tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69576908542264536582024-03-05T15:09:19.476-08:00The Enneagram Blogspottheenneagram.blogspot.com.:} {:.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07016428278320927489noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-44916756669300565142007-09-16T05:59:00.000-07:002008-05-30T02:08:54.575-07:00New to the Enneagram?<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 324px; height: 184px;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:yr4w7zjI_Vc-zM:http://www.mindtalkdevelopment.com.au/Images/Enneagram2.gif" /><br /></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Origins</span><br />The Enneagram personality theory was first developed by Oscar Ichazo in 1931, and it was later modernized by psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo and a group of Jesuit priests. With their new findings on the study, psychologist Don Riso and Russ Hudson formed the Enneagram Institute, which has improved apon the theory and now brings it to us in its most modern form.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Types</span><br />There are 9 types of personalities, each defined by a certain ego fixation, i.e. psychological need. Although each of the 9 types are active within you, one ego fixation will be so strong or deeply ingrained within you that it will determine your personality.<br /><br />Ego fixations of the 9 types include:<br /><br />Type 1: The Reformer - To be good, to have integrity, to be balanced.<br />Type 2: The Helper - To feel loved.<br />Type 3: The Achiever - To feel valuable and worthwhile.<br />Type 4: The Individualist - To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity).<br />Type 5: The Investigator - To be capable and competent.<br />Type 6: The Loyalist - To have security and support.<br />Type 7: The Enthusiast - To be satisfied and content—to have their needs fulfilled.<br />Type 8: The Challenger - To protect themselves (to be in control of their own life and destiny).<br />Type 9: The Peacemaker - To have inner stability "peace of mind."<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wings</span><br />The theory of "wings" states that each type can overlap a bit with the personality type directly adjacent to it, i.e. a type 1 can have a 2 wing or a 9 wing; a type 2 can have a 1 wing or a 3 wing. This is usually shorted to, for instance, 1w2 if you are a 1 with a 2 wing, or 2w1 if you are a 2 with a 1 wing.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Instinctual Variants</span><br />The theory of "instincts" states that each person, no matter what type they are, has a mix of the three psychological instincts: Sexual, Social, and Self Preservation. This is one of the reasons why two people can be the same type, but very different. The Sexual Instinct, often referred to as SX, causes you to seek out intense connections in one-on-one relationships. The Social Instinct, often referred to as SO, causes you to seek out warm, open, personal connections with many different people. The Self Preservation Instinct, often referred to as SP, causes you to seek out the safety, comfort, health, energy, and well-being of the physical body. The order in which each instinct is most active in you is referred to as your "stacking," and is often separated by slashes, ie. sx/sp/so or sp/so/sx. To really understand the instincts, you should read the full description <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp#instincts">here</a>. On a side note, your variant stackings may change when you are in different situations or different levels of health.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthiness</span><br />One of the wonderful things the Enneagram personality theory does is to analyze nine different levels of healthiness for each personality type. It is amazing how people of the same personality type can be so different when one is functioning on a healthy level and the other is functioning on an unhealthy level. That is why this personality study is just as applicable to, lets say, criminals, as it is to models of society.<br /><br />The nature of healthiness levels is generally the same over time. A person may fluctuate during the day between healthy, average, and unhealthy levels, but generally they "live" in one state. This state can change only over long periods of time. For instance, a person who is depressed most of the time may have an hour's worth of reborn hope and excitement about the world, only to return after that brief moment to the state in which she normally operates. It is only over long periods of time that she can actually move from functioning at an unhealthy level to functioning at an average level.<br /><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><img alt="The image “http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/images/E-Integrate.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/images/E-Integrate.gif" /></td><td><img alt="The image “http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/images/E-Disintegrate.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/images/E-Disintegrate.gif" /></td></tr><tr><td>Direction of Integration (Growth)<br /></td><td>Direction of Disintegration (Stress)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /><br />An interesting way the Ennegram analyzes stages of health is in the Directions of Integration, when a personality type is experiencing growth to a healthier level, and the Direction of Disintegration, which is the opposite. These directions are the reason for the enneagram shape. A type 4, for instance, behaves like an healthy 1, objective and principled, when she is improving in her level of psychological health. But she becomes like an average 2, over-involved and clinging, when she is under stress, decreasing in her level of psychological health. These directions are indicated by the arrows.<br /><br />Besides the Direction of Integration and Disintegration, there is an in-between level of movement known as a "Security" point. When a type 4, for instance, feels secure with her situation, but she is not actually undergoing a period of growth in her psychological health, she still becomes more like a type 1, but not on a healthy level; she instead becomes like an average type 1, critical and demanding. The descriptions on <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel's page</a> describe the process for each personality well.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Typing Yourself</span><br />The Enneagram personality study is a deep and complex one. Often you cannot be certain what personality you are by simply reading the token descriptions. Even tests can be faulty. I would recommend first taking the test <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/tests.html">found here</a>, which is purported to be the most accurate. Then read the information I have gathered for each of the Types from many different sources: <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html">1</a> <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html">2</a> <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html">3</a> <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html">4</a> <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html">5</a> <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html">6</a> <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html">7</a> <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html">8</a> <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html">9</a>. If you still need more information, see my <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-descriptions-resources.html">Type Descriptions Resources</a>, which links to each of my sources.<br /><br />It can be hard to type yourself because the Enneagram Institute constantly talks about the deep, inner motivations of the types, which may be subconscious processes that are unknown to you. A more down-to-earth description can be found on <a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/nine-enneagram-types.html">EnneagramSpirituality.com</a>, which features work based on a study by Palmer (whereas the EnneagramInstitute.com is based on studies by Riso and Hudson). Palmer's descriptions (and funny caricatures) may give you more of a "feel" of each type. </p><p><strong>Advanced Concepts<br /></strong>The personality types are grouped into "triads." 2, 3, and 4 are in the Heart Triad; 5, 6, and 7 are in the Thinking/Head Triad; and 8, 9, and 1 are in the Instinctive/Gut Triad. The personalities in each of these triads are usually making decisions based either on relationships and emotions (Heart Triad), logic and mental processes (Thinking Triad), or gut and action-oriented processes (Instinctive Triad). Read the <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp#triads">full description </a>for a full understanding of the triads.</p><p>There is also a more subtle element of the Enneagram personality theory called a "trifix." It basically states that your personality may be subtly influenced not only by your primary personality type, but also by two other personality types in the opposing triads. So if you are a type 4, which is in the Heart Triad, but you also identify strongly with the description of a type 6, which is in the Head Triad, and you notice yourself consistently acting much like a type 1, which is in the Instinctive Triad, then your trifix will be something like 4/6/1. Type 4 personality characteristics are your ego's "primary fixation" and type 6 personality characteristics are you ego's "co-fixation," while type 1 personality characteristics also provide a frame of mind for your ego to become fixated on. </p><p>One quote explains the nature of the trifix this way: "The Ego is like a fearful entity living inside the nine-sided house who becomes convinced that the outside is dangerous and that it is most likely to see and be able to respond to this perceived danger by looking through three particular windows. Because the Ego is very fearful, it spends a great deal of time fixated on the view through these three windows. It may set up chairs with binoculars in front of these windows; it will become very familiar with these three particular views. Every time the Ego feels particularly or suddenly threatened, it will immediately go to these windows. The Ego is Fixated in these three Domains. "</p><p>Of course, the trifix is a smaller aspect of the Enneagram theory and should not concern you if you are only just starting to determine your type. Only later when you notice some consistent characteristics in yourself which are similar to personalities in other triads should you become interested in finding out your trifix.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-41285984075234052522007-09-15T19:20:00.000-07:002008-01-14T19:29:35.017-08:00The Instinctual VariantsSEXUAL<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/122/281620142_e28bdc0c6a_s.jpg" /><br /><br />:primary concern:<br />intense experiences, connections, and contacts, wide-ranging and exploratory, in order to find something to "complete" them inside (ski jumps, deep conversations, exciting movies)<br /><br />:primary focus:<br />people and attractions promising intense energy and charge<br /><br />:primary ambition:<br />looking outside themselves for the person or situation that will complete them, and then obsessing over that completing element<br /><br />:primary stresses:<br />lack of intense mental or emotional stimulation, lack of an intense connection or experience<br /><br />:coping methods: (unhealthy)<br />scattered attention, lack of focus, sexual promiscuity, intensely avoiding intense experiences and connections with a fearful and dysfunctional attitude toward sex, intimacy, and other intense "completing" experiences, as is skewed by the secondary instinct<br /><br />Sx/So - Likely to neglect their desire to build their sense of personal value, accomplishment, and security of place with others for the sake of their primary concern of seeking intense connections and experiences, in average-healthy levels. May not have an awareness of the body's need for food or sleep, or of the need to accumulate wealth for reasons of security, or of the need to manage time or resources to establish an orderly lifestyle.<br /><br />Sx/Sp - Likely to neglect their desire to maintain physical saftey, comfort, and an orderly lifestyle for the sake of their primary concern of seeking intense connections and experiences, in average-healthy levels. May not have an awareness of the need to connect in a broader sense with the world, of a sense of security or in groups or of the need to seek it, or even of the need to foster approval, support, and understanding of themselves within groups they [i]are[/i] connected with, often causing misunderstandings with allies, supporters, friends, and family members.<br /><br /><br /><br />SOCIAL<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/478897032_cd38cccfae_s.jpg" /><br /><br />:primary concern:<br />building their sense of personal value, accomplishment, and a security of place with others via interaction with people in a broader sense (through family, group, subculture, mainstream culture, community, nation, world)<br /><br />:primary focus:<br />the status, approval, and admirability of theirself and of others in the minds of any number of different groups; "subtle" power structures and politics; knowing what is going on in the world; a contextual intelligence that allows them to see both their efforts and their broader context in the world<br /><br />:primary ambition:<br />interacting with people in ways that will build their personal value, their sense of accomplishment, and their security of place with others; to touch base with others to feel safe, alive, and energized; may include pursuit of attention, success, fame, recognition, honor, leadership, appreciation, and the security of being a part of something bigger than themselves<br /><br />:primary stresses:<br />being able to adjust to others and be acceptable; others' reactions to them, whether they are being accepted or not; may include intimacy, which is tended to be avoided<br /><br />:coping methods: (unhealthy)<br />antisocial behavior, detesting or resenting society at large, displaying poorly developed social skills, fear and distrust of society, resentfulness at having had to change to gain approval causes a stubbornness against doing what is necessary to get along with people, social resentment and avoidance as is skewed by the secondary instinct<br /><br />So/Sx - Likely to neglect their desire to seek intense connections and experiences for the sake of their primary concern of building their sense of personal value, accomplishment, and security of place with others, in average-healthy levels. May not have an awareness of the body's need for food or sleep, or of the need to accumulate wealth for reasons of security, or of the need to manage time or resources to establish an orderly lifestyle.<br /><br />So/Sp - Likely to neglect their desire to maintain physical saftey, comfort, and an orderly lifestyle for the sake of their primary concern of building their sense of personal value, accomplishment, and security of place with others, in average-healthy levels. May not have an awareness of the need to stimulate the mind or emotions, of a sense of deep excitement or enthusiasm, of a need for intimate experiences, of the need for the unfamiliar. May fall into routines and, despite social connection, may feel a strange disconnection even from spouses, friends, and family.<br /><br /><br /><br />SELF-PRESERVATION<br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2193698506_0f99c0a1f2_s.jpg" /><br /><br />:primary concern:<br />physical safety, comfort, and well-being; securing an orderly and aesthetically pleasing way of life (food, clothing, money, housing, and physical health)<br /><br />:primary focus:<br />security, comfort, and well-being of the environment (lighting, temperature, comfortable furniture, aesthetics, food quality)<br /><br />:primary ambition:<br />using practicality and financial sense to create a secure environment in the home and workplace (paying bills, acquiring skills to ensure the orderly flow of life)<br /><br />:primary stresses:<br />money, sustenance (how they will get food, when it will come, if they will like it, if it fits their diet)<br /><br />:coping methods: (unhealthy)<br />over-stocking, overbuying, overeating, overpurging, oversleeping, undersleeping, overindulging in aesthetics or comfort foods, mistreatment of comfort and security as is skewed by the secondary instinct<br /><br />Sp/Sx - Likely to neglect their desire to seek intense connections and experiences for the sake of their primary concern of maintaining physical saftey, comfort, and an orderly lifestyle, in average-healthy levels. May not have an awareness of the need to connect in a broader sense with the world, of a sense of security or in groups or of the need to seek it, or even of the need to foster approval, support, and understanding of themselves within groups they [i]are[/i] connected with, often causing misunderstandings with allies, supporters, friends, and family members.<br /><br />Sp/So - Likely to neglect their desire to build their sense of personal value, accomplishment, and security of place with others for the sake of their primary concern of maintaining physical saftey, comfort, and an orderly lifestyle, in average-healthy levels. May not have an awareness of the need to stimulate the mind or emotions, of a sense of deep excitement or enthusiasm, of a need for intimate experiences, of the need for the unfamiliar. May fall into routines and, despite social connection, may feel a strange disconnection even from spouses, friends, and family.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-33533199165481819582007-09-15T07:52:00.000-07:002008-01-26T21:28:43.414-08:00Instinctual Variant Stackings<h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/instinctual-variant-stackings.html#sxso">Sx/so</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/instinctual-variant-stackings.html#sosx">So/sx</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/instinctual-variant-stackings.html#sxsp">Sx/sp</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/instinctual-variant-stackings.html#spsx">Sp/sx</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/instinctual-variant-stackings.html#sosp">So/sp</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/instinctual-variant-stackings.html#spso">Sp/so</a> </h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">What are Stackings?</span><br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/315139680_f4eb956008_m.jpg" align="left" /> The Instinctual Variants were designed by Riso and Hudson to describe the way our essential needs as humans manifest in our personalities. The sexual instinct (sx) is related to the need to mate, the social (so) to the need to be part of a group, and the self-preservation (sp) to the need for food and shelter. Each of these is ordered within our personality as a primary instinct which overrules the others, formulating how we are more likely to act in our every day lives. The second-most influential instinctual variant in our personality acts as a support to that primary instinct.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Sexual primary</span> people are more likely to most of the time be intense, assertive, aggressive, impulsive, focused, idealistic, and relationship and adrenaline "junkies". When less healthy, they may be especially volatile, extreme, aggressive, attacking, addicted to alcoholism or drugs, promiscuous, sacrificing anything for a rush; or they may be psychotically experientially deprived, having especially dysfunctional and unhealthy attitudes towards sex and intimacy.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Social primary</span> people are more likely to most of the time be funny, engaging, witty, silly, over-the-top, warm, and friendly. When less healthy, they may be socially anxious, scattered, erratic or especially resentful of social rejection.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Self-preservation primary</span> people are more likely to most of the time be calm, centered, thoughtful, especially aesthetic, orderly, mindful of health issues, and concerned about establishing optimum comfort and tranquility in their environment. When less healthy they may become pack-rats, overeat, over-stock, over-shop, over-binge, or go on unhealthy diets; or they may become self-destructive towards their health and security concerns and get involved in dangerous activities that ensure self-destruction.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Read on to see further descriptions of how the supporting instinctual variant augments the personality...</span><br /><br /><br /><h3><a name="sxso">Sexual Primary / Social Support<br /></a></h3>"The Sensual Player"<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"><img style="width: 192px; height: 250px;" src="http://images.askmen.com/galleries/singer/gwen-stefani/pictures/gwen-stefani-picture-6.jpg" border="0" /></span></span><br /><span></span><ul><li><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Expression</span></span>: intense, outer-focused</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Energy</span>: intense energy expressed outwards, assertively</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behavior</span>: intense, assertive, sultry and aggressive</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mindset</span>: "If I can maintain position and inclusion in the group/world, I can keep up and escalate all this merging/intensity."</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples</span>: Gwen Stefani<br /></li></ul><h3><a name="sosx">Social Primary / Sexual Support</a></h3>"The Intense Appealer"<br /><br /><img style="width: 177px; height: 254px;" alt="http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/archives/paige%20davis.jpg" src="http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/archives/paige%20davis.jpg" /><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"><img style="width: 201px; height: 252px;" src="http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/actors_films_images/tom_cruise.jpg" border="0" /></span></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Expression</span>: bright smiley, intense expression</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Energy</span>: outward energy expressed intensely, broadly</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behavior</span>: bright, smiley, erratic and scattered<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mindset</span>: "If I can get close to people with merging/intensity, I can make sure of and keep improving my position and inclusion in the group/world."</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples</span>: Paige Davis (<span style="font-style: italic;">Trading Spaces</span>), Tom Cruise<br /></li></ul><h3><a name="sxsp">Sexual Primary / Self-Preservation Support<span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"></span></span> </a></h3>"One-Man Storm"<br /><br /><img alt="The image “http://www.nihonsite.com/mang/secoes/news/imagens/harlock_news.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.nihonsite.com/mang/secoes/news/imagens/harlock_news.jpg" /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Expression</span>: intense, self-absorbed expression</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Energy</span>: intense energy expressed calmly, steadily, assertively</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behavior</span>: intense, assertive, troubled and self absorbed </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mindset</span>: "If I can make (us) have an orderly & pleasing lifestyle, I can keep up and escalate all this merging/intensity."<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples</span>: Harlock (<span style="font-style: italic;">Arcadia of my Youth</span>)</li></ul><h3><a name="spsx">Self-Preservation Primary / Sexual Support<span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"></span></span> </a></h3> "Beautiful Dreamer"<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"><img style="width: 237px; height: 279px;" src="http://nealj_3.tripod.com/alanis2.jpg" border="0" /></span></span><img style="width: 280px; height: 280px;" alt="The image “http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/2001/Nov01/Amelie.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/2001/Nov01/Amelie.jpg" /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Expression</span>: wistful self-absorbed expression, sighing, magic is in their head<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Energy</span>: calm, steady energy expressed intensely, withdrawing</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behavior</span>: withdrawn, calm, wistful and self absorbed </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mindset</span>: "I can have merging/intensity without having to leave my orderly & pleasing lifestyle." (imagination, safe people and relationships, when the safety of these are challenged they withdraw)<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples</span>: Alanis Morisette, Amelie (<span style="font-style: italic;">Amelie</span>)<br /></li></ul><h3><a name="sosp">Social Primary / Self-Preservation Support</a></h3> <h3><a name="sxso"></a></h3><h3><a name="sxso"></a></h3> "The Collected Engage-er"<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"><img style="width: 217px; height: 188px;" src="http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/hilary_clinton.jpg" border="0" /></span></span><img style="width: 187px; height: 187px;" alt="http://media.canada.com/67bc2623-9886-4c71-9f03-edf992a0aa3a/ellen_375x375.jpg" src="http://media.canada.com/67bc2623-9886-4c71-9f03-edf992a0aa3a/ellen_375x375.jpg" /> <ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Expression</span>: bright smiley, calm expression<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Energy</span>: outward energy expressed calmly, steadily, broadly (more flow and steady energy to their engaging and less jerkiness, gushiness, or over-the-topness like the so/sx)<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behavior</span>: bright, smiley, calm and thoughtful </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mindset</span>: "If I can establish an orderly and pleasing lifestyle, I can make sure of and keep improving my position and inclusion in the group/world."<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples</span>: Hilary Clinton, Ellen Degeneres<br /></li></ul><h3><a name="spso">Self-Preservation Primary / Social Support<span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"></span></span> </a></h3> "The Withdrawn Submissive"<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"><img src="http://sharetv.org/images/everybody_loves_raymond-show.jpg" border="0" /></span></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Expression</span>: withdrawn calm, smiley expression<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Energy</span>: calm, steady energy expressed outward</li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behavior</span>: withdrawn, calm, smiley and submissive </li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mindset</span>: "If I can maintain position and inclusion in the group/world, I can make sure of and keep my orderly and pleasing lifestyle." (May try to be just appealing and connected with groups enough for everyone to get out of their hair. :) )<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Examples</span>: Raymond (<span style="font-style: italic;">Everybody Loves Raymond</span>)</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-47427171413650037572007-09-15T07:17:00.000-07:002007-09-16T07:23:10.842-07:00TestsI find this to be the most accurate online questionnaire: <a href="http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test-2.php">http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test-2.php</a><br /><br />Instinctual Variant Test: <a href="http://similarminds.com/variant.html">http://similarminds.com/variant.html</a><br />(The only one I've found online.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-19898805610878325652007-09-14T20:14:00.000-07:002008-04-21T03:26:22.052-07:00Enneagram ResourcesBooks, of course, are the best and most in-depth resources for Enneagram information. You won't find anything better online. And if you're poor, just go to Books-A-Million and read for awhile! ^_^ There are also, of course, online sources where information of secondary quality can be found.<br /><br />The following lists the books and sites of modern Enneagram authorities, the most established of which are personality psychologists Don Riso and Russ Hudson.<br /><h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-descriptions-resources.html#do">Don Riso & Russ Hudson</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-descriptions-resources.html#he">Helen Palmer</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-descriptions-resources.html#re">Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-descriptions-resources.html#th">Thomas Condon</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-descriptions-resources.html#no">Non-Professional</a></h2><h3><a name="do">Don Riso & Russ Hudson</a></h3><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/riso2sm.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.rowecenter.org/schedule/photos/RussHudson.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Bios.asp#riso">Don Richard Riso, M. A.</a> and <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Bios.asp#hudson">Russ Hudson</a>, two of the leading teachers and developers of the Enneagram system in the world today, founders of the <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/">Enneagram Institute</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Enneagram-Psychological-Spiritual-Personality/dp/0553378201/ref=pd_bbs_2/105-8775107-1048436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189952697&sr=8-2"><img class="" alt="The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/2195KYF6H8L._PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,21,-23_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="115" width="115" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Books:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Your-Personality-Type-Introduction/dp/061821903X/ref=pd_bbs_1/105-8775107-1048436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189952697&sr=8-1"><span class="srTitle">Discovering Your Personality Type: The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram, Revised and Expanded</span></a> by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson <span class="bindingBlock">(<span class="binding">Paperback</span> - May 20, 2003)</span><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Personality-Types-Using-Enneagram-Self-Discovery/dp/0395798671/ref=pd_bbs_3/105-8775107-1048436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189952697&sr=8-3"> </a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Enneagram-Psychological-Spiritual-Personality/dp/0553378201/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-8775107-1048436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189953691&sr=8-1"><span class="srTitle">The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types</span></a> by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson <span class="bindingBlock">(<span class="binding">Paperback</span> - Jun 15, 1999)</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Personality-Types-Using-Enneagram-Self-Discovery/dp/0395798671/ref=pd_bbs_sr_9/105-8775107-1048436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189953691&sr=8-9"><span class="srTitle">Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery</span></a> by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson <span class="bindingBlock">(<span class="binding">Paperback</span> - Oct 29, 1996)<br /><br /></span><span class="bindingBlock"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Sites:<br /></span><br /></span><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/HomeLogoWH4x.gif" align="right" /> <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/"><span><span><span>The Enneagram Institute</span></span></span></a></span>. The official website. Based on Riso & Hudson. <ul>Site Guide:<br /><br />Type Descriptions Resources<li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/descript.asp">Type Descriptions</a>: <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeOne.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeTwo.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeThree.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFour.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFive.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSix.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSeven.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeEight.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeNine.asp">9</a></li><li>Extended Type Description: <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/extendedsample.asp">8</a></li><li>Overview: <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeOneOverview.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeTwoOverview.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeThreeOverview.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFourOverview.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFiveOverview.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSixOverview.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSevenOverview.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeEightOverview.asp">8</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp#type">Four-Word Sets of Traits</a> (by Type)</li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp#triads">The Triads</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Type Misidentifications</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/matrix.asp">Relationships and Type Compatibility</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/DevelopmentLevels.asp">Levels of Development Chart</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/personalgrowth.asp">Personal Growth Recommendations</a>: <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/1growth.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/2growth.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/3growth.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/4growth.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/5growth.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/6growth.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/7growth.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/8growth.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/9growth.asp">9</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/addictivepersonality.asp">Eating Disorders & Addictions of the Types</a><br /><br />How the Enneagram System Works<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp#type">Four-Word Sets of Traits</a> (by Type)</li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp#triads">The Triads</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp#instincts">The Three Instincts</a> (Variants)<br /><br />The Traditional Enneagram<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/history.asp">The Virtues, Passions, Holy Ideas, and Fixations</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/history.asp">Type Descriptions</a><br /><br />Practical Applications<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/practical.asp#business">The Nine Types in Business</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/practical.asp#relationships">What Each Type Looks for in a Relationship--And what Interferes</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/practical.asp#parenting">What Parents (by Type) Expect from Their Children</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/practical.asp#cultural">The Personality Types (Styles) of Contemporary Countries</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/practical.asp#personal">Each Type's "Wake Up Call" and Movement Towards Liberation</a><br /><br />The Enneagram in Business</li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ConsGroup01.asp">An Overview of the Nine Personality Types</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ConsGroup03.asp">The Interpersonal Roles Personality Grid</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ConsGroup03.asp">The Disruptive Roles Personality Grid</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/ConsGroup04.asp">Enneagram with Types, Dysfunctional Workplace, Levels</a><br /><br />The Enneagram & Spirituality<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/spirituality.asp">The Enneagram of Healthy Personality</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/spirituality.asp">The Paths of Transformation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/spirituality.asp">The Triads and the Path of Transformation</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/spirituality.asp">The Nine Types & Their Essential Qualities</a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/spirituality.asp">The Enneagram of Essential Qualities</a><br /><br />Discussion Board</li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16955">All about 4s--Lots of info on 4 subtypes </a>(and variant stackings for any type)</li></ul><br /><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/icons/type8M.gif" align="right" /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1"><span>Udit Patel's Page</span></a></span>. Eight in-depth type descriptions taken almost straight from the original Riso-Hudson book. A piece of the book online!<br /><ul><li>Type Descriptions: <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">1</a> <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">2</a> <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">3</a> <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">4</a> <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype5">5</a> <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">6</a> <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype7">7</a> <a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype8">8</a></li><li>More like the Riso-Hudson book than anything on enneagraminstitute.com!</li><li>Indepth descriptions of Direction of Disintegration (Stress) and Direction of Integration (Growth).</li></ul><br /><br /><h3><a name="he">Helen Palmer</a></h3><img alt="The image “http://www.enneagram.com/img/helen_palmer.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.enneagram.com/img/helen_palmer.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagramworldwide.com/enneagram-teachers/helen-palmer/">Helen Palmer</a> is a teacher of psychology and intuition for 30 years. She is the co-founder and co-director of Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition along with David Daniels, M.D., found at <a href="http://www.enneagramworldwide.com/">Enneagram Worldwide</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enneagram-Understanding-Yourself-Others-Your/dp/0062506838/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5/105-8775107-1048436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189953691&sr=8-5"><img class="" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/21NVZBDSFGL._PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,21,-23_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="115" width="115" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Books:<br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enneagram-Understanding-Yourself-Others-Your/dp/0062506838/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5/105-8775107-1048436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189953691&sr=8-5"><span class="srTitle">The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others In Your Life</span></a> by Helen Palmer <span class="bindingBlock">(<span class="binding">Paperback</span> - April 12, 1991)<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enneagram-Love-Work-Understanding-Relationships/dp/0062507214/ref=pd_bbs_sr_6/105-8775107-1048436?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189953691&sr=8-6"><span class="srTitle">The Enneagram in Love and Work: Understanding Your Intimate and Business Relationships</span></a> by Helen Palmer <span class="bindingBlock">(<span class="binding">Paperback</span> - Jan 19, 1996)<br /><br /></span><span class="bindingBlock"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Sites:</span><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/">Enneagram-Spirituality.com.</a> Very well-written, down-to-earth descriptions. Based on Palmer.<br /><ul><li>Caricatures!</li><li>Spiritual exercises for each type for health.</li><li>Lots on spirituality.</li><li>Lots on Jungian Types too.</li></ul><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/"><img style="width: 140px; height: 82px;" src="http://enneagram.com/img/enneagram202.jpg" align="right" /><img style="width: 135px; height: 82px;" src="http://enneagram.com/img/enneagram201.jpg" align="right" /></a><a href="http://enneagram.com/enneagram.html">Enneagram.com</a>. Short, concise descriptions of the Enneagram. Based on Palmer.<br /><ul><li>Basic Proposition (Worldview)</li><li>Short, concise descriptions.</li></ul><br /><img style="width: 170px; height: 177px;" src="http://www.9types.com/epd/1.gif" align="right" border="2" /><a href="http://9types.com/">9 types.com</a>. For each type a causual loop and a description is explored. Based on Palmer.<br /><ul><li>World View<br /></li><li>Introduction to "Causual Loops" (Type 1:)<br /></li><li>How to break the loop</li><li>Lots more!</li></ul><br /><br /><h3><a name="re">Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele</a></h3><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:4MbEx50TTq72vM:http://www.reneebaron.com/renee_72_sm.jpg" height="116" width="76" /> <img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:-NXA-W4HfgwpJM:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/9f/db/3a87024128a05080dcb7a010.T.jpg" height="69" width="49" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.reneebaron.com/">Renee Baron</a> & <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3KSODX27PPR1Q/ref=cm_aya_bb_pdp/105-9187268-5338841">Elizabeth Wagele</a> are co-authors of several Enneagram books. Renee Baron is a writer and therapist who uses the Enneagram in her counseling practice. Elizabeth Wagele is a writer and professional cartoonist.<br /><br /><img alt="The image “http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E1B2NEYCL._PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,21,-23_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E1B2NEYCL._PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,21,-23_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Books:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enneagram-Made-Easy-Discover-People/dp/0062510266/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-8629568-7909257?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197690972&sr=1-1"><span class="srTitle">The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People</span></a> by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele <span class="bindingBlock">(<span class="binding">Paperback</span> - Mar 11, 1994)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Sites:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Type Correlations on LifeExplore</a>. The table at the bottom is a correlation of Myers-Briggs to Enneagram types, based on "most common" to "least common" correlations.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h3><a name="th">Thomas Condon</a></h3><img alt="The image “http://www.think-seminars.com/2_Seminare/22_Trainer/22_Bilder/tom_condon_1.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.think-seminars.com/2_Seminare/22_Trainer/22_Bilder/tom_condon_1.jpg" /><img alt="The image “http://www.think-seminars.com/2_Seminare/22_Trainer/22_Bilder/tom_condon_2.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.think-seminars.com/2_Seminare/22_Trainer/22_Bilder/tom_condon_2.jpg" /><span class="bindingBlock"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thechangeworks.com/monthly%20musings/interview.html">Thomas Condon</a>, founder of <a href="http://www.thechangeworks.com/">The Changeworks</a>.<br /><br /></span><img alt="The image “http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21ZT4GS3GZL._AA115_.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21ZT4GS3GZL._AA115_.jpg" align="right" /><span class="bindingBlock"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Books: </span><br /><br /></span> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enneagram-Movie-Video-Guide-Personality/dp/1555521002/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1299090-2193418?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197659571&sr=8-1"><span class="srTitle">Enneagram Movie and Video Guide : How To See Personality Types In The Movies, 2nd Edition</span></a> by Thomas Condon <span class="bindingBlock">(<span class="binding">Paperback</span> - Mar 1999)<br /><br /></span><span class="bindingBlock"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Sites:</span><br /></span><span class="bindingBlock"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/mbtypes.htm"><span>LifeExplore</span></a></span>. Enneagram and Myers-Briggs types. More added info on each type's instinctual variants. Some info by Thomas Condon.<br /><ul><li>Type Descriptions: <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type1.htm">1</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type2.htm">2</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type3.htm">3</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type4.htm">4</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type5.htm">5</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type6.htm">6</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type7.htm">7</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type8.htm">8</a> <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type9.htm">9</a></li><li>Instinctual variant descriptions personalized for each type.