CLARITY

            FIVE | CLARITY                   

 

At their best Fives are visionaries, and able to see the world in an entirely different way. Perceptive and distant, Fives want to possess the knowledge to avoid being perceived as uninformed. Fives attention tends to go to protect their boundaries.  

Their focus tends to go toward protecting their boundaries. They can appear ill at ease in social situations and value their privacy while sensitive to the intrusions of others.

Their challenge is to balance their tendency to withdraw or withhold from people by reaching out to others, even if that means the discomfort of conflict. 

We can support the Fives in our lives by encouraging them to welcome their feelings in the here and now rather than intellectualize them.  In conflict, Fives want to be reassured you will respect their need for privacy while understanding it is not rejection.    

Strengths:                        Scholarly, perceptive, self-reliant

Challenges:                      Isolate, overly intellectual, stingy

Speaking Style:               Rational and content-oriented, often display expertise. 

Basic Proposition
The original, omniscient state of directly knowing that the flow of universal energy meets real needs goes into the background in a world that Type Fives perceive demands too much and/or gives too little. Type Fives come to believe that they can gain protection from intrusion and insufficient resources and assure life through privacy, self-sufficiency, limiting desires and acquiring knowledge. Concurrently, Type Fives develop avarice for time, energy, knowledge and possessions. Their attention naturally goes to intrusion and detaching in order to observe. Isolation of affect glues the structure together by helping them detach or cut off from feelings and intrusion from others. Their ultimate concern or fear is ending up completely depleted, drained, or lacking sufficient resources to cope with life. As compensation, Type Fives sometimes control and dominate by becoming inaccessible, detached, overly self-sufficient, withholding, withdrawing, and miserly with your feelings.

 

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