GENTIAN relates to the soul qualities of God and Faith.

A person who has a strong faith in themselves and their manner of choice based upon the confidence developed through a definitive tendency to derive benefits from their experiences, and, a trust in their mentors and resources, as demonstrated many times through the relevancy and accuracy of those facilitators -- displays the positive Gentian principle.

They recognize that with the many other people who can influence the outcome of their efforts and the many other factors which can modify the existence and nature of their opportunities -- difficulties WILL arise. They have a trust that Spiritual Guidance, and/or other resources including their Basic Personality, the teamwork of their Identity perspectives, and associates who have earned their trust -- will continue to assist them in finding whatever answers are needed for them to make the optimum choices.

Negative Gentian imprinting is often imposed when parents take too distanced a connection with their children. Over-rationalization and aggressive authoritarianism will often have parents communicating with their children as if they were seasoned troops on the battlefield. No time is taken to acknowledge feelings or ability nor to establish an atmosphere of joining in. If the child is sensitive emotionally, either as a Basic Personality strength, or, as a result of abandonment energy blocks already in place -- such apparent condemnation of the child for not having expert abilities and not being emotionally mature can construct yet another energy block.

Negative Gentian attitudes, like many other negatively imprinted principles, are often passed from generation to generation as energy blocks. One may hate the way one has been treated by their parent as a child yet come to accept the attitude when they find themselves imposing it on their own children. To acknowledge one's own lack of self-control and self-direction under the addictive robotic influence of an energy block is usually impossible in the face of the much friendlier option of denial. As in all cases of denial, the conscious intellect of the person assumes the opposite of the reality.

Negative Gentian persons often believe that they are protecting the others they "love" by the abandonment they continually impose on them. The child admits openly and honestly that they have tried something and failed with the positive expectation that the loving parent will acknowledge their best effort, forgive their error, and assist them in improvement. IF this were done, the error would be grieved, the mistake would be learned from and built upon, and, confidence would encourage the child to try again. Instead, negative Gentian mentors communicate with their child as if they were strangers and adults who are wasting their time with reports of failures. The child "hears" that their parent resents honesty and openness and believes that they are worthless.

The child made to feel worthless translated into a negative Gentian adult take the pattern of someone who uses their rational abilities to withdraw from involvement and to find reasons NOT to make decisions or take actions. The RISK of one more judgement of worthlessness by their parents or an adult peer is more humiliation and disgrace than they can bear. Better to do nothing, and encourage others to do nothing -- through pessimism, excuses, and fault finding -- than to be creative and be shot down. The most destructive aspect of this attitude is that a distrust of oneself excludes a trust in or acknowledgement of anyone or anything else, including God.

Recovery from a negative Gentian state often includes withdrawal from the social environment which one has participated in for a long time. Most other people come to accept us and to develop automatic patterns of communication with us on the expectation that our idiosyncrasies will remain constant. IF they remain around us or friends to us, in spite of our clearly destructive attitudes, they will establish a comfort level of accepting and coping with those. The New Age concept of unconditional love is anti-spiritual when it asserts that it is good to allow others to victimize us and abuse us spiritually. The toxic shaming of demanding more from us than we are capable of (as children or trainees) or implying that we are only worthy of their resentment -- IS evil.

Growth into a positive Gentian state can be assisted by being around others who have faced obstacles and surpassed them. Biographies may be a safer beginning as success oriented persons will not tolerate the spiritual numbing of negative Gentian attitudes. Using self-discipline to close the mouth and open the ears and use one's rational abilities to uncover and appreciate HOW others find solutions to problems and discern good opportunities as different from false projections is a good exercise. Listing daily all of one's activities and involvements can also assist one in acknowledging oneself. Positive Gentian persons are self-aware and Ego (Personal values) acknowledging. Negative Gentian persons are Ego blasters and destroy motivation and joy.