Our society is in crisis today if we look at some of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Thanks for joining me today for “Creating Your Amazing Life.” Please reach down and subscribe to my podcast. Thanks for joining me for episode 33.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs and motivation, it is often depicted as a pyramid. One of the higher needs that Maslow found is Love and belonging. This is a need. As a need we will find a way to have it met or we will die. In our world today with COVID and the issues we are facing with racism this need is not being met for many people and it is literally killing us. We actually have studies out there that will back up these claims.
In a recent study the author of the report stated that the decline in life expectancy was less alarming than the decrease in emotional well being of Americans. This decrease in emotional well being was enough lower to bring down our life expectancy. Wow, That is huge!
One of the things that play into this is the types of feelings we concentrate on. There are 27 different types of emotions. So how many emotions can you name. If you're normal, maybe four or five. There is probably Happy , anxious, sad, angry, and exhausted, those are the ones we hear about most often. Only one of those is a positive feeling. In our society, we are often in negative emotions and it has gotten much worse in a short period of time! When was the last time you felt Ecstatic? What about Love struck? If you look around at news or post on Facebook how many are even hopeful? We are in a crisis and it will kill us. This new crisis is everywhere. If you wonder how deadly this new crisis is check out this stat. The suicide rate increased by 24% between 1999 and 2014.
How do we inoculate ourselves against this new disease of despair? How do we find belonging? We are social creatures. We need each other to survive and that has been the case since the start of the human race. But today we act independently. Not as a group. We are trying to fight our wiring and programming. We are moving farther away from each other, not closer together.
People are happier and healthier when they feel connection and belonging. We have groups that we are a part of that we can embrace and fill.
Like:
Family keep families close and
Life partner
Church membership
Social tribe with common interest . these are not Facebook friends in which you compare yourself with but rather people in which you have connection
Sports or activities
Fab 5 the people you share your real self with.
We all need each other.
We need to love and to be loved.
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