Beyond the Six Human Needs – An Energy Intelligence Model of Core Energetic Fulfillment
- Brainz Magazine
- Dec 22, 2025
- 7 min read
Updated: Dec 23, 2025
Janell Rae is a master energy coach and certified learning specialist who helps visionary leaders, healers, and neurodivergent learners unlock their purpose by aligning with their true energetic and cognitive design.
Traditional psychological models, such as Tony Robbins’ Six Human Needs framework, identify the universal drivers that shape human behavior: certainty, variety, significance, love and connection, growth, and contribution. While these needs offer a useful behavioral lens, they represent outer expressions of deeper energetic patterns. Developed by Janell Rae, Energy Intelligence reframes these same motivational forces as frequencies of fulfillment or fragmentation, vibrational states within the human energy field that, when distorted by trauma, fear, or identity-level imprints, manifest as compulsive needs or chronic dissatisfaction. Not all energetic distortions have clear origins. Some are transgenerational or collective in nature, carried unconsciously across family lines or historical experience.
This paper introduces the Six Core Energetic Needs Model, an expansion of Robbins’ framework through the lens of Energy Intelligence. Drawing upon trauma psychology, neuroscience, and energy medicine, it demonstrates how unmet needs are signals of incoherent energy patterns that can be released and realigned through the Energy Intelligence Healing Cycle. Case studies illustrate how clients experience spontaneous resolution of long-standing patterns once the underlying energetic distortion is cleared, whether or not the original cause is known. By shifting focus from behavioral coping to energetic coherence, this model offers a comprehensive pathway for restoring natural fulfillment, authenticity, and connection.
1. Introduction: From behavioral needs to energetic frequencies
Human motivation research has long focused on identifying and meeting core psychological needs. From Maslow’s hierarchy (1943) to Robbins’ Six Human Needs (2006), these frameworks explain recurring patterns of desire, fear, and action. Yet, despite decades of insight, many individuals continue to experience cycles of longing, burnout, or emotional depletion.
The Energy Intelligence Method™ offers an expanded view. Beneath every unmet need lies an energetic distortion, a vibration of constriction, fear, or disconnection that shapes perception and behavior. When this energy is released and realigned, fulfillment arises naturally, without compensatory striving. This paper explores how each of the six human needs corresponds to a core energetic frequency and how release and alignment dissolve the root cause of dissatisfaction.
2. The six human needs framework: A brief overview
Tony Robbins’ model identifies six universal motivators that drive human decisions:[1]
Certainty, safety, and stability.
Uncertainty (variety), change, and stimulation.
Significance, importance, and worth.
Love and connection, belonging and closeness.
Growth, expansion, and learning.
Contribution, giving beyond oneself.
Robbins proposed that all behavior, constructive or destructive, stems from attempts to meet these needs. Yet behavioral satisfaction often brings only temporary relief because the underlying energetic discord remains unresolved. Energy Intelligence™ reframes these needs as energetic feedback mechanisms, vibrations signaling where the system is out of alignment with its innate coherence.
3. The six core energetic needs model
Building on the Energy Intelligence Healing Cycle developed by Janell Rae (2025), this model proposes that each human need corresponds to a frequency that can exist in coherence, fulfillment, or distortion, an unmet need.
Table 1A maps behavioral needs to their energetic frequencies.
Behavioral need | Distorted energetic frequency (unmet) | Aligned energetic frequency (fulfilled) | Energetic application (summary only) |
Certainty | Fear, control, rigidity | Grounded safety, trust in flow | Guided realignment process, facilitator methods shared only in practitioner training |
Variety | Restlessness, impulsivity | Curiosity, creative expansion | Energetic release through embodiment and awareness, proprietary framework |
Significance | Ego inflation, unworthiness | Authentic value, inner confidence | Facilitation approach outlined in licensed Energy Intelligence programs |
Love and connection | Dependency, avoidance, isolation | Unity, compassion, relational coherence | Integrative process for heart-centered alignment, proprietary |
Growth | Pressure, self-rejection | Evolution, natural expansion | Somatic energetic integration protocol, proprietary |
Contribution | Martyrdom, burnout | Overflow, service from wholeness | Guided coherence practice described in certified training materials |
Table 1A. Mapping behavioral needs to energetic frequencies (conceptual summary)
Through this lens, human needs function as diagnostic indicators rather than deficiencies to fix. The practical application of these energetic transitions is addressed within educational training and certification programs.
4. Mechanisms of release and alignment
Energy Intelligence holds that the human energy field mirrors the nervous system and emotional body. Unmet needs are not flaws to fix, but vibrations to harmonize.
4.1 Release
Clients are guided to sense where the unmet need resides in the body, tightness in the chest for love, tension in the gut for safety, pressure behind the eyes for significance, and trace that sensation to its origin. Timeline work often reveals early memories or symbolic imagery. By consciously releasing the stored energy in all space and time, the system returns to neutrality.
4.2 Alignment
Once released, the field reorganizes around coherent frequencies such as safety, openness, confidence, love, expansion, or flow. This alignment is anchored through breath, awareness, and embodied action. Clients often describe a felt lightness or renewed clarity.
