Abraham Maslow

Well, yeah, I could say that when I lost my daughter... and I started reading the book from the beginning.

I had studied Maslow very deeply before that, and Abraham Maslow would have agreed with the entire concept of the book.

And I realized that the depth of this...

And then with Mortimer Adler, I read him a great deal.

Once I studied philosophy and studies, science in the sense of Maslow with philosophy of psychology.

Once I started that, I realized the depth of the book was enormously beyond what most people understood.

I also am happy to hear that you and your wife, Joan, have enjoyed reading the Urantia book together for many, many years.

Number five is integrative psychology.

Integrative psychology is just a fancy way of saying that you're resolving tensions that you've held within your psyche using different tools from psychologists like Carl Jung, Robert Johnson, Maslow.

A lot of this can include, but it's not limited to shadow work, dream analysis, working with your archetypes.

This could be its own episode in itself as well as each of the other five domains.

And so basically, this is the final key to creating high-performance health This is where you create a highly efficient body and mind.

As one of the world's leading Qigong teachers, Damo Mitchell, would say, at the middle of the ZH6 stack is what I call your center.

Again, this can be translated to what Maslow called self-actualization, the Taoist they would call returning to Shen, or Jung would call coming back to your higher self.

15 years ago when I first started lifting weights, my primary goal was to just build muscle onto a very skinny, scrawny body.

The biggest connection that I made was that social needs and like your your social health is so important it's much more important than you think because as complex human beings we need connection and not just like basic connection okay like when's the last time you checked in on your friendships like when's Are they nourishing you? Or is it take, take, take on their end and give, give, give on your end? I don't know.

There's so much to it, but... really briefly, the biggest connection I made around this recently is, do you guys remember Maslow's hierarchy? Why can't I say that? This pyramid, it's different levels of needs with the bottom ones being the basic ones and you can't get to self-actualization or thriving you can't thrive without having the previous need met so like it starts with physiological needs which is like food water shelter clothing and then the second one is safety and security so like this is where it's like health feeling safe having like being financially safe or sorry financially um stable and then the third one is love and belonging so friendship family intimacy sense of connection okay and then it's self-esteem and then it's self-actualization so under so the self-actualization one is like the top of the pyramid where you find creativity creativity okay spontaneity acceptance purpose meaning and like your full potential like thrive mode you know and so at the beginning I mentioned that I've been struggling with creativity and just Like anywhere, like creativity and like feeling like my best self overall.

And then I, you know, after all of this process of like figuring out what's missing, I'm like, yeah, like my friendship bank is kind of empty right now.

Like not just, you know, like I have friends, but like connection, like true connection, true sense of like feeling seen.

So essentially, a new generation is freed from this fear.

And what would you expect them to then give their attention to? I think this was captured rather marvelously well by by a psychologist by the name of Abraham Maslow.

He wrote a book entitled, the title is missing at the moment, but it had to do, oh, he says, The Pyramid of Needs.

And this pyramid at its very broad base had material needs.

So you had people giving more importance to work, the quality of work.

You have had people even experimenting with alternative ways of living together.

That was the second part of the pyramid that Maslow constructed.

The top peak part was human self-actualization.

Those are on the far right.

At the bottom is essentially Maslow's hierarchy of needs, those bottom ones, career and finances, your home and surroundings.

On the left-hand side, it's your physical well-being, your emotional well-being, and also creativity and play.

Sometimes we forget to carve out time to even enjoy life.

Psychology plays a huge role here too.

Take Maslow's hierarchy of needs for example.

In case you're unfamiliar, here's a chart depicting it from lowest priority needs at the bottom to highest priority needs at the top.

Right after our basic needs like food and shelter, we have the need for love and a sense of belonging.

It's sort of like...

Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Hierarchy of needs.

That's good, Coach.

And fair trade solves that problem so easily because of the story behind it.

And my nerdy self, when Sarah was talking, I'm like, hey, you're talking Maslow's hierarchy of needs of like the self-actualization of where people want to be.

Not even just aspirational, but legacy.

And it has been interesting when I've talked about legacy in terms of fair trade, of like creating a better future for our kids and things like that.