Defense Mechanisms	Healthy Expression
Repression: the unconscious constraint of uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, keeping them out of awareness	Expression: the willingness to assimilate uncomfortable thoughts, situations and feelings into a creative experience of resolution.
Regression: a return to earlier levels of development and more primitive levels of behavior;	Progression: a movement into more mature levels of development and advanced levels of behavior;
Projection: the process of placing one's own traits , attitudes or faults on others;	Introspective: Accepting of one’s own traits, attitutudes, and and faults and attempting to move then towards excellence.
Identification: a process by which an individual unconsciously or so, as a result of an emotional tie, behaves, or imagines himself behaving, as if he were the person with whom the tie exists.	Self-confident: The willingness to be strong in ones own convictions and encouraging of ones own style.
Fantasy: a form of creative imaginative activity, where the images and trains of imaginary are directed and controlled by the whim or pleasure of the moment.	Creative: The use of the imagination to create and express Beauty
Compensation: process by which the individual covers up a weakness or defect, by exaggerating the manifestation of a relatively less defective, or more desirable, characteristic;	Secure: The willingness to accept ones own shortcomings and to be confident in our effort in pursuing our path.
Sublimation: process by which a sexual impulse, or its energy, is deflected, as to express itself in some non-sexual, and socially acceptable, activity;	Loving: The fulfillment of sexual impulses when appropriate, and the skilled channeling of energy for purposes of creating Beauty.
Reaction-formation: the development of a personality trait of a behavior that is the opposite of the original unconscious, or repressed impulse or desire.	Noble: The development of personality traits that we respect and hold as virtuous.
Aggression: the conscious manifestation or projection of the death instinct, as the person "ruthlessly marches" over anxiety.	Cooperation: the willingness to pursue a peaceful path whilst resolving challenges.
Denial: the exclusion from consciousness an anxiety producing experience	Sincerity: The assimilation into consciousness of an anxiety producing experience, and acting forthright based on our true feelings.
Avoidance: the going around all thought, situations or feelings that might arouse anxiety.	Courageous: The direct dealing of thoughts and situations that may raise anxiety and acting with courage;
Narcotization: The strong attachments formed to an object, activity or situation that relieves anxiety.	Detachment: The willingness to confront the pains of existence directly.
Timidity: the extreme passivity that develops from fear of rejection and rebuff.	Confident: the willingness to remain secure in the face of rejection.