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| Lost
Essential Quality: Universal Will. |
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| Compensating
Belief: To get I must give. To be loved I must be
needed. |
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| Attention/Copying
Strategy: Focusing on
others' needs; Getting own needs met through being needed and giving to
others. |
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| Trap: Getting
to personal fulfillment through meeting others' needs. |
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| Driving
Energy: Pride in
being needed, even indispensable. |
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| Avoidance: Disappointing
others and being rejected. |
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| Strengths: Generous,
Sensitive, Helpful, Energetic. |
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| Paradox: Giving
more does not bring freedom and fullfillment. |
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| Path
of Development |
 | Pay attention to
personal needs and wants. |
| Learn to receive. |
| Develop independence and
autonomy. |
| Nurture a separate self. |
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| Ultimate
Task: Realizing
that love is not dependent on being needed, developing a sense of
humility that goes with not always knowing what to give to others and
allowing yourself to have needs. |
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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 recognizing your personal wants and needs.
- Make a conscious effort to ask for
what you want or need both from yourself and from others.
- At the end of each day, reflect on
how receiving is equally as important as giving.
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