Hi Friends!
Now here's a fun book to browse through.
Who Are You? 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself is designed to help you find out more about yourself. It contains 101 mirrors of self-discovery in which you can recognize your dominant behavior, your body type, how you feel and act, how you think and approach your spirituality.
The author, Malcolm Godwin, has drawn "tests" from ancient and modern techniques from both the East and the West, and these "tests" are divided into four sections -- the body, the emotions, the intellect, and the spirit. Each assessment takes no more than a few minutes to complete, and is accompanied by a brief description of the history and principles behind the method or technique.
Definitily a great way to understand how others see you...
and how you see yourself.
Some of the tests you'll find in the book:
- Are you left-brain or right brain dominant?
- How well do you cope with emotional stress?
- How do you think? -- Verbally? Analytically? Spatially?
- What does your palm tell about your personality?
- What type are you spiritually? -- Prayerful? Philosopher Sage? Devotee?
Here's an excerpt taken from the chapter on Feeling Types:
Do You Plead Guilty or Not Guilty?
The propensity to feel guilty or anxious about our behavior is a character trait that is commonly found today. Most of us are uneasy about certain aspects of our personalities. Often we blame ourselves even when our behavior hardly merits any punishment whatsoever. A certain level of guilt is, of course, necessary for some awareness of conscience. Indeed, its complete absence would be symptomatic of the extremes of psychopathy. Excessive self-abasement or recrimination, on the other hand, reveal an equally neurotic and unbalanced attitude.
Assessment
Do you:
- feel you have spent much of your life doing things you don't really enjoy?
- hate your present job?
- feel bad if you let other people down?
- worry about other people's opinion of you or your actions?
- avoid doing things that might upset your friends?
- find it difficult to sleep until noon on weekends, even when there is nothing urgent to do?
- spend time in a shop trying on clothes and then feel bad if you leave without buying anything?
- send birthday cards to people you don't really like?
- feel upset if someone unexpectedly found you doing something intimate and private?
- dress in clothes that will please others?
- feel bad when you think of times you have been rude or thoughtless?
- find yourself apologizing for something that is not really your fault?
- say sorry when someone steps on your foot?
- feel you have let down your parents by not living up to their expectations?
- agree with the concept of original sin -- that you are born a sinner who must be redeemed?
- feel that we all need some social or religious control over our natural instincts?
- feel that Roman Catholics are right to have regular confessions of their sins?
- sense a general disapproval from others about your person or behavior?
- feel that you should be punished for past sins?
- often pray for forgiveness?
Key:
Answer "yes" to 16 or more of the questions and you can be sure that at some time someone has programmed both you and your emotional center to feel guilty.
A score of 4 - 6 would suggest a healthy conscience.
A score of under 3 suggests you are either enlightened or a psychopath!
For more ways to learn who you are, check out the book at Amazon.com by clicking here.
Big hugs,
Mudd
xoxo
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