Famous 8s

Aretha Franklin, Chelsea Handler, Clint Eastwood, Donald Trump, Ernest Hemingway, Fidel Castro, Frank Sinatra, GI Gurdjieff, Harriet Tubman, Howard Stern, Mao Zedong, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King Jr, Maximus in Gladiator, Rosanne Barr, Saddam Hussein, Sean Connery, Sean Penn, Teddy Roosevelt, Vladimir Putin, Winston Churchill 

Levels of Consciousness

Creative: magnanimous, strong

Controlling: armored, bossy

Destructive: raging, predatory

Shock point fear (the fear that causes the slip from Creative to Controlling consciousness) 

I do not have enough personal power or resources to meet the challenges that I have taken on

Examples of shock point fears

• I’m determined to win the arm-wrestling tournament for a boost of confidence. I better have what it takes…

• I strut around like a king to make people fear me because to be feared is a good thing when I’m feeling a trace of fear. But instead of everyone being frightened, many are just annoyed…

• I do the death-defying, like motorcycling off clifftops to rise above the petty worries in life, but somehow they’re still there

• I verbally beat the crap out of people to show I’m big and you have to deal with me, but at some point, there’s always someone who can deal with me (and every once in a while, they even melt my heart)

Why I get provoked  Challenging my strength, power, or authority by not making me feel in control, not doing what I say, or reminding me of my vulnerability even if only by showing me your own vulnerability

How I cope with anger I become The Grenade*. I indiscriminately take everything and everyone down with a little blast of unabashed, unadulterated rage, peppered with gestures and cutting words, often curses, that provide me with a big release, but provide you with the important info of who’s the real boss and who’s really nothing

My Emotions are anger