The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

He will learn both to trust others, and that, while he can have his own power, he does not have to be the ultimate power to be safe.

Through this process, she learns to reference her own body sensations and feelings as information to use in making her decisions.

As we’ve mentioned before, rigid-patterned people have a strong respect for authority — for those who tell them the correct forms and rules. Because of this, they are very conscious of their proper place within any hierarchy of authority. They are respectful and obedient to those above them in the hierarchy, and strict with those below them.

And finally, the parent may employ violence to force the child’s compliance.

However, this shift is particularly difficult for rigid-patterned people, for two reasons. First, their “good enough” meter isn’t functioning. And second, they’re engaged in a life-long romance with perfection itself, which they have devoted themselves to pursuing in every aspect of their lives. To now see their lover as flawed but still lovable wo

the kind of presence that people refer to as “the strong, silent type.”

No matter what survival pattern you’ve gone into, the first step in getting yourself out of pattern is to put your attention on your basic energy skills.

Because they have a strong, healthy will and a strong, focused intent, they are also good at survival. They are realistic, accurately measuring both themselves and others, and then making their decisions accordingly. They orient to the truth of the situation — not to a hope or an illusion — and are able to accept that truth.

Keeping in mind that each of the survival patterns is formed by the interaction between the child and his environment,