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    I apologize if this is a re-post, but I have not seen a thread on this on here yet, so I thought I might go ahead and start one.

    Feel free to go through these and explain how you may or may not relate to them.

    The self-preserving instinct is associated with vigilance, protectiveness and aggression; in one way or another you have to fight to stay alive, and you must destroy in order to eat.


    The social instinct corresponds to the herd instinct in animals; it involves the sense of belonging to a group, and a preoccupation with your interactions with and place within the group, the pecking order.


    The sexual instinct strives towards syntony with the world, to be in tune and vibrate with it; you have to cover a lot of space, emit the strongest and pick up the subtlest signals when searching for the most or best of mates.

    Self-preserving (SP):
    • I am my body
    • Heaviness
    • Anxiety all the way to hysterical visions of annihilation; cold panic (if I move, something awful is going to happen; think of a Hitchcock movie)
    • Paranoid streak; blaming and accusing others for damaging/endangering/ exploiting self
    • Aggressive/defensive
    • Money
    • Nourishment
    • Health; hypochondria
    • Logistics
    • Generous at feeding others, helping others out in SP crises
    • The people who shop only in health food stores, filter the water, install triple locks and security system, refuse vaccination
    • Excessively cautious or self-destructive, even suicidal


    Social (SO):
    • Can be the most decent yet often fake, manipulative, or subtly to grossly antisocial (essence present or left out when relating)
    • Prestige, popularity, fame
    • Superiority/inferiority problems (forgetting that we’re all equal in our essential functioning)
    • Delusions of grandeur or of outcast
    • Involved in causes
    • Clubs, parties, groups
    • The scene, the beautiful people, chic, fashionable, what’s in
    • Going with or against the flow
    • Socialite/philanthropist/misanthrope
    • Political or religious crime (terrorists, anarchists)
    • Confusion of boundaries between “you” and “me,” “yours” and “mine” (i.e. using one’s home as a public place, picking from another’s plate as it were one’s own)


    Sexual (SX):
    • Vibrating out there, looking for a mate; peacock displaying his feathers, deer locking antlers
    • Susceptibility to states of intoxication, tripping
    • Schizoid disposition (split between affect and intellect, invalidating one with the other)
    • Lightness, playfulness
    • Curious, seeking, searching
    • Often has shiny, leaky eyes (leaking the high energy of sexuality)
    • Not about orgasm (which one can have alone) but about letting go, dropping barriers, intimacy, closeness, union through revealing/denuding oneself
    • Madonna or whore, abstinent or promiscuous
    • Frigid or impotent, unusual sexual preferences
    • Crime of passion
    • Least likely to become famous (SP goes for immortality, SO intent on glory; SX has other things to do)


    Questions
    SP: How am I? (I can’t tell what I need to be safe and sound)
    SO: Who am I? (you tell me; I’m defined by my relation to you and them, my place in the hierarchy)
    SX: What’s going on? (all over the place; has to tune in on the lookout for a mate)


    Idealized self-image
    SP: I have psychic powers and I am invulnerable. My life is without a beginning or an end; I can see my past lives and my afterlife. I can predict the future and need not fear the unexpected.
    SO: I am considerate, friendly, generous and self-sacrificing. I possess greatness which commands admiration and respect, and my position in life reflects my exceptional qualities.
    SX: I have the power to attract whomever I choose and I know what passion means. I am in tune with the world around, sense its vibrations, and am ready to respond when my mate calls.


    Central delusion
    SP: There must be a way to beat death (i.e. take lots of vitamin C, jog every day, rely on medical science, healing arts, psychic powers)
    SO: I can get from the outside what I’m lacking inside (togetherness, self-approval, acceptance, love)
    SX: Through union with the One I can transcend myself, achieve wholeness (oneness with myself; I’m the half of a pair)


    Dilemma
    SP: To be or not to be; how to be
    SO: To relate or not to relate; how to relate
    SX: To be intimate or not to be intimate; how to be intimate