</li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=enneagram&search=Search"><span>Videos</span></a></span>. Tom Condon working with different Enneagram personality types gives you a feel of what each type is like.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=enneagram&search=Search"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><h3><a name="no">Non-Professional</a></h3><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Recommended Sites:</span><br /><br /></span><img style="width: 153px; height: 141px;" src="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/test/archives/enneagram-sun.jpg" align="right" /> <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?&MMN_position=12:12"><span><span><span>Ocean-Moonshine.net</span></span></span></a></span>. Very indepth discussions of each type, misidentifications, and so on.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-19375085256827508022007-09-13T12:17:00.000-07:002008-04-24T10:22:36.908-07:00Type 1: Rightness-Seeker<style type="text/css">table.ex td{background-color: #F5F9FD; v-align:top}</style><h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-1.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><table class="ex" collapse="collapse" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img style="width: 180px; height: 244px;" src="http://www.kingsmeadow.com/uploaded_images/Lewis-764447.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_S_Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a> 1w9 so/sp<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Irish writer and scholar.</span><br /><br />"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."<br /><br />"<span class="body">We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.</span>"<br /><br />"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. "<br /><br />Media:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHxs3gdtV8A"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">C.S. Lewis's Surviving BBC Radio Address</span></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUBjLPsyNSo"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeOneOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a> "The Reformer"<br /><br />To this personality type, the advice of "Desiderata" sounds foolish and dangerous: "Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." As far as average to unhealthy Ones can tell, the universe is emphatically not unfolding as it should. People are not trying hard enough to improve either the universe or themselves.<br /><br />What Ones typically do not see is that, given their fundamental premises, they are locked in conflicts between opposing forces that cannot be reconciled either in themselves or in the universe. They keenly feel the struggle between good and evil, the flesh and the spirit, the ideal and the real. For Ones, the battle lines are sharply drawn between the chaotic, irrational side of their natures and the clarity of their convictions, between their dark libidinous impulses and their self-control, between their metaphysical aspirations and their human needs—between their ideals and their hearts.<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-1.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Perfectionist"<br /><br />Enneagram Type 1s, Perfectionists, have a grounded, bodily presence. They are perfectionistic and controlled. The superego, or the values learned and internalized throughout life, runs the show. This type has a strong need to do the right thing without compromise. They have high moral standards and principles, and are hard workers.<br /><br />There can be an undercurrent of frustration and resentment, and Ones can be highly critical of themselves and others. Usually Ones don’t realize the extent of their anger and resentment, although others are usually aware of it. Ones tend to hide their anger behind “shoulds": “You should do that because it’s right,” “You shouldn’t do that because it’s wrong.”<br /><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=10:10">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br /><span>People of Enneatype One are idealists. They are idealists in the sense that they bring to all of their experience an implicit sense of “how things should be.” This sense of an unmet ideal permeates the One’s experience of the world. It is as though they were simultaneously aware of how things are and of how they should be. Since reality as the One perceives it, and the ideal as the One conceives it, very infrequently coincide, Ones experience reality as being essentially flawed and approach it from a standpoint of frustration.</span><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br />More Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/estj.htm">ESTJ</a> "The Enforcer" - Use structured activity to get self and others to a get job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/istj.htm">ISTJ</a> "The Reliant" - Systematic, painstaking, thorough, hardworking for commitments.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/isfj.htm">ISFJ</a> "The Nurturer" - Sympathetic traditionalists quietly self-sacrificing to get a job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/intj.htm">INTJ</a> "The Free-Thinker" - Insightful, quick individualists who trust their own vision.<br /><br />Quite Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/esfj.htm">ESFJ</a> "The Helper" - Fosters warmth and efficiency to get self and others to get a job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/entj.htm"> ENTJ</a> "The Leader" - Use analysis and strategy to use resources to meet a challenge.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfj.htm"> ENFJ</a> "The Sage" - Able communicators who facilitate interpersonal sensitivity.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infj.htm"> INFJ</a> "The Mystic" - Have deeply felt compassion, desiring harmony with others.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and2.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and3.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and4.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and5.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and6.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and7.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and8.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and9.asp">9<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=3&MMN_position=10:10">Ocean-Moonshine.net</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">1w9</span> - Seeking Rightness and Peace<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type1.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Ones with this wing can have an aura of 9-like calm although eruptions of temper are possible. Often have a detached quality and can be mistaken for Fives. Tendency to formulate and embrace principles that have little human content, but this is also their strength. When awakened, may be objective and balanced, cool and moderate in their evaluations. More entranced, might have perfectionistic expectations that are not humanly possible to meet. May hold social or political opinions that are supremely logical but ultimately heartless and draconian. The rules come first no matter what. Can be merciless or unwittingly cruel. Often a little colorless in their personal appearance. Many Ones with this wing are plain dressers, preferring functional clothing that is appropriate to context but not flashy. The emphasis on function may extend to their general lifestyle. Practicality is highly valued.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">1w2</span> - Seeking Rightness and Love<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type1.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br /><span>This wing generally brings more interpersonal warmth. High standards are tempered by humanism. May understand and partly forgive humanity for not doing its best. Work hard to improve the conditions of others, sacrificing time and energy to do good works. When more entranced, can be volatile and self-righteous. Authoritarian inflation and moral vanity on the low side. Can give scolding lectures or display a kind of touchy emotionalism. "Do as I say, not as I do" attitudes possible. Hypocrisy likely because the person is so convinced they have moral good intentions. Overlook inconsistencies in their own behavior. Dependency in relationships. Far more likely to be a jealous intimate subtype than Ones with a 9 wing.</span><br /></li></ul><h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 1</span> - Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">Udit Patel</a> Sexual Ones: Shared Standards (Ichazo's "Jealousy")<br /><br />Sexual Ones focus their perfectionism on their intimate relationships, holding an ideal image of what a relationship should be like and measuring their intimates against this standard. For this reason, many Sexual Ones have difficulty finding a life partner that meets their criteria—there is always some characteristic in the potential mate that falls short of their expectations. They may also harbor expectations of creating a perfect family, but this must begin with finding a mate who understands and shares their passion for their mission. When Sexual Ones find a partner who they believe shares their values, they become extremely excited and highly protective of their relationship. They may also idealize the partner, constantly striving to feel worthy of the other's love. Nonetheless, anxieties about the partner's losing the shared values may cause Sexual Ones to become critical of the other. They want to remind the partner of the high standards that they both live by but they can create problems in the relationship by trying to keep the other "on track." Nonetheless, they are passionate about their intimates and devoted to keeping their relationships moving toward higher ground.</span></span><span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type1.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>May be preoccupied with their romantic partner. Have high expectations based on having idealized their beloved. Their partner is supposed to be perfect man or woman. One's reaction is jealous judgment if their beloved acts in less-than-ideal ways. Jealous Ones may drive partners away with endless criticism. Can have a dependent tendency related to the low side of 2. Most intimate Ones have a 2 wing. Also there's a melancholy yearning and fear of abandonment fueling the One's criticism. Connection to the low side of 4.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">1 </span>- Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1"><span><span>Udit Patel</span></span></a><span><span> The Crusader (Ichazo's "Inadaptability")<br /><br />Social Ones focus their perfectionism in the social realm; thus, they are interested in local and world affairs. What is going on with the school district? Has that new environmental legislation been passed? Why doesn't anyone care about the enormous problem of world hunger? Social Ones take these issues personally, and they devote their time and energy to bringing people's attention to social ills. In other words, they do not want merely to talk about problems, they want to get involved and take action. While they may work tirelessly for the causes that they care about, Social Ones may have trouble developing a personal life. They are not particularly interested in social ease, for themselves or for others; rather, they are concerned with finding the "right way" for people to conduct themselves with one another. When they are more identified with this attitude, they may feel that others do not know what is best for them. With regard to themselves, Social Ones feel that personal needs can be addressed only after more pressing social problems have been faced. This zeal can be hard on their families and intimates, but people are often amazed by the strength of the Social One's convictions and are grateful for the good work that they contribute to the community.</span></span><span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type1.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Social subtype Ones are everywhere in the movies, probably because they create dramatic friction. Characterized by a preoccupation with rules and how they should apply to (other) people's behavior. Tend to moralize and apply old standards inflexibly to each new situation. Believe they are representatives of a larger social order or tradition. They're not, of course - acting as if they represent the rules is their psychological defense. Usually had great uncertainty in childhood, at least one undependable parent. Made themselves rigid to feel strong, aligned with the rules to contain their anxiety. Tend to depersonalize their own feelings, hope to be above criticism. Social Ones can have either wing, though a 9 wing brings rules that are more abstract and inhuman-sounding.<span><span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-Preservation </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">1</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>- Seeking Saftey/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">Udit Patel</a> Self-Control (Ichazo's "Anxiety")<br /><br />Self-Preservation Ones focus their resentment and perfectionism in areas of health, self-management, and homemaking. They are not necessarily worked up about the plight of refugees in the Third World but may have very firm convictions about proper diet and exercise or the best way to maintain one's household or family budget. Self-Pres Ones like to be organized, to have their life structured, and their possessions put in their proper place. They are neat, punctual, and fastidious—sometimes to a fault. They believe that controlling the "dirt" and chaos in their lives will enhance their well being, even their survival. It seems to them that a well-ordered life is the best hedge against chaos and danger, and they are concerned that any mistakes on their part could have dire consequences. Thus, they tend to be careful and meticulous in the planning of their lives. Many Self-Pres Ones also take an active interest in preventative health matters: vitamins, cleansing diets and fasts, exercise routines, alternative medicine, and cutting-edge medical knowledge.</span></span><span><span><br /></span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type1.htm"><br /></a></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type1.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Characterized by a tendency towards worry and negative anticipation, especially as it relates to material well-being. Can seem a little like Sixes. They fret about how to avoid making mistakes that could jeopardize survival. Petty, finicky quality; could seem "penny-wise and pound-foolish." Sense of being undeserving or inadequate - try to compensate with worry. As a parent or friend, they might be critical and nurturing by turns, wanting to protect you from the same negative consequences they worry about.</li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeOne.asp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeOne.asp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Become extraordinarily wise and discerning. By accepting what is, they become transcendentally realistic, knowing the best action to take in each moment. Humane, inspiring, and hopeful: the truth will be heard.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): Afraid of making a mistake: everything must be consistent with their ideals. Become orderly and well-organized, but impersonal, puritanical, emotionally constricted, rigidly keeping their feelings and impulses in check. Often workaholics—"anal-compulsive," punctual, pedantic, and fastidious.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): Become condemnatory toward others, punitive and cruel to rid themselves of "wrong-doers." Severe depressions, nervous breakdowns, and suicide attempts are likely. Generally corresponds to the Obsessive-Compulsive and Depressive personality disorders.<br /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">Levels of Development In-Depth</a><br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://www.9types.com/epd/1.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/1.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthy loop:</span> controlled by Basic Desire: Need to be right -> seek truth -> do the right thing -> Need to be right. In the healthy state, the need to be right induces Type Ones to seek truth and do the right thing. When Ones are doing the right thing, the need is satisfied and a balance is reached.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Average state</span>: Ones' are not working hard to seek the truth and do the right thing, the need to be right increases, which helps Ones to again work hard to seek the truth. Thus the balancing loop can help Ones to recover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unhealthy loop:</span> controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of being condemned -> correct others -> do the right thing -> Fear of being condemned. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of being condemned can cause Type Ones to correct and condemn others first as a defense, which is often not the right thing to do, which further increases Ones' basic fear. The cycle continues to build up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insight</span>: We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Ones can refrain from correcting others and start examining self for truth, which will help Ones to do the right thing, and reduce the fear of being condemned.<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (One Goes to Healthy Seven)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymOnelabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />As Ones work through the basic issues of their type, they become less strict with themselves and begin to enjoy a greater freedom, lightness, and spontaneity, like healthy Sevens. Instead of feeling that everything is a personal obligation, they begin to experience choice, freedom, abundance, and joy. Whatever they do will be good and worthwhile, and they begin to live by the maxim, "Whatever is worth doing is worth doing badly." They let themselves off the hook of their strident superegos and begin to recognize what they want rather than what they "must" or "should" do. Integrating Ones can more easily access their curiosity and intelligence—their minds are open to many new possibilities. Their lighter approach helps other people hear their views and allows Ones to feel much closer to their fellow human beings. Rather than feeling resentful and obligated, they are filled with gratitude and a deep acceptance of themselves and others.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /></span><br />Awareness of feeling a sense of personal obligation to fix everything themselves—so that they can rise to a profound acceptance of and genuine tolerance for reality.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (One Goes to Average Seven)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Ones become more playful and uninhibited in the company of people with whom they feel safe. It is as though a secure environment gives Ones permission to let their "silly side" out, along with the ability to express a more complete range of their emotions.. They can be funny, talkative, tell jokes and long stories and can lead others into adventures of various kinds. They can also be boldly outspoken, impulsive, and "naughty" when they feel they can get away with it. They can also allow some of their needs to surface and become demanding, selfish, and greedy after the manner of a low-average Seven. Under stress, they may inadvertently look for distractions and begin to scatter their focus and their energies, as if to prevent becoming overwhelmed by the pressures they feel both from the obligations they have taken on and from their superego.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (One goes to Average Four)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Ones begin to feel alienated and moody when they sense that others do not take them or their values seriously. They feel obligated to do the work they believe others will not do—or will not do as well—and they become more resentful. They feel misunderstood by their peers and often withdraw from others to sort out their feelings, much like average-to-unhealthy Fours. Similarly, Ones under prolonged stress can become disillusioned with themselves and their lot in life. Over time, they can become depressed and isolated, often turning to self-indulgent behavior in an attempt to feel better. They allow themselves various "escape hatches" —indulgences that go against their expressed values in some way. For instance, a One who is scrupulously observing rigorous health regimens and diets might start treating herself to ice cream sodas or chocolate bars. Guilt usually follows, leaving her more depressed and critical of herself.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/1growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype1">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Ones grow by recognizing that others do take things seriously too, but that their approach to problems or tasks might be different. As they become more centered in themselves, they become not only respectful of others views, but curious about them. They understand that their own wisdom can only be enriched by taking other perspectives into account. Ones also grow by playing—by finding areas of their lives that are lighter, freer, and that offer opportunities for spontaneous creativity. Most Ones have great sense of humor, and the more they allow themselves to entertain and enjoy others, the better for everyone involved. Basically, Ones grow proportionately to the extent that they can accept reality with all of its apparent "imperfections." This, of course, especially applies to themselves. By accepting what is, and working with reality rather than judging it, they become transcendentally realistic, knowing the best action to take in each moment.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-1.html">Palmer's Exercises</a><br /><br />Observe your thoughts and reactions as you enter a room full of people. Notice how quickly your mind makes judgements about others. Write them down.<br /><br />Now ask yourself if each judgement is true. How do you know? If there is something wrong, is it YOUR problem?<br /><br />Spend some time listening to your critical inner voice. Are you making unfair and untrue judgments against yourself? Can you replace these thoughts with statements that reflect the high side or your personality?<br /></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-28374103611479300052007-09-12T18:02:00.000-07:002008-04-24T10:26:34.411-07:00Type 2: Love-Seeker<style type="text/css">table.ex td{background-color: #F5F9FD; v-align:top}</style><h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-2.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><table class="ex" collapse="collapse" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img style="width: 180px; height: 258px;" src="http://www.newchatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/tom-cruise-2r.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise">Tom Cruise</a> 2w3 so/sx<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">American actor and film producer.</span><br /><br />"You know you have to understand, in Hollywood, when people need help, they call me. When they're having trouble with something they call me. Because they know that I'm the type of person they can depend on."<br /><br />"I always felt that, that I wanted, in terms of taking care of things or, around the house, if something was broken, I was always the one that came to, or like, if the chain was all knotted up or something, you'd say, 'Tommy, come here and fix this.'"<br /><span class="sqq"></span><br />Interviews:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2tFVFj-NA">"Sure, I think it's in anyone, I mean you feel a tremendous amount of pressure..."</a><br /><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-341293755414929116&q=tom+cruise&hl=en">"Before it was released they sent it to me and said 'take a look at it'..."</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeTwoOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a> "The Helper"<br /><br />Because it has so many facets, love is difficult to define. It means different things to different people in different kinds of relationships. The word can be used to cover a multitude of virtues as well as vices. Of all the personality types, Twos think of love in terms of having positive feelings for others, of taking care of others, and of self-sacrifice. These aspects of love are undoubtedly important parts of the picture. But what Twos do not always remember is that, at its highest, love is more closely aligned with realism than with feelings. Genuine love wants what is best for the other, even if it means risking the relationship. Love wants the beloved to become strong and independent, even if it means that the Two must withdraw from the other's life. Real love is never used to obtain from others what they would not freely give. Love outlives a lack of response, selfishness, and mistakes, no matter who is at fault. And it cannot be taken back. If it can be, it is not love.<br /><br />Twos believe deeply in the power of love as the prime source of everything good in life, and in many ways, they are right. But what some Twos call "love" and what is worthy of the name are very different things. In this personality type, we will see the widest possible uses of love, from disinterested, genuine love, to the flattering effusions of "pleasers," to the outright manipulation and the dangerous obsessions of a "stalker." There is tremendous variety among those who march under the banner of love, from the most selfless angels to the most hate-filled devils. Understanding the personality type Two will help us understand how they got that way.<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-2.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Helper"<br /><br />Enneagram type 2s are friendly, outgoing, helpful, and aware of the needs of others. The superego message of 2s is that they should “be helpful and loving.” One of the most outwardly emotional types, Type 2s overexpress their feelings, particularly love and sadness. When average to unhealthy, Twos need to be needed, and will praise and flatter others so that others will come to like them and rely on them.<br /><br />Twos are very in tune with the needs of other people and try to meet those needs. And they expect others to be equally in tune with their needs, and to pay them back. When fixated they keep score, and when not paid back get resentful and manipulative. Twos seem to take on self-destructive behaviors like overeating, drinking too much, or smoking. They internalize their hurt feelings, and somaticize easily. This can lead to actual physical illnesses in which others are forced to take care of them.<br /><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=4&MMN_position=11:11">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br />People of Enneatype Two are essentially related to other people, and they relate to them from a standpoint of helpfulness. Twos have a built in radar for what the other might need, and they see themselves as the correct person for satisfying that need. This places Twos, even though they are serving others, in a sort of “one up” position with respect to those they are serving. Twos see themselves as being not only strong enough to care for themselves, but able to care for others as well. They want to occupy a central position in the lives of chosen others, and they accomplish this by being “indispensable.” From the standpoint of the Two, it is always others who are needy and dependent, not the Two. In reality, the situation is a bit more complex, as Twos also have needs. They need to be appreciated; they need to be needed; they need to receive a considerable amount of attention and gratitude.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br />More Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/esfj.htm">ESFJ</a> "The Helper" - Fosters warmth and efficiency to get self and others to get a job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/isfj.htm">ISFJ</a> "The Nurturer" - Sympathetic traditionalists quietly self-sacrificing to get a job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/esfp.htm"> ESFP</a> "The Joker" - Sympathetic socialites generously meeting needs in a fun, lively way.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfj.htm"> ENFJ</a> "The Sage" - Able communicators who facilitate interpersonal sensitivity.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfp.htm"> ENFP</a> "The Visionary" - Love the fluid and changing, expressing creativity and charisma.<br /><br />Quite Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infp.htm">INFP</a> "The Dreamer" - Desire their world to be in line with their inner ideal vision.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and2.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and3.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and4.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and5.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and6.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and7.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and8.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and9.asp">9<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=4&MMN_position=11:11">Ocean-Moonshine.net<br /><br /></a></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">2 and 8</span><br /><br />This is a common mistype for a disintegrated 2, especially males, often due to a desire to seem like a more "manly" or powerful personality type. However, there is nothing innately more masculine or powerful or more feminine or weak about any of the personality types, especially when healthy. There are only different inner motivations and different resulting patterns of behavior.<br /><br />An 8 or 8-winger disintegrating can actually look quite different from a 2 disintegrating. The 2 needs to see his enemies writhing in pain and he feels entitled to it. He doesn't plan so much as to manipulate and cajole for awhile before letting his heart lead him to outbursts of anger when he just can't take it anymore. The 2 manipulates warmly or fiercely, while the 8 positions coolly and coldly. When the 8 explodes, it is his anger at the situation caused more than out of exasperation that he recieves no gratitude. Beneath the disintegrated 8's aggressiveness is a cold, heartless, thinker-killer. He will enact revenge without needing to watch the person suffer like the embittered 2 may desire.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">2w1</span> - Seeking Love and Rightness<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type2.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />This wing brings conscience and emotional containment to the basic Two style. When healthy, they act from general principles about the value of serving others. Ethics come before pride. May hold themselves to high standards. More discreet and respectful of other people's boundaries. When upset, tend to go quiet and experience strong emotions internally. More melancholy than Twos with a 3 wing. When less healthy and entranced, tend to confuse their sense of mission with self-centered needs. Go blind to their own motives; invade and dominate others. Believe their actions are perfectly justified by their ethic of helping. May repress their personal desires and focus on others as a way to avoid guilty dilemma between the rules and their inner needs. If really blind they will warp their ethics crazily to justify personal selfishness and prideful hostility.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">2w3</span> - Seeking Love and Image<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type2.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />This wing brings Twos an extra measure of sociability and the capacity to make things happen. When healthy, can be charming, good-natured and heartfelt. Really get things done, serve effectively on projects that involve the well-being of others. Thrive on group process and are generally good communicators. Enjoy keeping several threads or projects going at once. Entranced Twos with a 3 wing can be quite emotionally competitive and controlling. 3 wing brings a double dose of vanity. Strong tendency to live in one's images. May grow brazenly deluded, preferring their glamorous, self-important scenarios to reality. Tendencies to deceit and emotional calculation. Highly manipulative. This wing is also more extroverted; dramatization of feeling in the form of hysterical snit-fits is far more possible.</span><br /></li></ul><h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 2</span> - Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">Udit Patel</a> </span></span><span><span>Craving Intimacy (Ichazo's "Aggression")<br /><br />Sexual Twos feel that they will feel loved by attaining complete, profound intimacy with someone. Thus they are driven to be as close to their loved ones as possible. They attempt to win a place with people by focusing intensely on the other's needs, hopes, and interests. They enjoy the process of learning about potential partners and make it their business to become acquainted with the other's world. It is as if the Sexual Two was seeking to get "in synch" with the other in as many different ways as possible. Similarly, the Sexual Two will enjoy finding out what the other likes, whether it is a favorite food, cologne, style of music, or favorite place for vacationing. Needless to say, Sexual Twos will then do their best to provide these things for their intimates. Moreover, most people love to be the center of attention, and Sexual Twos know this, lavishing the other with attention, affection, and praise. In this sense, they are seductive-getting others interested in spending time with them by making the other their object of adoration. Sexual Twos also like to touch and be touched by the people they are drawn to, often initiating physical contact in a relationship—even in a friendship. When less balanced, Sexual Twos can become obsessed with a lover and can have great difficulty letting go of a relationship.</span></span><span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type2.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Tend to act seductive and aggressive by turns. Basic interest is in finding romantic union. Generally confuse sexual desirability with being loved and valued. Act receptively interested in others, use inviting touches. May ooze some combination of charm and sexuality. When they encounter resistance will begin to push and challenge. Try to find a way around the other's objection. May go militant and angrily blame (connection to 8). Behind these flare-ups is a melancholy desire for total enmeshed connectedness to another. Yearning is related to the low side of 4.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social 2</span> - Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2"><span><span>Udit Patel</span></span></a><span><span> Everybody's Friend (Ichazo's "Ambition")<br /><br />Social Twos feel loved by having an important place in the lives of their friends, family, and colleagues. They fear being left out of social events and gatherings, so they try to make themselves indispensable to whatever groups they are involved with. They often become advisors, mentors, matchmakers, and social-event coordinators for many people in their lives. They enjoy introducing people to one another and generally act as the "social hub" of whatever they are involved with. They derive great satisfaction from giving advice to trusted friends and often initiate new relationships by offering some kind of service or counsel. Social Twos have a subtle "radar" for people in need of a sympathetic audience and may appear with a smile and some kind words. They especially like to give counsel to people they see as important. While the pride of the Two does not allow them to have social ambitions of success and fame for themselves, they often achieve these things indirectly by becoming "the power behind the throne." Thus, they are able to rise socially by attaching themselves as advisors and primary supports to someone who is successful in some way. Social Twos tend to be outgoing and high-spirited, often resembling Sevens, and to get energy from their interactions with their friends. Indeed, Social Twos think of all of their colleagues and acquaintances as friends and their friends as family. They usually know the names of all of the local shopkeepers, the mailman, the waiters, and bartenders at their favorite restaurants and bars, and so forth. When less balanced, Social Twos can scatter themselves in a large number of social commitments-trying to serve many people, but often causing primary relationships to suffer.</span></span><span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type2.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Twos with this subtype are notable for their ambition, particularly to be publicly recognized as someone special. Seek attention either directly from their own efforts or via affiliation with powerful people. In the former scenario, a Two works to draw an audience through socially useful works or some kind of performing. Confuse being noticed with being loved. Can sometimes act provocative or obnoxious as this is better than being ignored. Might also marry someone influential and concentrate their energies on the spouse's ambitions. Can groom their children to become achievers. Stage mothers and political spouses are possible roles. Often have a 3 wing but a 1 wing is possible.<span><span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-Preservation 2 </span>- Seeking Saftey/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">Udit Patel</a> Entitlement (Ichazo's "Me First")<br /><br />Twos typically deal with their own self-preservation needs by first taking care of others' self-preservation needs. They feel that they will win others' love by providing them with nurturing and caretaking. They derive a great deal of satisfaction from feelings of service to others or to causes. They are able to anticipate people's needs and then try to fulfill them. ("You poor thing, you look hungry.") Of course, after taking care of others for a while, Self-Pres Twos begin to expect that others will reciprocate and take care of their needs. But because they are Twos, they feel that they cannot ask directly for what they need. They must drop hints and continue to take care of the other person with the hope that he or she will eventually respond with care for the Two. Over time, this gives Self-Pres Twos a feeling of entitlement. ("After all I've done for them, I deserve this treat.") The problem is that Self Pres Twos feel ashamed of having physical needs. Thus, when others fail to reciprocate in the way that Twos hope, they may privately overindulge in self-preservation "goodies"—comfort foods, sweets, drink, and prescription medicines are frequent choices. They keep hidden stashes of their favorite indulgences as a way of compensating for feelings of loneliness and rejection. Unfortunately, the rewards that Self Pres Twos give themselves often endanger their health and well being, which ironically, undermines their ability to help others.</span></span><span><span><br /></span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type2.htm"><br /></a></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type2.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Self-preservation Twos often harbor a striking sense of entitlement. May act superior to others and expect preferential treatment that reinforces their pride. Can seem shameless in their expectation of pampering. Behind this attitude is a logic that says, "I give and do so much for others, I deserve to be treated as someone special." Like an unconscious collection of fees for sacrifices made. Others who encounter this attitude are often amazed at a self-preservation Two's self- importance and diva-like behavior. Real-life people with this subtype often have a 3 wing. Dip easily to the low side of 8 when angry.</li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeEight.asp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeEight.asp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Become deeply unselfish, humble, and altruistic: giving unconditional love to self and others. Feel it is a privilege to be in the lives of others.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): Become overly intimate and intrusive: they need to be needed, so they hover, meddle, and control in the name of love. Want others to depend on them: give, but expect a return: send double messages. Enveloping and possessive: the codependent, self-sacrificial person who cannot do enough for others—wearing themselves out for everyone, creating needs for themselves to fulfill.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): Able to excuse and rationalize what they do since they feel abused and victimized by others and are bitterly resentful and angry. Somatization of their aggressions result in chronic health problems as they vindicate themselves by "falling apart" and burdening others. Generally corresponds to the Histrionic Personality Disorder and Factitious Disorder.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">Levels of Development In-Depth</a><br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://www.9types.com/epd/2.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/2.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthy loop:</span> controlled by Basic Desire: Need to be loved -> help others -> loved -> Need to be loved. In the healthy state, the need to be loved induces Type Twos to help others which causes them to be loved. When Twos feel loved, the need is satisfied and a balance is reached.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Average state</span>: when Twos' are not helping others and are not loved, the need to be loved increases, which helps Twos to again reach out and help others. Thus the balancing loop can help Twos to recover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unhealthy loop:</span> controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of being unloved -> resent and manipulate others -> loved -> Fear of being unloved. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of being unloved can cause Type Twos to feel resentful and try to manipulate others into loving them. This can cause people to love them even less, which further increases Twos' basic fear. The cycle continues to build up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insight:</span> We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Twos can refrain from manipulating others but start to genuinely help others. This will cause Twos to be loved, and thus reduce the fear of being unloved.<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (Two Goes to Healthy Four)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymTwolabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Integrating Twos become aware of how much they have denied their needs and their darker feelings-and how much they have deceived themselves about their motives. At Four, they begin to accept themselves more completely-not rejecting any aspect of themselves they find. Even their destructive feelings toward others can be held compassionately. They are more honest with themselves (after the manner of a healthy Four) and discover humor and humanity in whatever feelings and impulses they have. This gives Twos the ability to see themselves objectively and without shame-and with love and balance. They are also able to support others from the fullness of who they really are and to have greater intimacy with them because integrating Twos are more intimate with themselves. Gradually and naturally, they become more authentic, expressive, sensitive, and creative in ways that are enriching to themselves and others.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /></span><br />Awareness of believing that they must go out to others to win them over—so that they can rise to unconditional love of self and others, irrespective of others' reactions to them.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (Two Goes to Average Four)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />With trusted others, or in situations in which Twos feel sure of themselves and their ability to be honest about their feelings, they may risk expressing their neediness and darker impulses. Rather than keep up the image of being selfless and above feeling wounded by the ingratitude of others, they can become moody, self-absorbed, and temperamental, revealing to intimates the true depth and extent of their emotional needs, self-doubts, and disappointments-particularly with others. At such times, they can be extremely touchy-easily hurt by statements that others would see as harmless or even positive. They may also become more self-indulgent, giving themselves "goodies" that are not very good for them as a way of compensating for all of the sacrifices they feel they have been making for others.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (Two Goes to Average Eight)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />If Twos feel that their overtures of friendliness and may expressions of self-sacrifice are continually thwarted or ignored, they may reach a point of stress in which they begin to openly express their anger in the manner of average-to-unhealthy Eights. Their resentment at having been rejected by others (in perhaps subtle ways) reaches the boiling point, and they simply cannot maintain their "loving attitude" any longer. Feeling that others are taking them from granted makes the average Two suddenly act out in an average Eight manner, becoming ego-centric, controlling, and dominating, telling people what to do and when to do it. This kind of behavior puts Twos in the center of things and virtually forces others to pay attention to them. Bossing people around and being somewhat confrontational can be surprisingly out of character for the Two. Under greater stress, it can be expressed in outbursts of temper, aggressive confrontation, and threats of withdrawing support.