What does the Autonomous Level evaluate?
The autonomous consciousness stage refers directly to the level of capacity for recognition and individual identification existing in a behavioral pattern. This capacity begins with the establishment of clearly demarcated boundaries between what belongs to oneself and what is the competence of others.
Oscillating between greater dependence or greater autonomy, the level of presence of an individual in the Autonomous Stage can indicate the level of courage existing to undertake more independent actions directly aimed at their personal convictions or a greater tendency to seek approval from a collective environment to always act in a group.
Depending on the level of presence found in this stage, peaceful and organized behaviors may be common or great conflicts may arise when someone presents divergent viewpoints.
What is the intensity of {{nome}} at this stage?
- INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
(General characteristics: Management of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors)
Highlights:
- Low emotional clarity, with difficulty identifying what is felt and guiding behavior
- Tendency toward procrastination and difficulty maintaining commitments to oneself
- Strong insecurity when making individual decisions without external validation
Individual behavioral tendencies:
- Constant need for support and approval to validate own actions
- Difficulty dealing with others’ autonomy and with situations beyond control
- Tends to hold others responsible for own frustrated expectations
- RELATIONAL MODEL
(Behavioral pattern when establishing personal relationships)
Highlights:
- Prone to demanding reciprocity under emotional justifications
- Invasive in others’ decisions, even when intending to help
- Discomfort when close people prioritize themselves or when considering doing so
Tendencies in relationships:
- Expects behaviors based on the collective, rejecting more individualized actions
- Shows frustration when others fail to meet implicit expectations
- Confuses collaboration with excessive shared responsibility
- ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY
(Ability to adapt and perform professionally / in groups)
Highlights:
- Tends to seek protection in environments with well-established rules and constant leadership
- Difficulty assuming leadership or autonomy over own projects
- May react poorly to unexpected changes in collective or organizational plans
Performance tendencies:
- Requires frequent validation from peers or superiors to feel secure
- Avoids taking independent stances in critical decisions
- Prefers working in groups but tends to rely excessively on others
Detailed profile:
A low presence in the Autonomous state indicates a lack of ability to manage the direction of one’s own behavior and to separate the individuality of each participant in a scenario.
With this behavioral pattern, {{nome}} tends to believe that a person’s actions and responsibilities need collective validation, meaning that the group as a whole should agree with their intentions, developing a certain dependency on others’ approval of their own actions and creating the distorted expectation that the actions of the people they interact with should also be submitted to their approval. A certain embarrassment may be common when assuming the direction of one’s own behavior, especially under pressure, generating a significant level of insecurity.
{{nome}} may feel great frustration or irritation when someone they interact with follows paths different from what they believe to be the “correct” ones. Dependency and codependency situations can be fueled by the belief that it is harmful to look first at one’s own interests and only then evaluate collective interests. A strong discomfort will also arise when encountering highly independent people or when evaluating that another person is looking first at their own interests and not considering the behavior or opinion of the group first. The group’s opinion about one’s own behavior tends to have a high impact on {{nome}}.
A behavior with a certain level of naivety in {{nome}} can commonly be found regarding the expectation that received promises are an irrefutable guarantee of obtaining what is desired, even if the person making the promise does so out of naivety but cannot guarantee the promised outcome. In this case, two consequences are commonly found: the first being a possible lack of individual preparation to face an eventual different outcome than agreed, which implies difficulties in adapting when surprised by a change of plans, such as the end of a relationship or leaving a company they work for. The second consequence could be a second naive behavior, demanding that the other fulfill their desires on the grounds that expectations have been generated, without taking responsibility for these expectations they allowed themselves to create without considering the possible variations of the real world.
{{nome}} tends to believe that responsibilities can be shared and that individuality is a selfish, highly undesirable behavior. They may feel bad for assuming that they are defending their own interests and seek justifications in the failures of others to justify moments when they think of themselves. They may confuse the healthy possibility of a shared decision with dependence between people, believing that the thought of “each person is responsible for themselves” is negatively individualistic and also confuse the idea of collaboration with a concept where “everyone is responsible for what everyone does.”
There is a significant difficulty in recognizing oneself, their capabilities, and limitations. A low intention to act autonomously may be associated with a low ability to deal with realities they do not like, making {{nome}} often rebellious and resistant to accepting that people are freer than they believe they should be. They may become highly demanding and invasive with people in their relationships.
{{nome}} may present a significant low capacity to fulfill the movements and commitments proposed for themselves, potentially procrastinating activities they desire, causing possible frustrations regarding the desired goals. Justifications for lack of support may arise in moments of irritation or frustration.
With a very low Autonomous Stage, the emotions felt may be difficult to identify clearly, causing {{nome}} to experience great emotional turbulence, without having clear tools at that moment to move intentionally between behaviors and alter their own emotional pattern. There is a low capacity for conscious emotional guidance, which may be associated with unknown emotional discomforts.
In this behavioral pattern, there is a significant difficulty for {{nome}} to recognize themselves individually, with their capabilities and limitations, as well as to delimit responsibilities, which makes their own responsibilities not be fulfilled satisfactorily. There is also a tendency for someone in this condition to interfere in matters that are not their responsibility, often with the intention of helping but being invasive and clumsy in attempting to participate in decisions or behaviors that belong to another person.
With a low level of individual awareness of oneself and their surroundings, a person will tend to have greater difficulty identifying what leads them to the discomforts they experience. Therefore, the stages of low visibility (instinctive, dramatic, and perceptual) tend to have a greater level of presence and more intense involvement.