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Imenuff -> RE: BOOKS for which I am grateful... (11/5/2007 9:17:11 AM)
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Fives, Sixes and Sevens fall into the category of “Head” people.
Fives-The Need to Perceive.
Fives are open to new facts and impressions. They are the discoverers of new ideas, researchers and inventors, philosophers, etc., and are interested in exploring things in great detail. For fives, knowledge is power.
The primary experience of fives is emptiness. They long for fulfillment and go through life gathering whatever they can. While twos are compulsively givers, fives are compulsively takers. Fives have a passion for collecting knowledge, thoughts, ideas, silence, and space. Many fives hate words like “share”, “communicate,” etc. Fives hate intrusiveness and intruders and protect their private spheres like “the apple of their eye.” Their relationship to the outside world is mechanized since some of their greatest fears are emotional engagement, intimacy and concrete commitment. They often appear as snobbish and prefer being a wellspring of knowledge rather than becoming intimately involved. Fives prefer dealing in the abstract world of theories and ideas and prefer reaching for the “enlightenment” of renouncing emotions and reaching for premature intellectual knowledge while scorning the emotionalism and false motives of the world.
Sixes-The Need for Secruity
Sixes are cooperative team players, reliable and can be counted on for fidelity. They friendships are warmhearted and deep feeling and they will give body and soul for those they love.
The primary experience of sixes is fear and they easily succumb to self-doubt. They continually sense danger. They are emotionally dependent on others yet test them first. They love orthodox, fundamentalist, closed systems; worship authority and search for security in it, yet fear it. Because of their own insecurity, they are looking around for authorities with infallible leadership and need an institution that will tell them what to do. They tend to be pessimists, fighting for survival and almost seem to take pleasure in loosing. They have a rich imagination for scenarios of apocalyptic terror.
Sevens-The Need to Avoid Pain
Sevens radiate joy and optimism, can feel a childlike astonishment and experience life as a gift. They are sunny, playful, and seem to have a “Permanent” smile. They are the eternal child wo needs change, and stimulation. They are anti-authoritarian.
Sevens avoid pain at all costs and have difficulty dealing with either their own or the emotional and physical pain and suffering of others. The smile of the sevens often conceal a great sadness that they are afraid to experience. They are very in to positive thinking and for them, prayer consists of imagining (visualize) what they want in life and then “take hold of it in faith.” Even when the seven is confronted with death, he/she will come up with all the positives of an individuals death rather than confront, feel, and grieve the actual pain of the loss. In order to minimize the threat of potential pain, sevens like to surround themselves with like-minded people who defend the same interests and are enthusiastic about the same goals.
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