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| Lost
Essential Quality: Sustained Concentration. |
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| Compensating
Belief: The world limits and frustrates people and
causes pain which can be escaped. |
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| Attention/Copying
Strategy: Options and
opportunities; Planning for pleasurable possibilities; Imagining and
engaging in interesting activities and experiences. |
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| Trap: Keeping
life up and idealized. |
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| Driving
Energy: Gluttony
for interesting ideas and pleasurable experiences. |
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| Avoidance: Frustration,
Constraints, Limits, Pain. |
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| Strengths: Playful,
Optimistic, Inventive, Life-loving. |
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| Paradox: Seeking
the positives of life and avoiding the dark side is limiting. Trying to
avoid pain causes paing.. |
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| Path
of Development |
 | Realize it is limiting to seek only
the positive. |
| Make and fulfill commitments. |
| Simplify, live in the present moment. |
| Learn to reference to others. |
| Allow pain and uncomfortable
emotions. |
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| Ultimate
Task: Recognizing
the escapism inherent in the pursuit of experience and idealized future
plans. Reclaiming and accepting all of life in the present moment:
pain, fear, and limits as well as pleasure, joy and options. |
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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 your tendency to avoid pain and unpleasantness by
planning for pleasurable, positive possibilities.
- Make a conscious effort to stay
present and experience both pleasure and pain.
- At the end of each day, reflect on
how a complete life contains joy and sorrow, opportunity and
limitation.
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