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| Lost
Essential Quality: Perfection. |
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| Compensating
Belief: I must gain worthiness and love through being good
and perfecting my self. |
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| Attention/Coping
Strategy: Noticing and
correcting error; Comparing self to others; Suppressing anger and
impulses; Being responsible and "right". |
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| Trap:
Endless trying to gain
worthiness by being correct. |
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| Driving
Energy: Anger,
Resentment. |
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| Avoidance:
Making mistakes, Losing self control. |
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| Strengths:
High integrity, Concern for improvement, Industrious, Responsible. |
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| Paradox:
There are multiple right answers. What is 'right' is not
necessarily best. |
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| Path
of Development |
 | Understand that correctness
and rightness are not part of natural order. |
| Compassion for the self. |
| Recognize and minimize the
internal critical voice. |
| Allow free time, relaxation. |
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| Ultimate
Task: Reclaiming the
sense of perfection in all things and everyone which includes accepting
differences, mistakes, and natural desires. |
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| The
following simple practices will assist the development of Type Ones. |
| It may
be useful to record your reactions. |
- For the next week, pay
particular attention to the dominance of the inner critical voice
and its incessant demands.
- Make a conscious effort to
minimize the impact of the critical voice by accepting errors and
mistakes as a natural part of life.
- At the end of each day,
reflect on how compassion and forgiveness are the keys to true
perfection.
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