Rū-4 helps you become more flexible, without compromising your standards and ideals. As you become aware of the standards you set for yourself and others, you will open to new ideas and allow for more tolerance and understanding. This includes more leniency and kindness towards yourself when you have not accomplished your goals. You can feel a greater depth of emotion, allowing yourself to enjoy simple pleasures and experience more out of life.

For Those Who Struggle With:

• Having high expectations for yourself and others.
• Having specific ideas on how things should be done.
• Not showing your true feelings, as it feels too vulnerable.
• A tendency to be strict, opinionated, and quietly critical of others.
• Being more task and goal oriented rather than feeling and expressing emotions.
• Denying yourself the simple joys and pleasures of life through living by a strict set of standards.
• Having a hard time expressing your feelings and difficulty in receiving expressed emotions from others.
• A tendency toward perfectionism and potentially setting unrealistic standards, including being hard on yourself when you don’t meet those standards.
• Feeling like you are making great sacrifices to follow your ideals and when you disapprove of something, wish others would follow your example.

“I don’t want perfect I want something real. Something that makes me feel.” ― N.R. Hart