Interesting pattern (archetype) you have identified here...i appreciate your willingness to reflect on internal dynamics. Do you see the resistance to change reflected in other ways? For me this pattern shows up as a sort of extreme....from a chaotic search for identity in adolescence to died in the wool loyalist after 30 - both resist real evolution or at least slow it down

A pretty good description of me, actually. It is like a man who fears that he has just fractured vertibrae and so lies very still to survive. If that strategy is pursued he will never know and will die where he fell.

from an energetic perspective i would hazard a guess that fear of change in pdism has its knarly tendrils in the lower chakras-those which serve to distribute and energize our power associated with survival.
I think that you are right about the chakras that are involved. It is odd that so many of our symptoms seem to involve those lower elements, whether it is our GI system refusing to cooperate or a dopamine agonist setting our libido ablaze.

Do we as pders probably stay in unhappy marriages and jobs longer than most? exhibit perfectionistic tendencies?

I have the impression that we are loyal to a fault.

i've never thought of perfectionism as resistance to change but thinking about it it does seem that the need to control things is rooted in perfectionism....thinking such as...i won't leave this marriage till i've learned ALL the lessons, i won't start a practice until i have more and more and more education, i won't stop fighting an unjust lawsuit even though politics have the upper hand and more money, i have to rescue my kids and husband , etc...

"Life is change. How it differs from the rocks..."

that good ol' reptilian brain seems to hold sway all too often - think i'll go meditate.....

kind regards,
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