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17208&whichpage=2">Enneagram Institute Forum</a> "The Insensitive"<br /><br />When unhealthy pressure rises. They want to be lovable and maintain the image of being good but they feel as if people force them to be bad. Or have an image of them being bad. They slowly attempt to attract people without ruining their image. They don't want to blame themselves because they want to be lovable. Eventually though, they need to sacrifice either their caring for the people or their need to be lovable. When unhealthy they say, "It's people's fault that I've become this way, I hate them". Eventually, they become insensitive, caring less and less for people. An example of their insensitivity is Kitty's mother. When Kitty's father (kitty from that 70s Show), Kitty's mother said something like: "Oh, don't you just hate it when people do this? They just ruin it for everyone. Burt was always like this, always thinking about himself".<br /><br />In the end, unhealthy twos become egoistic, remorseless, forgiveless, uncaring, apathetic. Its quite freaky. While eights destroy the world, twos break apart people's hearts while sustaining an image that they're better than everyone else and if they're not, then it was someone else's fault ("It's not my fault I'm evil. I'm a good person. You just don't see it.")</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/2growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype2">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Twos grow by recognizing that caring for themselves and caring for others is not an either/or proposition. They can care for others effectively only when they are also caring for themselves and recognizing their own needs. Further, they come to understand that they can achieve real love and intimacy with others only if they truly have love and intimacy with themselves. For Twos, this means acknowledging their real feelings, even if they are not pretty or pleasant, and expressing their needs as they arise. It also entails recognizing when they are tired, lonely, or overextended. By paying attention to their own feelings and inner states, Twos naturally grow into finding a balance between taking care of themselves and their natural inclination to help others. Once grounded and clear about their motives, they are able to abide in the fullness of their hearts and to share this with others.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-2.html">Palmer's Exercises</a><br /><br />At the beginning of a commercial flight on an airliner, the flight attendants give a little safety speech. Included in this speech is something like this: "In the case of rapid depressurization of the airplane, the oxygen masks drop down. Put the oxygen mask on yourself first." There is a reason for this - you won't be any good to others if you, yourself, are passed out from lack of oxygen. For twos, this is a difficult concept. So, try this:<br /><br />Go somewhere you can be alone, where there is no one else who has needs that you feel the need to fulfill. Right now, you are not responsible for taking care of a child, feeding your spouse, helping at church, or feeding the starving children in India. Trust that there is a higher power who will take care of everyone else, that there is a bigger plan, that there is enough love to go around, even without yours.<br /><br />Ask yourself what you (YOU) want, right this minute, for yourself? Do you want a bubblebath? To take a walk? A cigarette? To eat massive quantities of fudge brownie ice cream?<br /><br />Do you want the love you feel you deserve? How can you love yourself without doing things that are self-destructive? Imagine loving yourself and meeting your own needs the way you meet the needs of others. You deserve the best.</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-62768407934708741952007-09-11T18:03:00.000-07:002008-04-24T10:29:10.778-07:00Type 3: Image-Seeker<style type="text/css">table.ex td{background-color: #F5F9FD; v-align:top}</style><h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-3.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><table class="ex" collapse="collapse" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img style="width: 180px; height: 260px;" src="http://www.geocities.com/verjans/images/jackie03.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Kennedy">Jackie Kennedy Onassis</a> 3w4 sp/so<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">First Lady of the United States and successful book editor.</span><br /><br />"<span class="body">He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.</span>"<br /><br />"<span class="body">I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."<br /><br />"</span><span class="body">I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.</span>"<br /><br />"<span class="body">There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.</span> "<br /><br />Interviews:<br /><a href="http://video.yahoo.com/watch/647350"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">"A Tour of the White House" by Jackie Kennedy</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUBjLPsyNSo"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">"Glamourous" Profile Video</span></a><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-341293755414929116&q=tom+cruise&hl=en"></a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeTHreeOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a> "The Achiever"<br /><br />The personality type Three exemplifies the search for the validation of the self, and so Threes look to esteemed others to determine who they must be, what they must do, in order to feel valuable and worthwhile as human beings. With this particular focus, Threes frequently become successful in the eyes of their society because they make it their business to achieve those things which their peers find valuable. This is no less true in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand than in a fast-track corporate culture. Threes will strive to exemplify whatever qualities are honored in their given milieu. Thus, in an unhealthy society which manipulates such fears and motivations, Threes stand to gain the most attention and success from the society, but also end up among its greatest victims—estranged from their own heart’s desire, empty, and emotionally isolated, while never knowing what it is they are doing wrong.<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-3.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Achiever"<br /><br />Enneagram type 3s are the “human doings” of the enneagram. They set goals and work toward them. They are able to set their feelings aside and just get the job done. Being in the center of the feeling triad, they are the most out of touch with their heart feelings. Thinking and doing take center stage. Threes are very good at self-promotion, and adjust themselves and their personalities to meet the needs of their target audiences. Image is very important, and Threes maintain a smooth, competent façade, even when their inner worlds are falling apart.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=5&MMN_position=27:27">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br />People of Enneatype Three need the admiration of others in order to feel worthy; indeed at a very deep and largely subconscious level, Threes feel as though they need to see themselves reflected in the eyes of others in order even to exist. At the very center of the type Three fixation then, is a fundamental confusion about the difference between appearance and reality, image and substance, who they are and who they are taken to be.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br />More common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/entj.htm">ENTJ</a> "The Leader" - Use analysis and strategy to use resources to meet a challenge.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfj.htm">ENFJ</a> "The Sage" - Able communicators who facilitate interpersonal sensitivity.<br /><br />Quite common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/estj.htm">ESTJ</a> "The Enforcer" - Use structured activity to get self and others to a get job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/esfj.htm">ESFJ</a> "The Helper" - Fosters warmth and efficiency to get self and others to get a job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/intj.htm">INTJ</a> "The Free-Thinker" - Insightful, quick individualists who trust their own vision.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and3.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and3.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and4.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and5.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and6.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and7.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and8.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and9.asp">9<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=5&MMN_position=27:27">Ocean-Moonshine.net</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">3w2</span> - Seeking Image and Love<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type3.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Threes with this wing are often highly gregarious. They have a tendency towards persona - playing a role of themselves in real life. Social perception, prestige and recognition important. Healthy side brings personal warmth, leadership qualities. Sincere desire to do well by others; may be genuinely nice people. If they have achieved some measure of success they are generous in their mentorship of others. When more entranced, they are preoccupied with seeming ideal to others. This can extend to friendships, family, as well as at work. Want to seem a perfect spouse, friend, parent, employee, good son or daughter. Strong social focus because they need so much validation from others. Preening and boastful behavior possible. Bursts of egotism. Wanting to be on top, better than others. Slip into impersonation easily, may falsify feeling and not know it themselves. Deep emotional self-recognition is lost. Malicious intentional deceit is possible. Behavior of con-artists and sociopaths.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">3w4</span> - Seeking Image and Identity<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type3.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br /><span>May be slightly less image-conscious or project an image that is more implicit and subtle. 4 wing brings a degree of introversion. May measure themselves more by their creations, artistic or social. Tend to compete with themselves first more than with other people. High side brings the motivation and ability to work on oneself. May accomplish everything they set out to do materially, then embark on a path of self-analysis. Artistic explorations or teaching possible. Will still like a challenge, but thoughtful, intuitive or humanistic concerns of prime interest. The low side of this wing can bring a haunted, self-tormented quality or a haughty, competitive pretentiousness. Might be snobs or accuse critics of being too plebian to appreciate them. Cool, hard shell. In private, can lapse into Fourish self-questioning and melodrama. Instability and moodiness can be factors. Unrealistic grandiosity.</span><br /></li></ul><h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 3</span> - Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">Udit Patel</a> The Catch (Ichazo's "Virility/Femininity")<br /><br />Sexual Threes feel that their value comes from their desirability, so they do whatever they can to enhance their attractiveness to others. Many movie stars, models, and popular singers are Sexual Threes. They know how to project attractive qualities but also how to be a blank screen that others can project their desires onto. They often possess great charm and magnetism, yet they fear being dismissed by others for lacking some essential ingredient. As Sexual types, they want to have a strong intimate connection with someone, but because of the Three's image issues and underlying feelings of shame, they are often insecure about letting people know them too well. Thus, many Sexual Threes are able to gain attention and interest from others, but they fear that once they get someone's attention, they will be unable to keep it.<br /><br />Sexual Threes want to be appreciated for their depth and intelligence too, but they fear that others are only interested in them for their attractiveness. Some Sexual Threes may go through periods of rebellion, downplaying their physical attributes for a while to see if people still like them and to find out more about themselves. Ultimately, this type grows by recognizing their own value directly—that is, without believing that it only exists reflected in the admiring eyes of others. </span></span><span><span></span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type3.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />Intimate Threes mask themselves with an image of what a sexually appealing man or woman is. They play roles in romantic relationships hoping to get love or admiration. Image is based on community or cultural standards of desirability or a given partner's expectations. If not committed to a specific partner then they will project an image generally and seek sexual conquests. Intimate Threes in the movies can be sexual imposters or suave, attractive ideals of masculinity or femininity. Female characters tend to be beautiful out-of-reach Sirens.</span><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social 3 </span>- Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3"><span><span>Udit Patel</span></span></a><span><span> The Status Seeker (Ichazo's "Prestige")<br /><br />Social Threes seek value by gaining social recognition—by having tangible signs of progress and success. They want to be recognized for their hard work and achievement (Employee of the Month, diplomas, awards) and to have ways of measuring their rise up the ranks. Social Threes are very adaptable, concerned with fitting into whatever culture they find themselves in, be it corporate or national. If they move to another country, they are able to adapt to the norms of that country more easily than most other types. If they join a spiritual community or ashram, they quickly become well adjusted to the social expectations of that community. The Social Threes are the most concerned with being appropriate and with avoiding any behaviors that would cause offense. At the same time, they are highly ambitious and so must balance their drive to excel and to surpass others with their desire to have others like and accept them.<br /><br />Thus, of the three instinctual variants of this type, Social Threes are at the greatest risk of losing track of their core values and goals. They may adapt so successfully that they find themselves adrift without tangible goals or a clear path for achieving them. In this regard, they can resemble Sevens, moving from one promising project to another as they adapt to different opportunities that present themselves. Social Threes can also get into trouble by attempting to rise faster than they are able or by taking on tasks that they are not yet ready or qualified to perform. The desire to please and to impress can become a powerful magnet that can derail the Social Three from pursuing real, achievable goals. </span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type3.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />Social Threes are often extremely status-conscious. Most confuse their inner self with the world's badges, honors and totems. Measure themselves by money, position, awards or results. Strive to match group standards and have the right credentials. How they rank in the eyes of others is most important. May be materialistic but with an eye towards the best brand names so as to be identified with the product's status. The excesses of this subtype make for fine morality plays about the hollowness of fame and status.</span><span><span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-Preservation 3</span> - Seeking Saftey/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">Udit Patel</a> The Workaholic (Ichazo's "Security")<br /><br />Self-Preservation Threes feel their value is dependent on their ability to take care of basic security needs. They strive to be practical and to make sure that they and their family have more-than-adequate resources. For many Threes this means some kind of financial success. Thus, Self Pres Threes work constantly to ensure they are building up a solid foundation. The problem is that they often find themselves unable to stop working. Because they believe their personal value is at stake, they cannot easily slow down or lighten their workload. To even take a weekend off could lead to financial failure—or so they believe. This lifestyle eventually takes its toll on their health and relationships. They may fit regular work-outs at the gym into their busy schedules in order to stay healthy but frequently neglect to rest and take quiet time. Others can find it difficult to make intimate contact with Self-Pres Threes once they are caught up in their drive for security and success.<br /><br />Of the three instinctual variants of this type, the Self-Pres Three has the most difficulty contacting feelings. They tend to express affection through accomplishing things for their partner and by meeting practical expectations. But they may begin to see all of their relationships in terms of functional roles, transactions, task lists, and how well they and the people in their lives are fulfilling these roles. While this can be efficient up to a point, it often ends up creating distance between Self-Pres Threes and the people they care about.<br /></span><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type3.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />Have a preoccupation with acquiring material security as a way to calm core anxieties about survival. Some grow up poor and focus on amassing wealth. Concentrate on doing well, having enough, especially of the right things. Irony is that the strategy doesn't really work - a Three could amass millions and still, say, harbor a morbid fear of dying broke. Insecurity fuels a sense that enough money is never enough.</span></li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeThree.asp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeThree.asp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Self-accepting, inner-directed, and authentic, everything they seem to be. Modest and charitable, self-deprecatory humor and a fullness of heart emerge. Gentle and benevolent.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): Become image-conscious, highly concerned with how they are perceived. Begin to package themselves according to the expectations of others and what they need to do to be successful. Pragmatic and efficient, but also premeditated, losing touch with their own feelings beneath a smooth facade. Problems with intimacy, credibility, and "phoniness" emerge.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): Become vindictive, attempting to ruin others' happiness. Relentless, obsessive about destroying whatever reminds them of their own shortcomings and failures. Psychopathic, murder. Generally corresponds to the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7"></a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">Levels of Development In-Depth</a><br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://www.9types.com/epd/3.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/3.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthy loop</span>: controlled by Basic Desire: Need to be admired -> self-improvement -> admired -> Need to be admired. In the healthy state, the need to be admired induces Type Threes to work hard to improve themselves and succeed, which often cause others around them to admire them. When Threes feel admired, the need is satisfied and a balance is reached.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Average state</span>: when Threes' are not working hard to improve themselves, others admire them less, which increases Threes' need to be admired. Thus this helps Threes to again work hard to improve themselves. Thus the balancing loop can help Threes to recover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unhealthy loop</span>: controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of being rejected -> compete -> admired -> Fear of being rejected. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of being rejected can cause Type Threes to be competitive and hostile towards others as a defense, which makes them even less admirable, and further increases Threes' basic fear. The cycle continues to build up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insight:</span> We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Threes can refrain from being competitive but focus on self-improvement instead. This will lead to genuine admiration from others and lessen the fear of rejection.<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (Three Goes to Healthy Six)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymThreelabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />As Threes let go of their fears of failure and worthlessness, they start to feel less competitive with others. They relax and find that they feel most valuable while working cooperatively with others toward shared goals and aspirations, like healthy Sixes. They learn to freely offer support and guidance to the people in their lives, but more importantly, they also learn to ask for support when they need it. Threes ordinarily put themselves under such pressure to accomplish their goals with little or no help that it comes as both a surprise and a relief to them that others are happy to help them in their endeavors. In short, Threes learn to trust others and to build lasting bonds with people. They become more selfless and courageous, embodying real qualities of leadership and self-sacrifice. By letting go of their need to outshine others, Threes become truly extraordinary human beings.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /><br />Awareness of always driving themselves to be the best and to get validation—so that they can rise to genuine embodiment of real values and an authentic expression of who they really are.<br /></span></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (Three Goes to Average Six)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />With most people, Threes make every effort to be diplomatic and well-mannered. They do not want to say things that would be off-putting to people if they can avoid it. But when Threes feel that their relationships are secure, they can be more open about expressing their anxieties and frustrations. They may keep a "positive frame of mind" all day at work, only to come home and download their dissatisfaction onto their spouse or partner. ("I think my boss is going to go nuts on me when he finds out we still haven't got this report nailed down.") Feelings of self-doubt, dread, suspicion, and anger at others' incompetence can all surface in contrast to the Three's usual "can do" attitude.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (Three Goes to Average Nine)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />When Threes drive themselves too hard, their stress can go beyond what they can normally cope with. When this occurs, they tend to go on "autopilot," attempting to just get through things without being bothered, in the manner of average Nines. Threes going to Nine become more passive and fall into routines. They lose their focus and involve themselves with busywork to at least give the appearance that they are getting things done. If stress continues, however, they may begin to become shut down, listless, and depressed, losing interest in their projects and withdrawing from people. They feel little energy or enthusiasm and simply want people to leave them alone and give them space. They can become stubborn and resistant to offers of help at these times, not wanting to hear that they have a problem.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations<br /></a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/3growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype3">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Threes grow by recognizing that they do not need to separate their work and functioning from their feelings. Threes believe they will be less effective and competent if they allow their feelings to enter the picture. Thus, they wait until they are done with their tasks before they pay any attention to their emotions. Nonetheless, their emotions are always operating, even if unconsciously. And if Threes neglect them too long, those emotions start to make functioning much more difficult. Thus, growth for Threes entails pausing while working and actively checking in with their feelings. By tuning in to their heart, and becoming more conscious of their inner life, Threes derive much greater happiness and satisfaction from their work and from their relationships.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-3.html">Palmer's Exercises</a><br /><br />Stop doing for a time every day. Ask yourself: Who are you without your actions, accomplishments, and successes? Take some deep breaths and feel your body. Feel the truth - that you ARE. Just spend some time BEING. Know that you are valuable and loved, just as you are, apart from your achievements.<br /><br />As written in the New Testament, Luke 12:27-28: "Look how the wild flowers grow! They don't work hard to make their clothes. But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth wasn't as well clothed as one of these flowers. God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. Won't he do even more for you?"</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-91869678430288524172007-09-10T18:04:00.000-07:002008-05-18T17:41:26.197-07:00Type 4: Identity-Seeker<style type="text/css">table.ex td{background-color: #F5F9FD; v-align:top}</style><h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-4.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><table class="ex" collapse="collapse" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/Jeff_Buckley.jpg/180px-Jeff_Buckley.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley">Jeff Buckley</a> 4w5 sx/sp<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Acclaimed American singer-songwriter and guitarist.</span><br /><br />"This is not a springboard, this is something very personal."<br /><br />"<span class="sqq">Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done."</span><br /><br />Interviews:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvYhC2zBcAY&feature=related">"So that instead of people being compelled to read through..."</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wQ05SvUWs">"So I decided to totally find all kinds of little places..."</a><br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img style="width: 182px; height: 227px;" alt="The image “http://www.helm-information.co.uk/images/wfaulkner.JPG” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.helm-information.co.uk/images/wfaulkner.JPG" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_faulkner">William Faulkner</a> 4w5 so/sp<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.</span><br /><br />"<span class="body">All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.</span>"<br /><br />"<span class="body">I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.</span>"<br /><br /><span>Works:<br /></span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Lay_Dying_%28novel%29" title="As I Lay Dying (novel)">As I Lay Dying</a><br /></i><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_and_the_Fury" title="The Sound and the Fury">The Sound and the Fury</a><br /></i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rose_for_Emily" title="A Rose for Emily">"A Rose for Emily"</a><i><br /></i></td></tr><tr><td><img style="width: 180px; height: 276px;" alt="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0140442529.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0140442529.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a> 4w5 sp/so<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Profound Russian novelist and writer of fiction.<br /><br /></span>"My debauchery I undertook solitarily, by night, covertly, fearfully, filthily, with a shame that would not abandon me... I was then already bearing the underground in my soul."<br /><br />Works:<br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment">Crime and Punishment</a><br /><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov_%28novel%29" class="mw-redirect" title="The Brothers Karamazov (novel)">The Brothers Karamazov</a></i><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Tree_and_a_Wedding" title="A Christmas Tree and a Wedding">"A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"</a><br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img style="width: 180px; height: 242px;" alt="The image “http://www.javno.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2007/m08/x134147386230641937.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.javno.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2007/m08/x134147386230641937.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stefani">Gwen Stefani</a> 4w3 sx/so<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and actress.</span><br /><br />"In the beginning of the process I was scared to let other people into my creative world, but doing that fueled some fire in me."<br /><br />"I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek." "If only they knew what a dork I really am."<br /><br />Interviews:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRUaNQMUpEQ&NR=1">"Follow me..."</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJCKiAQgoAo&feature=related">"Just total, you know, nerd-central..."</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMrAduDP3Fs&feature=related">"So when it comes off I am X-girl...friend..."</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFourOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a><br /><br />The Four is the personality type which emphasizes the subjective world of feelings, in creativity and individualism, in introversion and self-absorption, and in self-torment and self-hatred. In this personality type we see creative artists, romantic aesthetes, and withdrawn dreamers, people with powerful feelings who feel different from others because self-consciousness blocks them from getting outside themselves.<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Unique Person"<br /><br />Creatures of emotional extremes, enneagram type 4s are awash in a stormy sea of emotions. They are all about relationships and seem to be always beginning, ending, or analyzing relationships. They feel frustrated in their search for connection to others. As children, they didn’t feel like the parents really understood them or were there for them emotionally. Whether or not this was really true is beside the point. They feel like they were born into the wrong family and continue to seek out people who will nurture them, mirror them, and rescue them from their suffering.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=7&MMN_position=31:31">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br />People of Enneatype Four construct their identities around their perception of themselves as being somehow unique and fundamentally different from others. This deep felt sense of being “different from” or “other than” pervades the Four’s sense of self, and functions as the basis for the Four’s attempt to create a persona that properly reflects who they feel they really are. Fours are not content (or even able) to live out the role assigned them by their societies or their families; they self-consciously search for an expression they feel will be truly authentic. Of all the types, Fours are the most acutely aware that the persona is a construct – something which has been created and can thus be re-created. This is indeed the fundamental respect in which Fours are artists; they may or may not be artists in the conventional sense of the term, but all Fours have a sense that their identities are, in some respect, their own creation.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Withdrawn Triad</span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/hornevian-groups.html">Palmer at Enneagram-Spirituality.com</a> (Derived from)<br /><br />The 4 prefers to focus on what makes him who he is (a.k.a. "The Feeling Center"), to be out of touch with his actual physical body, or instinctual motivation for doing things (a.k.a. "The Instinctual-Motivation Center). He tends to underuse his physical body and avoids acting meaningfully in the world. He uses his mental and cognitive functions (a.k.a. "The Thinking Center") in the form of imagination to ramp up the intensity of his feelings and sensation. He withdraws to protect his feelings and sensations and to live in his imaginary world.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br /><span>More Common:</span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infj.htm"><br />INFJ</a> "The Mystic" - Have deeply felt compassion, desiring harmony with others.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infp.htm">INFP</a> "The Dreamer" - Desire their world to be in line with their inner ideal vision.<br /><br />Quite Common:<span><br /></span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/isfp.htm">ISFP</a> "The Aesthete" - Avoid disagreements, seeking harmony with people and nature.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfp.htm">ENFP</a> "The Visionary" - Love the fluid and changing, expressing creativity and charisma.<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and4.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and4.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and4.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and5.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and6.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and7.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and8.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and9.asp">9<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=7&MMN_position=31:31">Ocean-Moonshine.net</a><br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 4w3</span> - Seeking Identity and Image<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type4.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Fours with a 3 wing can sometimes seem like Sevens. May be outgoing, have a sense of humor and style. Prize being both creative and effective in the world. Both intuitive and ambitious; may have good imaginations, often talented. Some are colorful, fancy dressers, make a distinct impression. Self-knowledge combines well with social and organizational skills. When more entranced, often have a public/private split. Could conceal feelings in public then go home to loneliness. Or they could enjoy their work and be dissatisfied in love. Tendency towards melodrama and flamboyance; true feelings can often be hidden. Competitive, sneaky, aware of how they look. Some have bad taste. May be fickle in love, drawn to romantic images that they have projected onto others. Could have a dull spouse, then fantasize about glamorous strangers. Achievements can be tainted by jealousy, revenge, or a desire to prove the crowd wrong.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 4w5</span> - Seeking Identity and Knowledge<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type4.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br /><span>Healthy side of this wing brings a withdrawn, complex creativity. May be somewhat intellectual but have exceptional depth of feeling and insight. Very much their own person; original and idiosyncratic. Have a spiritual and aesthetic openness. Will find multiple levels of meaning to most events. May have a strong need and ability to pour themselves into artistic creations. Loners; can seem enigmatic and hard to read. Externally reserved and internally resonant. When they open up it can be sudden and total. When entranced or defensive, Fours with a 5 wing can easily feel alienated and depressed. Many have a sense of not belonging, of being from another planet. Can get lost in their own process, drown in their own ocean. Whiny - tend to ruminate and relive past experience. Prone to the emotion of shame. Air of sullen, withdrawn disappointment. May live within a private mythology of pain and loss. Can get deeply morbid and fall in love with death.</span><br /></li></ul> <h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 4 </span>- Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel</a></span></span><span><span> "Infatuation (Ichazo's "Competition")"</span></span><br /><span><br />Sexual Fours focus their envy and hypersensitivity in their intimate relationships. They are perhaps the most emotionally intense type of the Enneagram, which is both their gift and their potential downfall. They possess both a capacity and a desire for profound intimacy, and they derive tremendous insight into human nature through the ups and downs of their romantic lives. They have a sultry, sullen quality that can be attractive and mysterious, or at times, off-putting to others. Sexual Fours pour their energy and attention into the object of their affection, often becoming infatuated or even obsessed, sometimes after only one meeting. Sexual chemistry triggers their powerful imaginations, leading them to create enormous expectations of potential partners. Sexual Fours tend to be drawn to people who possess qualities and talents that they believe they lack. They want to complete themselves by associating or merging with the valued other. But this almost never works, so they may also end up envying and resenting their romantic partner for unintentionally reminding them of what they feel they are missing. In any case, Sexual Fours go through tremendous shifts of feeling about their loved ones—everything from idolization to unbridled hatred. Generally speaking, this type is aware of these feelings, including the dark ones, and finds ways to express them, sometimes in self-destructive ways.<br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type4.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />Fours with this theme tend to be highly competitive in close relationships but also more generally. With a mate they are prone to jealousy. Want to be the most important person in mate's life. Could be jealous of a partner's past relationships, maybe want to be the only person the partner has ever loved. Related to the dependent side of 2. More broadly can be consumed by professional envy. Long to best others in their work. Can jealously measure their contributions. Petty about keeping score. Want recognition for their uniqueness. Take away from successes of others when threatened.<br /></span><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Social 4 </span>- Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel</a></span></span> <span><span>"The Outsider (Ichazo's "Social Shame")"<br /></span></span><br /><span>Social Fours focus their envy and hypersensitivity in the social realm; thus, they are people who deeply want to belong, to be a part of an "in crowd" with a glamorous lifestyle, but who often fear that they are not up to it. Social Fours tend to be more extroverted than Fours of the other two instincts and can resemble Twos or Sevens. Social Fours can be quite funny, using droll, ironic humor to make a point or simply to stimulate conversation. They enjoy expressing their individuality and sense of style in a more public way, although they also attempt to conceal the extent of their feelings of social inadequacy or shame. Social Fours may work hard to develop a public persona through which they can communicate the depths of their feelings, but this persona is usually more glamorous and free than they actually feel. Social Fours are acutely aware of the artifice of their persona, but they use it nonetheless as a way of finding some sense of belonging and involvement in the world. When they are more troubled, Social Fours fear social humiliation to such a degree that they may retreat from much social contact, becoming isolated and reclusive. They may also develop a personal style cultivated to show the world how wounded and different they feel.<br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type4.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />Prone to shame because they compare themselves with the "normal" world around them. Can be highly self-critical and feel ashamed for their deviance from imagined group norms. Sensitive to criticism. May romanticize their defects but feel bad about themselves anyway. If they have a 3 wing, may cover their shame with charm. Can also seek status or be driven to achieve to get revenge against those who once laughed at them. With a 5 wing, can grow antisocial and depressed, bearing their shame in solitude.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span>Helen Palmer<br /><br />"In the social domain you can easily feel shame. You feel that your protective cover is removed and that your defects, deficiencies, shortcomings will be exposed publicly in the social situation. You don’t measure up; you may feel yourself to be a misfit. Envy gets mitigated in shame that makes you want to hide your defects, cover up your deficiencies, keep your fatal flaws from being detected, avoid disgrace. Still, shame serves to make you feel or keep a connection to others: “They notice me and my deficiencies and it matters to them.” This makes you count; it tells you that you matter in the eyes of others, “I’m not a nobody–nothing.” And shame motivates you to do better – create an elegant image, produce pride of elitism, look unique and special – in short develop counter-shame. You may become an emotional truth teller in the group. You channel envy in these ways. But at your worst, shame can lead to retraction into self-absorption, depression and even despair."<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Self-Preservation 4</span> - Seeking Safety/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel</a> "</span></span><span><span>The Sensualist (Ichazo's "Reckless/Dauntless")"<br /></span></span><br /><span>Self-Preservation Fours focus their envy and hypersensitivity on their concerns about their immediate environment and on their quest for physical comfort. They attempt to deal with emotional issues by surrounding themselves with as much luxury and beauty as they can afford, by indulging in their favorite foods, and by giving themselves "consolation prizes" for their suffering. They might be disappointed about a job situation or a failing relationship, and so stay up late at night drinking expensive cognac and watching a favorite movie. Self-Pres Fours are particularly sensitive to comfort issues—the temperature of a room, the quality of the lighting, the humidity or lack of it, the weather—all produce powerful emotional responses. Self-Pres Fours become frustrated that the environment is insufficiently attuned to their personal needs. Attempts to control the environment and self-indulgence in rich foods, drink, drugs, or other sensual distractions can exhaust Self-Pres Fours, leaving them unable to function well outside of their own narrowing world.<br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type4.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />People with this theme are often advocates of risk. Can be reckless, court disaster or just flirt lightly with loss. Take chances to stir up emotional intensity, play out melodrama or to get attention. Can have a desire to punish other through hurting themselves. The logic is, "If I die then they'll be sorry and finally appreciate me." Can seem like counterphobic Sixes in their behavior. With a 3 wing this subtype is more flamboyant and makes a show of their daring. With a 5 wing they grow more sullen and self-punishing.</span></li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFour.asp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFour.asp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Profoundly creative, expressing the personal and the universal, possibly in a work of art. Inspired, self-renewing and regenerating: able to transform all their experiences into something valuable: self-creative.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): To stay in touch with feelings, they interiorize everything, taking everything personally, but become self-absorbed and introverted, moody and hypersensitive, shy and self-conscious, unable to be spontaneous or to "get out of themselves." Stay withdrawn to protect their self-image and to buy time to sort out feelings.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): Despairing, feel hopeless and become self-destructive, possibly abusing alcohol or drugs to escape. In the extreme: emotional breakdown or suicide is likely. Generally corresponds to the Avoidant, Depressive, and Narcissistic personality disorders.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7"></a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Levels of Development In-Depth</a><br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://www.9types.com/epd/4.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/4.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthy loop</span> controlled by Basic Desire: Need for self-understanding -> examine self -> understand themselves -> Need for self-understanding. In the healthy state, the need for self-understanding induces Type Fours to allow their emotions to surface and examine these emotions in order to understand themselves. When Fours achieve self-understanding, their need is satisfied and a balance is reached.