It’s important to be self aware for not only your benefit, but also for the benefit of the people you deal with on a day-to-day basis. It may shock you to learn that when you’re at your best and doing your best work, others may be seeing you at your worst. Perception is reality, so it’s important to have a grasp on how others perceive you.
In starting off the next four blogs on the Insights Colors, I want to start with Cool Blue energy. People with a high level of Cool Blue energy, are introverted and have a desire to know and understand the world. Does this sound like you or someone you know? If this sounds like you, you like to think before you act and maintain a detached, objective standpoint. You value independence and intellect. You prefer written communication in order to maintain clarity and precision, which allows you to analyze the information to your heart’s content.
Qualities in energies are both positive and negative; it just depends on who perceives them. Cool Blue is, by definition, detached and takes its time to think. Imagine how an opposite such as Fiery Red or Sunshine Yellow might perceive Cool Blue if they don’t know the energy’s analytical tendencies; they might view this energy as uncaring and, well, cool! Meanwhile, Cool Blue cares deeply about the issue at hand and is doing some deep and profound thinking while gathering as much information as it can to make an educated decision. In this example, Cool Blue’s opposites see Cool Blue at its worst when it is actually at its best. Eventually Cool Blue will present its findings and will blow away Fiery Red and Sunshine Yellow’s misconceptions, but think about how much time and energy could be saved if the opposite energies understood Cool Blue’s process. It’s not that Sunshine Yellow and Fiery Red are wrong in their actions, but had Cool Blue been self aware and been able to explain how it processes information, Cool Blue energy may have been given ample time to think and prepare for when the time came to make a decision. In other words, we can’t control how other energies treat us, but we can help them to understand us so their perception of us isn’t too far off base.
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