The strongest feelings emanate from the basic needs, because they represent what we need to live. We need to provide for all of them. But in different doses depending on our personality.

• Enforcement: We want to grow, have adventures and develop our skills.

• Safety: We must perceive and react to dangers in good time.

• Recognition: We want to be noticed and be proud of ourselves.

• Belonging: We cannot and do not want to live alone. We need fellow human beings.

• Rationality: When we do something, we need to see the meaning and reality.

• Empathy: We want to live harmoniously with ourselves and with others.

Enforcement: If you want to live, you have to grow, you have to make a living, open up new possibilities and try something that was not possible for you before. Those who forgo this basic need will not even be able to learn to walk, let alone start a family later. We love positive change. It is about developments that can lead to a recognizable success. ‘It’ wants us to experience something new all the time. Repetition is boring. Stagnation is decline. The assertion God loves challenges.

Safety: Everything new involves risks. Whoever puts himself in danger will perish in it. Who does not pay attention to the own life, it will lose fast. One must proceed vigilantly and thoughtfully if one wants to get through life in one piece. It is a matter of sustainability. We strive for continuity and reliability. Everything that is important or could become important should be protected. We should be attentive at every moment in order to be able to recognize and avoid risks at an early stage. The security God loves consistency.

Recognition: If you want to come into your own, you have to stand out from the others somehow. One must take care of oneself (this begins shortly after birth with vigorous cry) and show that “one is there”. An acclaimed star shows best that he exists. Nevertheless, self-reference often seems introverted. We want to be and remain recognizable as a special person. This need hates uniformity and wants to stand out from the crowd. What others do is to be looked at critically. The recognition God wants to be able to be proud of himself.

Belonging: As social beings, we live in dependence on parents, partners, companies, etc. Without a common language and without coordinated behaviors, we would not be able to integrate - and would have no chance to live as total outsiders. This need to belong encourages communication: we want to belong and this motivates us to conform. What others do and how they act influences our actions. The God of belonging wants to feel comfortable in the community.

Empathy: The most beautiful thing is to empathize so much with other people or with the environment that we understand them ‘from the inside’. Related to ourselves, this means we want to be loved as we (our feelings) are. The first experiences of empathizing with each other happen even before birth: we feel comprehensively secure. Empathy motivates us to meet each other openly, without prejudice, trustfully and responsibly. We want to experience in every human being his good core and become one with him. The empathy God wants peace.

Rationality (cognition): Already as a small child we begin to differentiate between ourselves, the parents and the strangers. This requires a certain inner and outer distance. The need for cognition is equally existential, because without perceiving the way through the senses, we would get helplessly lost. This need serves our rational orientation. We want to perceive reality clearly and possibly scientifically correctly so that we can make the best, most sensible decisions. The knowledge God wants the truth.