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Average state</span>: when Fours' do not examine closely their emotions, they start to not understand themselves. This increases the need for self-understanding, which helps Fours to again examine themselves. Thus the balancing loop can help Fours to recover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unhealthy loop</span> controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of being defective -> indulge in fantasy -> understand themselves -> Fear of being defective. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of being defective can cause Type Fours to ignore their true selves, allow their emotions to overwhelm them, and indulge in wild fantasy about themselves. This means they will understand themselves even less, and further increases Fours' basic fear. The cycle continues to build up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insight: </span>We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Fours can refrain from indulging in fantasy and start examining themselves. This will help Fours to understand themselves, and reduce the fear of being defective.<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (Four Goes to Healthy One)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymFourlabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />As Fours become more aware of their tendency to brood and to fantasize about their many hurts and disappointments, they also become aware of the cost to themselves of this way of being. As they relax and accept themselves more deeply, they gradually become free of their constant emotional turbulence and their need to maintain emotional crises or to indulge themselves as a consolation prize for not fulfilling their potential. Gradually and naturally, they become more objective, grounded, and practical, like healthy Ones. They also become more realistic and able to operate in the real world. Without imposing harsh disciplines or expectations on themselves, integrating Fours want to become involved in matters beyond themselves, such as in community work, politics, the environment, or in other worthwhile ways to engage their minds and hearts. On some level, they choose no longer to indulge themselves but to live within the constraints of reality. When they do so, they find the payoffs and the pleasures—and their creativity—are deeper and much more fulfilling.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /><br />Awareness of holding on to and intensifying feelings through the imagination—so that they can rise to a self-regenerating connection with reality and endless creativity.<br /></span></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (Four Goes to Average One)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />With trusted intimates, or in situations in which Fours feel sure of themselves, they may risk being more openly controlling and critical of others. Their frustration with others and feeling of disappointment in how others are behaving (especially toward them) finally erupts. Fours can become impatient and critical, demanding that people meet their exacting standards, constantly pointing out how others have made errors. Nothing about the other person (whom they may have idealized and regarded as their longed for "rescuer") now satisfies them or gives them much hope or pleasure. Everything about the person and their situation becomes irritating and annoying and they can't seem to get the other person's faults out of their mind. Fours in this state may also compensate for their ragged emotions by driving themselves excessively, feeling that they are lazy and unproductive if they are not constantly working and improving.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (Four Goes to Average Two)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Fours attempt to defend their hurt feelings (and gain attention) by withdrawing from people and withholding their own affection and attention. They may recognize on some level, however, that their emotional storminess and withdrawals are driving away the people who are most supportive of them. Then Fours go out of their way to reestablish their connections and reassure themselves that their relationship is still on solid ground. But because they are reacting out of stress, Fours may overcompensate by trying to win others over, by doing favors, or, more darkly, by manipulation and creating dependencies, all in the manner of average-to-unhealthy Twos. To do this, they keep talking about the state of the relationship with the other person and try to make themselves more needed. Favors, help, and reminding others of their support are part of the picture. Troubled Fours also become more possessive of loved ones, not wanting to let them out of their sight for long, like lower-functioning Twos.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/4growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Fours grow by recognizing that while the hurts and losses of the past were real enough, there is no need to keep revisiting them in the imagination. On the contrary, doing so keeps drawing them out of the richness and depth of the present moment—the one time and place in which their real feelings and their true identity can be found. Fours need to see how working up their feelings actually moves them further away from their most authentic self and their truest self expression.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html">Palmer's Exercises</a><br /><br />Notice when you move from reality into fantasy. What is in your fantasy world that is not in your real world? What emotions do you feel there? Spend some time in your imagination.<br /><br />Now breathe deeply into your belly. Feel your body. Pay attention to your feet, your legs, how your body is supported by the floor or the chair. Now breathe deeply into your chest, into your heart space. What emotions do you feel now? Try to discern your real feelings from your imagined feelings.</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-24043005998548476902007-09-09T03:52:00.000-07:002008-12-12T19:37:20.184-08:00Type 5: Knowledge-Seeker<h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#qu">Quotes</a> - - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#vi">Video</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-5.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://991.com/NewGallery/John-Lennon-Remember---Starbu-376462.jpg&imgrefurl=http://991.com/Buy/ProductInformation.aspx%3FStockNumber%3D376462&h=392&w=450&sz=36&hl=en&start=8&sig2=M2MejVBXte2a91YocVnIIA&tbnid=gTMhS6wY7aLgwM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=127&eid=xL1eR92VAY6QefO5xSc&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djohn%2Blennon%26hl%3Den"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:gTMhS6wY7aLgwM:http://991.com/NewGallery/John-Lennon-Remember---Starbu-376462.jpg" height="111" width="127" /></a><a 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style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:QzgcToGMf4egfM:http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/JJ_stephen_james_joyce.jpg" height="130" width="105" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="qu">Quotes</a></span><br /><br />"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky." - Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the great Germanic 20th century poets.<span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><span class="spnMessageText" id="msg"><span id="quote" style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;" ></span></span></span><br /><br />"My internal experience can be quite intense to the person's problems or need to show affection toward me, I think I just keep it very contained. Even when I'm crying or sad I don't want hugs because I'm afraid a wellspring of emotion will spring forth from me and never be contained again." - Sturgeon48, <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16533">Enneagram Institute Forum</a>.<br /><br /><b><a name="vi">Video</a></b><br /><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lh-3432i78A&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lh-3432i78A&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AfZb5JWpXUQ&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AfZb5JWpXUQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rxkN6BiBMKs&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rxkN6BiBMKs&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFiveOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a> "The Investigator"<br /><br />The connection between genius and madness has long been debated. These two states are really poles apart, the opposite ends of the personality spectrum. The genius is someone who fuses knowledge with insight into the nature of reality, someone who has the ability to see things with utter clarity and with awe-inspiring comprehension. What separates the genius from the madman is that the genius, in addition to extraordinary insights, has the ability to see them correctly, within their context. The genius perceives patterns which are actually present, whereas the madman imposes patterns, projecting erroneous perceptions onto every circumstance. The genius may sometimes seem to be out of touch with reality, but only because he or she operates at a more profound level. The madman, however, is truly out of touch with reality, having nothing but delusions to substitute for it.<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-5.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Observer"<br /><br />Enneagram type 5s are the enneagram type that most want to live in their minds. They have a rich mental life and retreat to the safety of their minds when feeling overwhelmed by the chaos of the world. They often don’t feel at home in the world, or even in their own bodies. If Type 4 feels like they were born into the wrong families, Type 5s feel like they were born onto the wrong planet. They feel alien, and indeed others can perceive them as a bit odd or eccentric.<br /><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=32:32">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br />People of enneatype Five defend themselves against a world they experience as intrusive by retreating into the safety of their minds. Fives tend, therefore, to approach reality at some distance and to adopt a stance at some remove from the main action. Fives feel comfortable and at home in the realm of thought. They have busy minds, are endlessly curious, observant, perceptive and frequently intellectually provocative. Most Fives have at least a few intellectual interests, areas of expertise, which they cultivate with a true passion.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br />More Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/intj.htm">INTJ</a> "The Free-Thinker" - Insightful, quick individualists who trust their own vision.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/intp.htm">INTP</a> "The Wizard" - Develops unusual and complex ideas, challenging accepted truth.<br /><br />Quite Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/istj.htm">ISTJ</a> "The Reliant" - Systematic, painstaking, thorough, hardworking for commitments.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infp.htm">INFP</a> "The Dreamer" - Desire their world to be in line with their inner ideal vision.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and5.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and5.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and5.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and5.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/5and6.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/5and7.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/5and8.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/5and9.asp">9<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=32:32">Ocean-Moonshine.net</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">5w4</span> - Seeking Knowledge and Identity<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type5.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />The difference between the 4 wing and the 6 wing in Fives is like the difference between Art and Science. 4 wing brings an abstract, intuitive cast of thought, as though the Five were thinking in geometric shapes instead of words or realistic images. May be talented artistically and inhabit moods like Fours do. Combine intellectual and emotional imagination. Enjoy the realm of philosophy and beautiful constructs of thought. The marriage of mental perspective and aesthetics is the best of life for them. When more defensive may seem a little ghostly, have a whisper in their voice. Fluctuate between impersonal withdrawal and bursts of friendly caring. Can get floaty and abstract. Act like they're inside a bubble, sometimes with an air of implicit superiority. Cliché of the "absentminded professor" applies especially to Fives with this wing. Environmentally sensitive and subject at times to total overwhelm. Touchy about criticism. Can be slow to recover from traumatic events. Melancholy isolation and bleak existential depression are possible pitfalls.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">5w6</span> - Seeking Knowledge and Security<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type5.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br /><span>The 6 wing brings an orientation to detail and technical knowledge, along with the tendency to think in logical sequence. Especially intellectual, far more analytical than Fives with a 4 wing. Can be loyal friends, offering strong behind-the-scenes support. Kind, patient teachers, skillful experts. May have a sense of mission and work hard. Sometimes project an aura of sensitive nerdiness and have clumsy social skills. When defensive, they can be unnerved by the expectations of others. May like people more but avoid them more. Especially sensitive to social indebtedness. Could have trouble saying "thank you." Fear of taking action, develop "information addiction" instead. Ask lots of questions but don't get around to the decision at hand. When more entranced, they develop a suspicious scrutiny of other people's motives but can also be blind followers. Misanthropic and Scrooge-like when defensive. More able to keep their feelings cut off in a constant way. Can be cold, skeptical, ironic, and disassociated. A Five's 6 wing can be phobic or counterphobic. Counterphobic 6 wing brings courage and antiauthoritarian attitudes. When defensive they may mock authority, or angrily tell others off. Tend to "push the envelope," experiment, find what the limits are.</span><br /></li></ul><h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 5</span> - Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5">Udit Patel</a> This Is My World (Ichazo's "Confidence")<br /><br />Sexual Fives focus their hoarding in the area of intimate relationships. The combination of instinct and type are at odds here: the Five defense is to withdraw, while the sexual instinct demands intimacy and connection. Most Sexual Fives live in an uneasy truce between these polar influences, but they seek to resolve this tension by slowly inviting prospective intimates into their own secret world. Sexual Fives are primarily focused in their imaginations, but they believe that most others would find their thoughts and preoccupations dark and even frightening. At the very least, they are certain that others will find them odd or eccentric. Nonetheless, they want to share their perceptions and hidden worlds and secretly hope to have a deep connection with a single soul, a mate for life, who can understand them and their sometimes bizarre views of reality. Intimacy for them entails finding someone else who will explore the surreal vistas of their inner world. They also look to their partner for some degree of help in dealing with people and the practical affairs of life. They hope that their partner will run interference for them and give them confidence to navigate the external world. If Sexual Fives are disappointed in love, they may retreat and remain unattached for long periods of time, even years.</span></span><span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type5.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Intimate Fives trust only a few people but then do so totally. Friendship is based on the sharing of confidences. Intimacy is equivalent to exchanging secrets. Can go from enigmatic, deliberate distance to intense, unguarded openness. Seductive invitation to sharing secrets; seek a total merging. When entranced can be a little kinky.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social 5</span> - Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6"><span><span>Udit Patel</span></span></a><span><span> The Specialist (Ichazo's "Totems")<br /><br />Social Fives focus their avarice and hoarding in the social realm, meaning that they socialize through their particular areas of expertise. Fives endeavor to master some skill or body of knowledge, and they relate to others primarily through that area of their mastery. As social types, Social Fives are more comfortable interacting with people, but their comfort is largely dependent on having a context for being in a social situation. They need a particular task or function that gives them the confidence to interact with people (for example, being the DJ at a party, or having a specific topic of discussion at a social event).They enjoy talking intensely with other people who share their (sometimes esoteric) interests—either in person or through the Internet. Social Fives feel that their expertise is what they can "bring to the table" since they make it their business to learn things that others may need. While generally quiet, Social Fives can become quite talkative if their area of knowledge becomes the topic of conversation—anything from computer expertise to trivia about movies or comic books is fair game. Less healthy Social Fives can become elitist, feeling others are too unintelligent to understand their thoughts or conversation. They can also be fiercely argumentative, losing social connections by reactively proving others' ideas inadequate.</span></span><span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type6.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Social Fives connect with groups of like-minded people. Enjoy living in the flow of a group interest, sharing knowledge and affiliations. May prefer specialized or esoteric areas of knowledge that exclude all but the initiated. Could live in high society, know the "right" people, belong to the best clubs. Might enjoy speaking a professional language that few people understand. Can be quite friendly but, at times, terrific snobs. Romanticize secret elitist group membership; concerned with titles, degrees, credentials, etc. Realm of academia.<span><span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-Preservation 5 </span>- Seeking Saftey/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5">Udit Patel</a> Isolation (Ichazo's "Castle")<br /><br />Self-Preservation Fives are the most introverted Fives—the Fives most likely to seek long periods of privacy and solitude. The hoarding of the Five is focused in the areas of practical resources, living quarters, and personal space. Self-Pres Fives attempt to find out how few self-preservation needs they can subsist on, likely agreeing with Thoreau's statement that "A man is rich in proportion to what he can do without." They are intensely private people who seem to require few comforts, even if they have substantial personal wealth. To some degree, they enjoy the company of trusted others and enjoy sharing their knowledge with people. They can also be counted on for their sense of whimsy and oddball humor. Nonetheless, Self-Pres Fives need lots of time by themselves to regenerate their energy. Many choose to live alone, or if they are in a partnership, they require personal space (such as a study or a nook in the basement) into which others, even loved ones, will not intrude. They also tend to hoard personal effects, stockpiling their homes like castles preparing for a siege. As much as they may like and admire others, they attempt to keep their relationships few and simple, so that they can focus on what holds interest for them.<br /></span></span><span><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type5.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Chief defensive tendency is to withdraw. Sensitive to feeling saturated by the world, Fives with this subtype lose their sense of privacy easily. Can feel knocked over by people's expectations. In isolation they refind their lost sense of balance and build up to the next round of social stresses. More alienated than the other subtypes. May hide in books, live alone or need their own room where they can close themselves off. Take little from others. Sometimes thin. Likely to hoard time and space. Have solitary hobbies and interests, seek comfort and solace alone.</li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFiveasp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeFiveasp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Become visionaries, broadly comprehending the world while penetrating it profoundly. Open-minded, take things in whole, in their true context. Make pioneering discoveries and find entirely new ways of doing and perceiving things.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): Increasingly detached as they become involved with complicated ideas or imaginary worlds. Become preoccupied with their visions and interpretations rather than reality. Are fascinated by off-beat, esoteric subjects, even those involving dark and disturbing elements. Detached from the practical world, a "disembodied mind," although high-strung and intense.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): Seeking oblivion, they may commit suicide or have a psychotic break with reality. Deranged, explosively self-destructive, with schizophrenic overtones. Generally corresponds to the Schizoid Avoidant and Schizotypal personality disorders.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5">Levels of Development In-Depth</a><br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://www.9types.com/epd/5.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/5.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Healthy loop:</span><span> controlled by Basic Desire: Need to understand the world -> observe -> analyze -> understand the world -> Need to understand the world. In the healthy state, the need to understand the world induces Type Fives to observe and analyze the world, which help them to better understand the world. When Fives reach a good understanding of the world around them, their need is satisfied and a balance is reached.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Average state: </span><span>When Fives' do less of observing and analyzing the world, they start to not understand the world. This increases their need to understand the world, which helps Fives to return to more observation and analysis. Thus the balancing loop can help Fives to recover.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Unhealthy loop:</span><span> controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of being overwhelmed by the world -> detach from the world -> understand the world -> Fear of being overwhelmed by the world. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of being overwhelmed by the world can cause Type Fives to become detached from the people around them and the world around them as a defense. This unfortunately causes them to understand the world even less, which further increases Fives' basic fear. The cycle continues to build up.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Insight:</span><span> We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Fives can stop their detachment from the world, and start to observe and analyze the real world more. This will increase their understanding of the world, and reduce their fear of being overwhelmed by the world. </span></span><br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (Five Goes to Healthy Eight)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymFivelabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />As Fives begin to understand the emotional cost of their self-imposed isolation, they begin to risk deeper, more complete, contact with themselves and with the world. They become more grounded, more in touch with their bodies and their life energy, giving them more confidence and solidity. As this process deepens, integrating Fives naturally begin to express many qualities of the healthy Eight: they demonstrate leadership, courage, practical wisdom, and the willingness to take responsibility. They move from feeling small and powerless to feeling grounded and capable. Their knowledge and insight are then in service to objective needs in their world, and they are sought by others as sources of wisdom, compassion, and quiet strength.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /><br /></span>Awareness of withdrawing from reality into concepts and mental worlds—so that they can rise to a profound and objective understanding of how reality really is.</li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (Fives Goes to Average Eight)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Most often, if Fives feel that others are intruding on them or imposing their wills, they will simply leave quietly if they can or shut down into a detached, disdainful silence. With people or situations in which they have more confidence, however, Fives may suddenly risk behaving like average Eights, forcefully asserting their boundaries and confronting anyone or anything that displeases them. They become feisty, argumentative, and relentlessly provocative. In this mode, they take a tough stance, putting everyone on notice that they cannot be trifled with, but in ways that often cause people to react against them. They may become domineering, even aggressive, while questioning others' competency.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (Fives Goes to Average Seven)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Fives usually cope with difficulties by retreating into their minds where they feel more confident and in control. But Fives cannot retreat indefinitely, and eventually they need stimulation and interaction. Fives also tend to be nervous and high-strung, so when there is no outlet for their nervous energy, it builds up, eventually expressing itself in restlessness and hyperactivity. (Fives can become literally "restless"—and often develop insomnia.) Anxiety causes their minds to overheat, and to jump from one thought to the next. Much of their characteristic focus gets scattered. After being alone and concentrating for so long, they begin to overcompensate by overdoing their activities and lurching from one promising idea or experience to another. They become like a starving person at a banquet, and their scattered, hyperactive behavior can look like that of an average Seven. At such times, usually quiet Fives may become very talkative, impulsive, and flighty. Their underlying anxiety gets acted out in compulsive, even manic, behavior in ways that resemble lower-functioning Sevens.<br /><br /></li><li>Maitri<br /><br />"The resigned person believes, consciously or unconsciously, that it is better not to wish or expect anything. Sometimes this goes with a conscious pessimistic outlook on life, a sense of its being futile anyhow and of nothing being sufficiently desirable to make an effort for it. More often many things appear desirable in a vague idle way but fail to arouse a concrete alive wish. If a wish or interest has enough zest to penetrate through the "don't care" attitude, it fades out soon after and the smooth surface of "nothing matters" or "nothing should matter" is reestablished. Such "wishlessness" may concern both professional and personal life-the wish for a different job or an advancement as well as for a marriage, a house, a car, or other possessions. The fulfillment of these wishes may loom primarily as a burden and in fact would sabotage the one wish he does have--that of not being bothered."-P.208<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/5growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations</a><br /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype5">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Fives grow by recognizing that real confidence lies not simply in intellectual mastery but in putting themselves out into the world. Fives usually derive their confidence through the development of their minds, but they really need to bring balance to their psyches by developing a deeper relationship with their bodies and feelings. Growth for a Five requires allowing themselves to see how estranged they are from their actual living selves and acknowledging all of the deep needs that they have denied since early childhood. Fives actually feel things deeply, but they are extremely restrained in their ability to express their feelings. Developing trust of others, sharing what they are experiencing, and identifying with their feelings are all crucial for them to blossom fully as human beings. All of this becomes much easier when Fives are grounded in their bodies.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-5.html">Palmer's Exercises</a><br /><br />Look around you at your surroundings. Really see what is out there. What have you seen before, and what have you never noticed. Is there anything that gives you delight? Is there anything that needs to be done? Can you connect with your doing center, move your body, and do what needs to be done?</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-5780049561275959712007-09-08T07:57:00.000-07:002008-04-22T23:45:50.940-07:00Type 6: Security-Seeker<style type="text/css">table.ex td{background-color: #F5F9FD; v-align:top}</style><h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-6.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><table class="ex" collapse="collapse" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img style="width: 180px;" src="http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/james.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James">William James</a> 6w5 sp/so<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Pioneering American psychologist and philosopher.</span><br /><br />"<span class="body">Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."</span><br /><br />"<span class="body">Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."<br /><br /></span><span class="body">"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. Belief creates the actual fact."</span><br /><br />Works:<br /><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_to_believe_doctrine" title="Will to believe doctrine">The Will to Believe</a><br /></i><i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=C13M5yN4lu0C&dq=the+meaning+of+truth+a+sequel+to+pragmatism&pg=PP1&ots=QoVaNcuPOo&sig=yMTSW4tgLj9593BnfqhUDfBbREA&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Meaning+of+Truth:+A+Sequel+to+%22Pragmatism%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail">The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism"</a></i><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience"></a></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSixOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a> "The Loyalist"<br /><br />Sixes are full of contradictions. They can be dependent on others, yet value their independence. They want to be trusted and to trust others, yet constantly test others to allay their own suspicions. They want the protection of authority, yet fear it. They are obedient yet, disobedient; fearful of aggression, yet sometimes highly aggressive themselves. They search for security, yet feel insecure. They are likable and endearing, yet can be mean and hateful. They are reassured by traditional values, yet may subvert those values. They want to escape punishment, yet may bring it on themselves. Sixes are full of contradictions because anxiety makes them ricochet from one psychological state to another. And in response to anxiety, Sixes look to structures, beliefs, allies, and authorities to put their anxiety to rest.<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-6.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Skeptic"<br /><br />Enneagram type 6s are the troubleshooters of the enneagram. As members of the thinking triad, they are the most out of touch with the quiet, higher thinking center and their own inner guidance. Their minds spin out of control, on future possibilities, usually imagining the worst. As a result, they are anxious and wary of their surroundings. Physically, there can be a palpable anxiety to them, and many have a wide-eyed, surprised look.<br /><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br />People of enneatype Six are essentially insecure...as though life has never quite provided them with a proper footing, as though there existed nothing, either internally or externally, which could serve as a solid foundation. The type Six fixation is therefore deeply and fundamentally existential, and there exists at the core of enneatype Six a tight knot of anxiety, an essential disquietude, and a deep seated desire to find something or someone stable enough in which to place some trust. Given this essential dynamic, it is not surprising therefore to find that Sixes have core issues centering around the contrast between faith and scepticism, trust and distrust, and the legitimate exercise of authority versus the abuse and misuse of power. All Sixes share these core issues, but they respond to them in quite a wide variety of ways, making type Six the most variegated of all the enneatypes and the most difficult by far to describe with specificity.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br />More Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/esfj.htm">ESFJ</a> "The Helper" - Foster warmth and efficiency to get self and others to get a job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/isfj.htm">ISFJ</a> "The Nurturer"- Sympathetic traditionalists quietly self-sacrificing to get a job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/entj.htm">ENTJ</a> "The Leader" - Use analysis and strategy to use resources to meet a challenge.<br /><br /><br />Quite Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/isfp.htm">ISFP</a> "The Asthete" - Avoid disagreements, seeking harmony with people and nature.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/entp.htm"> ENTP</a> "The Innovator" - Adaptable, innovative, freeing self from structure for action.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/intj.htm"> INTJ</a> "The Free-Thinker" - Insightful, quick individualists who trust their own vision.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/intp.htm"> INTP</a> "The Wizard" - Develops unusual and complex ideas, challenging accepted truth.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfj.htm"> ENFJ</a> "The Sage" - Able communicators who facilitate interpersonal sensitivity.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infj.htm"> INFJ</a> "The Mystic" - Have deeply felt compassion, desiring harmony with others.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and6.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and6.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and6.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and6.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/5and6.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/6and7.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/6and8.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/6and9.asp">9<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33">Ocean-Moonshine.net</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">6w5</span> - Seeking Security and Knowledge<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type6.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Sixes with a 5 wing are generally introverted and somewhat intellectual. When healthy, they often have many realms of interest as well as surprising competencies and skills. May have an original and idiosyncratic point of view. Can be bookish; some are interested in history or feel rooted in the past or related to a long tradition. Also good at predicting the future. May test potential friends for a long time but once you're in, you're in - a friend for life. When more entranced, they may project a willed remoteness. Have a "tip of the iceberg" quality - they show little but you sense hidden dimensions, intensity and activity. Tension between needing to be seen and withdrawing for protection. Might act arrogant or cryptic or cynical when afraid. When phobic, can be diplomatic and say things without saying them. Entranced counterphobics are either cool and loners or argumentative, tending towards violence. Can brood over injustices to them, entertain conspiracy theories, spend time alone building cases. Paranoia in private. May like secretive behind-the-scenes group activity. Sneaky vengeance, passive/aggressive toward others, self-attacking and self-destructive at home.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">6w7</span> - Seeking Security and Stimulation<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type6.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br /><span>Sixes with a 7 wing are generally outgoing and may appear more overtly nervous. More plainly want to be liked and will pursue others in contrast to 5 wing who pulls in. Can be charming, sociable, ingratiating. Have a faster tempo, stronger connection to 3. Often self-preservation subtypes, characterized by a personal warmth. Can have a cheerful, forward-looking drive and be disarmingly funny. Self-effacing, gracious and curious. When more entranced, may be self-contradicting and seem as if they want two things at once. Sometimes test others overtly, drive you crazy with mixed messages. It may be hard to follow what they're saying. When threatened, one defense is to become impossible to please. When counterphobic, they tend to be accusative. Some get caught up in big plans that they hope will result in material security. Also can be insecure, irritable, petty, irrational, chaotic. Subject to mood swings, inferiority complexes, runaway fears. May have hair-trigger flare-ups of paranoia. Falsely accuse others and then seem not to realize it. Other times they plead to be taken care of. Sometimes defensively conservative in their lifestyle. Some struggle with appetite.</span><br /></li></ul><h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 6</span> - Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Udit Patel</a> "</span></span>Feisty Vulnerability (Ichazo's "Strength and Beauty")<span><span>"<br /><br /></span></span>Sexual Sixes get their sense of security primarily from their emotional bond with a significant other. But they also have many doubts, both about their own ability to have a suitable mate and about the mate's ability or willingness to really be there for them. Sexual Sixes often manifest a tension between their gender roles: they are both masculine and feminine, "macho" and coquettish. Moreover, Sexual Six women have a tough, tomboy side to them but still come across as feminine. Similarly, the men of this Variant display a sensitivity and vulnerability while being essentially masculine. Sexual Sixes also tend to be emotionally intense, like Eights and Fours. Part of this comes from anxiety about their ability to keep a strong, capable partner. Thus, Sexual Sixes try to cultivate their masculine or feminine attributes in order to find a good partner and, later, to remain appealing to this person. Often, they feel most comfortable relating to members of the opposite sex and may feel competitive with the same sex. They also tend to test their significant others to see if they are strong enough and to make sure that they are really committed to the relationship. When more stressed, Sexual Sixes can be emotionally volatile, with their feelings about people changing strongly and suddenly. They fall into suspiciousness about their partner and can be quite jealous, while at the same time feeling a strong need to "prove" their desirability.<span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type6.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Sixes with this subtype tend to act strong or seductive when insecure. They are much more likely to be counterphobic, especially the men. May seem like Eights, take risks, talk tough. Act powerful and in control at the times when they feel most frightened. Worry about looking weak, having their fears show. May act arrogant but aren't really. Some study martial arts or seek a way of life that makes them strong. Beauty is another focus; trying to seem attractive so as to contain fear, get approval, and distract others. May consciously hide behind a seductive mask. Unlike Threes, Sixes know they are hiding. Can act cool and patrician or be flirty. Some have a focus on aesthetics. This subtype often has a stronger connection to the vanity of 3.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social 6</span> - Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6"><span><span>Udit Patel</span></span></a><span><span> "</span></span>Generating Support (Ichazo's "Duty")"<br /><span><span><br /></span></span>Social Sixes look for security in the social sphere—that is, through their affiliations with different people and organizations. They are warm, engaging, and humorous, trying to send out the message that they are approachable and safe. They like to enlist people, getting others involved in projects or activities they see as worthwhile. Social Sixes frequently volunteer to work in groups and committees. They do not necessarily enjoy doing this, but they see it is necessary and so are willing to give their time and energy. They want to be regarded as regular guys or gals and may have difficulty taking stands that would be unpopular in their peer groups. They seek consensus before moving ahead with their agendas and they want to feel that others are "with them," backing them up. Although Social Sixes like being involved, they often become nervous about holding positions of responsibility because they are afraid that they will have to make decisions that others will not like, thus losing their support. When more insecure, their suspiciousness may lead them to form in-groups and out-groups in the workplace or in other social or societal areas.<span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type6.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Social Sixes tend to be dutiful and especially dependent upon authority. More often phobic than counterphobic. Often dedicated to a cause. When acting alone they will still refer to others in their mind for safety and agreement. May want to see your opinion first before they will offer their own. Could change their mind to agree with you. Often align with a group or a cause and will follow the rules loyally, trying to please the boss. "Company men." Focus on a social or work context and try to be ideal within it. Could persecute others in the name of their group's ideals. May imagine they can't live without the group's support: "If I don't play by the rules I'll be out on the street selling pencils." Later there's inevitable disillusionment. Then Six starts grumbling that they are not appreciated. Could go passive/aggressive, resent a boss they had romanticized. Connection to 9 is stronger with this subtype.<span><span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-Preservation 6 </span>- Seeking Saftey/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Udit Patel</a> "</span></span><span><span>Responsibility (Ichazo's "Affection")</span></span><span><span>"<br /><br />Self-Preservation Sixes find their security through safeguarding resources—money, food, property, shelter, and so forth—and tend to chronically worry about these things. ("Have the bills been paid?" "Have the car's brakes been checked recently?" "Do we have enough insurance?") They care a great deal about safety and thrift. Indeed, Self-Pres Sixes feel most secure when they are responsible for financial matters, and believe that their effective running of these affairs is something they can contribute. When they are less secure, however, they do not trust others to be responsible. They need to be constantly informed, if not entirely in control, of practical matters that affect them. Self-Pres Sixes can be funny and friendly and want to be involved and engaged, but they have difficulty relaxing, especially around unfamiliar others. They are more introverted and more likely to be loners than the other Sixes. When more stressed, they may stay in punishing situations longer than they should (bad jobs, bad marriages) or become concerned with having control of resources, like a less healthy Eight.<br /></span><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type6.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Self-preservation Sixes often display a personal warmth that is meant to defang the potential hostility of others. If they sense aggression or disapproval in the environment, they may counterphobically zero in on it. Use humor, charm, self-depreciation to make friends out of possible enemies. Can flatter like Twos, play themselves down, work to maintain other people's affection. Act vulnerable, invite rescue. Ingratiating, but more nervously dependent than other Six subtypes. Also less in touch with their own hostility. Their home environment is sometimes important. May feel like their house is a fortress against the outside world's dangers. Worry about their ability to survive; have scary "worst-that-can-happen" fantasies.</li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSeven.asp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSeven.asp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Become self-affirming, trusting of self and others, independent yet symbiotically interdependent and cooperative as an equal. Belief in self leads to true courage, positive thinking, leadership, and rich self-expression.