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By happenstance, or cosmically, a Psyche article arrived in my email a little while ago. The topic is, and this just about does my head in, is:
Find out which of your emotional needs you’ve been neglecting and use tips from human givens therapy to address them
Here's the need to know content from the article:
"Need to know
The human givens (HG) approach to therapy was developed in 1997 by the psychotherapists Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, who were struck by the fact that so many different models of therapy exist. To them, this indicated a lack of consensus about how people can best be helped. They decided it made sense to go back to basics – to the needs that all living organisms must meet in order to flourish. In the case of humans, that includes our emotional needs.
The key organising idea driving HG therapy is that if these essential emotional and physical needs (the ‘human givens’) are not sufficiently well met, it can lead us to suffer from problems with mental health. Most of us readily accept our physical needs, such as for air, water, nutritious food, sleep and shelter. It’s our emotional needs that we tend to overlook. In this Guide, I invite you to use the human givens framework of needs and resources to take a look at your own life and see what is working well for you; and to identify where perhaps you are falling short and could make some changes, large or small, to improve your wellbeing.
The basic emotional needs we all have
Many decades of social and health psychology research have identified several basic emotional needs that are critical for our wellbeing. These include:
- security – ‘safe territory’ for us to live and work in, without undue fear;
- autonomy – a degree of control over what happens in our lives;
- attention – giving and receiving it, which enhances our development as human beings;
- emotional connection – a loving relationship with at least one other person, intimate or not;
- community – belonging to social groupings beyond our family;
- status – feeling accepted and respected as the people we are;
- privacy – having sufficient time and space to reflect on and learn from our experiences;
- competence and achievement – recognising our capabilities and seeking to build on them; and
- meaning – the sense that our lives are purposeful, and matter.
If one or more of these basic needs are not met, it can be harmful to your mental health."
This looks like rich emotional wellbeing fruit for the tutti fruti mix. I'll see if I can incorporate it with the other emotional wellbeing suggestions.
