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17. Our need to express our feelings as they are may with our need not to hurt anyone.
18. Our need to express our real feelings and thoughts might clash with our need to have the others’ acceptance.
19. Our need to follow a spiritual guide might with our need to rebel against all types of advice or control.
20. Our need to control persons and situations in order to feel secure may with our need to let things flow and allow others to act freely.
21. Our need never to show weakness may with our need to share our weaknesses with others or seek their help.
22. Our desire not to ask anything from others may with our need to have their help and support.
23. Our need for a stable routine for our balance and growth may with our need for variety and change.
24. Our need to play our familiar emotional relationship games may with our desire to get free ourselves from them.
25. One part of us wants to face and overcome our fears and blockages while another prefers to avoid and ignore them.
There are certainly conflicts, which we haven’t mentioned, but most will fall into these categories.
How these Personas are Created
Our various emotional survival mechanisms can lead to the development of diverse personas or sub-personalities within our personality structure (we are not talking here about clinical illness such as multiple personality syndrome).
In response to early childhood experiences we develop various inner emotional responses in an effort to maintain our feelings of security, self-worth, power and freedom. These then grow in their own separate ways, manifesting as parts of our personality that have their own personal beliefs, logic and identity and power. We might call these roles "personas," or "sub-personalities." Throughout this discussion we will refer to them as personas.
Each persona has it own core belief that creates and sustains its existence in our larger identity. This core belief will coincide with our need for security, pleasure, affirmation or freedom, or in a few special cases, other less common needs, such as the need to be useful, or to acquire self-knowledge or enlightenment. In some cases, the basic needs may be distorted and work in with survival or growth, as for example, with the need to harm ourselves or others.
In most cases, however, these personas are created by our needs to establish our safety and self-worth, usually through other persons or possessions. (For a more detailed explanation of this process see The Psychology of Happiness.)
In the next part of this series we will offer methods of resolving these conflicts.
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