ALIGNMENT

ONE | ALIGNMENT

At their best, Ones can be discerning and morally heroic. Conscientious and ethical, Ones want to uphold the highest standards, while avoiding feeling wrong or defective.  Their focus tends towards improving themselves and others; and being correct. When threatened Ones will justify their way as the right way. 

Their challenge is to learn to accept their imperfections and tolerate other people's points of view, detaching their self-esteem from internal standards.

We can support Ones by encouraging them to experience more pleasure, accept errors and differences.  In conflict, Ones want respect; be sure to acknowledge their competency and let them know you respect their viewpoints and opinions.  Owning our own mistakes helps them to relax.

 Strengths:                        Honest, responsible, improvement-oriented.

Challenges:                      Resentful, non-adaptable, overly critical. 

Speaking style:                Precise and detail-oriented, and at times self-riteous.

Basic Proposition
The original, undivided state of perfection in all things in each moment goes into the background in a world that Type Ones perceive as judging and punishing bad behavior and impulse. Type Ones come to believe that they gain worthiness and love by being good, correcting errors, and meeting the requirements of the critical mind.

Concurrently, Type Ones develop resentment and suppressed anger or guilt over impulses and bad behavior. Their attention naturally goes to errors and mistakes. Reaction formation glues the structure together by helping them oppose “bad” behavior even going to the opposite, especially impulses and desires. Their ultimate concern or fear is being utterly wrong and hence totally unworthy. As compensation they sometimes control and dominate by becoming rigid, judgmental, self-controlling, resentful, unforgiving, guilt provoking, and demanding of correct behavior and improvement.

 Basic Propositions were written by Dr. David Daniels, M.D.