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Tally your answers now. The most selected letter likely reflects your dharma type. In this chapter we will look at how to master your dharma type and use it to reach your potential in every area of your life. Even if you are completely new to these archetypes, the BE FIT five-step plan will take you from zero to hero in no time.

The first step is to get to know your dharma type. Get an idea of the strengths and weaknesses associated with each type. Or you might consult with a dharma type practitioner to help you understand your type, the life cycles, and the specific challenges at any given time. Once you are sure of your type, memorize the key emotions associated with it from the list below.

Remember that you cannot act outside of your dharma and be happy over the long term. You cannot pretend to be someone else and find lasting success, because that is a crime against wisdom. The root of all dis-ease is crimes against wisdom, which pull you away from your core purpose.

Deception, anxiety Positive Emotion: Sloth, jealousy Positive Emotion: Anger, pride Positive Emotion: My follow-up question is this: In reality, both of these are in us. Which one we express determines how the world sees us. So which part of you do you want your potential mate to meet first? The answer is obvious, but many of us have forgotten how to be ourselves.

The best way to do this is to know your role in any interaction, and your dharma type is the compass that will help you find it. Let it show you your role and lead you to your true self. In any interaction, each dharma type has a purpose. An Educator should give people more wisdom and guidance than they had before. No matter what the situation, your role as an Educator is to create understanding.

Be that compassionate, nonjudgmental, peacemaking Educator and see what happens the next time you talk to the guy at the bus stop or the lady across the counter.

Educators are deeply passionate, but emotionalism should not rule your interactions. Think of Gandhi or your favorite teacher or priest: Educators are exemplars of truth, purity, and wisdom, and always leave you knowing more than before you met them. Kick the tires, take it for a spin, and see what happens. Warriors are born to protect that which cannot protect itself. They are made to lead, and qualified to do so because they also know how to follow orders. As a Warrior, your role in any interaction is to offer solutions to problems and take control, if necessary, to get the job done.

This should not be in an aggressive or boisterous way, because aggression is a sign of weakness. The best Warrior gets things done quietly, efficiently, with the fewest casualties and the most benefit for all involved. From protecting health by combating disease or teaching yoga to fighting for human rights, the smartest Warriors choose their battles. Pick the smart fight and finish one job before starting the next. Whether you give a compliment, a gift, or a free backrub is entirely up to you, but in your next interaction, see how you can bring shakti, positive energy, to others. You are the happiness broker to the world, dear Merchant, and there is no job as delightful and easy as yours, so get to it!

You will find that your own happiness is linked to how much you give to others.

This is the ironclad law of cause and effect that every evolved Merchant learns: As a Laborer you love to care for and nurture friends and family, and when you approach everyone as potential family you will grow your circle wider than ever. Think of Mother Teresa and Oprah Winfrey: And when you have your family around you, you get the security and sense of belonging you need.

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Outsiders combine different elements to forge innovative solutions to long-standing problems. Dear Outsider, discover and share your unique expression; you will benefit others and yourself. The key to attracting your ideal mate lies in having a larger vision for your life. What matters is that you are engaged in pursuing your dharma. Once you understand the core tenets of your dharma type, you can maximize your potential and minimize your weak points by evolving. To do this, find which type you tend to evolve into see below.

Each of us has a complementary archetype that represents the qualities we need to incorporate to become the best we can be. Instead, by taking on qualities of their complementary type, they become the best they can be. Educators evolve when they take on qualities of the Warrior, like discipline and the ability to stick to a goal. Merchants evolve into Laborers and vice versa, because each one has what the other needs. Laborers are sometimes too closed off from the world and need the fun and variety of the Merchant type to bring them out of their shells.

Merchants, for their part, learn stability from the Laborer. When types devolve their worst qualities emerge and their talents are prevented from coming to the fore. However, all factors being equal, these types are not as well-suited for these jobs. When Educators devolve into Laborers, they become stuck in a mode of thinking or attached to their knowledge in an egotistical way.

Life Path & Roles

When Laborers take on Educator values, they lose their own inherent strength and intuition. Educators think with their heads, Laborers with their guts. Switching these around creates confusion and leads you away from your dharma. When Warriors devolve into the Merchant type, their strength turns to bravado, and instead of championing a noble cause they glorify themselves, fighting for the highest bidder. They become mercenaries to money, which often favors the strong, going against their dharma to protect the just and the defenseless.

Merchants devolving into Warriors paint a similar picture of unnecessary force in the name of currency, not courage. Medicine is by and large a Warrior profession; it takes Warrior doctors to fight on behalf of patients against a common enemy—disease. In a Merchant society, however, doctors find it difficult to practice medicine the way they would like to.

America is a Merchant nation, and it has a poor record of dealing with its Warriors—both those on the battlefield as well as those working in the trenches of its health care system. In contemporary America, hospitals have become more like sales centers for the corporations that own them than centers of healing.

It is a practice whose spirit nurtures the ability to live life without the burden of spiritual ambition and goals, and which has the delicious taste of freedom from attachment. The group has now grown beyond the weekly and monthly meetings that had been its limits over the early years. Retreats are now scheduled at various locations and local groups are being set up as an ongoing development.

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