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LIFE STORIES The Wake-Up Call is that point between healthy and average levels of development in which there is a glimpse of deteriorization. It is helpful to be aware of the behavior that surfaces when your preferred strategy is being challenged. In the average levels the more stereotypical traits of our personality type are evident as the ego makes a bid for its job security. For the nine types, they are as follows: Type 1 – Feeling a sense of personal obligation to fix everything themselves Type 2 – Believing that they must go out to others to win them over Type 3 – Beginning to drive themselves for status and attention Type 4 – Holding on to and intensifying feelings through the imagination Type 5 – Withdrawing from reality into concepts and mental worlds Type 6 – Becoming dependent on something outside the self for guidance Type 7 – Feeling that something better is available somewhere else Type 8 – Feeling that they must push and struggle to make things happen Type 9 – Outwardly accommodating themselves to others
With the Red Flag the stakes have been ramped up to more serious proportions. Remember that at each shock point another one of the centers (head, heart or belly) becomes jeopardized. A person is very much in need of professional support at this point because a deteriorization to the unhealthy levels affects all three of the centers. Called the Red Flag Fears, they are as follows: Type 1 – That their ideals are actually wrong and counterproductive Type 2 – That they are driving friends and loved ones away Type 3 – That they are failing, that their claims are empty and fraudulent Type 4 – That they are ruining their lives and wasting their opportunities Type 5 – That they are never going to find a place in the world or with people Type 6 – That their own actions have harmed their security Type 7 – That their activities are bringing them pain and unhappiness Type 8 – That others are turning against them and will retaliate Type 9 – That they will be forced by reality to deal with their problems
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