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Five Elements Assessment

This assessment will aid in determining which of the five elements play important roles in balancing your body's energy or qi when using our elemental oils.

Desires and Values

Please indicate your top ten desires and values.

LoyaltyPerformingAgilitySpontaneityExpression
DefinitionAchievementIndependenceMysteryPassion
FamilyQualityCautionReasonContinuity
UniquenessAnonymityIntimacyCorrectnessAction
SimplicityPrecisionInvolvementStandardsContest
DiplomacyRelationshipConservationExcitementSensuality
ToughnessPrivacyArousalYieldingInterdependence
ChallengeOriginalitySolitudeHarmonyMerging
Self-SufficiencyAestheticsOrderStruggleCommitment
PurityPracticalitySharingSelf ExposureStability

Aversions and Fears

Please indicate your top ten aversions and fears.

SharingClumsinessAmbiguityNonsenseRoughness
InterferenceConservationConfinementWasteVagueness
CarelessnessImproprietyIntemperanceChangeDeliberation
ImpermanenceInactivityComplexityVulnerabilityAloneness
BoundariesIgnoranceInsecurityOrdinarinessConstancy
DisplacementCompromiseIntimacyFrustrationDisloyalty
ConfusionFaithConflictSpontaneityAuthority
ExposureChaosSeparatenessSuperficialityEmptiness
SuspicionDullnessSoftnessSlownessDishonesty
GreedinessSubmittingSeparationShapelessnessRashness

Challenges, Conflicts and Knots

Please indicate your top five challenges, conflicts and knots.

Yearns for fusion vs. dreads dissolution
Wanting to be needed vs. wary of being absorbed, losing self
Yearns for truth vs. fears exposure
Wants to enter vs. detests being absorbed
Makes rules vs. likes to break them
Likes creativity and ingenuity vs. intolerant of disorder and dissonance
Wants joy vs. fears spontaneity
Feels invincible vs. fears vulnerability and loss of control
Loves to say yes vs. can't say no
Aspires towards beauty vs. settle for utility
Desires contact, intimacy vs. needs solitude
Likes to be squeezed vs. scared of being squashed
Knows what is right vs. accepting what is safe
Wants to be in charge vs. misses companionship of peers
Desiring change vs. wanting things to stay the same
Yearns to do vs. subject to impulses
Loves sensation and feeling vs. fears being overwhelmed by intensity
Yearns for connection vs. intolerant of contact
Being at the stillpoint vs. feeling stuck
Enjoys being left alone vs. dreads being abandoned
Wants to be full vs. feeling weighted down, overstuffed, overwhelmed
Wants relationship vs. needs distance
Lives in the moment vs. dreads the future
Demands freedom vs. needs struggle
Seeks emptiness vs. fearing there is nothing at core

Each element contains Powers, Ideals, Tendencies, and Abilities. When one element is significantly affected, a distortion in these can occur. The following are categories containing basic core preferences, values, questions, or needs. Choose one in each category that fits you, that perhaps makes you feel calmer or centered when you see it.

ValueUtilityIntuitionPurityDurabilityHarmony
TalentCommunicationImaginationInitiativeNegotationDiscrimination
PathCompassionActionKnowledgeServiceMastery
VirtueLoyaltyRighteousnessFervorHonestyCharisma
ContextMysteryOrganizationIntimacyChallengeCommunity
DesireConnectednessFulfillmentOrderPurposeTruth
Organized AroundUnificationMetamorphosisRealizationRevelationTransmutation
Existential IssueRole/Orientation—what's my role? where am I?Origin—what is my past? what is my future?Expression/Dimension—how broad is my scope?Purpose/Goals—what to do? how to do?Right/Boundaries—what am I and what am I not?
SeeksSystemCauseTeacher/GuruLoverFamily
PreoccupationSecretsDetailsStimulationRitualsWork
Emotional needProtectedRightEngaged/stimulatedIn loveNeeded
TendencySeek comfortRisk/be activeFollow higher order, make judgmentsSeek connectionSeek solitude, avoid exposure