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): To resist having more demands made on them, they react against others passive-aggressively. Become evasive, indecisive, cautious, procrastinating, and ambivalent. Are highly reactive, anxious, and negative, giving contradictory, "mixed signals." Internal confusion makes them react unpredictably.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): Hysterical, and seeking to escape punishment, they become self-destructive and suicidal. Alcoholism, drug overdoses, "skid row," self-abasing behavior. Generally corresponds to the Passive-Aggressive and Paranoid personality disorders.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7"></a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Levels of Development In-Depth</a><br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://www.9types.com/epd/6.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/6.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthy loop</span>: controlled by Basic Desire: Need to be secure -> loyal -> security -> Need to be secure. In the healthy state, the need to be secure induces Type Sixes to be loyal to others, especially the authority. This increases their security among others, which satisfies their need and a balance is reached.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Average state</span>: when Sixes' are not not being so loyal to others, they start to feel insecure among others. This increases the need to be secure, which helps Sixes to again seek out authority and become loyal to it, or become more loyal to others around them. Thus the balancing loop can help Sixes to recover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unhealthy loop: </span>controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of being abandoned -> distrust others -> security -> Fear of being abandoned. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of being abandoned can cause Type Sixes to become suspicious of others and start to distrust others. This reduces their sense of security, which further increases Sixes' basic fear. The cycle continues to build up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insight</span>: We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Sixes can refrain from distrusting others, and begin to be more loyal to others. This will make them feel more secure, thus reduce their fear of being abandoned.</span><br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (Six Goes to Healthy Nine)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymSixlabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />As Sixes learn to trust themselves more, they also become more open to life and to other people. They gradually learn to relax their hypervigilance and simply be with themselves or with whatever life is presenting in the moment. They gain a deeper acceptance of life's ups and downs such that they are not riddled with dread and anxiety. They are inclusive and supportive of others—and much more at peace. Integrating Sixes are able to let their minds rest in their natural, pristine state of clarity and inner quiet. They are able to stop second-guessing everything and let their own inner wisdom arise. The result is that they are more serene, grounded, and joyous—light and stable.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /><br />Awareness of becoming dependent on something outside the self for guidance—so that they can rise to become grounded in their own inner guidance and feeling of endless support.</span></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (Six Goes to Average Nine)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />In situations where Sixes feel secure, they begin to deal with stress by simply shutting down and becoming indifferent to their surroundings, like average Nines. They do not want to be disturbed or bothered by loved ones—they feel that they have been working hard and they experience virtually any kind of interaction as another source of pressure. They will be pleasant one moment, but can suddenly become stubbornly resistant and shut down in the next if they feel that others are demanding something of them. At such times, Sixes become unavailable and passive-aggressive, not wanting to respond to others or to move out of comforting but numbing routines.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (Six Goes to Average Three)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Sixes are often visibly nervous, reacting with self-doubt to situations and getting caught in over-thinking a problem. When stress escalates beyond the normal level, however, they jump into action—and stay in action, trying to deal with their anxieties by working harder. If, for example, they feel pressured at work, Sixes may spend their weekend frantically doing yard chores or obsessively reorganizing the closets as a way of discharging or avoiding feelings of inadequacy. They also fear letting others know how overwhelmed they are, so they may take on a false persona of competency and efficiency, like average Threes. ("Don't worry about anything. I've got this handled.") They focus increasingly on tasks and on being efficient while cutting off from their feelings so that they can stay functional, but this can lead to major emotional problems for them and for their relationships.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/6growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Sixes grow by recognizing that the only real security in life comes from within. While we can work hard to build our finances, to find the right friends and the right partner, and to foresee every possible mishap, ultimately, none of the external structures that we use to give ourselves confidence will always work for us. Things can and do go wrong, and the supports that we rely on inevitably change. Therefore, growth for a Six entails finding the support of their own inner knowing. It involves finding the place inside themselves that is quiet, strong, and capable. But this cannot happen by itself. Discovering these inner resources takes time and work, although, fortunately, Sixes understand the usefulness of perseverance and dedication. Sixes will know firsthand the value of discovering their inner resources when they take time to relax their constant vigilance and find faith in themselves.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-6.html">Palmer's Exercises</a><br /><br />Think about how you feel supported in life. In what ways have you looked outside yourself for support? What belief systems have made you feel secure? If you wish, write down your observations.<br /><br />Now think about how you have disowned your own inner guidance by looking outside yourself for security. Have you missed opportunities for growth because of fear? Have you ignored your own hearts desires because of fear? In what ways have you reacted against your fears?<br /><br />To access your own inner guidance, you must learn to distinguish between opinions and real guidance. Opinions need defending. Your own inner guidance comes from a quiet place, and will just feel right. You won’t feel the need to defend it; you will just know that it is right for you. To access your own inner guidance, you will need to learn to quiet your overactive mind, connect with your body and heart, and your higher thinking center.</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-36972027855787186002007-09-07T18:04:00.000-07:002008-04-21T03:20:04.578-07:00Type 7: Stimulation-Seeker<h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#qu">Quotes</a> - - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#vi">Video</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-7.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><a 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href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0160127/10&imgrefurl=http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0160127/10.html%3Fseq%3D2&h=420&w=475&sz=29&hl=en&start=52&sig2=VMcbkIAAz2fVbiZ0NLBh1w&um=1&tbnid=g6z1DlraND4ZRM:&tbnh=114&tbnw=129&eid=02RdR_H1I6eSePLT3eAJ&prev=/images%3Fq%3DCameron%2BDiaz%26start%3D36%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:g6z1DlraND4ZRM:http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0160127/10" height="114" width="129" /></a><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jan-01-Sun-2006/photos/clooney.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jan-01-Sun-2006/opinion/5112557.html&h=400&w=257&sz=34&hl=en&start=28&sig2=v2I99wuFHYNJuF20lCKQyw&um=1&tbnid=RqJkt2tdJqRu7M:&tbnh=124&tbnw=80&eid=v2hdR_mMIqfyeJOk-dYJ&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGeorge%2BClooney%2Binterview%26start%3D18%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:RqJkt2tdJqRu7M:http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jan-01-Sun-2006/photos/clooney.jpg" height="124" width="80" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="qu">Quotes</a></span><br /><br />"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" - Richard Feynman<br /><br />"<span class="body">I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.</span>" - George Clooney<br /><br />"<span class="body">I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.</span> " - George Clooney<br /><br />"<span class="body">You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.</span> " - George Clooney<br /><br /><b><a name="vi">Video</a></b><br /><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0T0GuglxtXA&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0T0GuglxtXA&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jdWt1w1C2Ps&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jdWt1w1C2Ps&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qKwnE46kMb0&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qKwnE46kMb0&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td></tr><tr><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/U2xDC4VnN78&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/U2xDC4VnN78&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSevenOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a> "The Enthusiast"<br /><br />It is no great difficulty to see why the life of diverse hedonism is unsatisfactory even on its own terms. Boredom, its ultimate enemy, is unavoidable...A life devoted to the collection of enjoyable or 'interesting' experiences is an empty life. It is not a life of spirit, but one in which spirit disappears in the multitude of diversions....When we think of it, we all know that those who are in a position to sample life's sweet diversions are no better off in any fundamental way than those who are not. We know that those who have thrown themselves into lives of self-indulgence are often racked with emptiness, loneliness, self-hatred, nostalgia, and yet are unwilling to change. Knowing all this, however, we would be reluctant ourselves to pass up the opportunity for such a life. Why is this so? Because we convince ourselves that we would be judicious in our use of pleasure. We would practice restraint....The life of superficial diversions has great attraction, as does the pastry table for the child. In the latter case it is, we know, because the child is not serious about his eating habits. So it is, also, with us....To throw oneself into indulgence is to say, 'All I am is a potential for pleasure. The more pleasure that exists, the greater I am.' No one can believe this in earnest, of course, and this is why such a life must rest upon self-deception. (John Douglas Mullen, Kierkegaard's Philosophy, New York: New American Library, 1981, p. 100-1.)<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-7.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Joyful Person"<br /><br />Enneagram type 7s are upbeat and energetic, and have minds that don’t quit. The Seven mind is always busy making connections between different ideas, which can make them seem scattered, but also funny and entertaining. Sevens are good at brainstorming new ideas and beginning new projects, but can have trouble with followthrough. In average levels of health, Sevens can seem ADD and manic, and many sevens get asked if they have been diagnosed with these disorders. While sevens like to live in the world of ideas, they also like to implement those ideas in practical ways.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=10&MMN_position=34:34">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br />People of enneatype Seven are essentially concerned that their options remain open, their lives unconstrained, and their ability to find happiness unfettered by what they see as the largely petty concerns which seem to consume most people. Sevens are determined not to allow their lives to succumb to boredom or inertia, or to the lethargy of a dull, pedestrian existence. Sevens want <i>more</i> than that. They always want more.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br />More Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/estp.htm">ESTP</a> "The Adventurer" - Active, pragmatic, outgoing, fun, realistic accomplishers.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/esfp.htm">ESFP</a> "The Joker" - Sympathetic socialites generously meeting needs in a fun, lively way.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/istp.htm">ISTP</a> "The Realist" - Quick adapter and planner, seeking freedom from strict structures.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/entp.htm">ENTP</a> "The Innovator" - Adaptable, innovative, freeing self from structure for action.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfp.htm">ENFP</a> "The Visionary" - Love the fluid and changing, expressing creativity and charisma.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and7.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and7.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and7.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and7.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/5and7.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/6and7.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/7and8.asp">8</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/7and9.asp">9<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=10&MMN_position=34:34">Ocean-Moonshine.net</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">7w6</span> - Seeking Stimulation and Security<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type4.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Healthy Sevens with a 6 wing are responsible, faithful, lovable, nervous and funny. They are generally more oriented to relationship and want to be accepted by other people. Can be steady, more willing to stick with commitments; the 6 wing brings a longer sense of time. Usually funny or enjoy a good laugh - an amazing number of comedians are Sevens with a 6 wing. More openly vulnerable, have an unguarded, tender sweetness. Some have trouble expressing anger even when they are justified. May evade or finesse authority but still aware of it like a 6. Canny and practical, they look for the deals and the loopholes. When more entranced, may have surprise episodes of sensitivity and insecurity. Their feelings can be easily hurt sometimes. Sensitive especially to comparisons. May avoid putting themselves to the test. Grow dependent and addicted to other people, afraid to be alone, suspicious and skittish. Can feel guilt easily, may project their conscience onto others and then act irresponsibly. Make themselves shallow, fall in and out of love easily. Sometimes breezily betray others by running away. Can be reckless, unstable, and self-destructive. When Sevens have a counterphobic 6 wing their idealism can motivate a sincere desire for social reform. May work hard for a cause. Can be antiauthority, passive/aggressive, flippant, defiant. Some report hating to be told what to do. Clashes with Ones likely. May call down trouble on themselves. Complain about the status quo. The realm of hippie rebellion.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">7w8</span> - Seeking Stimulation and Power<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type7.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br /><span>When healthy, Sevens with an 8 wing are often generous, gregarious and expansive. Tend to be exceptionally loyal to their friends, especially when social subtype. Leap aggressively to the defense of those they care for. Might seem loud or boisterous although some are urbane and witty. Enjoy social celebrations, storytelling, jokes, food and travel. Generally have a strong self-confidence for worldly matters and getting what they want. Talent for making something out of nothing - entrepreneurial. Usually share what they have when healthy, want everyone to enjoy their sense of bounty and wide range of interests. When more entranced, they may be demanding, displaying a selfish impatience and a self-justifying narcissism. May want what they want right now. Aggressive, hasty drive to acquire money and material options and recognition. Can demand that the people in their lives say only what the Seven wants to hear - sugarcoated truth. Lash out angrily if reality doesn't meet their expectations; sometimes vengeful. Often perfectionistic as parents (low side of 1). Moralize to others and then are themselves irresponsible. Amnesia for promises made in an expansive moment. Particular difficulty with sexual fidelity.</span><br /></li></ul><h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 7</span> - Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype4">Udit Patel</a> "The Neophile (Ichazo's "Suggestibility")"<br /><br /></span></span><span><span>Sexual Sevens seek stimulation, especially the stimulation of whatever is new, cutting edge, or exotic. They are extremely curious and often intellectually avid, and they bring the same searching engagement to their relationships. Sexual Sevens love to meet new people, to learn about them, and to get intensely involved with them—whether through conversation, shared adventures, or sexual experiences. They are often highly charismatic, having no trouble capturing people's attention with their energy, wit, and genuine desire to connect with people. They often frustrate themselves and others, however, because their attention is easily captured by what promises excitement. Sexual Sevens can shift from one intense focus to another too quickly for their own good. They can also become easily enthused about a new idea, person, or experience without checking it out thoroughly, often leading to regrets later on either in business or in relationships. When less healthy, they may indiscriminately pursue relationships or unusual, even dangerous, experiences for the excitement that it brings and to counteract boredom and inner deadness. The search for a variety of exotic and intense experiences can leave them burned out and dissipated.</span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type7.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />Intimate Sevens tend to garnish and embellish reality with fantasy. Intimate relationships are often thought of as shared experimental adventures, and the Seven perceives their partner through a veil of imagination. May romanticize others as a way to avoid the limits and boredom of mundane life with the same old someone. Can be more involved with their fantasy of the partner than with the real person. Tentative, distractible, impersonal, may have a wandering eye. Some have great difficulty with commitment and seem fickle as they move on to the next fantasy projected onto the next new person. Don Juan scenario. More generally, intimate Sevens have a tendency to be suggestible. They may especially seek the new with the fascinated enthusiasm of a faddist, stepping into future fantasies to avoid the present.</span><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social 7</span> - Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7"><span><span>Udit Patel</span></span></a><span><span> Missing Out (Ichazo's "Social Sacrifice")<br /><br />Social Sevens are highly people-oriented and somewhat idealistic, so they are sometimes mistaken for Twos. They like entertaining and gathering "the gang" for various outings and adventures. They love conversation, launching new projects with others, brainstorming, and initiating creative endeavors. Social Sevens are also looking for a place to invest their idealism—they feel they have much to offer the world but are forever searching for the perfect vehicle through which to express their talents and aspirations. While Social Sevens like being involved with people and activities, because they are Sevens, they also tend to feel that they are losing options when they commit to a particular person or course of action. Thus, they tend to have problems with making a commitment because they want to be involved but feel trapped once they get involved. One way that Social Sevens navigate this conflict is by agreeing to do too many things with too many people. They also tend to make back-up plans regarding agreements. ("If lunch with Sarah falls through, I'll invite Mike, too, just to make sure someone's there….") Naturally, others are often caught off guard by sudden changes of plan, and, oddly, no one really gets the Social Seven's attention. Social Sevens may also sabotage good relationships while secretly hoping that someone better will come along.</span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type7.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />Social Sevens often feel a tension between duty to others and the desire to escape. Tend to feel responsible for the people around them and experience that as a confining burden. They then react against the weight of obligation, seeking variety and craving change. When entranced, can be highly irresponsible. When awakened, they make peace with commitment and sacrifice and are often very stable and generous. Often an idealism, sometimes a stronger connection to 1. Serving something beyond themselves, dutiful. Can be from a large family where they had lots of responsibility, eldest child. With an 8 wing they tend to fight the sense of burden harder.</span><span><span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-Preservation 7</span> - Seeking Saftey/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7">Udit Patel</a> "Getting Mine (Ichazo's "Defenders")"<br /><br />Self-Preservation Sevens are the most materialistic Sevens. This does not necessarily mean that they are always accumulating possessions, but they do thoroughly enjoy the things of the material world. They also enjoy thinking about acquiring possessions and experiences. Thus, reading catalogues, restaurant guides, movie reviews, travel books, and brochures is often a favorite pastime. Generally, however, they are not daydreamers: they want to actually do or buy the things they are thinking about. Exploring the different pleasures the world offers seems to Self-Pres Sevens what life is about. They love shopping and are especially thrilled by the prospect of getting a great bargain—obtaining the desired object or experience at well below the "normal" cost. Thus, they tend to be the person to consult for a good hotel in a particular city or to find the best place to buy a new laptop computer. Often, they will cultivate other friends who are knowledgeable about mutual interests to exchange information about bargains and to stay up with the newest developments available. Many Self-Pres Sevens like to "live large" and may spend more than they can afford to sustain their appetite for experience and luxury. Unconsciously, they may have unrealistic expectations that the world should provide them with whatever they need on demand. To the extent that Sevens succumb to this expectation, they are likely to be frustrated and disappointed.<br /></span><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type7.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br />Self-preservation Sevens are a little confusing since they tend to be highly social. Characterized by a drive towards family and shared group experiences. Enjoy operating within their real or chosen family, checking in with a group of like-minded people. Chronic sharing on a circuit. People in the group are the source of interesting information and stimulation. Don't feel burdened or trapped by duties like a social Seven. Loyal to family, often have a 6 wing. Defend their circle and castle. Barricade, find safety in numbers. This subtype goes with the image of the "party animal."</span></li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSeven.asp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeSeven.asp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Assimilate experiences in depth, making them deeply grateful and appreciative for what they have. Become awed by the simple wonders of life: joyous and ecstatic. Intimations of spiritual reality, of the boundless goodness of life.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): Unable to discriminate what they really need, become hyperactive, unable to say "no" to themselves, throwing self into constant activity. Uninhibited, doing and saying whatever comes to mind: storytelling, flamboyant exaggerations, witty wise-cracking, performing. Fear being bored: in perpetual motion, but do too many things—many ideas but little follow through.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): Finally, their energy and health is completely spent: become claustrophobic and panic-stricken. Often give up on themselves and life: deep depression and despair, self-destructive overdoses, impulsive suicide. Generally corresponds to the Bipolar disorder and Histrionic personality disorder.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7">Levels of Development In-Depth<br /><br /></a></li><li><img alt="The image “http://www.9types.com/epd/7.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.9types.com/epd/7.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/7.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthy loop:</span> controlled by Basic Desire: Need to be happy -> explore and appreciate world -> happy -> Need to be happy. In the healthy state, the need to be happy induces Type Sevens to explore the world and genuinely appreciate what they find. They derive great happiness as a result, thus their need is satisfied and a balance is reached.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Average state</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span> when Sevens' are not exploring and appreciating the world, they become restless and unhappy. The the need to be happy increases, which helps Sevens to again reach out to the world and find things to appreciate. Thus the balancing loop can help Sevens to recover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unhealthy loop:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of being being deprived -> numbly seek sensations -> happy -> Fear of being being deprived. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of being being deprived can cause Type Sevens to numbly seek new and different sensations and adventures without truly appreciating the experience. This means they will derive little happiness from all the highs, which further increases Sevens' feeling of emptiness and basic fear of being deprived. The cycle continues to build up.<br /><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insight:</span> </span>We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Sevens can refrain from jumping into the next project, and appreciate more what they experience. This will cause them to be more happy, and thus reduce their fear of being being deprived.<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (Seven Goes to Healthy Five)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymSevenlabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />As Sevens learn to relax and to tolerate their uncomfortable feelings more completely, they stop using their restless minds to distract themselves. Their minds become quiet, clear, and focused, allowing Sevens to tap more deeply into their reserves of creativity and insight. They are able to prioritize not by imposing some arbitrary order on themselves but by following their true interests and staying with them. Thus, they become far more productive, satisfied, and really satisfying as companions. Their capacity to find connections and to synthesize information is not drawn off into tangents—they produce results, and this gives them grounds for real confidence in themselves and in life. As they experience the world more deeply, they find each moment fascinating, profound, and revelatory. The idea of boredom becomes absurd as they savor the incredible mysteries of existence, moment by moment.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /><br />Awareness of feeling that "something better" is available somewhere else—so that they can rise to a true resting in the moment and a joyous celebration of life.</span></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (Seven Goes to Average Five)</h2><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Sevens often feel it is their duty to entertain others and to keep their environment positive and exciting. Over time, this can be exhausting—even for Sevens. When they are tired of being "on" for everyone, they may choose to withdraw even from their intimates and seek seclusion and noninterference. This can come as a shock to others. ("You've been out having fun with everyone else, so why are you so quiet and unavailable with me?") They no longer want to put out energy for anyone else, and can become almost obsessively focused and preoccupied. They can also be surprisingly withdrawn and isolated, like Fives. Their body language and aloof responses let others know that they want space and privacy. At such times, Sevens make no effort to entertain or energize others. Like Fives, they retreat from contact and attempt to restore their energy.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (Seven Goes to Healthy Five)</h2><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype7">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Sevens value their spontaneity and so tend to follow their impulses, for better or for worse. As a result, they can become scattered in their attention and energy, leaping from one promising idea to the next, from one activity to another. While this can be exciting, it often leaves Sevens frustrated with themselves because they feel that they are not accomplishing as much as they would like to. At such times, they begin to behave like average Ones—pulling in the reins on themselves and trying to get more organized and self-controlled. But because they are trying to impose order and control on themselves, they begin to feel trapped and restricted. This only makes them more frustrated, impatient, and irritable. They may, for instance, become critical of their own creative ideas before they have really had a chance to develop them. Similarly, they cannot avoid feeling disappointment with people and many aspects of their environment. Nothing seems to meet their expectations, and they can become harsh and perfectionistically critical with themselves and with others.<br /><br /></li><li>Riso & Hudson's <span style="font-style: italic;">Wisdom of the Enneagram</span> (edited)<br /><br />"The seven disintegrating to 1 grows more restless and scattered, or more self-controlled and rigid, their usual vivaciousness giving way to grim seriousness. They may attempt to educate others, debating or critiquing the views of others, becoming 'short,' impersonal, and highly impatient with any degree of incompetence. They may vent frustration by scolding and nitpicking, or via withering sarcasm."</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/7growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations</a><br /><br />Sevens grow by recognizing that real happiness is available anytime, anywhere: the price of admission is their willingness and ability to be quiet, to be still inside themselves, and to open their eyes to the wonder and richness of life all around them. Once Sevens understand this, they are able to assimilate their experiences in depth. They discover that every moment can make them feel deeply grateful and appreciative—truly awed by the wonders of life. Moreover, their openness and inner quiet brings them a sense of life beyond the physical, a spiritual reality, that begins to shine through the material world. The healthy Seven understands that by being still within, a quiet joy begins to pervade all of life—a deep satisfaction in existence that cannot ever be taken away.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-7.html">Palmer's Exercise for Type 7s</a><br /><br />Find a way to get out of your head and to stop living in your future plans. Do Tai Chi and really be present and feel your body. Or take a walk and feel the air moving in and out of your lungs. Breathe deeply into your belly and into your heart space. Smell the flowers and trees, or the dust. Look at what is around you right now. Be with the experience that you are living right now.<br /><br />One of the simplest ways to learn to turn off the spinning mind, is also one of the most difficult for sevens, who like to stay in motion. It is called mindfulness meditation: Sit quietly and notice your breath. Notice where your mind goes. Stop the thoughts and focus on your breath. After a time you will learn to turn off the spinning of the mind and be with your present experience.</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-52821477051348277832007-09-06T18:05:00.000-07:002008-04-21T03:20:08.613-07:00Type 8: Power-Seeker<h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#qu">Quotes</a> - - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#vi">Video</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-8.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/122/000104807/nancy-grace-2-sized.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/122/000104807/&h=344&w=228&sz=27&hl=en&start=7&sig2=o8gw7QAGGb99EG9Qrmpm8A&um=1&tbnid=qggF33Sav9ZlmM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=80&ei=et5iR8zqFJSCjAH4tKi8DQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNancy%2BGrace%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" 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href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/7/U/O/2/AttilatheHun.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/attilathehun/ig/Attila-the-Hun/Attila-the-Hun.--mg.htm&h=500&w=273&sz=49&hl=en&start=1&sig2=XQV0bNxv72vqgkgzRHXcnw&um=1&tbnid=1PC2htxy7ZFSlM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=71&ei=g9xiR7_YNqCegQLh2vmLDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAttila%2Bthe%2Bhun%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:1PC2htxy7ZFSlM:http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/7/U/O/2/AttilatheHun.jpg" height="130" width="71" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="qu">Quotes</a></span><br /><br />"While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men--a great reader of men. He had a genius for studying a man and learning his strengths and weaknesses and hopes and fears, his deepest strengths and weaknesses: what it was that the man wanted--not what he said he wanted but what he really wanted--and what it was that the man feared, really feared." (From Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson.)<br /><br /><b><a name="vi">Video</a></b><br /><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QqlR1WQ9PLU&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QqlR1WQ9PLU&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td><td><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tv_6KH1nP2w&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tv_6KH1nP2w&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeEightOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a> "The Challenger"<br /><br />It is difficult to describe power without roaming into ambiguous matters—into a consideration of leadership, authority, will, courage, self-reliance, and destructiveness. What is the difference between willfulness and self-assertion, for example? "Will" can be thought of as good or bad, although more by its use than by what it is. It is difficult to say what gives a person authority or makes someone a particularly able leader. Is it proper to call the use of power with which we agree healthy, while condemning its use by those with whom we disagree? We cannot possibly begin to do justice to the complexities of power here, although they will, of course, be touched on because this chapter concerns itself with the personality type which most exemplifies power.<br /><br />In the personality type Eight, we see courage, will, self-reliance, leadership, authority, self-assertion—and the dark side of power, the ability to destroy what power has created.<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-8.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Dominator"<br /><br />Enneagram type 8s are a force to be reckoned with. They are strong and independent and resist being controlled by anyone. As Sandra Maitri writes in her book, The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul, Eights have a “need to be against.” Their psyches tell them they need to be strong so no one messes with them. There is a grounded, big, palpable, bodily energy to them. They often seem bigger than they actually are.<br /><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=11&MMN_position=35:35">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br />People of enneatype Eight are essentially unwilling to be controlled, either by others or by their circumstances; they fully intend to be masters of their fate, to "take charge," to do whatever needs to be done. Eights are competitive, strong willed, decisive, expansive, practical, and tough minded. Eights typically have an enormous amount of energy and frequently have powerful physical appetites. There is an unapologetically expansive quality to the physical presence of the type Eight personality. Eights generally don't have to announce their presence for others to know they are there. The central problem for individuals of enneatype Eight is that the need to avoid being controlled can manifest in the need to control, the need to be "in charge," the compulsion to dominate. This can lead to all sorts of practical difficulties, as the world is not always liable to conform to the dictates of the Eight's will, but the deeper problem for the Eight is that the need to avoid any semblance of being controlled can rob the Eight of the fluidity, receptivity and acceptance that is generally necessary to live a full, balanced and truly happy life.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br />More Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/estj.htm">ESTJ</a> "The Enforcer" - Use structured activity to get self and others to a get job done.<a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/entj.htm"><br />ENTJ</a> "The Leader" - Use analysis and strategy to use resources to meet a challenge.<a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/intj.htm"><br />INTJ</a> "The Free-Thinker" - Insightful, quick individualists who trust their own vision.<br /><br />Quite Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/estp.htm">ESTP</a> "The Adventurer" - Active, pragmatic, outgoing, fun, realistic accomplishers.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/entp.htm">ENTP</a> "The Innovator" - Adaptable, innovative, freeing self from structure for action.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and8.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and8.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and8.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and8.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/5and8.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/6and8.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/7and8.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/8and9.asp">9<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=11&MMN_position=35:35">Ocean-Moonshine.net</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">8w7</span> - Seeking Power and Stimulation<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type8.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Awakened Eights with a 7 wing are often expansive, and powerful. Gregarious and generous, they may display a cheerful bravado. Can be forceful but with a light touch, funny. Often have a sense of humor about themselves. Generally more extroverted, ambitious and materialistic. May talk loud and be sociable partygoers. Sometimes driven to bring the new into being. Can be visionary, idealistic, enterprising. Willing to take risks. May think more clearly than Eights with a 9 wing; 7 wing brings an intellectual capacity. When more entranced, aggression combines with gluttony to form an almost virulent tendency to addiction. Many entranced Eights with a 7 wing have had drug and alcohol problems or tensions around addiction. Prone to temperamental ups and downs - can be moody, egocentric, quick to anger. Tendency to court chaos, inflate themselves narcissistically. Some are ruthlessly materialistic. Can use people up, suck them dry. Maybe be explosive or violent, prone to distorted overreaction.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">8w9</span> - Seeking Power and Peace<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type8.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br /><span>Healthy Eights with a 9 wing often have an aura of preternatural calm, like they haven't had a self-doubt in decades. Take their authority for granted - queen or king of all they survey. May be gentle, kind-hearted, quieter. Often nurturing, protective parents; steady, supportive friends. Informal and unpretentious, patient, laconic, generally somewhat introverted. Sometimes a dry or ironic sense of humor. May have an aura of implicit, simmering anger rather like a sleeping volcano. Slow to erupt but when they do it's sudden and explosive. When entranced, the 9 wing brings an Eight a kind of callous numbness. They can be oblivious to the force of their anger until after they've hurt someone. Calmly dominating, colder; may have an indifference to softer emotions. If very unhealthy, they can be mean without remorse or aggressive in the service of stupid ends. Paranoid plotting, muddled thinking, moral laziness. Can be vengeful in ill-conceived ways, abuse those they love, don't know when to quit.</span><br /></li></ul><h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 8</span> - Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8">Udit Patel</a> Taking Charge (Ichazo's "Possessiveness")</span></span><span><span><br /><br /></span></span>Sexual Eights are charismatic and emotionally intense: they seem to "smolder." These Eights seek intensity through relationship, and the ups and downs of their lives are often seen in terms of relationship. The Sexual Eight wants to "imprint" their significant other, to leave their mark. Whether they are dealing with love interests or are engaged in other activities, they enjoy the thrill of intense stimulation and can become addicted to adrenaline rushes. They often adore the people they are in love with, but they can develop problems from thinking of the other as a child that they want to shape and develop. Much of this comes from wanting the partner to be strong enough so that the Sexual Eight can relax and surrender themselves. Thus, they may provoke their loved ones in the effort to test their strength or to build it up. Similarly, they like to be challenged by the other, but this can deteriorate into a struggle for dominance in the relationship. They may resort to arguments or verbal sparring as a way of stimulating intensity in the relationship. Sexual Eights can also feel as though they "own" their intimate partner—that they have a right to satisfaction whenever they need it.<span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type8.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Want stability, loyalty and predictability in close relationships. May feel easily betrayed, and are prone to suspicion. Can love deeply, have a genuine close-up interest in and concern for spouse. Since life is dangerous they want to choose close allies carefully. Attached to the idea of being able to trust completely. Lots of testing of their partner's motives. If they pass the tests then the Eight relaxes. When entranced, this can lead to possessive obsession, and a need to dominate and control partner. Intimate Eights can get codependent, jealous, hooked into the other. Sometimes can't let go; their partner's every move is (over)reacted to. When very unhealthy, spousal abuse scenarios are possible. Stalking, vengeful vows to follow other to the ends of the earth, etc. Connected to the low side of 2.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social 8</span> - Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8"><span><span>Udit Patel</span></span></a><span><span> "</span></span>Generating Support (Ichazo's "Duty")"<br /><span><span><br /></span></span>Social Eights like to "live large," and as the name suggests, engage fully in the world. Friendship and loyalty are top values for them, and they are willing to make great sacrifices for the people and causes they care about. At the same time, they expect that others they have bonded with will be similarly loyal to them. (In this regard, they can resemble Sixes, although their energy is bigger and more direct than that of Sixes.) Often, Social Eights will gather a group of friends around them while unofficially acting as the chairperson of the group—the "king" or "queen." They enjoy conversation about sports, politics, rock music, or the latest events on their favorite soap opera—any subject in which they can boldly state opinions and get into debates about. Social Eights enjoy the banter and energy of a disagreement about such matters, and they are often surprised to learn that others can be hurt or overwhelmed by the force of their opinions. At such times, they may try to "tone themselves down," but they usually find this an uncomfortable compromise. More often, they seek out friends who they perceive as strong and independent, people who can take a bit of roughhousing and who will not be overwhelmed by them. Less healthy Social Eights have problems with making promises to people that they cannot always fulfil. Conning others, and exaggerating situations can become part of the picture.