[Neurons] 2010 Meta-Reflections #42

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections 2010 - #42

September 1, 2010

 

 

EVERY MORNING - EVERY EVENING

 

 

Every morning when I wake up I find myself completely back to the
foundational level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs- I'm hunger.  I need food.
I need water.  To thrive in this new day, I have to use the coping skills
I've learned during my life to meet two of my most basic needs- food and
water.  Yes, I can go without these basics- for a day but just a day or two
without water and then, whatever I'm seeking to actualize at the higher
levels will come to an abrupt stop.  Regarding food, well I could go several
days, even a week, and if forced, perhaps a few weeks.  But that's about it.
And after a few days, a fast without any food at all will begin having
strong effects on my thinking and emoting- diminishing their quality.

 

And then every evening, I also return to the most foundational level of the
levels of needs- I need sleep.  I begin yawning and I have to find a safe
place where I can go unconscious for 6 to 8 hours.

 

Funny, isn't it?  No matter how far along the personal development pathway
you have come, you like me and like all of us, keep coming back to the
fundamentals.  Every day between waking and sleeping, we are called back to
the foundational needs that drive us, that create our energy, our vitality,
and our health.

 

So what does this mean?   It means that to actualize your highest and best,
you have to take care of the lowest and first.  Ignore these and you do so
to your own detriment.  And you will pay for it.  The price?  Energy,
health, short-life, vitality!  The price?  Ill-health, not feeling good,
loss of motivation, fatigue, lack of a sense of pleasure, irritation,
annoyance, stress, illness.  So Self-Actualization also involves actualizing
everyday, and an ongoing process, your lower biological needs.

 

When I began focusing on Self-Actualization Psychology as part of
Meta-Coaching and Neuro-Semantics, my whole focus was on the highest and the
best.  I wanted to know how to unleash my potentials and to facilitate the
same in you.  So at first my focus was exclusively around the highest end of
the hierarchy.  Only later when Tim Goodenough and I created the
Self-Actualization Assessment Scale did I fully turn my attention to the
bottom of the hierarchy.  That's when I realized that we have to get the
foundation right for people to fully actualize their highest and best. 

 

What the S-A Scale did for me was direct my attention to the problem that
many of the people I was meeting were having in actualizing their
potentials.  They had holes and weak spots in how they were coping, or not
coping, with their eating, exercising, sleeping, etc.  They were living in
"the red zone" (not coping well with the lower needs) of the Scale.  So
their life-energies were being undermined and their energy depleted on the
lower needs making them less alive andwith less vitality for the higher
needs.

 

So now you know why our Self-Actualization Workshops began with Unleashing
Potentials ("The Ultimate Self-Actualization Workshop") and then moved
backward to Unleashing Vitality which uses the S-A Assessment Scale and
deals with learning how to effectively cope with all of your needs and
drives. 

 

Now, if you're interested in unleashing your own basic vitality -and
actualizing your potentials for lots and lots of energy and vitality- there
are 2 workshops for you this year.

 

            1) South Africa - Pretoria

                        People South Africa 

                        September 3-5

Organizer: Cheryl Lucas   <mailto:cheryl at peoplesa.co.za>
mailto:cheryl at peoplesa.co.za <mailto:cheryl at psacoaching.co.za>
cheryl at psacoaching.co.za 

                                    Cell: 083 267 1412

                                    Tel: 012 362-6542

                                    Skype: Meta Coach

 <http://www.psacoaching.co.za/>             www.psacoaching.co.za


             <http://www.meta-coaching.org/>
www.meta-coaching.org

 

 

            2) Italy - Bolgna 

                        November 19- 21

                        Bologna ( <http://foxyurl.com/4qg>
http://foxyurl.com/4qg) 25 miles away),

                        Organizers:  Nicola Riva and Lucia Giovannini

                                    mobile: +39 348 5600507

                                     <mailto:nicola at blessyou.it>
nicola at blessyou.it                              

                                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, International Society of Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton, CO.  81520 USA

1 970-523-7877

      <http://www.neurosemantics.com/> www.neurosemantics.com 

 

 

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