Why Your True Needs Are Buried Deep
Your true needs aren't missing. They are just buried.
When I ask high-functioning professionals what they actually want out of life, the most common response I get is, "I don't know."
There is a misconception that this means they lack passion or are simply too busy to think about it. But the truth is much more profound. Your true needs aren't missing; they are buried under years of performing a script for your audience.
The 12 Universal Needs
In Integrative Essence Therapy, we identify 12 core universal needs. But you cannot see yours because of your habits.
Those behaviours you rely on: overworking, endless scrolling, perfectionism, are the concrete you have poured over your true needs to numb the discomfort of playing a role that doesn't fit you.
Imagine burying a treasure chest under a concrete car park. You cannot just stand on the tarmac and wish to see the treasure. You have to break the concrete first.
Your 12 core needs are the treasure. Your daily coping habits are the concrete.
You cannot reconnect to your Essence and figure out what you actually want until you first identify the behaviours you are using to escape your current reality.
Take our Habits Quiz
If you are ready to start breaking the concrete, you have to know what your habits are. Use the link below to take our free Habits Quiz and identify the patterns keeping your true needs hidden.
Share with us what you realised after taking it!
I am currently exploring the deeper implications of being a "high-functioning" individual through the lens of my Integrative Essence Therapy framework.
My goal is to help people move away from a state of chronic adaptation constantly reacting to external demands toward a state of true internal alignment. Subscribe align your design.
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