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Home > Overleaves > The Reserve Mode The Reserve Mode BY PHILLIP WITTMEYER The Ordinal Inspiration Mode is Reservation. This has nothing to do with arranging hotel accommodations. It has to do with being reserved in temperament. People in this mode tend to act low-key and nonchalant about everything. The manner is "toned down" and lacking in enthusiasm. A person in this Mode almost never shows enthusiasm, and he is generally easygoing, gentle, and mild-mannered. If he gets excited, he certainly does not show it. The body movements do not demonstrate enthusiasm, and the voice itself lacks animation and inflection. The Positive Pole is +Restraint. In its best expression, Reservation in this Pole shows up as self-control. Here is a person who never "flies off the handle". He "keeps a lid on himself", and doesn't get "carried away" with anything. He doesn't "go overboard" at any time. Things over which others might display some excitement are met with coolness. The manner is unruffled and conservative. He keeps a "tight reign" on himself — he is "in check" at all times. One might even say he is tame. Indeed, he behaves gingerly and tenderly. His behavior is unaffected and plain. Psychologists would say he has a "flat affect". The Negative Pole is -Inhibition. Here the Restraint is taken to an extreme, or perhaps it would be better to say that it is perverted or distorted since the Reservation Mode disallows behavior being taken to an extreme. The behavior is totally uninspired and drab. There is no excitement or enthusiasm for anything. The person goes through life as if it were all just shades of gray, with no color in it. He is low-spirited and halfhearted in everything he does. The facial expression is deadpan and the voice lacks all emphasis. Here the word "repression" might truly apply. This is the name given by psychologists to a type of neurosis where a person refuses to admit or allow a thought, feeling, or behavior to be expressed. Such a person is indeed psychologically stifled and smothered to his own detriment. The fear that drives -Inhibition is the fear of excess. The way to overcome the Negative Pole is to consider and apply the Positive Pole of the Passion Mode, which is +Enthusiasm (Self-Actualization). Cast off the constraints and throw off the shackles of confinement at least a little bit. Exhibit some excitement and animation. Of course it would seem to someone in this Pole that even a little was wildly overdone, but with practice, it will become more reasonable, and one can at least get to the Positive Pole of +Restraint. The complementary opposite of the Reserve Mode is the Passion Mode. People in Reservation avoid behaving like people in Passion. They don't act passionate, intense, extreme, fervent, eager, wild, outlandish, loose, outrageous, expressive, or blatant. The counterpart of the Reserve Mode is the Reevaluation Goal. Reevaluation seeks what Reserve has: an uncomplicated and economical lifestyle, without adornment and frills, never going to excess or extremes. They are different in that a person in Reserve has himself efficient and orderly, whereas a person in Reevaluation would like to make his environment this way. A person in Reserve applies the principle of conservation to his own actions, feelings, and thoughts, rather than seeking this in the outer world as does the person in Reevaluation. The advantage of this Mode is that people in it are unlikely to go overboard on anything and get themselves in trouble. On the other hand, it seems they do not get the most out of life because their experience of it lacks intensity. It is difficult for other people to "read" a person in the Reserve Mode because they are subdued, muted, and even lackluster in their behavior — it is difficult for one to pick out the Traits of a person in this Mode. Since the "body language" is so undemonstrative, this can make it difficult to deal with such a person. They tend not to reveal what they think or feel through their behavior. The person may actually feel something very strongly, but not express it strongly, so others misunderstand, and the relationship is jeopardized.
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