Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom,and power. Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotionalanchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.Guidance means your source of direction in life. Encompassed by your map, yourinternal frame of reference that interprets for you what is happening out there, arestandards or principles or implicit criteria that govern moment-by-moment decision-making and doing.Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of howthe various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment,discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated wholeness.Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity toovercome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

As an interdependent person, I have the opportunity to share myself deeply,meaningfully, with others, and I have access to the vast resources and potential of otherhuman beings.

If I amemotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I alsorecognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others. If I amintellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to joinwith my own.