<span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type8.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Social Eights are often loyal to a group and conceive of friendship as a pact of mutual protection. Want everyone to benefit; group's cohesion and welfare is most important to them. Often oriented to family, honest, hold themselves accountable to others. May be the group's protector or provider. Emphasis on cooperation. When healthy, they are aggressively blustery but will back down and apologize when they've been unfair. More able to say the Three Little Words -"I was wrong." Stronger connection to 2, can emotionally switch places with others in their chosen group. As friends they want to protect what's soft or young in you and appreciate the same in return. Hostility directed towards outside forces who threatens the group's welfare.<span><span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-Preservation 8 </span>- Seeking Saftey/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8">Udit Patel</a> "</span></span><span><span>Responsibility (Ichazo's "Affection")</span></span><span><span>"<br /><br />Self-Preservation Eights most live out the Eights' need for independence through the accumulation of power, position, and, sometimes, material wealth. That is not to say that all Self-Pres Eights are wealthy—most are not—but that this Variant seeks to have and to control whatever resources they can in order to maintain their independence and dominance. Thus, these Eights make shrewd business people and politicians and are extremely practical, approaching life with a tough-minded pragmatism they see as being simply "realistic." Often private people, their home is very important to them. Whether man or woman, the Self-Pres Eight rules the roost and is likely to control resources within the household. Positively, they are often excellent providers and have a way of landing on their feet no matter what life throws at them. Trouble spots include difficulty empathizing with the needs of others, especially if they perceive others as weak or ineffectual. Self-Pres Eights most typify the shrewd, pragmatic, wheeler-dealer aspect of this personality type.<br /></span><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type8.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Self-preservation Eights often grow up poor or struggling. Food, home, money may be crucial. Generally seek control over their immediate environment and may worry about survival. Tend to value things over people. Maintaining order and material security are important. Eights with this subtype have a stronger connection to 5. Can be materialistic and feel deserving about it; more often have a 7 wing. Could be collectors or have prized objects. Sometimes domineering towards those within their sphere. Might preach an ethic of selfishness - justify their bullying of intimates as necessary to "toughen them up" for the hard world outside. Life is a jungle, only the strong survive. Survivalist mentality, territorial imperatives, angry at family members because they threaten household objects. Hiding in and presiding over their castle; sometimes extra Fiveish.</li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeEight.asp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeEight.asp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Become self-restrained and magnanimous, merciful and forbearing, mastering self through their self-surrender to a higher authority. Courageous, willing to put self in serious jeopardy to achieve their vision and have a lasting influence. May achieve true heroism and historical greatness.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): Begin to dominate their environment, including others: want to feel that others are behind them, supporting their efforts. Swaggering, boastful, forceful, and expansive: the "boss" whose word is law. Proud, egocentric, want to impose their will and vision on everything, not seeing others as equals or treating them with respect.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): If they get in danger, they may brutally destroy everything that has not conformed to their will rather than surrender to anyone else. Vengeful, barbaric, murderous. Sociopathic tendencies. Generally corresponds to the Antisocial Personality Disorder.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8">Levels of Development In-Depth</a><br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://www.9types.com/epd/8.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/8.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthy loop:</span> controlled by Basic Desire: Need to be self-reliant -> strength -> independent -> Need to be self-reliant. In the healthy state, the need to be self-reliant induces Type Eights to become stronger and capable of defending others. When Eights are independent, their need is satisfied and a balance is reached.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Average state:</span> when Eights' are not building their strength as much, they will become more dependent on others for certain needs. This increases the need to be self-reliant, which helps Eights to again work hard to become strong. Thus the balancing loop can help Eights to recover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unhealthy loop</span>: controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of submitting to others -> controlling -> independent -> Fear of submitting to others. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of submitting to others can cause Type Eights to lash out and try to control others as a defense. This unfortunately make them ironically more dependent on others, which further increases Eights' basic fear. The cycle continues to build up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insight: </span>We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Eights can refrain from controlling others but start to strengthen themselves instead. This will naturally make them more independent and thus reduce the fear of submitting to others.<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (Eight Goes to Healthy Two)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymEightlabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />As Eights begin to recognize their powerful emotional armoring and see how much it isolates them unnecessarily, they naturally become more emotionally expressive and generous, like high-functioning Twos. Underneath their drive for self-protection and independence, Eights have big hearts and generous impulses. Once they feel secure enough to let down their guards, they discover how much they care about people and how much they want to support others. In short, they want to be a source of good in the world and to express their love—and at Two, they do so. Since they remain Eights, their love is expressed in palpable ways that actually help and support people. It is a love free of sentiment, clinging, or hidden agenda, and through it, Eights find the sense of empowerment and dignity that they have been seeking.<br /><br /></li><li>The 8's form of empathy when he has integrated to 2 is similar in ways to that of a healthy 2. That's why the Enneagram expresses it as integration to type 2. The healthy 2 may be able to "read" people or intuit what they need, and find joy and fulfillment in their own selves simply by giving to other people (which at average to unhealthy levels may help them to be manipulative based on these needs). The 8 does not look like an average 2 when he integrates; he looks like the rare somewhat integrated 2; although he still is concerned with power over being loved, he has find the ability to seek power as well as love, without feeling like the two goals are opposed. The way that he seeks love though, is the way that an integrated 2 would seek love, by caring for others. This corresponds with the averages 8's needs to protect people and assets in the physical sense. The 8, when integrated, finally becomes more aware of other people, with a "magnanimous" instinctual understanding of those he has always wanted to protect. He will now not only be able to protect them physically, but he finally has developed some care and awareness, even, for the protection of them emotionally as well. The integrated 8's empathy has a visible similarity to the healthy 2's, the instinctual, calm, and eternal patient caring he takes with people when he integrates. The 8, however, will never look like a regular 2; there is still the capacity of him to disintegrate in a very 8 way, and that is a tangible energy of the power-seeker coming off of him. Imagine a conquerer when, after he has vanquished all his enemies and fought all his battles, finally realizes that, without love, he is nothing. So he finally reaches out in not only a power-hungry way, but a magnanimous protective way to his people.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /></span><br /><span>Awareness of feeling that they must push and struggle to make things happen—so that they can rise to a true self-surrender to something greater and more lasting than themselves.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (Eight Goes to Average Two)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Eights will sometimes turn toward people they trust to be reassured about the other person's need for them. They have an emotional, even sentimental side that they show only to people with whom they feel safe. They may appear tough and independent in public while privately doting on key people in their lives or, if they lack these, then on their pets. They may also attempt to get intimates to acknowledge their help and support or may want people to depend more completely on them, like average Twos. Hidden feelings of rejection can cause them to seek ways to hold on to those few people they feel close to, including manipulation and undermining the other. Like average Twos, they also become unwilling to acknowledge their real needs or feelings of hurt with people on whom they depend.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (Eight Goes to Average Five)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Eights usually respond to stress by taking problems and challenges head on. They are bold and assertive in pushing for control and for accomplishing their vision, whatever it might be. But this approach can leave them feeling beleaguered and overwhelmed. When stress levels get too high, Eights may suddenly switch tactics and go into periods of retreat or even isolation, like average Fives. They pull back from the front lines to assess their situation, to strategize, and to see how they can regain control. They may become strangely quiet, secretive, and isolated as they privately explore ways to deal with their problems. Under longer periods of stress, they may also develop a cold, cynical attitude about themselves, other people, and life in general, in the manner of less healthy Fives.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/8growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype8">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Eights grow by recognizing that the world is not a battleground to be approached as a gigantic test of wills. They do not have to see life as a "survival of the fittest," a titanic struggle that they must be constantly engaged in. They grow by recognizing that it is their attempt to defy the world and to force everything to bend to their will that is at the root of their problems. They realize that any real strength entails vulnerability and openness. They also learn that allowing more openness enables others to get closer to them and to support them in tangible ways. Eights grow by recognizing that more can be accomplished through cooperation and partnership than they can do by themselves or by constantly struggling to impose their will on others.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-8.html">Palmer's Exercises</a><br /><br />coming soon...</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-28401990411678671102007-09-05T18:05:00.000-07:002008-04-21T03:20:13.744-07:00Type 9: Peace-Seeker<h2><a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#ex">Examples</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#qu">Quotes</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#vi">Video</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#de">Description</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#eq">Equivalents</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#mi">Misidentifications</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#va">Variations</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#wi">Wings</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#in">Instinctual Variants</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#he">Health</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#dev">Levels of Development</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a> - <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/09/type-9.html#gr">Growth Recommendations</a></h2><h3><a name="ex">Examples</a></h3><a 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href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images1/disney_sig.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/dec5.html&h=478&w=388&sz=16&hl=en&start=1&sig2=3mTrhTH4EEDxgVuy-1naZw&um=1&tbnid=QqiVTQ1Lk7BIHM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=105&eid=qK5eR9PwM5-SePmJgCA&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWalt%2BDisney%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:QqiVTQ1Lk7BIHM:http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images1/disney_sig.jpg" height="129" width="105" /></a><a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/nature/images/ansel-adams.jpg&imgrefurl=http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/nature/environ4.html&h=299&w=300&sz=31&hl=en&start=17&sig2=P2Z0HiKQVJR1GzB70RS5Jw&um=1&tbnid=gKYB8jJwS235SM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&eid=xK5eR4fDM6KMeKKD4B4&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAnsel%2BAdams%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG"><img style="border: 1px solid ;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:gKYB8jJwS235SM:http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/nature/images/ansel-adams.jpg" height="116" width="116" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="qu">Quotes</a></span><br /><br />"Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person." - Claudio Naranjo, Chilean-born anthropologist and psychiatrist.<br /><br /><b><a name="vi">Video</a></b><br /><br /><object height="200" width="167"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l2OHR0F5GIo&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l2OHR0F5GIo&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="200" width="167"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><h3><a name="de">Description</a></h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeNineOverview.asp">Riso and Hudson's Overview</a> "The Peace-Maker"<br /><br />The inner landscape of the Nine resembles someone riding a bicycle on a beautiful day, enjoying everything about the flow of the experience. The whole picture, the entire situation, is what is pleasant and identified with rather than any particular part. The inner world of Nines is this experience of effortless oneness: their sense of self comes from being at one with their experience. Naturally, they would like to preserve the quality of oneness with the environment as much as possible.<br /><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-4.html"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-9.html">Palmer's Description</a> "The Peacekeeper"<br /><br />Enneagram type 9s are in the center of the Gut, or Instinctive Triad, and as such are the most out of touch with their instinctual energy, particularly anger. Nines have a relaxed, grounded, bodily presence. They are in the Positive Outlook triad, and can range from being quietly optimistic to outright ebullient.<br /><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33"><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=12&MMN_position=36:36">Ocean-Moonshine.net's Description</a><br /><br />People of enneatype Nine are essentially looking to maintain a sense of peace, harmony and balance and to avoid conflict and disruption. Nines tend to see the best in people, to be fundamentally optimistic about the future, and, when reasonably healthy, to have a calming and grounding effect on those around them. As a general rule, Nines are fairly "easy going;" they adopt a strategy of "going with the flow." They intuitively know how to wait for the openings so that they can slip effortlessly into the stream. Nines don't tend to "sweat the small stuff." On the whole, they are self-effacing, tolerant, even-tempered and likable individuals. Nines aspire to be supportive, loving and gentle and more than any other enneatype, are likely to embody these valuable qualities. Given such a portrait, it might seem difficult to understand what is so problematic about the type Nine fixation.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="eq">Equivalents</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/typecorr.htm">Myers-Briggs Equivalents</a><br /><br />More Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/isfp.htm">ISFP</a> "The Aesthete" - Avoid disagreements, seeking harmony with people and nature.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infp.htm">INFP</a> "The Dreamer" - Desire their world to be in line with their inner ideal vision.<br /><br />Quite Common:<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/isfj.htm">ISFJ</a> "The Nurturer" - Sympathetic traditionalists quietly self-sacrificing to get a job done.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/enfp.htm"> ENFP</a> "The Visionary" - Love the fluid and changing, expressing creativity and charisma.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="mi">Misidentifications</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/misid/#matrix">Riso and Hudson</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/1and9.asp">1</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/2and9.asp">2</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/3and9.asp">3</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/4and9.asp">4</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/5and9.asp">5</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/6and9.asp">6</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/7and9.asp">7</a> <a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/members/misid/8and9.asp">8<br /><br /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.ocean-moonshine.net/e142857369/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=9&MMN_position=33:33">Ocean-Moonshine.net</a><br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="va">Variations</a></span><br /><h2><a name="wi">Wings</a></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;">9w8</span> - Seeking Peace and Power<br /><ul><li><span><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type9.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br />Awakened Nines with an 8 wing have a modest, steady, receptive core. They are charged by the dynamism of 8 - when focused on goals they often have great force of will. Get things done, make good leaders. May have an animal magnetism of which they are only partly aware. Can seem highly centered, take what they do seriously but remain unimpressed with themselves. 8 wing can bring a strong internal sense of direction. Relatively fearless and highly intuitive. Generally not intellectual unless they have it in their background. When more entranced, they manifest the contradictions of the two styles expressing them in sequence. Could be passively amiable like a Nine and then turn horribly blunt like an 8. One moment they are opinionated or nasty, next moment kindly and supportive. Often don't hear their voices when angry. Can have a sharp, grating edge. May be slow to anger and then explode. Or angry but don't know it; may confuse being assertive with being rude. Placidly callous - both styles support numbness. Tactless and indiscriminate and indiscreet. May be unwittingly disloyal, spilling everyone's secrets. Sexual confusion, sometimes they are driven by lust.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">9w1</span> - Seeking Peace and Rightness<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type9.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><br /><span>Tend to have been "model children." Instinctively worked to please their parents by being virtuous, orderly, and little trouble. When awakened, they have great moral authority plus good-hearted peacemaking tendencies. Often have a sense of mission, public or private, that involves working hard for the welfare of everyone they are committed to. Principled expression of love. Desire to contribute, do little harm. May be well-liked, modest, endearing, gentle yet firm. Some have great grace and composure with bursts of spontaneity and sweetness. Elegant simplicity. When entranced, they tend to be self-neglectful. May go passively dead and operate from a dubious, fractured morality. Dutiful to what they shouldn't be. Play the good child, disappear into contexts, settle for being overlooked or just partly recognized. Passive tolerance of absurd or damaging situations. One-sided relationships where the Nine gives too much. Rationalize, minimize, tell themselves they had a great childhood, everything's fine. Placid numbness creeps over them. Intolerance of their own emotions. Gradually deaden their soul.</span><br /></li></ul><h2><a name="in">Instinctual Variants</a><br /></h2><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sexual 9</span> - Seeking Intimacy/Intensity<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype9">Udit Patel</a> Merging (Ichazo's "Union")<br /><br />Sexual Nines seek a sense of well-being by finding something or someone to merge with. They want to be at one with the world, with beauty, with nature, but especially with a special, ideal lover. That being said, Sexual Nines have many anxieties about losing themselves by submerging their identity in the other. Thus, they can sometimes appear ambivalent and emotionally conflicted, like Fours or Sixes. They sometimes attempt to "solve" the inner conflict between their desire for merging and their desire for independence by "triangulation." They engage in two separate, simultaneous relationships that serve different needs while never completely showing up in either. Needless to say, this can create the kinds of conflicts that Nines are trying to avoid.<br /><br />The overall affect of Sexual Nines is one of gentleness, ease, and flow, and they seek these qualities in others and in the environment. They also tend to be highly sensual, enjoying tastes, textures, and sensations. Although they resemble Fours in this regard, being ethereal and dreamy, their sensuality is earthy and embodied, and they are not as self-aware or self-doubting as Fours. Sexual Nines tend to be more imaginative than the other Variants—often with elements of gentle whimsy and heroic fantasy. They see the world in magical terms, investing even ordinary objects with a warm glow. They seem to take in the world with a wide-eyed wonder and have a characteristic child-like aura about them. </span></span><span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type9.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Focused on an ideal of romantic union. Get lost in one relationship or in the yearning to have one. High expectations of partner. Sometimes sound melancholy like a Four. Prone to jealousy. May settle on someone and then grow critical and have a wandering eye. Can also deny their partner's flaws and idealize them to stay in union. Another scenario involves multiple relationships, searching from one person to the next. Sometimes the Nine can't decide between two people. Triangulation. Paradoxically, this subtype can be fickle because they are so easily disappointed.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social 9</span> - Seeking Acceptance/Belonging/Inclusion/Status<br /><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype9"><span><span>Udit Patel</span></span></a><span><span> One Happy Family (Ichazo's "Participation")<br /><br />Social Nines seek a sense of well being through social connection and friendship. People of this variant may often not seem like Nines because they are usually more outgoing, active, and involved in their world. There is more warmth and affection expressed by Nines of this variant. They tend to be idealistic and are often supportive of causes, acting as the "social glue" in many organizations and groups. But even in the midst of social activity, Social Nines remain strangely unaware of and unaffected by the problems of others. They are drawn to situations in which they feel they can belong, but they also internally hold themselves apart—usually by emotionally distancing themselves from others while maintaining an outward friendliness.<br /><br />Since Social Nines tend to be affable and cheerful and enjoy having different experiences, they can resemble Sevens. They also tend to be more task-oriented: they enjoy working on projects and being involved in meaningful activities with others, so they can also resemble Threes. Unlike Threes, however, Social Nines have difficulty sustaining efforts on their own behalf. They do not easily pursue their own goals and tend to get sidetracked by social interactions and others' needs and agendas. </span></span><span><br /><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type9.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Social Nines tend to gravitate toward groups and then have conflicts about joining or staying apart. Can enjoy group energy and interests but may be also aware of the group's expectations. These the Nine will both play along with and resist. When immersed in a group, social Nines can lose themselves, trying to become all things to all people. Gregarious but may start to resist being too heavily influenced, to compensate for their sense of lost identity. Can sometimes resent how the group doesn't really see them. May fixate on what others think of them. Or resent the group and make fun of it. Some social Nines stay basically uninvolved but hang out at the group's edge. Frequently there's lots of activity. May get caught up in roles - a stronger connection to 3 goes with this subtype.<span><span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Self-Preservation 9 </span>- Seeking Saftey/Comfort<br /><ul><li><span><span><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personalitytype6">Udit Patel</a> The Comfort Seeker (Ichazo's "Appetite")<br /><br />Self-Preservation Nines are perhaps the most easygoing Nines, but they are also the most likely to need time alone, untroubled by other people's influence and requirements. They seek a sense of well-being through comfort: familiar routines, "comfort foods," and a supportive, uncomplicated environment are all highly valued. Self-Pres Nines have their own way of doing things, their own pace, and their own philosophy of life, and they will stubbornly resist any effort to change any of these things. Self-Pres Nines are also people of few words, preferring to communicate in nonverbal ways. They often pretend to be less savvy and aware than they actually are, as if tempting other people to underestimate them—so that they will be left alone. Positively, they are grounded and patient, possessing a great deal of common sense. They tend to have problems with overindulging themselves in food and drink, or conversely with rigorously controlling their diets—this is especially true of Self-Pres Nines with the One wing. They may also lack physical exercise. In any case, having their routine and lifestyle change is very challenging for them.<br /></span></span><span><br /></span></li><li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/type9.htm">LifeExplore</a><br /><span><br /></span>Preoccupied with physical comfort, maintaining habits and satisfying appetites. The image of the lazy couch potato goes with this subtype. Strategy for getting along is to ask as little of life as possible. Can have a love of the minimal and enjoy the repetition of known routines. Distract themselves with pleasant domestic activities. Live conservatively. Consume food and drink for anaesthesia. May have large appetites, drug addictions, be physically slow moving.</li></ul><br /><h3><a name="he">Health</a></h3> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="dev">Levels of Development</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeNine.asp">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/TypeNine.asp">Levels of Development</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 1 </span>(Most Healthy - The Level of Liberation): Become self-possessed, feeling autonomous and fulfilled: have great equanimity and contentment because they are present to themselves. Paradoxically, at one with self, and thus able to form more profound relationships. Intensely alive, fully connected to self and others.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 5</span> (Average - The Level of Interpersonal Control): Active, but disengaged, unreflective, and inattentive. Do not want to be affected, so become unresponsive and complacent, walking away from problems, and "sweeping them under the rug." Thinking becomes hazy and ruminative, mostly comforting fantasies, as they begin to "tune out" reality, becoming oblivious. Emotionally indolent, unwillingness to exert self or to focus on problems: indifference.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Level 9 </span>(Most Unhealthy - The Level of Pathological Destructiveness): They finally become severely disoriented and catatonic, abandoning themselves, turning into shattered shells. Multiple personalities possible. Generally corresponds to the Schizoid and Dependent personality disorders.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype9">Riso & Hudson's </a><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype9">Levels of Development In-Depth</a><br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://www.9types.com/epd/9.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://www.9types.com/epd/9.html">Healthy and Unhealthy "Loops"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Healthy loop:</span> controlled by Basic Desire: Need to find union -> accept others -> do the right thing -> Need to find union. In the healthy state, the need to find union induces Type Nines to genuinely open up to others and accept them as they are. Others often find their acceptance welcoming and build up a strong bond or union. This way, Nines' need are satisfied and a balance is reached.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Average state:</span> when Nines' are less accepting of others or the world, which means the union begins to weaken. This causes the the need to find union to increase, which helps Nines to again become more accepting of others. Thus the balancing loop can help Nines to recover.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unhealthy loop:</span> controlled by Basic Fear: Fear of separation -> illusions of union -> accommodating -> union -> Fear of separation. In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of separation can cause Type Nines to delude themselves with illusions of union, which they sustain by ignoring reality and blindly accommodating others or the world. Unfortunately, this means they won't achieve true union, which further increases Nines' basic fear. The cycle continues to build up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Insight: </span>We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Nines can stop indulging in illusions of union, and start to really accept others. This will build real union, and reduce the fear of separation.<br /></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="int">Levels of Integration and Disintegration</a></span><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Integration (Nine Goes to Healthy Three)</h2><ul><li><img src="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/Images/E-SymNinelabeled.gif" align="right" /><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype9">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />As Nines work through their belief that they are invisible and unimportant, they begin to recognize their true value. They see that others really do want them to show up and share themselves fully. Healthy Nines begin to understand that their very existence makes them valuable—God did not make a mistake in creating them. Their experience is much like the adventures of the Jimmy Stewart character in It's a Wonderful Life. They see that the world would be poorer without them and that they have much to contribute to their fellow human beings. They understand that the peace of mind they seek comes from fully sharing their talents, intelligence, and heart with the world. Thus, integrating Nines begin to invest time and energy in themselves, to develop their talents, and to feel a healthy degree of self-esteem. In short, they learn to take pleasure in their own value and goodness.<br /><br /></li><li><span>Wake-Up Call<br /><br />Awareness of the tendency to accommodate themselves outwardly to others—so that they can rise to a genuine remembering of themselves and their own strength, value, and dignity.</span></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Security (Nine Goes to Average Three)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype9">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Nines usually feel unimportant and may feel that their own needs and viewpoints are not worth mentioning. With trusted others, however, they may attempt to demonstrate their value, desirability, or even superiority, in the manner of average Threes. In secure situations, Nines will deal with stress also by working more and by being productive—even if their productivity is really "busy work" designed to keep awareness of more crucial problems out of awareness. This busyness is the Nine's way of trying to build a sense of confidence and value. Nines may also try to impress intimates with their accomplishments, status, or attractiveness—although, ironically, they are usually completely unaware of how they are coming across to others.<br /></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disintegration (Nine Goes to Average Six)</h2><ul><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype9">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Nines attempt to avoid anxiety and conflict by detaching emotionally from active participation and by not talking about their real concerns and issues. But they can only use this defense up to a point, beyond which they can no longer contain their anxiety, frustration, and fear. At such times, they will begin to exhibit many of the characteristics and behaviors of average-to-unhealthy Sixes. The usually stable, easygoing Nine becomes worried, testy, and defensive. They begin to see others as the source of their unease, complaining to anyone who will listen, and blaming everyone else for their distress. They may also have issues with authority, feeling put upon or controlled by those they see as having power over them. Under prolonged stress, Nines completely lose their placid demeanor and become more and more reactive and nervous. They may seek help and reassurance from others but may just as quickly disparage them for "dominating" or "overwhelming" them.<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="gr">Growth Recommendations</a></span><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/9growth.asp">Riso & Hudson's Personal Growth Recommendations</a><br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://upatel8.googlepages.com/personlitytype9">Udit Patel</a><br /><br />Nines grow by recognizing that the more they seek peace of mind by turning away from conflicts and problems, the greater is the likelihood that they will bring about disturbances in their lives and relationships. Their avoidance of conflicts causes others to have conflicts with them. Growing Nines must also remember that they will never have union with anyone else unless and until they have union with themselves. If they are accommodating to a fault, they will eventually lose the other person because they have never possessed themselves. When they learn that self-assertion is not an aggressive act but a positive thing, Nines are in a position to truly bring peace and harmony to everyone in their environment.<br /></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/enneagram-type-9.html">Palmer's Exercises</a><br /><br />Look around you and notice what is here. Is there something that needs to be done? Is there someone who needs to be attended to? What is important in this moment, in this place? Ask yourself what is keeping your from taking care of what needs to be taken care of.</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-33907053187123501532007-09-01T15:44:00.000-07:002008-02-21T04:17:36.052-08:00New! - Misidentifying 4s vs. 6s6s and 4s are very similar in certain ways. A good explanation of the connection, and the difference, is found in the explanation of the Centers, as found in Riso & Hudson's <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding the Enneagram</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6 Centers: [T] F⇒M</span><br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/424797207_d03370d0fc_m.jpg" align="right" />The 6's Thinking Center (or "T") is detached from the others. The Thinking Center represents the "direct inner knowing" in the form of one's cognitive functions. Because of this detachment 6s have two modes, the T-mode in the form of analyzing structures, and the F-mode in the form of a sense of responsibility to authorities which they either submit to, work with, or rebel against. The Feeling Center represents one's absorbing of emotional patterns from others, as well as one's own reactions to those patterns, to construct a personal sense of identity, or in the 6's case, duty--personal responsibility.<br /><br />Average 6s are inable to connect the T and F modes. They have an <span>inability</span> to feel their own sense of objective guidance and support (T) in their hearts, their experience of the emotions of themselves and others (F). For the 6 F-processes manifest in the form of duty, causing loyalty and dependability, or obligation, guilt, and fear. Without internal guidance when it comes to the 6's duty or fear responses, they can only submit to or react against these outer authorities. Their reaction is irrational and fear-based or emotion-based, lacking objective guidance and inner direction. It has a lot to do with their extreme awareness of their own dependency, causing both phobic and counter-phobic reactions to their external sources of support.<br /><br />Without access to inner guidance, they often seek some external-initiated sense of guidance as substitute for one of their own, from some authoritative source in the world. This often causes conservatism or even rebellion against conservatism, but it is all a submissive/reactive relationship focused on the source of power itself. This can make for a very passive or reactive individual, but most often one who is passive and reactive by turns, as their subjective Feeling Center shifts between assessing other's emotions as trustworthy or suspicious and betraying.<br /><br />They act on their sense of duty, as it directly motivates their Instinctual-Motivation Center (M), and they feel guilty (F) if they don't. The Instinctual-Motivation Center represents direct engagement with reality. This means that average 6's F-processes are directly translated into their actions, loyalties, engagements, etc. with the external world.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4 Centers: T⇒</span><u style="font-weight: bold;">F</u><span style="font-weight: bold;"> M</span><span><br /></span><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2240/2204274220_df7feaa9f8_m.jpg" align="right" />The 4 can look quite similar because they primarily identify with their Feeling Center, much like the 6's F-mode. But rather than being extremely outer-aware like the 6, 4s are primarily concerned with their inner workings. They, opposed to 6s, have a direct link to their Thinking Center: their sense of inner guidance and imagination is a supreme focus and fuel for their Feeling Center. Their sense of self is derived not only F-processes, as it is with the 6, but also greatly by T-processes.<br /><br />This is where 6s and 4s differ. 6s have the inability to use their inner sense of guidance (T) to effectively <span style="font-style: italic;">affect </span>their sense of self (F), so much so that they have to substitute external guidance or systems of thought for their own. With 4s, on the other hand, their sense of self (F) is constantly being bolstered by thinking imaginatively about (T) their sense of self (F). They may use outer sources, not as a <span style="font-style: italic;">subsitute</span> for their imaginative self-speculation (T⇒<u>F</u>), but as a stimulant to further enliven what they are <span style="font-style: italic;">already doing</span>.<br /><br />Fours tend to act passively or reactively to their sense of self garnered through the absorbing of emotions from themselves and from others (F), and from the imaginative dramatization of those emotions (T). This has alot to do with their extreme awareness of a blockage in knowing their sense of self (<u>F</u>), and can create quite a bipolar-looking person: one minute happy with their self-image, the next self-despairing and self-hating. At their most unhealthy, they can even use the Instinctual-Motivation Center to impulsively act on their engorged emotions, in a self-destructive or even aggressive way.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Secondary Fixations</span></span><span><br /></span><span>Even more confusion can arise when a 4's secondary fixation is 6, or vice versa, such as in their trifix.</span> But the issues of the dominant fixation will be most extreme. Consider the extremeness of the 6 vs. that of the 4, when all other psychological fixations are subservient to security (6) or to identity (4).<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />The Main Question</span><br />The main question is, why is this person's F (sense of self, emotion) so strong? Is it over-stimulated by T (imagination, cognitive), or is it disconnected from T (sense of guidance, cognitive).<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/212818738_8e679457f1_m.jpg" align="right" />Is there a imaginative sense of guidance for the understanding of who the self is, an idealized, shame-based and emotion-based dramatic sense of who their personality, talents, abilities, etc. are? Shame-based manifests in extreme self-love in comparing to others, and extreme self-hatred in comparing to others, and these others are idealized as both more wonderful and normal <span style="font-style: italic;">and</span> as more boring and normal than they themselves could ever be; can also react as normal or untalented, disparing of their weaknesses, to protect the self.<br /><br />Or, is there a cognitive, analytical process which manifests separately from their sense of self, a sense of self which is thoughtlessly emotion-based and fear-based dedicated or rebellious towards a person/cause/group viewed as an authoritative power in the world? Fear-based manifests in paranoia, delusion, irrational fears, and sometimes violence; can also react as pathetic or weak to protect the self.<br /><br /><table><tbody><tr><td style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">6</span>s are more:</td><td style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">4</span>s are more:</td></tr><tr><td>conservative<br /></td><td>creative<br /></td></tr><tr><td>nervously guilty<br /></td><td>shameful<br /></td></tr><tr><td>nervously reactive<br /></td><td>sorrowfully reactive<br /></td></tr><tr><td>self-disempowering<br /></td><td>self-pitying<br /></td></tr><tr><td>anxious of punishment<br /></td><td>anxious of self-revelation<br /></td></tr><tr><td>guiltily melancholy<br /></td><td>selfishly melancholy<br /></td></tr><tr><td>pathetic martyr<br /></td><td>romantic martyr<br /></td></tr><tr><td>hysteric<br /></td><td>basket case<br /></td></tr><tr><td>dependent morally<br /></td><td>dependent emotionally<br /></td></tr><tr><td>rebellious<br /></td><td>seeking to be different<br /></td></tr><tr><td>reactive<br /></td><td>comparing<br /></td></tr><tr><td>other-conscious<br /></td><td>self-conscious<br /></td></tr><tr><td>vulnerable<br /></td><td>defective<br /></td></tr><tr><td>feisty<br /></td><td>fiery<br /></td></tr><tr><td>defines loyalty<br /></td><td>defines difference<br /></td></tr><tr><td>loyalty exhibitionist<br /></td><td>personality exhibitionist<br /></td></tr><tr><td>stubborn loyalty<br /></td><td>stubborn individuality<br /></td></tr><tr><td>copies idea systems<br /></td><td>copies romantic styles<br /></td></tr><tr><td>discovers sense of guidance<br /></td><td>discovers sense of self<br /></td></tr><tr><td>nervous tension<br /></td><td>self-consciousness tension<br /></td></tr><tr><td>fear-reaction aggressive<br /></td><td>shame-reaction aggressive<br /></td></tr><tr><td>submissive/reactive to control<br /></td><td>submissive/reactive to judgment<br /></td></tr><tr><td><br /></td><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-72289457126557254892007-09-01T15:43:00.000-07:002008-05-11T12:43:20.217-07:00New! 4w3 vs. 7w6 - Misidentifying<style type="text/css">table.ex td{background-color: #F5F9FD; v-align:top}</style><em>* This article, all typings, and assessments, are currently in ongoing development, and subject to change. Last updated 12-25-07.