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"Everyone manipulates for energy either aggressively, directly forcing people to pay attention to them, or passively, playing on people's sympathy or curiosity to gain attention. For instance, if someone threatens you, either verbally or physically, then you are forced, for fear of something bad happening to you, to pay attention to them and so to give them energy. The person threatening you would be pulling you into the most aggressive kind of drama, what the Sixth Insight calls the intimidator.
'If, on the other hand, someone tells you all the horrible things that are already happening to them, implying perhaps that you are responsible, and that if you refuse to help, these horrible things are going to continue. This person is seeking control at the most passive level, with what the Manuscript calls a 'poor me' drama. Haven't you ever been around someone who makes you feel guilty when you're in their presence, even though you know there is no reason to feel that way?'
'Well, it's because you have entered the drama of a 'poor me'. Everything they say and do puts you in a place where you have to defend against the idea that you're not doing enough for this person. That's why you feel guilty just being around them. So the order of drama goes this way: Intimidator, interrogator, aloof, and poor me.'"
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