Professional Documents
Culture Documents
AFFIRMATIONS
It's OK for you to be here, to be fed and touched and taken care of.
You don't have to hurry, you can take your time.
I like to hold you, to be near you, to touch you.
Your needs are OK with me. I'm glad you're a (boy, girl).
You have a right to be here.
SYMPTOMS
Eating frequently. Trouble thinking. Craving sweets.
Mouth sensitivity. Napping a lot. Lacking concentration.
Needing others. Needing to be lovingly fed and touched.
TASKS
Be close to, build or renew sustaining connections with others.
Take time to take things in. Ask for help from others.
Be touched and have intimate contact.
Ask others to take over for a while to gather strength and build energy for moving
into DOING.
Ages: 0-6 months; 13-13 ½; 26-26½; 39-39½; 52-52½; 65-65½; 78-78½; 91-91½
SYMPTOMS
Pleasure oriented. Motivation problems.
Needing to become grounded or find new footing. Tooth pain. Wanting variety of
stimulation/ to expand boundaries of life.
TASKS
Feel, touch, see, hear, smell & taste the world. Seek. Feed your senses while
maintaining support.
Maintain BEING bonds. Explore gravity.
SYMPTOMS
Asserting "no" & "I won't." Learning new thinking. Tantrums. Temporarily
forgetful or greedy. Feeling angry for no reason.
Pushing others. Developing a separate position.Testing to find out how safe it is to
break out of dependency.
TASKS
Learning to think for ourselves. Finding support for being independent.
Developing a separate position as an individual.
SYMPTOMS
Finding out what happens when we lie or steal. Feeling consequences.
Preoccupation with power. Nightmares.
Wondering, "Who am I?" Asking many questions.
Developing sudden nameless fears. Interest in gender differences.
TASKS
Experiment with social relationships. Test consequences.
Exert power to find out what happens.
May require taking time out from old identity to lay the
groundwork for the new.
SYMPTOMS
Preoccupation with "how to do it." Moral & argementative. Interested in others'
values and morals.
Criticizing other's ways. Doing it your way & nobody elses.
Arguing & hassling with others' morals & methods.
TASKS
Argue, hassle & challenge. Actively disagree with others' methods. Make mistakes
in order to find what works. Seek people outside your usual circle of family and
friends.
Develop your own ways to do things. Try new social roles.
Experiment to find what works.
SYMPTOMS
Developing social relationships as a sexual person.
Preoccupation with sex and people as sexual beings.
Skin eruptions. Turbulent body changes, especially in hormone & energy levels.
Episodes of dependency with urges to explore
& be separate. Creating independent support system.
TASKS
Develop as a sexual person. Integrate sexual needs with needs from previous
stages. Develop personal philosophy.
By this stage's end we need to break out of relationships which aided our growth
up to now, and reestablish them from an independent and autonomous position.