{"id":5864,"date":"2017-12-14T19:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecoachingcentre.com.au\/the-shop\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2017-12-14T19:58:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:58:15","slug":"self-actualization-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoachingcentre.com.au\/the-shop\/self-actualization-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does self-actualization mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecoachingcentre.com.au\/the-shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/grapes.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecoachingcentre.com.au\/the-shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/grapes-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"self-actualization\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>What does self-actualization mean?<\/h1>\n<p>Written by Shawn Dwyer<br \/>\nWhen a person is fully functioning in life, at their best and capable to maintain the human drives, they are said to be fulfilling their needs, self-actualizing.<br \/>\nHuman potential includes the higher needs which are in fact distinguishable from the animal needs, we will describe both needs in this article and how they relate to self-actualization. Needs are arranged from deficiency to abundance allowing us to gratify our human drives to operate at our best.<br \/>\nOur needs are encoded with our meanings, we call this semantically encoded. A major factor on how to satisfy our needs comes from the meanings we give to the instincts we live. Therefore we actually have no true \u201cinstincts,\u201d only instinctoids. The human instinct is the drive to learn, to create meaning. So you are both a creature and a creator of your life, experiences, and reality. The question arises, are you able to meet for the basic human needs?<\/p>\n<h2>Failure To Cope Effectively<\/h2>\n<p>People are required to develop self gratification in a disciplined approach relating to each need of which we place in \u2018the needs hierarchy\u2019. The gratifications are life distinctions and skills to ensure we can maintain a good balance of health, based on the categories in a hierarchy. These categories differ but generally they point to the same overall sections for a quality life, however the mastery is in the details.<br \/>\n<em>Failure To Cope Effectively Causes<\/em> all kinds of problems in our life:<br \/>\n\u2022\tStress, dis-ease<br \/>\n\u2022\tFight\/flight responses and reactions,<br \/>\n\u2022\tDistraction from the highest and best, pathologies, neurosis<br \/>\n\u2022\tLiving life only at the animal level, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>A <a href=\"https:\/\/thecoachingcentre.com.au\/the-shop\/accepting-and-appreciating-emotions-as-emotions\/\">T<\/a>rue Satisfier<\/h2>\n<p>Health can be defined as operating in a functional way to ensure we are balancing the excellent characteristics of a need with the sufficient amount we require for personal gratification. The variables to determine your needs can be understood by<br \/>\nA true satisfier for a need is defined as;<br \/>\n1)\tIts absence breeds illness.<br \/>\n2)\tIts presence prevents illness.<br \/>\n3)\tIts restoration cures illness.<br \/>\n4)\tUnder certain free choice situations, it is preferred by the deprived person over other satisfactions.<br \/>\n5)\tIt is found to be inactive, at low ebb, or functionally absent in the healthy person.<br \/>\nIf we are not individually supporting both the quality characteristics and a sufficient amount of our needs, we become unbalanced and are then restricted to gain the necessary requirements that allow us to perform as effective as our potential permits us. Let\u2019s look at this in more detail<br \/>\nMaslow, Rogers, Hall express the basic needs into two main categories<br \/>\n1.\tD-needs (deficiency) and<br \/>\n2.\tB-needs (being)<br \/>\nThese two main categories then can be split into more sub-categories<br \/>\nD-Needs<br \/>\nBiological and Physiological<br \/>\nSurvival<br \/>\nSafety and security<br \/>\nPsychological<br \/>\nSocial (love and belongingness)<br \/>\nSelf-Accomplishment<br \/>\nB-Needs<br \/>\nSelf Fulfilment<br \/>\nCognitive<br \/>\nAesthetic<br \/>\nSelf-Actualisation<br \/>\nSelf Transcendence<\/p>\n<h2>How are the D-needs <a href=\"https:\/\/thecoachingcentre.com.au\/the-shop\/self-actualisation-leadership-diploma\/\">m<\/a>anaged?<\/h2>\n<p>The D-needs (deficiency) are what are lived through a \u2018more the less\u2019 gratifier where the less we have gratified the need, the more our drive focuses us to fulfilled. So, this means when you are not receiving enough basic life needs, such as food, you search for it the more the less you have it. These are driven by deficiency &#8211; by lack. When you do not adequately gratify them, the deficiency creates energy, motivation, emotions, etc. leading to coping behaviors. Are your coping behaviours healthy?<br \/>\nWhilst the D-needs are in operation through this kind of fulfilment drive, our life can become about living in these basic lower levels, like an animal in the jungle, simply maintaining our survival, safety, social and self needs.<br \/>\nWhen we are not coping, many of these kinds of needs also is where our cognitive thinking can be foggy, limiting our best, and hence our behaviours are not disciplined adequately to fulfil our life basic drives.<br \/>\nWhere in life are you looking for more healthy functioning to operate at your best?<br \/>\nThe next post will include more about self actualization and what are B-needs, until then if you want to learn the mastery to self actualize, join us for the next one day course on <a href=\"https:\/\/thecoachingcentre.com.au\/the-shop\/product\/self-actualizing-life\/\">A Self Actualising Life <\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\nvar 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