Mastery

finding your balance

Mastery governs self-possession: discernment, regulation, the long view. These feelings are the integrated forms, steadier and roomier than their younger versions.

All six families pass through this need. Read the feelings below and you'll hear one question asked six ways: can I hold all of it?

Integration is a skill. Developmental research describes maturity as holding more perspective at once (Kegan), and IFS calls the result Self-energy: calm and clarity with the heat still available. These feelings are what that steadiness feels like from inside.

the feelings here

JoyfulGratefulfulfilled · fortunate
SadBittersweetsober · solemn · nostalgic
MadResolutepassionate · fierce · resolved
ScaredConflictedvigilant · discerning · hesitant · wary
PeacefulPatientsurrendered · equanimous · reverent · anchored · centered

the older maps

Third Eye Chakra

Wrath ↔ Patience: fire spent all at once, against fire banked.