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⚜️ Type 8 ENTHUSIASM – YOU CAN :
• allow yourself to feel vulnerable (which is not weakness) – go into your heart like a child
• directly ask for guidance & support
• honor your innocence by letting your deep sweetness  show
• lighten up, see the humor in life’s messes
• look for & find safe people you can rely on
• try to sit back, instead of always being the boss

⚜️  Type 8 Type 8 FLEXIBILITY  – I can go with the flow when I really want to be in control. Other people can be boss-for-a-day instead of me without losing face or being controlled. It’s only fair.
Self-Statement: Step back. Give it up, NOW!  Allow!

⚜️ Type 8 GENEROSITY of Spirit – You can be generous in many way (protecting the weak, fighting injustice, being warm & supportive to those who could benefit)…. But much of it is ego-based, (unconsciously) designed to feel tough, & important.
Instead, true generosity comes from humility & the vulnerability of open-heartedly reaching out to another – on an qual footing – and allowing others to be generous toward you.

⚜️ Type 8 GRATITUDE – Obvious idea: Name 3 things that someone else made happen (without you!) that you’re grateful about. Sit with these in your mind, heart & body for half an hour.
Not-obvious idea: Acknowledge your needs & experience gratitude for being open, flexible & gentle in allowing yourself to feel them. Do this daily for one month.

⚜️ Type 8 INVOLVEMENT – You are intense about most things, getting caught up with people, projects & causes. But ASK :
* What’s driving my intense involvement? Is this true & pure?
* Can I stick with my involvement when I’m not in charge or in control?
* Deep inside, am I truly committed to the hopes & goals of others, even when I don’t agree with their motives, or when I’m feeling competitive?

⚜️ Type 8 MOTIVATION – Hang on to your inner motivation even when  ——> you’re not in control, you feel vulnerable in some way, or when your gut tells you something’s not going in the right direction but you can’t change it.

⚜️ Type 8 PERSPECTIVE – One dimensional lenses : realize that such a restricted view of the truth & reality usually misses other available aspects that would help you cope with life more easily, & let you be softer with other people. Accept that there are many dimensions to life, & they occur simultaneously as well as sequentially.
Remedy: Get wide-angle lenses to see a wider range of options

⚜️ Type 8 PROSPERITY – Go from obsessive control to pure prosperity,  accepting that bigness & excessive action do not create prosperity. What does is – openness & surrender to what is supposed to happen, in its own time.

⚜️ Type 8 RESPONSIBILITY – You’re over-responsive to situations when taking an immediate, big action because the stress so easily sets off your anger-defense. And under-responsive to yourself. EXP : be exhausted or ill & not realize it, feel sad, anxious, or vulnerable, but cover it so fast with anger or action – that you can’t provide your true needs. And an intense drive to have a big impact can make you over or under-respond to the actual requirements of a situation.

⚜️ Type 8 SPONTANEITY – You’re quite deliberate & strategic – which is not spontaneity. But you also take what you want when you want it, which could seem like it. Actually, it’s an ego-need for the immediate fulfillment of desire.
Genuine”presence” requires that you soften the need for power & influence, & learn to manage your anxiety of feeling vulnerable or weak…. to surrender control over whatever happens, whatever you feel & ‘desperately” want, so you can truly enjoy all the good things in the moment.

⚜️ Type 8 VISION – You’re driven by your visions, thinking big & clever, but they’re not concrete enough to grasp – even by you.

What’s the meaning & impact of this vision? What does “We should do…..” mean? How can it be implemented?
Find the exact words to explain what you know instinctually. Then your vision will attract more & more people who can help accomplish it – with less & less need for you to manage all the details (which you don’t really like to do anyway!).

⚜️ Type 8 WILLINGNESS – Be willing to give up being in control of  situations that push your buttons. Carefully notice what’s in you, available in others & in the environment. Be willing to do very, very small things, rather than only ones that have a large impact. Stay present when feeling anxiety, sadness or vulnerability – to experience the total human condition, like everyone else.

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