</em><br /><br />Extroverted 4s and melancholy 7s. Yes, they do exist. A classic Myers-Briggs type that can fall in as either a 4w3 or a 7w6 is the ENFP. While most 7 Myers-Briggs equivalents are characterized as pragmatic realists, and most 4 equivalents are characterized as sensitive idealists, the ENFP "Visionary" is characterized as both a doer and a dreamer. Among other categories, they can easily fall into the 7w6 category or the 4w3 category.<br /><table class="ex" collapse="collapse" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img style="width: 81px; height: 105px;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:dBgDsDJebfkpDM:http://www.weta.org/images/press/Twain%2520Prize%25202005/Short.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Short">Martin Short</a> 7w6 ENFP<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer. </span><br /><br />Interviews<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDhzSw0x-Q">"You are thrilling tonight..."</a><br /></td><td valign="top"><img style="width: 78px; height: 72px;" alt="The image “http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:aCXqmxekZeDx-M:http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/6317/gwenstefanipochette4mortz9.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:aCXqmxekZeDx-M:http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/6317/gwenstefanipochette4mortz9.jpg" /><br /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stefani">Gwen Stefani</a> 4w3 sx/so ENFP<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">American singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and occasional actress</span><br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:lggnKC7Tt6IpUM:http://www.fest21.com/files/images/Robin%2520Williams.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams">Robin Williams</a> 7w6 ENFP<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">American actor and comedian.</span><br /><br />Interviews<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWt1w1C2Ps">"I think, atleast you get a good laugh..."</a><br /></td><td valign="top"><img style="width: 80px; height: 106px;" alt="The image “http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:umgxNjK8oGsYiM:http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/hayley-williams-80376.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:umgxNjK8oGsYiM:http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/hayley-williams-80376.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramore">Haley Williams</a> 4w3 ENFP<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Lead vocals of American pop rock band Paramore.</span><br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:T6DSkjwMDMGs_M:http://myhero.com/images/guest/g27749/hero26062/g27749_u26305_CarolBurnettPicture.jpg" height="95" width="80" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Burnett">Carol Burnett</a> 7w6 ENFP<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer.</span><br /><br />Pieces<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgRxMD_1Ouk"><br />"The specials for me all started..."</a><br /></td><td valign="top"><img style="width: 79px; height: 90px;" alt="The image “http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:3m5tyGQGG4bNJM:http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/mzluan/crissangel2.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:3m5tyGQGG4bNJM:http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/mzluan/crissangel2.jpg" /></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criss_Angel">Christopher Sarantakos "Criss Angel"</a> 4w3 ENFP.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">American magician, musician, escapologist, stunt performer, and actor.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1409/1388396259_88f139622d_m.jpg" align="right" /><strong>Thinking vs. Feeling Centers</strong><br /><br />One of the differences that we can see between ENFP 7s and ENFP 4s is that the 7 is a Head type while the 4 is a Feeling type. The 7 may have an element of nervous energy to them, and the 4 may have an element of subtle self-conciousness to them.<br /><br />According to <em>Understanding the Enneagram</em>, 7s are out of touch with their feeling centers. This does not mean that they cannot feel, indeed, average 7s can be touched. They just tend not to stay with that feeling for long. This is because their Thinking Center is used to directly motivate their Moving-Instinctual Center. In other words, if at any time their level of mental activity begins to receed, they start to feel a kind of depravity within themselves, and automatically run into something stimulating. Think--Do.<br /><br />Fours can look similar because they also need to be constantly stimulated to keep themselves happy. They also rely on the stimulation of the Thinking Center, but instead of this rushing directly to the Moving-Instinctive Center, it becomes a burning furnace of imagination for the Feeling Center. Fours do things primarily because of the way that it will make them feel, because they need constant intense feelings to sustain their inner sense of self. As soon as they stop feeling intensity in the Feeling Center, they start to feel a loss of self, so they may quickly look for something to stimulate the imagination and pleasure centers.<br /><br />Because of this difference in core needs--stimulation vs. identity--the 7's search will look more like gluttony and the 4's more like indulgence. This is because the 7 cheifly needs the brain stimulated, not the heart, while the 4 lives for intense emotion.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/893005476_33fa305a9c_m.jpg" align="right" /><strong>The Two-Faced ENFP</strong><br /><br />ENFPs, in particular can be difficult to type between 7s and other types, if they are indeed not 7s. (6w7s actually seems to be the most common type for ENFPs, followed by 7w6s, 9s and 9-wingers, 2w3s, and 4w3s.) Part of the difference is explained on <a href="http://www.personalitypathways.com/faces.html">Personalitypathways.com</a>:<br /><p></p><ul><li>ENFP Type Faces:<br /><br /><u>Introverted</u> <u>Extraverted</u><br />F . . . . . . . . . S . . . . . . . . .<br />N . . . . . . . . .T . . . . . . . . .<br /><br />Feeling.Type Paradoxes - An I/ENFP example<br /><br />Let's look at the other primary I/ENFP face (SF). The SF pattern suggests a persona more consistent with the "traits" frequently ascribed to ENFPs - the warm, fun and people loving side of their personality who can very much live in and enjoy the moment. INFPs more typically keep the SF face hidden, yet it provides the energy for their participation in helping professions, all kinds of nurturing activities, and their interest in performing arts and arts and crafts work in general.<br /><br />I/ENFPs who have developed both their NT and SF faces can present a capricious image of contradictions. They can engage in logical dialogue at a conceptual level (NT) and then a short time later engage in actions that seem to fly in the face of that discussion (because their SF nature was engaged). Extraverts seem to be particularly adept at turning either of these faces to the outer world - depending on the circumstances. At one moment, being able to talk and make the big picture, tough decisions and at another moment be warm, fuzzy, or empathetic are two sides of the same NFP coin. Yet this can be disquieting - conjuring up the image of false masks implied by the pejorative term "two-faced." </li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/273728915_a9e9054191_m.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Escaping from Pain<br /><br /></span>Some might characterize 4s as only succumbing and wallowing in painful feelings and depression. But trying to flee from painful feelings is actually characteristic of a 4 with a strong wing, whether a 3 or a 5 wing. They try to escape in pleasurable, exciting, indulgent, emotional, or fantasy experiences. With a sexual variant this will cause them to get involved with exciting, intense, intimate relationships and experiences. With a 3 wing their usual extroversion will cause them to focus on these experiences in the outer world. With a strong 5 wing disintegrating, their 7-ness will show in an impulsive accumulation of stimuli and experiences. They can even be very stubborn about being obligated to do anything they don't particularly feel like doing, avoiding any restraint or responsibility. The element of the 3 can also make them afraid of commitment, since secretly the 3 doesn't want to be exposed in intimacy (specifically a sexual instinctual variant 3).<br /><br />Some 4s think that they must be 7s because they do not have room in their concept of a 4w3 for a pain-avoiding extrovert, which many 4s with a strong wing will find themselves being.<br /><br />Some 4w3s may feel that because they have strong self-confidence and the need to pull themselves up when they feel bad that they cannot be 4s. But the real concern is with the core fixations of the types, not just the behaviors. But a healthy 4w3 can be very self-confident and desiring to pull themselves out of painful feelings. They are extroverted and incredibly assertive. When healthy they are also positive and action-oriented, always on the move. Other people may even feel threatened by their own sense of personal power. These differences from a how a 4 is typically viewed is why they have been the hardest types to fit in the 4 box. 3w4s are actually quite similar to the 4w3 in these ways. They have the 4ish core issues, but are very pick-themselves-up-and-go and, especially at healthy levels, couldn't see themselves as even able to manifest the depressive self-loathing of the 4s.<br /><br /><img style="width: 276px; height: 225px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1172/997402703_5d565998cb.jpg?v=0" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Romanticism vs. Realism</span><br /><br />The thing that can be the most misleading is the way that 4s tend to view their similarity with 7s, their romantic obsession with what a pain-avoiding extrovert must be. But the thing is, real 7s are not as romantic as they might like to think. In fact, a 7 in real life may be quite dissappointing to a 4.<br /><br />Everything Riso and Hudson claims about 7s is true. Their is little idealized fantasy in them. There is very fleeting focus on fantasy, compared to a 4's. This is using the term "focus" with more of the connotations of enduring longevity than the connotations of simple "attention," meaning that they can have intense interest for a designated time, and that stimulus intensifies their stimulated energy, but only for a time, followed by sudden disinterest. Only at their very most healthy can they concentrate on a fantasy intensely and long like a 4 can. And still, there is a more detached element and they do not need it to become a part of them and determine or sustain their identity, like a 4 needs. Emotions and idealized fantasy does not sustain them, so they cannot be refueled by it like a 4 does and keep going with it. Rather it is the pure element of mental stimulation that sustains them. That is the chief difference between a real 7 and a real 4, the stimulation-focus vs. the pleasure and escape focus. And yes, there is a difference. There is a much less immersive act of the 7, they are not immersing their whole soul like a 4 does. They say, "Oh! This is awesome! This is great," and then one disappointment and they completely loose interest for that moment, and, as one 7-winger, put it "life s*cks" for that moment. They have absolutely no interest, no fantasy lingering, like a 4. This is the general look of them, compared to the general look of a 4.<br /><br />Think, for one moment, about Robin Williams. Is the person in question at all like Robin Williams? Even Jim Carrey? And it is true that 7s like Jim Carrey can have "emotional," sentimental, even deep moments. We've seen his convincing more serious acting in movies like Eternal Sunshine, and it is convincing, because it is obviously a part of him that he can bring out. But 7s, once looked at extensively, could never be mistaken for 4s, although more extroverted 4s have a problem seeing this when they read the disembodied descriptions of 7s.<br /><br />Escapism is not a quality of 7s like it is for 4s. There can be much, much fleeing from pain, into idealized romanticism, in a way that 4s would like to think is like a 7's.<br /><br />Actually, the only 4s who are so bound by their depression may be 4s without a dominant wing. Because one's with a strong 5 wing will eventually use stimulation like 7s to constantly distract them from their problems. They may never be able to let their brains be "quiet" or they will start to get panicky and start to feel pain, so may, like some 5s, look for anything to distract themselfs. For 4w5s it may be books, video games, puzzles, systems of thought like personality theory, always longing for the idealized experience. And "longing" like 4s to is completely different from 7s. 7s energy as centered on one thing lasts like a short-lived candy high compared to a 4s', as Riso and Hudson suggest.<br /><br />4w3s may as well distract themselves from pain by dwelling on and involving themselves in exciting outward experiences and relationships, always longing for a better one. A 4s social variant can also cause them to be very scattered, high-octane, acting very dorky and silly, like some think a 7 would.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1110/1349056353_e993c8b902_m.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Seeking Identity vs. Stimulation</span><br /><br />The core need of the 4 and the core need of the 7 are very different, and, when viewed closely, do produce very recognizable differences. The problem with the way that a 4w3 may misidentify themselves as 7s is because of their desire for escapism and their extroverted energetic-ness. But the definition of a 7 is not escapism and energetic-ness. It is pure mental stimulation that is their core need, completely unlike a 4's, which is identity. This causes them to manifest different kinds of energy, different kinds of humor. That's why only a very healthy 7 can be so focused, and when someone is that healthy, you'll know, because they are so put-together.<br /><br />The characteristic of a doubting 4w3 contemplating and even arguing their identity can provide some signal that they are really a 4. 4s without a 3 wing may tend to accept their true type right away, being already aware of the core need within themselves. But for the 4w3, because the 3 is out of touch with their feeling center, may have more problems identifying this in himself, perhaps also because he doesn't not want to view himself as having those fixations, viewing it as a weakness or something that will detract from his image of his own desired identity. On the other hand, it is doubtful that a true 7 would spend as much time as a 4w3 can defending, developing, and defining their identities.<br /><br />According to Rachel Baron and Elizabeth Wagele, the more common Myers-Briggs equivalents of the 7 are characterized by being pragmatic realists, most of them Sensing types. While the common equivalents of the 4 are characterized, in general, by emotional depth and idealism, most of them NFs. That's a very recognizable difference. Many 4w3s could never be described as characteristically pragmatic realists, far from it. Perhaps active idealists, but that's that. So if an ENFP is a 7, they will also have a close connection to the other Myers-Briggs equivalents for it. Correctly typed people often have a strong connection to the other Myers-Briggs equivalents of their type, including the equivalents of their wing type. But interestingly, never to all of the equivalents of their trifixes, which may be saying something.<br /><br />But those who argue that a certain type is not the way Riso and Hudson puts it simply because THEY are that way, and these psychologists must therefor be wrong, in my opinion, to be taken seriously, must have equal backing as the psychologists do to back them up. Otherwise, they may need to take them a little more seriously. It is important to respect the work for the study which you are studying, if you are to truly benefit from it. It is important, that if you intend to refute it, that you fully understand their academic research, all of their reasons behind it, to accurately be able to wrestle with the material. "Well, I am not like that," doesn't mean necessarily that they are wrong. Many times when people say they disagreed with them, they actually misinterpreted or misplaced what they were actually saying, or truncated the message.<br /><br />What these descriptions are about is the core need of the type, not just all the behaviors produced by it. And it is easy to confuse yourself as to what the real need is, deep down inside you, because we like to have a certain image of ourselves. Of several people who were recently introduced to the Enneagram and counseled, all of those who were thinking types or instinctual types seemed to embrace their type quickly. It was only the types 3 and 4 who had a particular trouble embracing their type, constantly trying to divert the attention to behavioral patterns that seemed to fit another type, a type they obviously secretly wanted to be seen as being. This is nothing to look down on them for, however. It is just simply behavior related to their core needs, identity and image, the way they are seen and the way they see themselves, so they seek the way that brings them the most mental satisfaction, even unbeknownst to themselves. And who can blame them for seeking to satisfy their core inner need, one that, if they let themselves be fully aware of it, would dissatisfy that need, because suddenly they are not the version of themselves that they desire to be? Only after years of hard learning can some 4s admit something similar to themselves, opening themselves up to become particularly sensitive, concerned, and sympathetic towards the needs of themselves and of others.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/138506672_cd0839a6a2_m.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Feeling Types</span><br /><br />Yes, there are NF 7s as well as NF 4s, known as "Feeling" types in the Myers-Briggs personality study. According to Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele, ENFPs are one of the more common types of both 4s and 7s, so they may find some confusion in typing themselves.<br /><br />When an NF feels identity-issues, which produce behaviors like longing for intense, ideal experience and draws the feeling out, they are a 4 type. The only thing innately 4ish about the ENFP is the inferior, less used, Introverted Sensing function, which can produce a strong sentimentality for past experiences. It says nothing about romanticized, desired future experiences, like a 4's fixation produces. So this characteristic would likely be something related to their core fixation, and not simply the quality of being NF><br /><br /><img style="width: 319px; height: 298px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1078/536469365_a4e343327d.jpg?v=0" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Extroversion</span><br /><br />4s without a 3 wing may well be subtle, understated personalities, tending towards being withdrawn and introverted. However, the 3 wing causes the 4 to want to stand out a little, often causing marked extroversion and assertiveness, and a boost in the 4's regularly low seratonin levels (see <a href="http://theenneagram.blogspot.com/2007/08/scientific-proof-for-enneagram.html">Scientific Proof for the Enneagram</a>.). If the withdrawn 4 is subtle mauve and the assertive 3 is bright yellow, then the 4w3 is electric purple! (Or, hehe, death-black and blood-red, if that's better befitting of the nature of their identity fixation.)<br /><br />Social 4s of both wings, as well, may be incredibly goofy and expressive like what seems like 7 characteristics, but still have all the fantasy-fixations of the 4. They may even related to 7s very much in their relationships, both liking to go out and experience fun things, but they are very different when it comes to prolonged interested in an idealized emotion or fantasy.<br /><br />Some fours, indeed may feel a lack of energy from being in the world - often like they are being drained, so they retreat within. But this is also a very 4w5 thing. A more extroverted 4w3, for instance, may feel energized by intense (possibly idealized) experiences in the world. It is dangerous to associate a type's essential characteristics by things that aren't dependent on its core need. Your particular wing, variant, or level of health may cause you to experience things in ways that people of the same type but different variations may experience quite differently.<br /><br />Some may say that the 4w5 "burns brighter" than the 4w3. But, when you really think about it, the 4W3 may very well "burn longer and with more vigor". This can be very true of sexual or social 4w3s. They can be very charming and sparkley, alot of people being attracted to their friendship and charisma. They may concentrate very briefly and intensely on one person at a time, and then excitedly moved to another, very intense, very silly, crazy, scattered-seeming, even.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /><img style="width: 282px; height: 197px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/330011363_f7c5968669.jpg?v=0" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envy</span><br /><br />Envy is supposed to be a characteristic behavior for 4s, but many 4s may not be aware of it, or even manifest it in the sense of the traditional meaning of the word "envy." So they might think that they must be sevens because of what they see as a lack of "envy" of other people. But actually, the term "envy," as used by Riso and Hudson, could be simply longing to <span style="font-style: italic;">be </span>something that they are not, the "envy," in the sense, of the ideal. Because the type 3 is out of touch with its feeling center, and thinks that the image it constructs and projects for itself <span style="font-style: italic;">is </span>itself, the 4w3 is someone affected by this. They may not even realize that they are the way they are because they want that image. Riso and Hudson use the word "envy" almost as a kind of term as the desire to be something other than yourself, in a way that actually makes you change your own internal identity. Only when 3s become healthy are they concerned with real authenticity in their image, and only when 4s become healthy can they accept and feel their true inner identity, unsustained by any external symbols, labels, or characterizations.<br /><br /><img style="width: 227px; height: 282px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/429092110_67d1cc4fc2.jpg?v=0" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Behavior vs. Core Fixation</span><br /><br />The Enneagram tries to layout the behavior of each type as it is in general, then tries to talk about how the type is at different levels of health, with different wings, and with different instinctual variants. So, with that taken into account, you may fitting the description of a 4w3, augmented by the 5 wing, the sexual/self-preservation variants, and varying levels of health. Each of these augments the descriptions of the 4, and pulls out things that would apply more to you because of your unique secondary characteristics, while points out other things that would fit you less, due to the same characteristics, all created by the same core fixation.<br /><br />The main observable difference between 4s and 7s is in the 4's emotional longing vs. the 7's energized but shallow interest:<br /><br />"Fours...cherishing beautiful objects of the sake of their beauty and the feelings that beauty awakens in them. A stone picked up on the beach or a twig with a single bud can quicken their aesthetic feelings and satisfy them. By contrast, while average Sevens want to possess beautiful objects, they become increasingly unappreciative and insensitive to the beauty or value of those objects. They become acquisitive not because they enjoy things for themselves but because the acquisition of possessions provides a sense of security. And even more fundamentally, what excites Sevens is the stimulation they feel when they desire something new. The stimulation of their appetites reinforces their sense of self, although once they have actually acquired what they want, they usually lose interest in the acquisition. The pair of shoes that they were "dying" to have join the racks with a dozen so others; the fur coat they were drooling over for weeks suddenly becomes "that old thing" as they turn their attention to acquiring something else." - Riso and Hudson, <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding the Enneagram, </span>"Misidentifications" section.<br /><br />As Riso and Hudson also said at the beginning of <span style="font-style: italic;">Understanding the Enneagram</span>, no one manifests all of the behaviors of one type, so it is not even expected that you would fit every description of the 4 or the 7, just the core ones. The 4 will experience a real appreciation of beauty (in things, fantasy, emotions, etc.) vs. the 7's fleeting materialistic interest. This is the core difference between me 4s and 7s, because most 7s you meet will only be average health and will show this problem.<br /><br />Because of this essential difference, a 4w3 may be able to see that that their claims to 7 and their problems with the 4 are explainable by variations of the 4, while their problems with the 7 are not explainable by variations of the 7. This deep, intense, prolonged "longing" connected to a fascination with fantasy ideals, like a theme in their life, is not explainable by any of the variations of the 7--wings, variants, or states of health. Because they feel so close to both 7 and 4 characterizations, because they do this, their core inner focus is more on identity than stimulation. The same thing could be said, incidentally, to a 4 trying to figure out whether they are a 4 or a 5, as 5s have many 7-seeming issues.<br /><br />At the end of the day, the thing that truly makes a 4, according to R&H, is the desire to be true to oneself. This fixation is the direct result of the core need of identity. 7s and 7-wingers may indeed be NFs, a characteristic which has nothing innately to do with identity issues. They don't have the issues around the desire of being yourself and being understood like 4s do. 7s and 4s just have different fixations. All the NF does, the extroverted intuition and introverted feelings of the ENFP, more common to both types, is makes them notice threads of meaning and scan for what could be, and makes them have an internal sense of the "essence" of a person or a project, reading them with fine distinctions among feeling-tones. The NF quality does not induce the development of identity needs. Being a 4 does.<br /><br /><img style="width: 218px; height: 281px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/1348042768_e4c54d9b65.jpg?v=1189535089" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sexual 7s vs. 4s</span><br /><br />It may be said that a sexual variant in any type makes them seem more 4-like, with more idealism and feelings of longing and fantasy. But sexual 7s will still display all the characteristics of shallow disinterest with a thing they were just a minute ago so happy about, everything R&H has said about them was still true for them. Even my super-creative and even melancholy-seeming observed 7 could be taken for a 4 in the sense that he is melancholy, but when you really look at him you see that he has the same problem with a prolonged appreciation of beauty. For an observed 7w6 it was found that, although he can get interested for periods of time and create wonderful works of art, he quickly gets this depressive sigh about it, and is utterly uninterested, an astoundingly sudden and complete change.<br /><br />If you compare the core problem of the 7 to the core problem of the 4, they will always be able to tell eachother apart. An observed 7-winger is a classic example as well, a 6w7 who seemed incredibly grave and melancholy many times, many of the outer qualities which you might think of as 4 qualities, but he has the same core problems as the 7-wing as described so importantly in the Misidentifications section. And as much a 4s may identify with the observed 7-winger so well in their depth in other areas, in this area he really does have problems. He has the 7ish problems with prolonged appreciation of the beauty of one thing. He'd fool you because he always talks about his sentimental appreciation of systems or people in his life that keep him secure, as he is an NF, but when it comes to being able to be engaged and appreciate something entertaining, he becomes 7ish. Quickly utterly and shallowly disappointed, this kind of shutter and sigh comes out of him, that it's just old now. It's so fascinating to observe Michael Scott from The Office, and watched him have incredibly similar reactions. When you watch Michael get incredibly excited and then, like, oh this s*cks, that is characteristic of average 7s, although exaggerated and he's probably exceptionally unhealthy.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1232/1465079052_ac94afa4bf_m.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7s and Shallow Disinterest</span><br /><br />Some people may take offense to the characterization of the 7 as "more shallow" than the 4. But the differences aren't really that superficial. 7s can be deep or creative, like the observed 7 and 7-winger. Like said in the misidenfications area though, there are certain instances where problems with focus exist, and it is, like R&H said, an important distinction. And, 4s, being around creative 7s, as much as they might feel connection to them, when it comes to the same obsession they have over amplifying and drawing out idealistic, intense feelings and experiences, the 7s do not join in with them. To this, the 7s may feel more "shallow" to the fours, because their interest in things is not able to be idealized and romanticized in such a prolonged passion as the 4 has for it. They just have different core needs, as R&H pointed out, so they are fueled by different things, and therefore pursue and experience the same source of enjoyment differently. In the end, an average's 7s focus may be characterized by intial intense excitement, followed by a sudden and utter shallow disillusionment and disinterest. It as if it has suddenly become old to them.<br /><br />Let's take one 7w6 who has been observed for many years. He's pretty healthy, and has integrated to 5 somewhat, because he can learn anything just about seemingly instantly, though at times you can see him disintegrating. Life is all about present stimulus for him. He gets interested in computers, he spends alot of money buying the latest one on the market, spends a deal of time on it, then completely looses interest. There is almost a pessimism he views his computer with now. While others were fascinated by it, and he seemed kind of disappointed just by looking at it. "Oh yeah, that old thing," he seemed to say, with depressive frustration.<br /><br />He got interested in piano as a child, became an excellent pianist. Can play anything just by looking at it. He created an self-made album. Now he looks at the piano with the same depressive frustration.<br /><br />He became interested in painting around the time his father died, spent several months painting from scratch. Became an excellent painter seemingly instantly. But now he looks at it with boredom when you mention it, almost as if saying, "Well, THAT doesn't stimulate me any more."<br /><br />He bought an excellent house a few years ago. Was really excited, decorating, taking care of the pool, getting involved in the community. Now he seems to take it all for granted. Kind of lays around and sighs until you mention something that might interest him, and gets incredibly excited.<br /><br />That horrible boss Michael Scott on the American version of "The Office" was typed as a 7w6. I did a research project on him for one of my senior projects, recording his behavior as he did it, and I was amazed at how many of those same depressive looks of frustration he gave to things after seeming so excited about them perhaps only a minute ago. Very good acting; I think that character is a part of him, somehow. The observed 6w7 is also frequently caught giving those same looks to things that once brought him stimulation. It is like a spoiled child with a broken toy. Utter shallow, disappointed disinterest.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/15/21585030_edf737a046_m.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7s vs. 4s in Melancholy, Depth, and Creative Expression</span><br /><br />7s who entertain like Robin Williams and Jim Carrey are not the only forms of 7. The observed 7w6 seven described earlier is incredibly creative and talented, and not as much the over the top entertainer, possibly due to his sexual variant. But he still faces all the issues of focus and detachment Riso and Hudson describe, as are also described earlier. This characteristic of more integrated 7s does not detract from their characteristic problems with focus, which are only more visible when they are in average to unhealthy levels.<br /><br />The 7s' creativity can definitely be characterized with a different terminology than 4s. When a healthy 7 becomes focused, it is still with a more realistic and pragmatic sense than a 4, not being energized by the idealistic and fantasy aspects so much as the purely stimulative ones. This is an important difference, as it shows itself even more when 7s disintegrate and loose their ability to stay with the stimulus. Even the Myers-Briggs common 7 equivalents tend to be more action-oriented, realistic, pragmatic entertainers and quick-witted innovators. Realism in art is a little different, but it may be able to serve as a pattern.<br /><br />Leonardo DaVinci has been typed as a 7 integrated to 5, a man who become an expert seemingly quickly at anything he picked up, able to focus intently on things for a time. But, if he is typed correctly, there would also be more of a realistic, pragmatic element to his focus, compared to an integrated 4. And there is seen in his work an extreme element of realism and focus on the smallest detail. The problem is, since none of us can know Leonardo, none of us can correctly tell what he was like at all times. A person existing in real life can be observed, though. The observed 7 was used as an example because, perhaps like Leonardo, he had integrated to 5 at periods of his life, and produced wonderful works of art and music for the time that he was stimulated by them. It was also observable, though, that as he disintegrated, he became easily beset by a sudden and shallow disinterest, as described earlier. It was not fantasy or emotions that stimulated him, even now, but the novelty and intricacy of the details associated with a thing.<br /><br />That's why the 7 integrates to 5, perhaps, since type 5s are characterized as detached, analytical observers. But the part that makes the integrated 7 five-ish is that their normal capacity to become stimulated by a new source is a now focused and intense observation, like a 5's. Much of a 4w5's relation to a 7 is obviously through their 5 wing. They see themselves being like integrated 7s in that they are able to absorb information and become an expert in many areas, and that when disintegrated they are like scattered, stimuli-hungry 7s. But the main difference is that the 4, even with a 5 wing, is characterized more by longing for an ideal, intense experience, and then sustaining that experience, fixating on it for long periods of time and reliving it, to sustain that fantasy, and then going out and seeking more. This pleasure, fantasy, and idealism focus is quite different from the real focus overall for 7s. The average 7--repeat, the average 7--is mentally inwardly saying, almost, "okay, I don't care, gimme stimulation. aw, it's old already. grrr. let's move on. okay, gimme more. aw, now it's stupid. moving on..."<br /><br /><img style="width: 201px; height: 301px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/2053754606_bce5954115.jpg?v=0" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4w3s Seeking Image Subconsciously</span><br /><br />Type Three is characterized by Riso and Hudson as adaptive, excelling, driven, and image-conscious, traits which affect the psychological build of the identity-seeking 4w3. The 4w3 is driven to maintain the image of their identity. If they are fun-loving, they want people to regard them as that. The main problem observed with 4w3s becoming aware of this is that they are pursuing this goal of image is subconsciously. If they allowed themselves to see that they are not the carefree extrovert they regard themself to be, that they are regaled by identity and image issues, then their ego collapses into a depressive state. Because of this, average to unhealthy 4w3s can be seen as more brittle and yes, even psychologically more fragile, than the 4W5. The 4's usual fear of being "found out" for their essential flawed-ness is experienced beneath the level of awareness, with much potentially detrimental consequences.<br /><br />Often, instead of letting this happen, they simply experience the pain from an unknown subconcious source. Once becoming aware of and trying to confront this source, the 4w3 may find themself trying to grasp at the source of their pain, and coming up with blanks. A classic scene is of one sitting all alone in the middle of the moonlight woods, staring off into nothing, knowing they had to confront something, but not knowing what. And somehow, even if a person knew exactly what to say to them, it would be almost impossible to say, because it would break their heart. It could easily bring the searching 4w3 into that depressive, nihilistic void that says "you are not who you say you are, even to yourself, and all is lost," because they were not ready for it, to experience that kind of pain and humility that would bring them to self-knowledge. The 4w3 may not be able to rise out of the resulting depression at having been "found out." It is so subconcious, even to themselves, that it can be a very dangerous admission to approach.<br /><br /><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1316/567092066_cf249ea1ff_m.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Search for Self and Nihilism</span><br /><br />A 4 or a 4-winger trying to place themselves in the Enneagram personality study, or within any system, may feel confining, and that it augments or constricts their identity. They may simply give up and say that they are just not definable, falling in between several different types. But the Enneagram is actually less confining than they may feel, allowing for many different variations of personality. And if the core fixation is understood, that is all that matters.<br /><br />5s and 5-wingers may also feel the overwhelming amount of dissenting possibilities leading them to disillusionment with the system itself, a kind of nihilism the 5 wrestles with. But actually, there IS objective findable truth in the Enneagram, or in any sound personality theory. The Enneagram does not claim to delineate every single thing about a person's psyche, but it's more accurate than some people beset by some form of nihilism would like to acknowledge. The thing about the Enneagram is that it's not just tests that find it for you. It's spiritual practice and practice that leads to self-awareness. That's where subjectivity comes in, of course, but with empathetic and knowledgeable professionals to help you in person, even psychological progress can involve an element of objective standards of health. Someone asking questions of a person or their own understanding of things does not determine that the system itself is essentially flawed, inaccurate, or incompetent. Only without nihilism can further open-minded, open-hearted study of the system determine its validity. Belief in meaninglessness, that nothing can be determined, is an inaccurate belief, leading one, not to open-mindedness, but to ineffective observation, that tosses out gathered evidence when the problems seem too muddled to determine an objective analysis. Being presented with a plethora of information may induce nihilism, but allowing oneself to succumb to it only disempowers your essential powers of analysis.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-68883820306270204802007-09-01T13:00:00.000-07:002007-12-05T20:54:14.147-08:00New! - Profiling - The picture of the unhealthy SX 3w2 "The Star"<img alt="http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/630441/2/istockphoto_630441_gothic_girl_ii.jpg" src="http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/630441/2/istockphoto_630441_gothic_girl_ii.jpg" align="left" />The Picture of the Unhealthy Sexual (variant) 3w2 "The Star"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Desire to be Desirable</span><br />Sexual Threes are characterized by a powerful desire to be desired, an overall drive to be valued and wanted. They work at developing an appealing, alluring image, striving to become the ideal of their gender and cultural milieu, and they often enjoy helping others maximize their attractiveness as well. Whether male or female, they tend to cultivate whatever personal qualities they feel will get others interested in them. Sexual threes desire to impress by dazzling. Threes seduce by drawing attention their exceptional qualities. They often devote much time and energy to working out, careful grooming, or finding the right look.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fear of Rejection and Promiscuity</span><br />As sexual types, they posses a strong desire for intimacy, but as Threes, they fear deep emotional connection. Subconsciously, they constantly fear that they will not be able to live up to the image they are projecting. In the lower levels, fears of their own undesirability will cause them to reject even people they deeply care about. They may even use sexual conquests to dispel fears of being unattractive. Less healthy sexual threes tend to be exhibitionists--wanting to display themselves to seduce or to reassure themselves they are attractive and valuable. In the unhealthy levels, threes can become caught up in promiscuity. Underneath the surface, they are extremely vulnerable but tend to strike out at others who question their value in any way. Slights to their narcissism, real or imagined, can lead to vindictiveness, sexual rage, and jealousy, often out of all proportion to their actual disappointment.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The most important thing to a sexual Three is their valuableness, so if someone implies that any part of them isn't good/appreciated/valued, unhealthy threes tend to strike out with out of proportion aggressiveness. They are always pressuring themselves to be the most valuable one, to put masks on to hide themselves where they're being the most valuable, so to challenge their value in any area is to open the flood gates of their built-up self-imposed pressure.<br /><br /></span><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/69/172428717_a4ca9de9da_m.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deceit to Self and Others,Vanity, and Validation</span><br /><br />The three's passion is <span style="font-style: italic;">deceit</span>, a term that refers to a number of interrelated behaviors. One aspect of the three's deceit is the tendency to present themselves in a way that does not reflect their authentic self. An even more important aspect is their self-deception: in order to maintain their external performance, threes must convince themselves that they actually are the idealized image that they project to the world. At the same time, they must also repress their feelings of inadequacy to keep the self-deception going. They fear that if they were to drop their image, other people would see their deficiencies and reject them--confirming their worthlessness.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Underlying the unhealthy three's tension is an unrelenting feeling of worthlessness.</span><br /><br />The, deceit leads threes to look to others for validation of their excellence and is the reason why they must constantly give themselves internal pep talks. In a sense, threes must lie to themselves to keep up their self-esteem and to motivate themselves toward greater achievement ("You're great! A genius! Nobody has ever written a better writing!")<br /><br />Average threes put their energy into perfecting their ego self, their self-image, rather than into discovering their true self, because they believe that the ego <span style="font-style: italic;">is</span> the real self. It is much more difficult to develop the authentic qualities of who we really are when we are encouraged and rewarded at every turn to adapt and become what others expect us to be.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Suffering"</span><br />(The Two Wing disintegrating)<br /><br />Real (as well as exaggerated) suffering allows them to feel like martyrs who are overbrudened by their sacrifices for others, although they may well overrate their efforts on other's behalf. they may talk about little else than their own problems. Past operations, scars, traumatic experiences, and health scares of all sorts are paraded before others in an attempt to elicit signs of concern and love. Hypochondria can become a part of the picture as a further ploy for gratitude and sympathy. They may be subject to stress-related disesases.<br /><br />The may complain about not being given an expected term of endearment or sufficient appreciation. They can be surprisingly aggressive and argumentative, insisting quite strongly that they have been wronged in some way. Needless to say, these kinds of complaints can come as quite a surprise to others. under sever stress, they become aggressive. The acting out of rage and betrayal that, under ordinary circumstances, they might otherwise feel unable to face.