Basic Needs

The Basic Needs are the human needs that must be sufficiently satisfied if the individual is to grow healthy and whole. Basic needs include the physiological, environmental, cognitive, emotional, and psychological needs. The basic needs are represented by the outer circle in the Circle of Seven Essential Needs.

Related LP Terms

Seven Essential Needs > 5Ds of Toxic Existence, Attachments, Basic Needs, Dependent Need Fulfillment, Essential Needs Rule Set, Five Key Areas of Human Development, Healing Space, Inner Needs, Needs Algorithm, Physical Unit, Realistic Empowerment, Sufficient Satisfaction, The Work, Toxic Socialization

Exogenous to the LP

Seven Essential Needs > Active Need Fulfillment, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, D-Cognition, D-Realm, Deficiency Diseases, Essential Needs, Good Science, Good Specimen, Health, Hierarchy of Basic Needs, Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs, Human Development, Human Development Framework, Needs, Normative Biology, Polyvagal Theory, Psychological Framework, School of Human Development, Seven Toxic Needs, Transhumanistic, Violence

Notes

Sufficient satisfaction of Basic Needs supports satisfaction of more advanced needs for alignment and connection.

Further Reading

Reclaiming Maslow and Rejecting The Pyramid The Seven Essential Needs.” PsyArXiv Preprints, 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fswk9

The Seven Essential Needs - https://www.lightningpath.org/lp-theoretic/#essentialneeds

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