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

What they’re really doing is reading your energy and comparing it to your words. If your words match your energy — which means they’re true, or at least you believe they’re true — the aggressive-patterned person will trust what you say and listen to you.

But the voice of the inner critic is not your own voice. It is only the voices of the people who raised you.

The solution: You need to come back. Your body did not leave you.

One option is taking action only inside their head, in fantasy, where no one else can know about it or punish them for it.

As toddlers and children, their attempts to act and do things for themselves, in their own way and on their own schedule, were thwarted and often punished, so they came to doubt their right to act.

It is attachment to the physical plane, and specifically to the physical and energetic earth that supports and nurtures all life here.

Usually this is a repeated experience, although, if the experience is intense enough, one event can create a survival pattern.

Rigid-patterned people are better at nailing you than those who run any other survival pattern. They have been keeping a mental list of your faults and vulnerabilities, so they know exactly where to slide in the dagger. Notice how different this is from the anger of aggressive-patterned people, whose weapons rely more on blunt force.

this map does not describe who you are, but rather what obscures who you are.