Anantya Anand experiences her inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by her involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Anantya Anand is motivated by a need to work in common with other people and to share life’s pleasures and pain. Her commitments to other people are of paramount importance to her personal development. This dependence may present difficulties with individual self-assertion and make it hard for her to make decisions alone. If she wants to achieve inner equilibrium, she must behave in such a way that her actions yield benefits to others as well as herself.

Anantya Anand is attracted to interpersonal activities, but her significant need for inner security may stand in the way of her overtures to others. Since she is highly receptive to other people’s inner natures, she seeks tight bonds with them. She unconsciously needs their psychological support in her quest for herself.

A struggle between two fundamentally opposite psychological tendencies is the salient feature of my psyche. However, mental skills and an ability to adapt to the reality principle predominate, though they are subject to impulses from dynamic and emotional principles. Intuition and practicality make a harmonious combination, yielding unusually clear insights into reality and its limitations. The resulting behavior patterns are efficient and practical. However, I may be a bit cautious and skeptical; my unwillingness to take risks may hold me back from gainful experiences, and I am only rarely eager to accept a challenge. Moreover, since my deepest emotions and feelings remain a mystery to me, my vision of the world is sometimes too rigid.

Anantya Anand, you are aware of a lack of confidence in yourself and in life. Prone to apathy, you may often be discouraged by the strains of living. This reluctance to accept the challenges of existence, which you may perceive as a major problem, may be the result of a self-image which is elusive or flawed. Perhaps, as a child, you were not given the means to develop an ideal image due to the lack of an appropriate role model or caregiver. As a result, you are unable to move yourself toward an improved, more positive disposition. You may reject any challenge that would enable you to surpass your current self, or accept it only after long meditation. Steeped in the awareness of your problem, you may be tormented and wish to change. Vigorous physical exercise and an effort to visualize an admirable figure would be beneficial to you, as well as a diet that includes vitality-bolstering vitamins and protein.

You work hard to understand the feelings of others, but find it difficult to understand your own. You see the emotional world as a foreign place, filled with hidden dangers. Becoming more familiar with it would be a risk, because it might bring with it pain. As a result, you may appear insensitive or aloof. You might have difficulty establishing relationships, because you are seeking people who are special to you. If you could accept and understand your own emotions, you would have an easier time dealing with the feelings of others. You have a strong desire for emotional independence, and may be resistant to seeing the emotional needs of others. This can result in dependency being unconscious. Because it is seen as a threat, it is repressed. In fact, although you offer conscious resistance to anyone who tries to lure you out of your emotional bubble, you are always making half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because you are so lonely and afraid.