Human Needs

Needs are the basic requirements of a whole human being. They are life enhancing, not life restricting. Needs differ from the desires and wants of our personality. Which ones are not being met for you? Rate each on a scale of 1 (low level of expression) to 10 (high level of expression). Also reflect on whether you need more balance physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually.

Physical:

• Maintain health with oxygen, fluids, nutrition, elimination, exercise, sunlight, rest
• Alignment, integration and grounding of etheric energies into form
• Respect rhythms of the body and nature

Emotional:

• Be aware of all feelings
• Express or release what we feel
• Touch and be touched
• Belong and be included
• Give appreciation
• Build self-esteem
• Experience closeness and intimacy
• Care, share and love
• Experience beauty and open the heart
• Enter into relationships with people, things, projects, etc.
• Release attachments, illusions, glamors, unconscious reactions
• Experience balance & harmony
• Understand astral and emotional energies

Mental:

• Clarity
• Control
• Memory
• Expression
• Logic, knowledge, understanding
• Analysis - breaking down into parts
• Concentration, focused attention
• Discrimination, making decisions and choices
• Obedience and willpower
• Keeping things in proportion, right relationship
• Humour and taking life lightly
• Meditation, relaxation
• Ethics: applying universal laws and principles

Personality:

• Safety & security
• Relationships
• Giving and receiving
• Self-esteem and self-worth
• Goals and achievement
• Self-assertion and standing up for one’s values
• Unique expression
• To transmute subconscious patterns, projections and limiting beliefs
• To experience and integrate life’s ups and downs

Spiritual:

• Find meaning and purpose in all things and events
• Know universal realities, symbols, truth, cause
• Detach and be impersonal and appropriate
• Sense subtle energies, impressions and guidance
• Accept everything
• Be spiritually disciplined
• Discern between illusion and reality
• Open the heart and embody higher realities through prayer/invocation/ritual
• Act in alignment with values and higher guidance
• Open to unconditional love
• Open to and relate to the mysteries of God/Soul/Spirit
• Be in the now
• Relate unselfishly to a higher ideal with devotion
• Meditate/contemplate for soul/spirit connection
• Express purpose
• Express soul qualities
• Empower others

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