5. Case vignettes: Transforming core energetic needs
Case 1: Safety and the exile of certainty
A client experiencing chronic anxiety described a “knot” in her stomach that tightened before every new situation. Through guided energy work, she sensed a seven-year-old version of herself hiding after a family argument. The imprint was “I’m not safe.” After acknowledging and releasing the fear, she reported warmth spreading through her core and a lasting calm. “I feel steady for the first time in years.”
Case 2: Love and connection restored
Another client, isolated after multiple relationship losses, felt numb in her chest, “like a wall made of steel.” She connected with the younger self who equated vulnerability with danger. Upon releasing grief stored in that memory, tears flowed spontaneously. Weeks later she observed, “I don’t have to chase closeness anymore. It feels natural.”
Case 3: Transgenerational imprint and the limits of logic
A client felt an unshakable sense of “I’m not enough,” with no clear history explaining it. Through guided sensing, she noticed a heaviness across her chest, “like carrying something that isn’t mine.” Subtle impressions emerged of ancestral fear and oppression. Rather than searching for proof, Janell guided her to release the vibration itself, clearing any imprint of inferiority or inherited fear through all space and time.
After release, the client reported, “It’s like a pressure that was always there just left.” In the days that followed, she felt more confident and less reactive, “freedom without explanation.” Janell reminds clients, “You don’t need to know where the splinter came from. You just need to remove it so the skin can heal.” Insisting on logic can reinforce the distortion because attention feeds what is already fragmented. True healing arises when the body and field are allowed to release what no longer belongs, even without a known origin.
These cases demonstrate that when the energetic distortion behind a need is cleared, the need itself dissolves into natural expression.
6. Discussion: From coping to integration
Conventional models emphasize meeting needs through conscious strategies, valuable, yet compensatory in nature. Energy Intelligence™ introduces a deeper paradigm:
The need itself signals energetic misalignment.
The remedy is transmutation, not management.
This view parallels trauma findings that unresolved stress lives in the body and that safety must be restored physiologically before growth can occur.[2] [3] Energy Intelligence™ further suggests that energetic coherence is the foundation of psychological development.
Through release and alignment, fear becomes safety, craving becomes curiosity, striving becomes confidence, isolation becomes love, pressure becomes growth, and depletion becomes contribution. The system evolves from need-based living to flow-based being.
A defining feature of the Energy Intelligence Method™ is its resistance to over-intellectualization. While psychology often seeks causal narratives, Janell’s process recognizes that the search for logic can entangle clients in the very distortion they seek to release. Searching for why keeps awareness orbiting the pattern. Allowing sensation and energy to move without explanation restores coherence more efficiently. Insight often follows release, not the other way around.
7. Implications for psychology and energy science
Psychology: Integrates somatic awareness with motivational theory, reframing unmet needs as energetic signals rather than deficits.
Neuroscience: Invites study of HRV, vagal tone, and EEG coherence as correlates of energetic realignment.
Energy medicine: Provides scientific language for spiritual transformation.
Leadership and coaching: Replaces performance-driven methods with energetic integrity. Leaders grounded in coherence naturally influence collective regulation.
Future research could quantify physiological coherence before and after Energy Intelligence Method™ sessions, advancing psychophysiological energy studies.[4]
8. Conclusion
Human needs are not flaws to fix, but frequencies seeking harmony. When energy becomes trapped in fear, guilt, or striving, needs surface as cravings for safety, validation, or love. Through the Energy Intelligence Healing Cycle and its outward expression, the Energetic Fulfillment Cycle, these distortions can be released and realigned, allowing fulfillment to arise naturally.
By transcending coping and addressing energetic root causes, the Six Core Energetic Needs Model unites psychology, energy, and consciousness into a coherent system of transformation.
This research is part of Janell Rae’s ongoing work integrating psychology, energy, and consciousness through the Energy Intelligence Method™ Certification Program.
Energy Intelligence Method™ Certification Program by Janell Rae© 2025 Janell Rae. All rights reserved. Unauthorized commercial use or adaptation of the Energy Intelligence Method™ or materials is prohibited.
For certification and advanced training in the Energy Intelligence Method™ referenced in this paper, visit my website.
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Janell Rae is a master energy coach and certified learning specialist who sees what others miss, both in the field and in the classroom. With over 25 years of experience, she helps visionary leaders clear energetic interference and realign with their purpose, and guides neurodivergent learners to unlock the gifts inside their unique minds. Her work is grounded, intuitive, and results-driven, designed to bring clarity where there’s been confusion and real movement where people have felt stuck. Whether she’s working with a CEO or a child who’s lost their confidence, Janell brings the same clarity: You’re not broken. You’re built differently. And once you know how you work, everything changes.
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[1] Robbins, T. (2006). Awaken the giant within. Free Press.
[2] van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. Penguin.
[3] Porges, S. W. (2011). The polyvagal theory: Neurophysiological foundations of emotions, attachment, communication, and self-regulation. Norton.
[4] McCraty, R. (2023). Heart intelligence: Connecting through the energetic heart. HeartMath Institute.
[5] Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370, 396.
[6] Rae, J. (2025). Energy Intelligence™ and the Healing Cycle. Energy Intelligence Institute.
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