The Nine Basic Human Needs

The Nine Needs:

• Security
• Adventure
• Freedom
• Exchange
• Power
• Expansion
• Acceptance
• Community
• Expression

Each of us has three primary needs, meaning three needs that are more important than the other six needs, which we have to a lesser degree. When people do not get their needs met, they can become agitated, belligerent or driven to use the negative aspects of their needs.

Each of the needs is will be described further in details in the following days, with their positive aspects (how they work in positive ways) and their negative aspects (how people use more forceful or destructive ways to get their needs met).

Each person is responsible for seeing that they get their own needs met - this is an inside job, not something that is fulfilled by another person. People who share the same needs will feel a connection or common bond.

Two people who do not share at least one common need will feel little connection with another person. Co-workers who do not share similar needs will have a hard time working together.Close friends, partners and mate relationships will usually share two or three needs in common.