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A positive mental attitude, desire, and commitment are absolutely essential if you want to live life to the fullest. As Maslow discovered, healthy individuals are motivated toward self-actualization. Self-actuation is the utilization of one’s creative potential for self-fulfillment. This is the fifth element that forms the basis of human needs.
The first four elements are:
- Physiological needs – basic survival: hunger, thirst, sexuality, and shelter
- Safety: security, order, and stability
- Love: to love and be loved
- Esteem: approval, recognition, and acceptance
Common characteristics of self-actuated people:
- Perceive reality more effectively and are more comfortable with it
- Have an acceptance of self, others, and nature
- Are relatively spontaneous in their behavior, and even more spontaneous in their inner life, thoughts, and impulses
- Have a problem-solving orientation toward life instead of an orientation centered on self
- Have a quality of detachment and a need for privacy
- Have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again the basic pleasures of life, such as, children, nature, sex, and music
- Commonly have mystical or peak experiences – times of intense emotions in which they transcend the self
- Have deep feelings of identification, sympathy, and affection for other people
- Have deeper and more profound interpersonal relationships than most adults, but not deeper than children’s
- Are democratic in the deepest possible sense
- Are strongly ethical and moral
- Have a keen, non-hostile sense of humor
- Are highly imaginative and creative
The Road to Self-Actualization
It happens by degrees, subtle changes accumulating one by one. Self-actualization begins by taking responsibility for your own positive mental state, your life, your current situation, and your health. Once you take on this responsibility, it is up to you to direct your life. You must commit yourself to be the best you can be at whatever you do in your life.
The past does not have to predict the future. Your future is created from your learned expectations based on decisions of perception from the events of the past. You cannot change the past, but you can change your expectations, and therefore your responses. This creates a new future.
Hypnotherapy
Through the state of hypnosis and powerful therapeutic techniques, a person can change their expectations. They can change from a past-driven automatic reaction to a stimulus, to an interactive choice to what is actually occurring in the present, to create something new for themselves in the future.
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