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Healthy: Deeply receptive,
accepting, unselfconscious, emotionally
stable and serene. Trusting of self and
others, at ease with self and life, innocent
and simple. Patient, unpretentious,
good-natured, genuinely nice people. /
Optimistic, reassuring, supportive: have a
healing and calming influence —
harmonizing groups, bringing people
together: a good mediator, synthesizer, and
communicator.
At Their Best: Become
self-possessed, feeling autonomous and
fulfilled: have great equanimity and
contentment because they are present to
themselves. Paradoxically, at one with self,
and thus able to form more profound
relationships. Intensely alive, fully
connected to self and others.
Average: Fear conflicts, so become
self-effacing and accommodating, idealizing
others and "going along" with
their wishes, saying "yes" to
things they do not really want to do. Fall
into conventional roles and expectations.
Use philosophies and stock sayings to
deflect others./ Active, but disengaged,
unreflective, and inattentive. Do not want
to be affected, so become unresponsive and
complacent, walking away from problems, and
"sweeping them under the rug."
Thinking becomes hazy and ruminative, mostly
comforting fantasies, as they begin to
"tune out" reality, becoming
oblivious. Emotionally indolent,
unwillingness to exert self or to focus on
problems: indifference. / Begin to minimize
problems, to appease others and to have
"peace at any price." Stubborn,
fatalistic, and resigned, as if nothing
could be done to change anything. Into
wishful thinking, and magical solutions.
Others frustrated and angry by their
procrastination and unresponsiveness.
Unhealthy: Can be highly
repressed, undeveloped, and ineffectual.
Feel incapable of facing problems: become
obstinate, dissociating self from all
conflicts. Neglectful and dangerous to
others. / Wanting to block out of awareness
anything that could affect, them, they
dissociate so much that they eventually
cannot function: numb, depersonalized. /
They finally become severely disoriented and
catatonic, abandoning themselves, turning
into shattered shells. Multiple
personalities possible.
Key Motivations: Want to create
harmony in their environment, to avoid
conflicts and tension, to preserve things as
they are, to resist whatever would upset or
disturb them.
Examples: Abraham Lincoln, Joseph
Campbell, Carl Jung, Ronald Reagan, Gerald
Ford, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Grace,
Walter Cronkite, George Lucas, Walt Disney,
John Kennedy, Jr., Sophia Loren, Geena
Davis, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Costner, Keanu
Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Ron Howard, Matthew
Broderick, Ringo Starr, Whoopi Goldberg,
Janet Jackson, Nancy Kerrigan, Jim Hensen,
Marc Chagall, Norman Rockwell, "Edith
Bunker" (Archie Bunker), and
"Marge Simpson" (The Simpsons).
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