Key Qualities of the Five Knot

Chief characteristic

The chief characteristic of the Five fixation is invisibility. They like to sink into the background and not be noticed. They have the ability to be so unobtrusive that people often don’t even notice they are in the room. Human contact is so overwhelming, and life itself is so terrifying that they try to stay removed. Fives can be stingy with sharing themselves, their emotions, and their energy. This gives people the mistaken impression that they are cold and unfeeling. This is far from the truth, they are actually overly sensitive.

Primary emotion

Fear is the primary emotion. Fives find so much of life frightening; relationships, working in the world, attending classes, being able to handle the responsibilities of life. They tend to try to do with less, to not need much, then they can participate less.

Body type

The body type of the Five is small, weak, fragile, and undeveloped.

Talking style

Soft spoken, timid, yet when engaged speak in the form of a treatise.

Distorted Personal belief

I am too inadequate to deal with reality.

World view

The world is overwhelming

Primary fear

Fear of intrusion, of being consumed. The Five lives on the edge of the fear of being consumed if they open up and let people in, and falling into a dark hole if they stay too closed off inside themselves.

Avoidance

Fives avoid emptiness, or the void. If they let go of their precious mental activities their mind can be empty. This can be terrifying to the Five and feel like death. So they keep their minds full of thoughts, fantasies, and intellectual projects.

Coping Mechanism

Fives cope with their fear and the feeling of being overwhelmed by life by isolating themselves.

Childhood

In their childhood they felt overwhelmed and intruded upon.