It is always opportune to reconnect with the concepts with which we identify ourselves, in which we move and which become little lights that illuminate our path. For those of us who make life in the @holos-lotus community, "Personal Growth" is one of these concepts in which we often delve because we know that there we can find the key to live with a higher level of satisfaction and well-being.

Because that is what personal growth is all about, all those actions that we put into practice to develop our consciousness, capabilities and potentialities that allow us to bring out the best of us, to look and live from a kinder perspective where we value in a very special way that supreme gift we call life.

Intuitively or consciously we know when it is time to take the next step, when we need to change, to transform ourselves, because moving forward is our own. People have like an internal switch that is automatically activated when what we live, feel, experience does not satisfy us and that is a signal to act that many times we ignore out of fear, believing that things will change by themselves or because we have become accustomed to being in the coffin zone (sorry, the comfort zone) that although narrow and uncomfortable continues to give us security, tranquility or any other prerogative that satisfies some need.

Need or desire

All the meanings of the word "need" given by the Royal Academy of the language are related to a feeling or emotion of low vibration: irresistible impulse, lack, lack, danger, risk and among its synonyms we find: obligation, demand, trouble, predicament, scarcity, fatality, destitution, hardship, misery, poverty. What a little word to connect us with the bad-being! So we do not speak of needs?

Perhaps the proper thing to do is to give the word its rightful place and what would this place be? Maslow, the famous psychologist, through his pyramid pointed out five levels of needs, hierarchizing them from the most basic, such as eating and resting, to the highest, such as self-fulfillment, on which he based his theory of motivation, stating that when a level is covered, you have the motivation to cover new needs. As a good humanist, he found the interrelation of these needs that are maintained throughout life. In other words, we will always have needs and they motivate us to meet them.

The issue is where is the limit, when it is not need but desire, whim, ego, when we find the satisfaction that we can distinguish and say I want, instead of I need. Not knowing how to make this distinction keeps us in a constant dissatisfaction and it is not about being conformist or not having the sense of deserving.

It is about realizing if our desires correspond to a real or created need, for example, that latest generation phone that you "need", do you really need it when you only use the device interacting on WhatsAap, eating at the trendy restaurant, does it satisfy a need or a desire? In this sense it is important to emphasize that desires are wonderful motivators so let's not paint them with lack and scarcity, because precisely, in the desire the need is already covered only that you want more and better than what you already have.

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Material revisado: Abrahan h. Maslow y la teoria holistico/dinamica de las necesidades

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