About this app

Are your emotional needs being met?

Does it feel like there are an awful lot of obstacles in the way?

More and more people are aware of the importance of meeting innate basic emotional and psychological needs in developing a healthy and satisfying life. You may be familiar, for instance, with Abraham Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs', usually shown as a pyramid with physical needs at the base and self-actualization at the apex, which he explained in detail in his book Motivation and Personality.

It's important to know what your human needs are

Knowing that meeting your needs for security, safety, privacy, purpose, autonomy, control, connection, attention, intimacy, status and meaning is important, and protects you from anxiety, stress and depression is one thing. It makes a deep, intuitive sense, and new evidence of the role of these factors in healthy functioning comes to light every day. But looking after them all is another thing altogether.

In the slower paced, more settled times of the past, when people generally lived in smaller, close-knit communities and commonly stayed in the same place from birth to death, it was a pretty safe bet to rely on your community to provide what you needed. You didn't have to try, specifically, to manage your own personal life the way we do now.

It's interesting that our 'human needs' - beyond the physical ones - are not obvious. The huge social changes of the last few centuries, leading to the world we inhabit now, have shown us that we took the well-being that came from the easy satisfaction of those needs for granted, and did not question how it happened. Only in the disorienting upheavals of change have we clearly identified what we need and how to get it.

Modern life can block the satisfaction of needs

But that very modern world that brought us this important information can also stand in our way. There are so many pressures on us as we strive to get by in the face of social and economic forces over which we have no control that we may neglect our needs, even though we know what they are. This is not a good strategy for the long term. But how do you reliably prioritize getting your fundamental needs met?

Hypnosis can help you meet your human needs better

Meet your human needs is an audio hypnosis session developed by psychologists that will help you develop and maintain a powerful strategy for looking after yourself so that you can get - and give - the most from your life.

As you relax repeatedly to this gentle and powerful download, you'll notice that

you are much more keenly aware of the roots of your well-being
you notice opportunities to satisfy different needs and act on them
you become sensitive to the 'balance' between your different needs
you are more resilient in the face of challenges and problems
your relationships with others become more rewarding
life goes better

Download Meet your human needs and experience the good life.