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Self-Actualization Coaching

1:1 Coaching with Roman Gelperin

What is Self-Actualization?

Self-actualization is the pinnacle of psychological health. It means being entirely free of internal conflicts, completely at peace with yourself, while also experiencing a near-constant joy in living, punctuated by intense moments of existential ecstasy.

Self-actualization is a Western term for enlightenment. It is an enlightenment reached by living up to your fullest potential, by continuously “becoming everything you are capable of becoming” in the domain of life you are best suited for.

The renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow first used the term in this way, and he was the first to identify the existence and nature of self-actualized individuals in a scientific publication. In these people, he said, emerged practically all of the character traits desirable in a human being: unblemished honesty, natural creativity, effortless spontaneity, resilience, independence, clarity of vision, and unshakable self-esteem.

The Path to Self-Actualization (Tier I)

In his world-famous theory, the hierarchy of human needs, Maslow framed self-actualization as a two-tier process. The first tier was the satisfaction of your basic human needs.

Before you can self-actualize, he said, you have to be free from all extreme states of deprivation. You cannot, for example, live with serious threats to your physical survival, or in an unsafe and unstable environment, or with acute loneliness, or with severely low self-esteem.

Only once you have satiated your basic human needs (for bodily survival, safety, human connection, and self-esteem) can you begin the task of self-actualization.

The Path to Self-Actualization (Tier II)

The second tier of the process consists of three parts:

(1) The first is learning to think scientifically, not just about science, but about everything. A self-actualized person uses his mind to its fullest potential. Accordingly, you need to learn the most effective method of thinking your mind is capable of.

(2) The second is to apply that method of thinking to your inner landscape. A self-actualized person is totally free of internal conflicts. Accordingly, you have to resolve all these conflicts one at a time, by an analytical process of rational thinking, which is the only way it can be done.

(3) The third is discovering your sacred purpose in life. A self-actualized person uses his unique strengths and abilities for achieving some higher, noble, one-of-a-kind purpose in life. It is the successful pursuit of this beloved purpose which puts him in a state of existential euphoria. Accordingly, you have to find what that is for you.

(4) A fourth ingredient—which isn’t another step, but fuel for the other three steps—is an expanded, ecstatic state of consciousness. In the absence of that state, step one may take a begrudging decade. With it, it can take place in a jubilant month. In the absence of that state, step two may take ten lifetimes. There are countless people who go to therapy for fifty years and never get over their childhood traumas. With ecstatic consciousness, it turns into an automatically unfolding process, exquisitely purifying your inner life in a matter of months. This state is what’s generated by the successful pursuit of your life purpose, and it is what motivates you to take it up in the first place. A state of ecstasy is the incentive, the fuel, and the reward for self-actualization!

Embark on the Path Now

Of course, the most important step on the path to self-actualization is setting your foot on that path in the first place. And, wherever you currently are along your journey, I am here to help you to the top!

Interested in 1:1 coaching with Roman? Paid subscribers get one free 45-minute Zoom consultation session.


Roman Gelperin is the bestselling author of the Self-Actualizing People in History series (a collection of in-depth biographies of renowned self-actualized individuals, a “personality type” first described scientifically in 1950 by the psychologist Abraham Maslow). Roman is also a trained and certified life coach in the Calling in “The One” method developed by Katherine Woodward Thomas. And he has received his certificate in the Fundamentals of Self-Actualization Coaching from Scott Barry Kaufman.

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