Human Needs - Expansion

Expansion is the need to build something, to add onto, to create an empire, to expand horizons, to go where no one has gone before.

Examples of how Expansion manifests for different people:

• Building a company
• Building a personal or political empire
• Creating a personal fortune
• Expanding a collection of any kind
• Saving rare art, rare books or historic buildings from destruction
• Protecting the environment because it benefits humanity
• Building new buildings, cities, communities, roads
• Expanding a market niche
• Creating new knowledge
• Discovering new ways of doing things
• Expanding the boundaries of science, art, medicine, music or nature
• Expanding the knowledge of physical and spiritual laws
• Understanding how the Universe works and explaining it to others
• Seeing the bigger picture
• Becoming an astronaut, oceanographer, medical researcher or scientist focused on exploring new worlds
• Exploring uninhabited lands or regions
• Becoming a minister, preaching about people's connection with a larger spiritual reality
• Creating new breeds of animals or plants

Positive aspects : Growth and expansion; recognizing the value of others; recognizing the value of art, science, nature, physical and spiritual laws; working with cosmology; recognizing a connection with great spiritual teachers (Christ, Buddha, the Higher Self); working with the study of intuition and psychic interests; understanding how the Universe works and how they fit into it; understanding themselves and others.

Negative aspects : Indiscriminate growth (cancer, huge weight gains, hoarding things, large collections of odd things), confusion, loss, abandonment, betrayal, loss, suicide, atheism, evil, sin, spiritual separation.

How this need affects the workplace : People with a need for Expansion will constantly be trying to expand their knowledge and the boundaries of that knowledge. This is good if they are in positions where that energy can be focused on assisting a company grow, creating new knowledge or creating new products. It can be bad if their only outlet for expansion is to take from others. When their need for expansion is thwarted, they may turn that need into inappropriate and harmful ways.