                                                                                         324










Here is the Preface to the book:



PREFACE



"What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters

compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson








This book is about one thing and one thing only-

Unleashing the potentials within you so you can discover and experience all that you have to offer as you experience more peak experiences of "flow" and take your performances to ever higher levels.

This is "self-actualization." In self-actualizing, you actualize yourself as you mobilize all of your inner psychological resources as well as all of your outer relational, social, and environmental resources to make your life all that it can be.

In the drama of making this happen, you will discover how to release everything that holds you back, everything that interferes with your possibilities, and everything that undermines your courage to break out of the limitations that may now be holding you back. Are you ready for this?

If this seems like a big order, it absolutely is! It is an enormous vision about life, meaning, and ourselves. And if you entertain this vision to become all you can become, you will be embarking on a lifelong adventure in discovering your authenticity as you develop the best version of you.

I believe this is critically important? The reason is because only then will you feel completely at home in your own skin, real, authentic, congruent, and able to be completely present. Consider the opposite. What do you feel, and how do you act, when you aren't experiencing life in this way? Typically we feel disconnected from any exciting passion, we feel an anxiety about trying to figure out what we're supposed to be doing, what we really want, perhaps even frustrated or even depressed with our current life. If you are not in the process of self-actualizing, the very quality of your life will suffer.

Every day I talk to people about these things. For more than a decade I've been running a workshop on self-actualization called Accessing Personal Genius (APG), which is designed to enable people to wake up to the possibilities and to discover their innate powers for finding their passions and being able to step into a "flow" state of total engagement. Over ten thousand people in two dozen countries have experienced APG which has given me an extensive appreciation of the challenges and processes.

Before that I had a private psychotherapy practice in which I focused on such things as "empowerment," personal effectiveness, and business success. I didn't start out in psychology with that emphasis. My training in psychology did not introduce me to the bright side of human nature, but to the dark side. I was introduced to how people get hurt and traumatized. How people become "disordered" in their personality so that they feel messed-up in their mind and emotions.

I started there, but I didn't stay there. Eventually I started reading the works of Maslow and others in the Human Potential Movement and that awakened in me a whole new focus and perspective. It awakened in me a desire to discover my own potentials and to see what "greatness" could or does lie within myself and others.

So this book is a strength basis approach of psychology that assumes there's more to life than just fixing broken things. There's the whole question about what it means to be a fully functioning human being. There's the question of living with meaning and passion, of enjoying life, of discovering your potentials, of being in love, of contributing, and of making a difference.

While I've written other books on self-actualization, this is the first one that I have written as a practical guide to enable you to actualize your potentials and point you in the direction of your ultimate self-actualization. I have written this book for anyone looking for living a more real and more full-of-meaning life. I want to offer something that empowers you to experience a robust sense of vitality. If you're not ready for that and for all it entails, it would be best to wait.

"Wait? Why?" Because this book will otherwise awaken and disturb, it will challenge and provoke, and it will ruin any delusion of smug satisfaction with conventional life. With this book I want to jar you from your comfort zone. So my objective is not to comfort, but to induce an exciting restlessness. I want to disturb. I want to disturb your conventional thinking and to invite you to expand your consciousness, to see new vistas and possibilities. All of this will challenge the traditional ways we sleep through life.

Has it done that for me? You bet it has. As I have researched and written this book, my own peace and tranquility has been disturbed. How? Mostly, I have discovered how small I have been thinking, and how safe I have been playing life. So in the process I have been awakened in places where I had been slumbering and my potentials undisturbed. As this reinitiated new searches in my psyche, it has unleashed some new areas of growth that I'll share in the coming chapters.

In unleashing your potentials to actualize your best, I will be inviting you into being before doing and having. This turns everything upsidedown from the way most of us direct our lives. Typically we think about what we want to have, then figure out what we have to do to achieve what we want and then adjust ourselves in how we have to be. Or, we may find that we are able to do certain things and so go for a ride doing what we can. This leads then to having certain things. We then end up being according to the roles and games required by those activities.

The Self-Actualization Psychology I offer here reverses that order. Instead of doing or having setting the pace, this journey starts with doing. It starts with your exploration of your inner gifts and strengths. You search for the potentials and passions within yourself first -what and who you want to be. What seeds of potentials are within? What passions have, or could, emerge from our deepest core expressing your deepest and highest essence. What way of being in the world would be most true to what truly excites you? What inner gifts, talents, and strengths would enable you to fall in love with life so that you feel the passion of giving your best?

As a guide to your ultimate self-actualization, I will quote again and again in the pages of this book from the original pioneer, Abraham Maslow. To give voice to his vision of the bright side of human nature has been a wonderful privilege for me. Reading and re-reading his books convinced me that very little of his vision has become part of today's current of thought, that his genius has not even begun to be appreciated, and that what he wrote and developed could very well change the quality of life on this planet.

If you're open to waking up to the possibilities slumbering inside you and if you're game for the ultimate adventure of life-buy this book. In it I set before you the Red Pill. So be careful. Take it and I will show you the Matrix, which will invite you into the whirlwind of the Construct where you will discover and develop your incredible powers as a maker of meaning in the Crucible of challenge. Are you ready to see how deep the rabbit hole goes? Are you ready to become unleashed? Are you ready to step into the Zone of focus and "flow" at will so you can get lost in an engagement? Then turn the page and you'll begin to take the Red Pill of self-actualization.



L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
P.O. Box 8
Clifton, Colorado, 81520 USA
www.neurosemantics.com 
www.meta-coaching.org
www.self-actualizing.org 

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