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">~ Edited from Wisdom of the Enneagram</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-80777090859706480562007-09-01T09:00:00.000-07:002007-12-15T21:04:17.547-08:00New! - Issues in Finding Your Type<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Enneagram "Tree"</span><br /><br /><img alt="The image “http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/271847630_cb915ab6bf.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/271847630_cb915ab6bf.jpg" /><br /><br />Once we get familiar with the Enneagram, we tend to characterize our behavioral patterns as by the basic attributes of each Enneagram type. Saying that if a person is aggressive or bullish they're acting like an 8, if a person is fun-loving and fleeing from pain they're acting like a 7, if a person is giving or manipulative they're acting like a 2.<br /><br />But actually what the Enneagram tries to do is give you a core type and show you how all your behavioral patterns are centered around that core need, like branches on a tree that change the color of their leaves, but they're still connected to the same tree. The more developed and complex the person is, and the less set in their ways, the more varied their behavioral patterns will be--the more their wings, trifixes, variants, etc. will show.<br /><br />But throughout the person's life it is easiest to see how all these variable patterns connect to the same core need--their basic Enneagram type. And through that type we can track their development process. I know many people who think that their personality actually changed due to trauma, for instance, but with the help of the Enneagram it can easily be seen as a path from integration to disintegration over the decades. That is what makes knowing your core type so useful and important.<br /><br /><img alt="The image “http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/106994867_7171012d03_m.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/106994867_7171012d03_m.jpg" align="right" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enneagram Counselors vs. My Judgment</span><br /><br />So, how do I find my type? Obviously, its a long, introspective process. You don't want to be mistyped by your own misconceptions of yourself, or others' misconceptions about you, so it's best to first understand the Enneagram as a whole, from reading the books in depth, and compiling all the information you get from those who knew you when you were a small child, an adolescent, an adult, etc. Through this study, you begin to develop a picture of your usual behavioral patterns. And even though we all have some of each of the types with in us, one will obviously dominate the others. And even though two or three may be close, a real understanding of the Enneagram and yourself will help to decipher which qualities are dominant. Some people, however, may be still unable to type themselves, being too indecisive naturally to let themselves come to conclusions, or too stubborn to acknowledge things in themselves that they might like to view differently, and that is where an expert opinion is necessary.<br /><br />Through my life I have engaged in much meditation and introspection in what I view to be healthy ways, ways in which I believe the back of <span style="font-style: italic;">Wisdom of the Enneagram</span> agreed with me. I feel I have an openness to seeing myself as I am, and if I work on it, I will overcome my own misconceptions about myself, without being tricked into believing something that isn't true. Because of this I believe I was able to discern my own type after some study and interviews of my parents and close friends about how they saw me as a child. However, there are many people who are often unconsciously not as open to seeing themselves as they are, or are too uncertain in their own judgement to type themselves even when they have typed themselves correctly, and I think that these people are the most in need of expert help for determining their core type.<br /><br />So how do you know if you are the type of person who just deceives yourself into thinking you are a certain type because it satisfies your ego? If you read the back of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Wisdom of the Enneagram</span>, it outlines the steps of realizing your true self in "The Enneagram of Letting Go." From my personal development process, I profoundly agree with these steps, and have seen them active in myself at any time that I got noticeably healthier or more self-aware. The whole back of the Enneagram is also good for seeing this process. If the steps talked about seem alien to you, needless and pointless (possibly making you agitated or angry), or if they even frighten you a bit, you probably have not reached that level of health. Finding a counselor or Enneagram specialist may help you alot, if you make yourself open to them and find an empathetic and knowledgeable professional.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-38215539615404489012007-09-01T06:58:00.000-07:002008-01-01T07:47:39.587-08:00<span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Defining Behaviors in Each Type</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">* This article is in development.</span></span><br /><br />The Enneagram is not perfect in separating all behaviors clearly. The behavior of one type can look startlingly similar to that of another type. But it is expert in linking behavior to a type or core motivation. For that reason, it is necessary for typing someone to assess their internal motivations moreso than their outer actions. Although those actions can provide useful clues, simply matching up habitual actions of the individual with purported action of a certain type will not be an acurate way to type their personality. A whole sense of the person is necessary to type them. One of the key things to look for is key differences that <span style="font-style: italic;">set them apart</span> from all other types. Here are some observed differences in persons who manifest different Enneagram types (from average-healthy to average-unhealthy, covering the most common ranges of mental health; keep in mind that not every person will manifest every behavior):<br /><br />Type 1:<br /><ul><li>a constricted or tight body expression is the default display--folded arms, pursed lips, a stiff neck is often a visual representation of the extreme discipline their superego imposes on even their bodies</li><li>problems with eating too little and not often enough</li><li>problems with working constantly and being overbearing on others to do the same</li><li>tight-lipped moodiness or weepiness when pushed to the last degree<br /></li><li>constant vigilance over others to get them to do the "Right" thing</li><li>a concept of what is Right as a solid entity apart from anything else, including at some times, logical persuasion or evidence</li></ul><br />Type 2<br /><ul><li>a bustling saccarine sweet happiness</li><li>an immediate response to others' needs, regardless of their own</li><li>with some, a preoccupation with religion, covertly as a means to cajole, control, guilt-trip, or manipulate others, or to justify themselves<br /></li><li>covert manipulation based on "love"</li><li>discouraging others to strike out on their own or succeed at something apart from a co-dependent relationship with them<br /></li><li>guilt-trips focusing on how they are being taken advantage of or unappreciated</li><li>when confronted, insist that they are only acting in love and concern and that they are the ones being unappreciated or taken advantage of<br /></li><li>a refusal to find fault in self<br /></li><li>preoccupied with past hurts to the point of visible sickness and stress, an obsession with gossip or tradgedy, people who "need" them</li></ul>Type 3<br /><ul><li>a humble self-love and appreciation of their value, a desire to be authentic and excellent<br /></li><li>a preoccupation with promoting themself, at the expense of others with more experience, talent, or ability<br /></li><li>deceit and easy backstabbing in order to get what they want<br /></li></ul>Type 4<br /><ul><li>preoccupied with a desire for authenticity and creative self-expression, self-disclosure; fascination with things that reveal or talk about the inner self, possibly spiritual or psychological in nature<br /></li><li>preoccupation with being different from others, other people copying them or looking like other people may bother them severely; being defined or put into a box may make them frustrated or angry</li><li>may feel that everyone thinks that they are worse than them so develop a perhaps secret better-than-them worldview or may try to disguise or hide their inner self; may accept this view and desire and long to be like something they see as the ideal identity, experience, or relationship</li><li>may be preoccupied with creating fantasy worlds, self-expression, or art, criticism of which may feel like it is criticism of their own selves, or, if they are feeling more dramatic, of their very souls<br /></li></ul>Type 5<br /><ul><li>observant and insightful</li><li>preoccupied with gathering a hoard of knowledge and preparation</li><li>may have a detachment from the emotional and physical world, a fear of becoming emotional, personable, intimate, or physical such as hugging<br /></li><li>a fear of becoming obligated to responsibilities that sap energy or resources, that there will not be enough resources in him left to deal with it<br /></li><li>nihilistic when the world becomes bombarded with too many possibilities: "nothing is knowable, except for the horror that nothing is knowable"</li><li>may fall into an occupation with little worlds of entertaining and elaborate puzzles that distract them from the overwhelming aspects of the world: video games, anime, subcultures, theoretical systems, cerebral and repetitive hobbies<br /></li></ul>Type 6<br /><ul><li>preoccupied nervousness over getting into trouble, causing either reactive rebellion (ultimately weak) or panicky submission</li><li>often some will successfully establish themselves by their quirky behavior to be seen by others (potential protectors) as cute, small, lovable, and unable to take care of their own selves, so that responsibility will be taken off of them and taken care of by other people, as they constantly fear that they will not do it right or be able to meet their own needs<br /></li></ul>Type 7<br /><ul><li>an audible sigh of shallow disinterest in what once caused them to become almost annoyingly excited</li><li>quite often seen in some, an insensitivity to what is socially appropriate or dutiful in their pursuit of an atmosphere of fun with no attachments or a raunchy or annoying sense of unsophisticated humor<br /></li></ul>Type 8<a href="javascript:void(0)" tabindex="10" onclick="return false;"><span><br /></span></a><ul><li>a silent, constant, (and in some) deadly awareness of threats to their power over their own destiny and their positional control over others around them<br /></li><li>constantly exerting dominance, both physical and in other ways, over others and over threats to dominance</li><li>threatening to throttle someone at every turn</li></ul>Type 9<br /><ul><li>a habitual approach to establishing peace by using a non-confrontational manner in which each side is empathized with and explained away<br /></li><li>a habitual lazy or neurotic disinterest or disconnection from the world around them</li><li>inability to express opposing views unless pushed to the final straw</li><li>disconnected with their inner ability to oppose views pushed apon them, actually changing, chameleon-like, to more powerful personalities around them</li><li>a cowedness, conforming to the situation and pressures around them, a lazy disinterest or relaxed depression in resignedness to not changing it</li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-61846673089511581522007-09-01T01:10:00.000-07:002008-01-03T09:45:08.040-08:00New! - The Enneagram and Kids<img alt="http://web.hgtv.com/webhgtv/images/pac/43845/Gardening_kids.jpg" src="http://web.hgtv.com/webhgtv/images/pac/43845/Gardening_kids.jpg" align="right" />Good message to sends to children:<br /><ul><li>Type 1: acknowledge goodness, wisdom.<br />"I admire the way you put so much attention into every detail of your life. You truly are a good person."<br /><br /></li><li>Type 2: acknowledge wantedness, love.<br />"We all love you so much! You always make me feel loved."<br /><br /></li><li>Type 3: acknowledge achievement, value.<br />"You did that so well! I want you on my team every time! You really are our little star."<br /><br /></li><li>Type 4: acknowledge creativity, uniqueness of who they are.<br />"You used such creativity in that! You really are a special person, aren't you? Why don't you tell me how that made you feel?"<br /><br /></li><li>Type 5: acknowledge usefulness and encourage engaged activity.<br />"You did so well performing! You're so knowledgable and talented in that, let's do something about it!"<br /><br /></li><li>Type 6: acknowledge and bolster sense of trust in their own judgment, that security is expected.<br />"I always believe in your judgement. You know in your heart the right thing to do. If you follow your heart, everything will be alright in the end. We all will be there for you if anything goes wrong."<br /><br /></li><li>Type 7: take care of needs and encourage to deeply and thoroughly and meditatively enjoy each experience.<br />"Let's take time to really enjoy this sunset together. Let's be quiet for awhile and then, if you want to, you can tell me all the things it makes you think of."<br /><br /></li><li>Type 8: foster trust and praise them for standing up for themselves in positive ways.<br />"It was really brave of you to stand up to that bully and defend your sister. I'm really proud of you. You're our little hero."<br /><br /></li><li>Type 9: acknowledge and appreciate their presence, unique personality, and input; praise them for being kind and accepting; encourage them to speak out, that their presence is wanted.<br />"I appreciate it every time you tell me what you think about these things. You can talk to me anytime. You did so well mediating that fight between your brothers. Why don't you tell me how you really felt about it."</li></ul><img alt="The image “http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/172269672_5491b2105f_m.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/172269672_5491b2105f_m.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-18475252320043934372007-09-01T01:09:00.000-07:002009-03-18T22:59:00.821-07:00The Color Code and the Enneagram<a style="" href="http://www.amazon.com/Color-Code-Yourself-Your-Relationships/dp/0684848228#reader" target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AawcqEhmvGgkCp8a_wd_RGu6QRsroAOZdbDnGT_6ZZESaLEc0EDX6c52lIyM7gQCZX6EaAzRFS165Vwg52mND3YPilNpX7kDdYe4PhiAw9KMd76DU6VwecbmTzOQghSr0dXltFtnuU8z/s400/71_32%5B1%5D.JPG" alt="" align="right" border="0" /></a>The Color Code is an interesting personality theory created by Taylor Hartman. It divides personalities into four types, Red, Blue, White, and Yellow.<br /><br />According to <a href="http://www.thecolorcode.com/about.html">TheColorCode.com</a>:<br /><blockquote>RED (Motive: POWER)—These are the power wielders. Power, the ability to move from point A to point B, and get things done is what motivates and drives these people. They bring great gifts of vision and leadership and generally are responsible, decisive, proactive and assertive.<br /><br />BLUE (Motive: INTIMACY)—These are the do-gooders. Intimacy, connecting, creating quality relationships and having purpose is what motivates and drives these people. They bring great gifts of quality and service and are generally loyal, sincere, and thoughtful.<br /><br />WHITE (Motive: PEACE)—These are the peacekeepers. Peace, or the absence of conflict, is what motivates and drives these people. They bring great gifts of clarity and tolerance and are generally kind, adaptable, good-listeners.<br /><br />YELLOW (Motive: Fun)—These are the fun lovers. Fun, or the joy of doing something just for the sake of doing it, is what motivates and drives these people. They bring great gifts of enthusiasm and optimism and are generally charismatic, spontaneous, and sociable.</blockquote>These personality types can roughly translate into Enneagram motivations, needs, and wants. Using a comparative table from <a href="http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/%7Ew3psylab/colorcode.htm">Jeff Graham's Psych Lab</a> on the University of Toronto at Mississauga website, a rough table has been composed of how each Enneagram type generally translates into the Color Code personalities.<br /><br /><div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/view.js"></script> <div id="mediaPlayer"></div><script type="text/javascript"> var scribd_doc = scribd.Document.getDoc(13409780, 'key-1iddo0x2agqw63rkg0en'); scribd_doc.addParam('height', 450);scribd_doc.addParam('width', 650); scribd_doc.write('mediaPlayer'); </script></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note:</span> To view full screen, please click the top-right button on the PDF viewer.<br /><br /><!--The Color Code and The Enneagram <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Intimacy Peace Fun<br />Needs To look good (academically) To be good (morally) To feel good (inside) to look good (socially)<br /> To be right To be understood To be allowed their own space To be popular<br /> Respect Appreciation Respect Praise<br /> Approval Acceptance Acceptance Approval<br />Wants To hide insecurities (tightly) to reveal insecurities to withold insecurities to hide insecurities (loosely)<br /> To please self To please others To please self/others To please others/self<br /> Leadership Autonomy Independence Freedom<br /> Challenging adventure Security Contentment Playful adventure<br /><br /> Type 1 Blue/White<br /> Enneagram Type 1s, Perfectionists, have a grounded, bodily presence. They are perfectionistic and controlled. The superego, or the values learned and internalized throughout life, runs the show. This type has a strong need to do the right thing without compromise. They have high moral standards and principles, and are hard workers. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Intimacy Peace Fun<br />Needs To be good (morally) <br /> To be right <br /> Respect Appreciation Respect <br /> Approval Acceptance Acceptance <br />Wants to reveal insecurities to withold insecurities <br /> To please others <br /> Leadership Autonomy Independence Freedom<br /> Security Contentment Playful adventure<br /><br /> Type 2 Blue<br /> Enneagram type 2s, the Helpers, are friendly, outgoing, helpful. The superego message of 2s is that they should “be helpful and loving.” One of the most outwardly emotional types. When average to unhealthy, Twos need to be needed, and will praise and flatter others so that others will come to like them and rely on them. Twos are very in tune with the needs of other people and try to meet those needs. When fixated they keep score, and when not paid back get resentful and manipulative. They internalize their hurt feelings. This can lead to actual physical illnesses in which others are forced to take care of them. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Intimacy Peace Fun<br />Needs To be good (morally) To feel good (inside) <br /> To be right To be understood <br /> Appreciation Praise<br /> Acceptance <br />Wants to reveal insecurities <br /> To please others <br /> Leadership <br /> Challenging adventure Contentment Playful adventure<br /><br /> Type 3 Yellow/Red<br /> The personality type Three, The Achiever, exemplifies the search for the validation of the self, and so Threes look to esteemed others to determine who they must be, what they must do, in order to feel valuable and worthwhile as human beings. With this particular focus, Threes frequently become successful in the eyes of their society because they make it their business to achieve those things which their peers find valuable. Threes will strive to exemplify whatever qualities are honored in their given milieu. Thus, in an unhealthy society which manipulates such fears and motivations, Threes stand to gain the most attention and success from the society, but also end up among its greatest victims—estranged from their own heart’s desire, empty, and emotionally isolated, while never knowing what it is they are doing wrong. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Intimacy Fun<br />Needs To look good (academically) to look good (socially)<br /> To be popular<br /> Respect Praise<br /> Approval Approval<br />Wants To hide insecurities (tightly) to hide insecurities (loosely)<br /> To please self To please others To please others/self<br /> Independence Freedom<br /> Security Contentment Playful adventure<br /><br /> Type 4 Blue/White/Yellow<br /> A deep felt sense of being “different from” or “other than” pervades the Four’s, The Individualist's, sense of self, and functions as the basis for the Four’s attempt to create a persona that properly reflects who they feel they really are. Fours self-consciously search for an expression they feel will be truly authentic. Of all the types, Fours are the most acutely aware that the persona is a construct – something which has been created and can thus be re-created. In this personality type we see creative artists, romantic aesthetes, and withdrawn dreamers, people with powerful feelings who feel different from others because self-consciousness blocks them from getting outside themselves. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Intimacy Peace Fun<br />Needs To be good (morally) To feel good (inside) <br /> To be understood To be allowed their own space <br /> Respect Appreciation Respect Praise<br /> Approval Acceptance Acceptance Approval<br />Wants to reveal insecurities to withold insecurities to hide insecurities (loosely)<br /> To please others To please self/others To please others/self<br /> Leadership Autonomy Independence Freedom<br /> Challenging adventure Security Playful adventure<br /><br /> Type 5 White/Red<br /> People of enneatype Five, The Investigators, defend themselves against a world they experience as intrusive by retreating into the safety of their minds. Fives tend, therefore, to approach reality at some distance and to adopt a stance at some remove from the main action. Fives feel comfortable and at home in the realm of thought. They have busy minds, are endlessly curious, observant, perceptive and frequently intellectually provocative. Most Fives have at least a few intellectual interests, areas of expertise, which they cultivate with a true passion. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Intimacy Peace Fun<br />Needs To look good (academically) To be good (morally) To feel good (inside) <br /> To be right To be allowed their own space <br /> Respect Respect <br /> Approval Acceptance <br />Wants To hide insecurities (tightly) <br /> To please self <br /> Autonomy Independence Freedom<br /> Security Contentment Playful adventure<br /><br /> Type 6 Blue/Yellow<br /> People of enneatype Six, "The Loyalists," naturally seek to determine and defend their own position in regards to an idea, person, group, or practice regarded as a source of authority, be it intellectual, spiritual, social, economic, or political in nature. Their core issues center around the contrast between faith and scepticism, trust and distrust, the legitimate exercise of authority versus the abuse and misuse of power. At best they exercise a unique style of leadership, independent and yet symbiotically interdependent. Possessing dependability, fervor, loyalty, and vision, they have the ability to inspire others to coollaborate towards their goals. Without establishing something stable and trustworthy enough in which to place thier trust, however, the Six can become deeply beset by internal confusion. Their minds spin out of control on future possibilities, imagining the worst, making them anxious and wary of their surroundings. Anxious and negative, they can react unpredictably and passive-aggressively, giving contradictory, "mixed signals," becoming evasive, indecisive, cautious, procrastinating, and ambivalent. Defiant, they counter-phobically react against or phobically hide to protect themselves from the "outer" world or "outer" influences, as the idea of an "us" vs "them" conflict pervades their perception and worldview. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Intimacy Peace Fun<br />Needs To be good (morally) To feel good (inside) <br /> To be allowed their own space <br /> Respect Appreciation Praise<br /> Approval Acceptance Acceptance Approval<br />Wants to hide insecurities (loosely)<br /> To please self To please others To please others/self<br /> Autonomy Freedom<br /> Challenging adventure Security Contentment Playful adventure<br /><br /> Type 7 Yellow/Red<br /> Enneagram type 7s, The Enthusiasts, are upbeat and energetic, and have minds that don’t quit. The Seven mind is always busy making connections between different ideas, which can make them seem scattered, but also funny and entertaining. They are essentially concerned that their options remain open, their lives unconstrained, and their ability to find happiness unfettered by what they see as the largely petty concerns. In average levels of health, Sevens can seem ADD and manic and require a constant state of stimulation. Sevens always want more. When unhealthy, a life devoted to the collection of enjoyable or 'interesting' experiences is becomes a jaded, empty life. It is not a life of spirit, but one in which spirit disappears in the multitude of diversions. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Fun<br />Needs To look good (academically) To feel good (inside) <br /> <br /> Respect Appreciation Praise<br /> Approval Approval<br />Wants To hide insecurities (tightly) to hide insecurities (loosely)<br /> To please self To please self/others To please others/self<br /> Leadership Freedom<br /> Challenging adventure Contentment Playful adventure<br /><br /> Type 8 Red<br /> People of enneatype Eight, The Challengers, are essentially unwilling to be controlled, either by others or by their circumstances; they fully intend to be masters of their fate, to "take charge," to do whatever needs to be done. Eights are competitive, strong willed, decisive, expansive, practical, and tough minded. Eights typically have an enormous amount of energy and frequently have powerful physical appetites. There is an unapologetically expansive quality to the physical presence of the type Eight personality. Eights generally don't have to announce their presence for others to know they are there. The central problem for individuals of enneatype Eight is that the need to avoid being controlled can manifest in the need to control, the need to be "in charge," the compulsion to dominate. This can lead to all sorts of practical difficulties, as the world is not always liable to conform to the dictates of the Eight's will, but the deeper problem for the Eight is that the need to avoid any semblance of being controlled can rob the Eight of the fluidity, receptivity and acceptance that is generally necessary to live a full, balanced and truly happy life. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Intimacy Peace Fun<br />Needs To look good (academically) to look good (socially)<br /> To be right To be understood To be allowed their own space <br /> Respect Appreciation <br /> Approval Acceptance <br />Wants To hide insecurities (tightly) to reveal insecurities <br /> To please self <br /> Leadership Autonomy Independence Freedom<br /> Challenging adventure <br /><br /> Type 9 White/Yellow<br /> People of enneatype Nine, The Peacemakers, look to maintain a sense of peace, harmony and balance and to avoid conflict and disruption. Nines tend to be fundamentally optimistic about the future, and, when reasonably healthy, to have a calming and grounding effect. As a general rule, Nines are fairly "easy going;" they adopt a strategy of "going with the flow." Nines attempt to avoid anxiety and conflict by detaching emotionally from active participation and by not talking about their real concerns and issues. But they can only use this defense up to a point, beyond which they can no longer contain their anxiety, frustration, and fear. The usually stable, easygoing Nine becomes worried, testy, and defensive. They begin to see others as the source of their unease, complaining and blaming others for their distress. They may also have issues with authority, feeling put upon or controlled by those they see as having power over them. Under prolonged stress, Nines completely lose their placid demeanor and become reactive. They may seek help and reassurance from others but may just as quickly disparage them for "dominating" or "overwhelming" them. <br /> Red Blue White Yellow<br />Motive Power Intimacy Peace Fun<br />Needs To look good (academically) To be good (morally) To feel good (inside) to look good (socially)<br /> To be right To be allowed their own space To be popular<br /> Respect Respect Praise<br /> Approval Acceptance Approval<br />Wants to withold insecurities <br /> To please self/others <br /> Autonomy Independence Freedom<br /> Security Contentment Playful adventure-->.:} {:.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07016428278320927489noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-5970136989904724882007-09-01T01:00:00.000-07:002008-04-21T03:20:28.699-07:00Scientific Proof for the EnneagramThe Enneagram is currently in the stages of scientific accredidation. It has passed its first stage with flying colors. [<a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/research.asp">link</a>] One of the scientific explanations for the Enneagram personality theory is that personalities and healthiness are based on the ratio of three different mood-altering chemicals in the body: Dopamine, Serotonin, and Norepinepherine. (See article. [<a href="http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/articles/NArtTina.asp">link</a>]) <p> Dopamine increases physical endurance or drive. Serotonin increases psychological well being. Norepinepherine increases mental drive and focused thinking, although it also increases stress (you think about it even when you're trying not to). </p><table collapse="collapse" border="1"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">TYPE<br /></span></p></td><td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"><p>Serotonin<br />(Mood)<br /></p></td><td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p>Norepinephrin<br />(Stress)<br /></p></td><td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p>Dopamine<br />(Drive)<br /></p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"><p> Eight</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Reactive</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Gut Triad</span><br /></p><br /><p><br /></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> High</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Assertive</span><br /> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p> Nine</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" valign="top"> <p> High<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Positive Outlook</span></span></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Gut</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Triad</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Withdrawn</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p> One</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Competency</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Gut</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Triad</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Compliant</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p> Two</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> High</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Positive Outlook</span></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Heart</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Triad</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Compliant</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p> Three</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Competency</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Heart</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Triad</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> High</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Assertive</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p> Four</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Reactive</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Heart</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Triad</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Withdrawn</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p> Five</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Competency</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> High</p><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Head</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Triad</span><p><br /></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Withdrawn</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p> Six</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Low</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Reactive</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> High</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Head</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Triad</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Neutral</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Compliant</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"> <p> Seven</p><center><br /></center><p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> High</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Positive Outlook</span></p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> High</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Head</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Triad</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top"> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> High</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Assertive</span> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span>Norepinephrine corresponds to the basic triad groups (Head, Heart, and Gut, a.k.a. Thinking, Feeling, and </span><span>Instinctual</span><span>).</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>High Norepinepherin = Head Triad (5, 6, and 7). High anxiety, a restless mind, high-strung and over-stimulated.</li><li>Med Norepinepherin = Heart Triad (2, 3, and 4). Some anxiety, good arousal level, stimulated but not restless.</li><li>Low Norepinepherin = Instinctual Triad (8, 9, and 1). Low anxiety, deliberate thinking.<br /></li></ul><span>Dopamine corresponds to the Hornevian Triads (Assertive, Compliant, and Passive [a.k.a. Withdrawn]; m</span>ore on these triads can be found <a href="http://www.enneagram-spirituality.com/hornevian-groups.html">here</a>.)<ul><li>High<span> Dopamine = </span>Assertive group (3, 7, & 8). Have a lot of energy and drive. High confidence, energy, drive, and endurance.</li><li><span>Med</span><span> Dopamine = </span>Compliant group (1, 2 & 6). Medium confidence, adequate drive, energy, & endurance.</li><li><span>Low</span><span> Dopamine</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> = </span>Passive group (4, 5, & 9). Low confidence, drive, energy, & endurance.<br /></li></ul><span>Serotonin corresponds to the Harmonic System (Positive Outlook, Competency, and </span><span>Reactive [a.k.a. Frustration]</span><span>).</span><ul><li>High Serotonin = Positive outlook group (7, 9, & 2). Generally has an upbeat outlook on life. High sense of well-being. Content calm & happy.</li><li>Med Serotonin = Competency group (1, 3, & 5). Have a stable mood and a neutral sense of well-being.</li><li>Low Serotonin = Reactive group (4, 6, & 8). Have a low sense of well-being, being reactive, moody, and aggressive.<br /></li></ul>Healthiness can be determined by changes in the ratio of one chemical to another. Ideally, you want to have a ratio of high Serotonin to low Norepinepherin to high Dopamine.<br /><ul><li>High levels of Serotonin = high sense of well-being, being content, calm, and happy.<br /></li><li>Low levels of Norepinephrin = low anxiety, having deliberate, rather than automatic, thinking processes.<br /></li><li>High levels of Dopamine = high confidence, energy drive, and endurance.</li></ul>Things like wings and disintegrating are a result of changes in the usual balance of these chemicals as well. Integration may well be a result of manipulating the chemicals. Medication, food, music, exercise, meditation, and other activities that naturally increase Serotonin and Dopamine levels may help establish a more balanced ratio, eventually helping people move towards psychological balance and integration, with healthier thinking patterns and views about their lives.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-47950199655226665912007-08-31T15:27:00.000-07:002007-11-02T16:12:38.617-07:00Enneagram and Terry Pratchett<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 1</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span><br /><br />Granny Weatherwax<br /><br /><img alt="The image “http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/granny.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/granny.jpg" /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 2</span><br /><br />Nanny Ogg<br /><p><img src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/nanny.jpg" alt="[Nanny]" height="300" width="142" /></p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 3</span><p>Lily Weatherwax 3w2</p><p><img alt="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:u0EOYDEU8kt3fM:http://www.art-serena.com/bw_art/Marweniel_sketch.jpg" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:u0EOYDEU8kt3fM:http://www.art-serena.com/bw_art/Marweniel_sketch.jpg" /></p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 4<br /></span><br /><p><br /></p> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 5</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span><br /><p>Leonard da Quirm 5w4</p> <p><img alt="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ZKV-RqDg8MZLxM:http://www.lspace.org/art/fan-art/images/sketch-quirm.jpg" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ZKV-RqDg8MZLxM:http://www.lspace.org/art/fan-art/images/sketch-quirm.jpg" /></p> Ponder Stibbons 5w6<br /><p><img src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/stibbons.jpg" alt="[Stibbons]" height="300" width="106" /></p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 6</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span><br /><p>Rincewind 6w5 (unhealthy phobic)<br /></p> <img src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/rincewind.jpg" /><br /><br />Samuel Vimes 6w5<br /><p><img src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/vimes.jpg" alt="[Vimes]" height="200" width="163" /></p>Carrot (healthy)<br /><p><img src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/carrot.jpg" alt="[Carrot]" height="200" width="135" /></p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 7<br /></span><p><br /></p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 8</span><br /><br />Mustrum Ridcully 8w7<br />"Darn' just isn't the same..."<br /><br /><img alt="The image “http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/ridcully.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/ridcully.jpg" /><br /><br />The Patrician (healthy)<br /><p><img src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/vetinari.jpg" alt="[The Patrician]" height="200" width="139" /></p><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Type 9</span><br /><p>Magrat Garlick 9w1 (or 4)<br /></p> <p><img src="http://www.us.lspace.org/books/whos-who/images/magrat.jpg" alt="[Magrat]" height="300" width="101" /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957690854226453658.post-89052723402684892222007-08-30T06:08:00.000-07:002007-11-06T14:54:28.863-08:00Enneagram Type Examples<div style="width: auto; height: auto; overflow-x: scroll ! important; overflow-y: hidden ! important;"><br /><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2" bg style="color:#333333;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The Heart Triad</span></td><td>2w1 "The Servant"</td><td>2w3 "The Host"</td><td>3w2 "The Star"</td><td>3w4 "The Professional"</td><td>4w3 "The Aristocrat"</td><td>4w5 "The Bohemian"</td><td rowspan="2" bg style="color:#333333;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The Head Triad</span></td><td>5w4 "The Iconoclast"</td><td>5w6 "The Problem Solver"</td><td>6w5 "The Defender"</td><td>6w7 "The Buddy"</td><td>7w6 "The Entertainer"</td><td>7w8 "The Realist"</td><td rowspan="2" bg style="color:#333333;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The Gut Triad</span></td><td>8w7 "The Maverick"</td><td>8w9 "The Bear"</td><td>9w8 "The Comfort Seeker"</td><td>9w1 "The Dreamer"</td><td>1w9 "The Idealist</td><td>1w2 "The Advocate"</td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:JIEhOOv_FWn6LM:http://www.personarte.com/fenotipos/2/2428551539.jpg" align="left" />"Melanie Wilkes" from <i>Gone with the Wind</i>, played by Olivia de Havilland (the one in the white nightgown)<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eL0aPDOSu80&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eL0aPDOSu80&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Vivien_Leigh_as_Scarlett_OHara_in_Gone_With_the_Wind_trailer_cropped.jpg/70px-Vivien_Leigh_as_Scarlett_OHara_in_Gone_With_the_Wind_trailer_cropped.jpg" align="left" /> Scarlett O'Hara in <i>Gone with the Wind</i>, played by Vivien Leigh<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fImHIqTzjdQ&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fImHIqTzjdQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:8HxmkLy4hRWuQM:http://www.evilbeetgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/paris_jail.jpg" align="left" /> Paris Hilton<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-bmBN8w9ygY&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-bmBN8w9ygY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:gozqcZ_HmrJsiM:http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/spader/spader_1.jpg" align="left" /> "Mr. Richards" from <span style="font-style: italic;">The Mannequin</span>, played by James Spader<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d1bwlJlVHag&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d1bwlJlVHag&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:fQgo3ruH3_kwqM:http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/events/SGG-066159.jpg" align="left" /> Gwen Stefani<br />"Howl" from <i>Howl's Moving Castle</i><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HSE582c0hXg&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HSE582c0hXg&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Nim2LTyB5OVZYM:http://lunapark6.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/MariaTaylor.jpg" align="left" /> Maria Taylor, singer-songwriter<br /><embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8508069536415635431&hl=en" flashvars=""></embed> </td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:fN3RHJEWMbUMYM:http://www.pictureshowman.com/images/articles/Articles_graphics/James_Dean/Dean_1.jpg" align="left" />"Caleb Trask" from East of Eden, played by James Dean<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tkSufbaqVUg&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tkSufbaqVUg&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:DfU2oEDK0QermM:http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/77/039_37230%7EEwan-McGregor-Posters.jpg" align="left" /> "Licoln Six Echo" from <i>The Island</i>, played by Ewan McGregor<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-lMoWToDxNE&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-lMoWToDxNE&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:vDpJJcplnjKgSM:http://sbflixcontest.org/images/judges/Rainn_Wilson.jpg" align="left" /> "Dwight Shrute" from "The Office," played by Rainn Wilson<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O81fpTasRIo&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O81fpTasRIo&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:VzUq0hZEFhx8vM:http://manolomen.com/images/Stephen%2520Colbert.jpg" align="left" /> Steven Colbert<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OvLS4Jv6Tpw&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OvLS4Jv6Tpw&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:lggnKC7Tt6IpUM:http://www.fest21.com/files/images/Robin%2520Williams.jpg" align="left" /> Robin Williams<br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jdWt1w1C2Ps"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jdWt1w1C2Ps" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:bkyoDRboNrTnHM:http://www.pinktink.250x.com/comedy/boosh/noel99-1_files/image008.jpg" align="left" />"John Bender" from <i>The Breakfast Club</i>, played by Judd Nelson<br />"Tyler Durden" from <i>Fight Club</i>, played by Brad Pitt<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GcrQuTp--E&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GcrQuTp--E&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></td><td><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:stXqQ3p8JNMHOM:http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/212/215/87/john_wayne_5.jpg" align="left"> John Wayne<br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tv_6KH1nP2w"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tv_6KH1nP2w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></td><td>8w9 "The Bear"</td><td>9w8 "The Comfort Seeker"</td><td>9w1 "The Dreamer"</td><td>1w9 "The Idealist</td><td>1w2 "The Advocate"</td></tr></tbody></table></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1