BEECH relates to the soul qualities of Sympathy and Tolerance.

Obtaining a sensitivity to others whom they cannot understand through their own experience, by looking to one's Higher Self to obtain the Spiritual Guidance needed to provide that awareness is an example of being in the Positive Beech state. An ability to feel connected with almost any other person of the same or different background brings a joy and cheerfulness to the person who wants to give love and receive love. They can sincerely extend themselves into new realities by integrating feedback from Spiritual Guidance with their own experiences and using the talents of their Basic Personality to become aware of what is of positive relevance for others.

Just as each of us is but one member of our species, we are not responsible for the tragedies and triumphs of the species, yet, we ARE responsible for our part in what we can do to influence the direction, presence, and extent of those tragedies and triumphs. Before we criticise the deficiencies and weaknesses of others we should be careful to acknowledge our own and to also acknowledge how our resources (health, heritage, education, parenting, friendships, associates, finances, capabilities, political system, social era, Basic Personality, energy blocks, imprinting, relatives) have differed from theirs. These differences are elemental to the environment of freedom, equality, justice, and choice within which and from which choice is made.

Negative Beech states are encouraged by one growing up in, or being harshly exposed to --- the hatred, rejection, humiliation, disappointment, and criticism of a larger, more dominant, more powerful, and elitist social presence. They may have found themselves in a victimized religious group, the avoided economic minority of poverty, a restricted role model by gender, a segregated presence by health, a victimized individual by lies and gossip, a distanced person by exaggerated skill of intelligence, influence, or ignorance. Whenever individuals and groups believe that they have been unfairly accused, condemned, discriminated against, penalized, taken for granted, or withheld recognition --- an internal NEED, through energy block and/or imprinting is built with an attitude of IMPOSING on others what has been imposed on oneself.

Rebels are negative Beech types.
Unlike reactionaries who seek change from the injustice of inequality, the rebel seeks to share in the privileges already experienced by others. The fact that those privileges may be based upon injustices, intolerance, pride and elitism -- is never considered. Like the immature 2-year-old who sees another have quantities of candies which will be unhealthful and demands to have as many, the reality that such quantities are not an overall benefit for the privileged is never addressed. Destructive practices may be extended to many because self-directedness and self-awareness are absent. One's values are assumed from the irrelevant extremes of others rather than the sharing of relevant personal options.

Reactionaries are positive Beech types.
Recognizing that others, including themselves, have been victimized or unjustly treated -- they seek to determine why this pattern has developed and who benefits from it continuing. With the benefit determined, the positive Beech type can then understand the unconscious fear of the privileged group who do not want to lose their benefits. At the same time, they can extend the sympathy they hold for those from whom benefits have been withheld and integrate them with a sympathy for those who receive privilege. An understanding develops that only when the dominant group reaches an appreciation of and for the denied group will that respect change an US-THEM dynamic into a WE-US interaction.

Intense authoritarian interactions encourage the development of negative Beech states. Aggressive, egotistical, dominant, arrogant, powerful, sanctioned persons demean those they exert control over. By assuming responsibility for others, without election or request, they impose their standards and inclinations on those they intend to help --- with an unconscious expectation that their charges will later love and thank them for their participation. Frequently this position is taken as an extension of one accepting and adopting the standards which an authority has imposed on them earlier. Believing they have EARNED this authority through their painful subservience to it, there is now no acknowledgement of the rights of others -- just as there was none for their own earlier.

One may be encouraged to develop and maintain a Positive Beech perspective by having an exposure to a number of different cultures, religions, political structures, economic systems, peer groups, and academic subjects. This can also extend to both one's own gender groups as well as the opposite but in ALL situations one's involvement must be sincere. Openness and honesty of communication are required if one is to become aware enough of the other reality in order to be able to ask the questions whose answers can convey understanding and respect.

This egalitarian morality accepts that there are standards which are Personal, Social, and External -- and these may differ from each other. External standards are those adopted by other people for their personal lives and which, because they are personal only, neither conflict with one's own Personal standards nor constructive Social standards. What you choose to do in your own room is your freedom to do. How your family choose to interact amongst themselves, is their freedom. The freedom of the individual and of any grouping becomes restrained only when respect is withheld from others through an imposition on their rights as persons.

Dependent and inter-dependent relationships test the boundaries of the Beech state. As infants, we have little awareness, self-control, self-direction, ability to be self-sustaining, or active in material choices. It is easy for a negative Beech state to develop within parents who take responsibility for infants yet choose, or must by circumstance choose, to spend a minimum of emotional time in carrying out that responsibility. Doing, doing, doing, followed by abandonment to work or other activities, does not enable the parent to listen with quality to the infant.

The almost totally non-verbal communication available from the infant is lost and it is experienced as a THING with the projected emotions of the parent. The infant is seldom acknowledged and often misunderstood. This is worsened by the child later being corrected and told by the parent what it SHOULD feel and think and what it does not because those feelings and attitudes do not match the projections of the parent. More time spent with the infant and child without the demands of perfectionist distractions (cleaning, cooking, socializing, etc.) or the necessity of extended away-from-home work hours (single-parent families, too high a standard of living, chronic illnesses, excessive volunteering) may afford the parent greater sensitivity to the needs of the infant/child and an opportunity for their acknowledgement and encouragement.