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| Lost
Essential Quality: Original Connection. |
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| Compensating
Belief: I am deficient. Something really
important is missing which must be gained. |
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| Attention/Copying
Strategy: Intense
feelings of longing and sadness for what is missing. Searching for
ideal love and circumstances. |
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| Trap: Obtaining
the special, ultimate love or situation will make me whole and complete. |
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| Driving
Energy: Envy and
longing. |
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| Avoidance: Being
ordinary, deficient. |
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| Strengths: Creative
disposition, Passion, Empathy, Emotional Depth. |
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| Paradox: wanting
what is missing perpetuates dissatisfaction with what is present. |
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| Path
of Development |
 | Focus on what is
positive in the present. |
| Recognize that feelings are
not the only reality. |
| Appreciate the ordinary. |
| Be consistent in action
despite fluctuation and intense feelings. |
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| Ultimate
Task: Reclaiming
wholeness in the present by appreciating what is here and now and
accepting yourself completely, separate from what is special and
unique. |
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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 what is positive and meaningful in the ordinary flow of
life.
- Make a conscious effort to stay in
the present moment with what is actually happening despite powerful
fluctuating feelings.
- At the end of each day, reflect on
how wholeness and satisfaction come from fully experiencing what is
taking place in the here and now.
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