Body
List eight words that best describe your body—your physical self. Immediately following the eight blank lines are some concepts to help jumpstart thinking.
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Agile
Animated
Athletic
Aristocratic bearing
Attractive
Balance
Body Scent (Pheromones)
Casual
Competitive
Confident (Head High Up)
Demonstrative
Endurance (Stamina)
Energetic
Exercise
Expressive
Fitness
Flexibility
Frenetic
Graceful (Motion)
Health
Height
Hygiene
Hyperactive
Image-Conscious
Mobility
Neat
Posture
Powerful
Radiant
Resilient
Sensual
Sexy
Slow-Moving
Smile
Speed
Strength
Style
Symmetry
Verbal
Voice
Youthful
Next, narrow it down to a quaternity, the top four words that best describe your body—your physical self. Now write them on your essentials-body mandala on p. 305.
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Now choose the ONE word that epitomizes your body—your physical self.
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Mind
Are you satisfied with your intellect? Can you think and express yourself clearly? Do you have a knowledge system that supports you and works for you? Are you open to new ideas? Are you a questioner?
List eight words that best describe your mind—your mental self. Immediately following the eight blank lines are some concepts to help jumpstart thinking.
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Accurate
Achiever
Action-Oriented
Adaptive
Alert
Aggressive
Ambitious
Analytical
Anxious
Assertive
Brave
Calm
Capable
Cautious
Cerebral
Challenger
Composed
Complacent
Competent
Confident
Confrontational
Control
Creative
Critical
Curious
Decisive
Determined
Dislikes Change
Dominating
Driven
Easy-Going (Relaxed)
Enthusiastic
Energetic
Entrepreneurial
Excelling
Firm
Flair
Flamboyant
Focused
Forthcoming
Goal-Oriented
Hard-Working
Imagination
Impractical
Indecisive
Independent
Individualist
Indomitable
Innovative
Inquisitive
Inventive
Knowledge
Leadership
Learner
Likes Challenge
Love of Learning
Mentally Tough
Motivation
Open Book
Open-Minded
Optimistic
Orderly
Perfectionistic
Positive
Pragmatic
Precise
Pre-Occupied
Perseverance
Perspective
Purposeful
Rational
Reading
Referee
Relentlessness
Resourceful
Risk-Taker
Scattered
Scheduled
Self-Assurance
Self-Confident
Self-Reliant
Self-Talk
Slothful
Spirited
Straight-Talking
Strong-Willed
Stubborn
Success
Suspicious
Takes Charge
Teachable
Teamwork
Tenacity
Thoughtful
Troubleshooter
Unrealistic
Vigorous
Vision
Visualization
Vitality
Willful
Work Ethic
Narrow it down to a quaternity, the top four words that best describe your mind—your mental self. Now write them on your essentials-mind mandala on p. 306.
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Now choose the ONE word that epitomizes your mind—your mental self.
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Soul
Are you in touch with your feelings and able to express them appropriately? For example, do you allow yourself to feel the full range of emotions: fear, anxiety, and anger, as well as excitement and enjoyment? Or do you find that certain emotions make you uncomfortable? Are you able to set appropriate boundaries with people? Can you relate to others in a close, intimate way?
List eight words that best describe your soul—your emotional self. Immediately following the eight blank lines are some concepts to help jumpstart your thinking.
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Affection
Agreeable
Angry
Anxious
Appreciative
Arrogant
Bold
Charming
Communion
Community
Complacent
Content
Defiant
Detached
Distractible
Dramatic
Dreamer
Dreamy
Easygoing
Eccentricity
Empathy
Enthusiast
Easygoing
Emotional Intelligence
Engaging
Entertainer
Equanimity
Excited
Expressive
Extrovert
Fearful
Fun-Loving
Group-Oriented
Happiness
High-Spirited
High-Strung
Humor
Impatience
Impulsiveness
Intense
Intimacy
Introvert
Intuition
Isolated
Joyous
Lusty
Melancholy
Mixes Easily
Moody
Non-Demanding
Nurturing
Optimistic
People-Pleasing
Perceptive
Pessimistic
Playful
Possessive
Promoter
Prudence
Reactive
Reassuring
Rebellious
Receptive
Relational
Reserved
Satisfied
Scattered
Secretive
Self-Absorbed
Self-Aware
Self-Conscious
Self-Pity
Social Intelligence
Spontaneous
Stable
Suspicious
Sympathetic
Temperamental
Utopian
Versatile
Withdrawn
Zest for Life
Now, narrow it down to a quaternity, the top four words that best describe your soul—your emotional self. Now write them on your essentials-soul mandala on p. 307.
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Now choose the ONE word that epitomizes your soul—your emotional self.
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Spirit
Do you feel a relationship to your spiritual origin? Are you able to spend time in spiritual practices such as meditation or journaling? Do you have a relationship with your inner wisdom, values, beliefs, or intuitive guidance? Do you have moments when you feel at one with everything or part of something more significant? Is nature vital to you?
List eight words that best describe your spirit—your spiritual self. Immediately following the eight blank lines are some concepts to help jumpstart thinking.
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Accepting
Achiever
Advocate
Agnostic
Anarchist
Atheist
Avaricious
Awareness
Beauty
Caring
Certitude
Committed
Compassion
Courage
Cunning
Defender
Discipline
Doubter
Equality
Equanimity
Existentialism
Fairness
Fearful
Freedom
Forgiveness
Generous
Gratitude
Harmony
Helper
Holistic
Honesty
Hope
Humility
Iconoclast
Identity
Independence
Initiative
Insightful
Inspirational
Integrity
Interpersonal
Investigator
Judgment
Justice
Karma
Kindness
Love
Loving-Kindness
Loyal
Meaning
Mediator
Modesty
Motivator
Nature
Nihilism
Open-Hearted
Patience
Peacemaker
Principled
Productive
Progress
Protector
Purpose
Reformer
Reliable
Responsible
Ritual
Self-Controlled
Self-Honesty
Self-Indulgent
Self-Reliance
Self-Regulation
Sensitive
Serenity
Servant
Service
Significance
Skeptic
Spirituality
Success
Supporter
Sweetness
Tradition
Transcendence
Trustworthy
Truth
Useful
Wisdom
Work
Narrow it down to the top four words that best describe your spirit—your spiritual self. Now write them on your essentials-spirit mandala on p. 308.
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Now choose the ONE word that epitomizes your spirit—your spiritual self.
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Note additional thoughts and feelings and consider how well you currently experience each of the four essentials. Are there any actions you can take toward growth, wholeness, and enjoyment?
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Here is an invaluable step to this process. Once you determine your best words, give three trustworthy people the opportunity to add or dialogue about the terms and then rank them in order of importance. This feedback is critical. It would be best to have objective and honest, loving, and trustworthy input to make your mandala the best possible investment of your time.
