is there such a thing as a practical
guide and blueprint to
self-actualization? Stay tuned. This is Damon
Cart from NLP Gym. Self-actualization
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basis. Can NLP help you
self-actualize? Yes it can. Even before I
got into NLP training I had this
overwhelming urge to find fulfillment
and to actualize my potential. If you're
watching this video you probably have
that same feeling i tried a few
different things in order to
self-actualize I dabbled in Buddhism a
lot of meditation i doubled in
non-duality for years and all these
things gave me very good insights and I
can credit these different modalities
with shaping my thinking for the better
however they were that is like they were
very good practical applications for
self-actualization I kept looking for
some sort of blueprints some sort of
guide some sort of step-by-step way to
make this happen
everything else seems really theoretical
and very mental don't he was created
during the birth of the human potential
movement a lot of this came through a
man by the name of Abraham Maslow as
well as a psychologist who is really
disappointed in the way that psychology
looked at the mind and basically it
looked at everything that was wrong with
it and focused on all the bad things and
all the problems he wanted to take
psychology in a different direction
starting with what worked what was
positive Maslow's positive psychology
with it was a huge inspiration to the
creation of NLP which looks at people as
a whole and complete human beings rather
than broken human beings we need to be
fixed
NLP unlike the other modalities i
studied is very practical and very
results-driven and it doesn't try to be
a spiritual philosophy or spiritual
practice
that's the practitioner use it for
whatever they want to use it for
NLP was created with the presupposition
that excellence just doesn't happen that
you know it's not that excellence is
just sort of some people are fortunate
enough to have it
NLP is about starting with a
presupposition that excellence is
created and that anyone can create
excellence it doesn't matter who you are
a big part of what maslow called
self-actualization was a recognition of
your potential and fulfilling that
potential and self-actualize people were
people who were fulfilling their
potential around the time that i started
to plateau in my NLP skills I
serendipitously met Steve Andreas. Steve
Andreas is a legend in the field of NLP
he also happened to be a student of
Abraham Maslow I bombarded Steve with
questions about NLP and i also asked him
about Abraham Maslow because i was
looking into muscles work at the time
trying to find a place to bring my NLP
skills to and trying to find a purpose
for a meeting for this idea of
fulfilling myself and fulfilling my
potential using an LP however I found
that there was a real gap between what
maslow had taught or what he had created
and NLP as will seem to be more
theoretical and had created a hierarchy
of needs but that wasn't quite working
for me I couldn't seem to bridge that
gap meeting Steve and talking to Steve
he let me know that the gap was real he
also couldn't keep up with all my
questions and all of my emails that he
directed me to read this book
transforming yourself that book answered
all my questions and i have for Steve
and about maslow about human potential
about self-actualization and it did so
much more for me what I understood about
self-actualization in your potential is
that it's based on what you value what
you value is sort of a guide to let you
know what your highest potential is and
when you start actualizing those values
in other words when you start embodying
those values as qualities of who you are
and you behave in alignment with your
values your self-esteem your confidence
goes through the roof and not only that
you feel meaningful
and purposeful and happy though Steve
would not say that his book is about
self-actualization it is the closest
thing that i've come across to a
blueprint of how to self-actualize I
know it sounds extraordinary and it
absolutely is when I put this model the
self-concept model that Steve Andreus
created into practical application it
was exactly what I've been looking for a
practical model of practical
step-by-step application to
self-actualization it broke me through
my plateau in my ulti skills and it
really gave me the sense of the
fulfillment that I have been looking for
this model became so important to me and
still is so important to me that I began
teaching it with Steve's blessing and
i'm currently working on an online
version so that anyone can access her
without even showing up to one of my
workshops i don't have a date yet when
this online training will be ready
however i will put out a video and I'll
put out an email as soon as it's ready
to launch
so stay tuned how do we even know that
we know who we are we're the only
species that has a sense of who we are
our a self-concept human suffering sort
of is this space between knowing who we
are our self concept and also knowing
who we could be our potential it's
trying to reconcile those two that
creates human suffering and it's a
burden that we carry around knowing that
we could be so much more but maybe we
just don't know how to actualize that
you can think of knowing that you can be
so much more as a huge burden and at
times I feel that for a number of years
I felt that as a huge burn knowing that
I wasn't actualizing my potential
however you can look at that in another
way to that knowing you can be so much
more opens you up to all sorts of
possibilities when you listen your
highest values and your body them as
qualities of your being of who you know
who you are your self concept there is
nothing more powerful than that
your life will take on a sense of
purpose and meaning that you would not
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