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The Personal Orientation Dimensions (POD) Scales

I. Orientation

Time Orientation
The capacity to live in the present with full feeling reactivity rather than blaming one's past or depending on future plans.

Core Centeredness
The tendency to trust one's feelings within as a guide for behavior, rather than looking to "shoulds" or "oughts" from others.

II. Polarities

Strength
The capacity to experience and express a personal sense of power, security, or worth, adequacy or competence in oneself.

Weakness
The capacity to experience one's humanness, vulnerability, hurt or helplessness. Accepting one's impotence and inadequacies.

Anger
The capacity to experience and express one's feelings of anger in mild or in more intense ways appropriate to the situation.

III. Integration

Synergistic Integration
The understanding that commonly held opposites or polarities (Strength-Weakness, Anger-Love) are not really opposites, but rather are mutually complementary.

Potentiation
The understanding that no one principle such as honesty or fairness can control one's total life.

IV. Awareness

Being
An orientation to life which includes the willingness to be or express whatever one feels or thinks or senses within, as opposed to a doing orientation which seeks to impress others.

Trust In Humanity
The ability to constructively view the nature of man as trustworthy and essentially good as opposed to seeing human nature as essentially evil or bad.

Creative Living
The capacity to be effective and innovative and become excited about decisions, judgments, or tasks.

Mission
A sense of dedication to a life task or mission, a belief in the importance of developing one's highest potentialities.

Manipulation Awareness
The capacity to recognize common manipulative patterns in others and to admit that oneself manipulates.