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1. What is your style of dress?
Flashy, colorful, and sexy
Simple, muted colors
Rich, colorful, and lots of ornamentation
Simple lines, solid colors, or geometric patterns
Plain, functional, and muted colors
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
2. What kind of landscape or environment do you prefer?
Gardens, flowering meadows, rolling hills, and warm, cozy interiors
Great plains, deserts, snowfields, and sparsely furnished interiors
High mountains or cities, and orderly interiors
Tropical jungles, dense forest, shopping malls, and richly decorated interiors
Big, busy cities and functional interiors
If you can’t relate to the options in this question, leave it open. You can leave 5 questions unanswered. Answer at least 20 out of the 25 questions to complete the questionnaire.
3. At what time of day do you feel at your best?
Dawn
Dusk, twilight
Morning
Late afternoon
No one particular time
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4. Which sense perception is your favorite?
Sight
Smell and taste
No particular one
Hearing
Touch (physical connection)
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5. What do you desire?
To just be
To have it all
To know
To feel
To do
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6. Which of these activities is most natural to you?
Creating and doing projects
Learning something and then teaching it to others
Appreciating people and situations, hosting and embracing others
Having exciting interactions and communicating deeply
Just being
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7. Which emotions feel most familiar to you?
Greed and pride fed by a poverty mentality
Ignorance or denial fed by insecurity
Clinging passion and comparison to others
Anger, impatience, and irritation with confusing situations and overly-emotional people
Jealousy fed by paranoia and competitiveness
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8. What do you fear?
Not having enough
Intrusion
Emotional intimacy
Boredom, mediocrity, and rejection
Failure
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9. What does your “stuckness” look like?
The mind becomes tied in knots by convoluted logic
Indifference, ambivalence, or denial
Overdrive leading to exhaustion; depletion
Obsession, unfulfilled desires, or addiction to intensity
Self-pity, neediness, hunger for more, or overwhelmed
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10. What do you do to take care of yourself when you are upset?
Seek confirmation from others and reconnect to my own richness
Realize that nothing is a big deal
Seek confirmation from others that I am lovable and feel lovable
Take some space and have patience until I come to clarity
Remember to slow down
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11. How are you most often when you are with others?
The center of attention
Active, making things happen
Intimate and emotional
Spacious, simple
Detached and logical
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12. What is your best interpersonal style with friends and coworkers?
Embracing and appreciative
Clear-minded
Empathetic and communicative
Direct, straightforward
Accommodating
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13. How do you get stuck in your relationships?
By being clinging then rejecting, exhibiting a love/hate dynamic, trying too hard to please
By being possessive, overbearing, and demanding too much time and attention
By being businesslike, confrontational, and controlling
By insisting on being right; by being intolerant, opinionated, critical, and sharp
By being aloof, not caring, and spacing out
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14. What capacities or mental abilities do you have?
Spacious and accommodating
Comprehensive and thorough
Holding the overview; facility with logic and reasoning; using structures and patterns
Intuitive and able to discriminate fine points
Turning thought into action without hesitation
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15. What is your learning style?
Repetition using simple, basic concepts; sleeping on it; osmosis
By doing; trial and error
Amassing information; doing research
Intellectual, using analysis, abstractions, and general principles
Intuitive, using imagery, creative expression, and empathetic communication
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16. What is your style of thinking and use of language?
Speedy, matter-of-fact, and pragmatic; could be manipulative
Simple, slow
Individualistic, intuitive, creative, and feeling-based, using analogy and metaphor
Thorough, circular, comprehensive, and elaborate
Clear, orderly, and precise
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17. What ways of knowing do you feel comfortable with?
Retaining large amounts of information
Seeing how things work
By just being
Seeing the big picture and its details
From the heart, intuitive, and by association
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18. Which of these do you concern yourself with?
Nondoing
Wanting to encompass everything and everyone
Communication, self-image, and pleasure
Making sure things get done
Boundaries, making things right, and having discipline
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19. Where do you get preoccupied?
Not knowing where I stand in relationships
Needing to get it done
Trying to make things the way I think they should be
Wanting to possess
Sticking my head in the sand, getting absorbed
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20. When do you feel most productive?
Knowing the answers, being right
Making relationships and genuine contact
Being resourceful
Planning and managing
Making things simple
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21. When do you feel most ineffective?
Not feeling right or perfect
Feeling incomplete, lonely, and depressed
Feeling inadequate, inferior, and unworthy
Not certain who I am
Feeling incompetent; performance anxiety
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22. What is your defense mechanism or coping strategy?
Wanting to please; ingratiating
Taking control
Arrogance; amassing anything spiritual or material
Sticking to my own view; distancing myself
Shutting down; tunnel vision
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23. What do you like in teamwork?
Personal connection
More information
Clear communication
Speedy efficiency
On-the-spot brainstorming
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24. What do you need from your supervisor?
An action plan
Specific direction
Independence
Networking leads
Confirmation and encouragement
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25. What is the essential quality of your wisdom?
Insightful clarity
All-accomplishing action
Intuitive discrimination
Equanimity
All-encompassing space
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