By recognizing their need to be special and unique while also feeling inferior, this type can come to understand the ways their envy operates and learn to rise above the pain of lack.

Share your opinions about something before you think you know it all. Do things before planning them out completely. Allow for some improvisation and spontaneity.

Then you must face your Shadow to learn how you actually create more misunderstanding and disconnection by dwelling on an inner experience of lack—and how seeing yourself as inadequate means you disown your strengths and gifts. By courageously examining these ego patterns, you begin to understand how they are blocking your growth.

But to make progress on their journey, they need to see that looking for evidence of their own inferiority or superiority (which also reflects a deeper sense of inferiority) keeps them stuck in an illusion about who they are, and this blocks them from manifesting all they are capable of being. Waking up for this type means questioning their belief

Latin root of the word “envy” is invidere, meaning “to look upon.” In the Purgatory section of Dante's Divine Comedy, he portrays the souls who “purge” the passion of envy as having their eyes sewn shut with wire so that they can't see what others have that they want. Envy includes a painful sense of missing something essential, as well as a cravin

Shame connected to being seen, exposed, and potentially abandoned.

Realize that withdrawing makes you feel safe, but prevents you from feeling fulfillment.

If you identify with Type 5 and are willing to look at your blind spots and feel any pain that arises, you will eventually experience a deep and wonderful sense of connection to everything, including yourself.

Then integrate Type 5 traits by noticing when you feel overwhelmed by a strong emotion and making a conscious effort to be more calm and balanced. Analyze your feelings to “make sense of ” whatever is happening. Learn to recognize when you focus too intently on emotions and shift your attention from your feelings to your thoughts. Learn to extract