self-actualization.
I need to become myself. (💛Yellow Needs - Part 8/9)
integration | impact | fulfillment | virtue | humility
Now, in our examination of human needs, we arrive at the first color of 2nd tier consciousness in the spiral!
Most people don’t grasp non-dual thinking or love paradoxes like Yellow does, but that’s alright with Yellow — they don’t want everyone to be like them, and they can relate to all the other colors just fine. Yellow doesn’t get offended because someone sees the world through a different lens. Like many healthy folks in 🧡Orange, 💛Yellow is always learning and growing, but with a humility, openness, flexibility, and sensitivity that Orange rarely displays.
“Integration” is the key word to understand Yellow. A person working in Yellow will seek to integrate every part of their life together — actions, desires, thoughts — with integrity.
Yellow SELF-ACTUALIZATION needs are about fulfilling your potential. This requires humility — the recognition that you are finite and full of imperfections — so that you can let yourself be changed into a better person of high character and virtue, and continually adapt to changing life conditions.
Who you are as an individual is inseparable from your impact on the world, so a big part of self-actualization is making a positive impact on others, and more importantly, becoming the kind of person who continues to impact the world simply by moving within it.
This means finding your “niche” and fitting yourself to your environment, such that you support your environment and your environment supports you.
Similar to 💜Purple “home” needs within a smaller, localized environment, 💛Yellow needs are seeking a kind of “homing” within yourself and between yourself and your various environments — be they 💜local, 💙societal, or 💚global.
As one begins to “fit” themselves and the world better and better, they experience cohesion: what they believe do aligns with who they are, and what they want, and what they believe.1 Only thus they can fulfill their potential and have a truly authentic and effective impact in the world.
Yellow Check-Up Questions
You may want to give a 1-10 score for each of these.
Are you growing in virtue?
Are you non-reactive and rarely defensive? (humility check)
Are you noticing and integrating your shadow-side, your compulsions, and your weaknesses?
Are you doing the work you’re supposed to be doing?
Are you helping others and receiving the support you need?
Are you passionate about your work, and always able to face the day with excitement or courage?
Are you internally aligned — thinking, feeling, and acting in harmony?
Next article in series (9/9): 🩵self-transcendence.
Alignment of the 4 Kinds of Knowing.