    Main concern with:
    SP: Self
    SO: Group
    SX: Mate


    Aversion to:
    SP: Living
    SO: Relating
    SX: Sex


    Special difficulties
    SP: Mortality irrevocable (suicidal impulse may arise because can’t take the anxious suspense)
    SO: Ephemeral and incomplete gratification (physical satisfaction possible for SP and SX but relating yields intangible satisfaction only; can’t feed all the hungry, can’t be liked by everyone)
    SX: Stop the high vibration, achieve stillness


    Get cookies from:
    SP: Safety, security
    SO: Popularity, fame
    SX: Closeness, intimacy


    Fear of:
    SP: Poverty, illness, death (insecurity as one of first distortions)
    SO: Loneliness
    SX: Worthlessness (no self-value)


    Craving:
    SP: Security
    SO: High ranking
    SX: Power


    Drugs:
    SP: Painkillers, tranquilizers, opiates
    SO: Alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine (activate relating)
    SX: LSD,mescaline (mind expanders)


    Sex:
    SP: Sensuous
    SO: Friendly
    SX: Imaginary


    At a party:
    SP: What’s there to eat and drink? Why is it so hot in here? This chair is bad for my back!
    SO: Am I wearing the right clothes? Who are the right people to talk to? What’s the right thing to say?
    SX: What am I doing here? (scans the room looking for the one right person; ends up in a corner talking to one person)


    Focus when divorcing:
    SP: Finances, who will take care of me from now on, who will give me a glass of water when I’m sick
    SO: How can I cope with my new status, what will people say
    SX: What happened, what went wrong between us? I’m a failure, I’m nothing


    Joining spiritual/religious groups:
    SP: Looking for immortality
    SO: Looking for companionship
    SX: Looking for the Beloved


    Demonstrations, causes:
    SP: Against nuclear power plants, against abortion, don’t feed hormones to cows, don’t use pesticides
    SO: Equal rights, Save the Whale, stop the war, stop capital punishment
    SX: Gay and lesbian rights but mostly none


    Chances are your dominant instinct is NOT:
    SP: If food is no big deal for you
    SO: If gatherings are no big deal for you
    SX: If sex is no big deal for you


    Examples for dominant instinct:
    SP: Moliere’s Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), Karl Marx, Thomas Robert Malthus, Howard Hughes, the Frugal Gourmet, Ralph Nader
    SO: Judas, Jane Austen, Charles Manson, Caesar Chavez, Emily Post, Mahatma Gandhi, Karen Horney, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter
    SX: Marquis de Sade, Tom Jones, James Bond, Don Giovanni, Anain Nin, Sigmund Freud, Marilyn Monroe, Lorena Bobbit


    Miscellaneous:
    SP and SX like to stay at home - for SO it’s an issue.
    SP and SX are prone to allergies (former more to food and chemicals, latter especially seasonally, i.e. to nature’s sex life).
    SP and SO are people for whom, fairly often, a cigar is really just a cigar.
    SP are prone to obesity and diet fads.
    SO most likely to be unwashed and unkempt (antisocial).
    SX are liable to insect phobias, tend to be picky eaters.
    SP lie and sit, SO stand and walk, SX run and fly.
    SP and SX are more readily identified than SO which, at least initially, may be recognized through elimination of the other two types only.

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    I have seen it in other threads. I may have even posted it myself. If you are trying to figure out your instincts you could check these two threads too for more info.

    http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...tual-Stackings

    http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin...s-always-horny

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    A Few Recommendations
    1. Explore your personal history and priorities from the viewpoint of the instincts, preferably in writing. Some possible topics:
    • Relationship to money;
    • Importance of popularity/status;
    • The story of your sexuality from puberty to present.


    2. Observe yourself in everyday action.
    • On Day 1, focus on concerns around survival: can you take care of yourself constructively, effortlessly? do you have frequent pangs of anxiety over your safety? how much do you worry about financial matters, your health?
    • On Day 2, be aware of how you feel around people: are you tense or relaxed? fake or genuine? hostile or helpful?
    • On Day 3, allow yourself to perceive your curiosity and libidinal impulses: how ubiquitous? do you approve or disapprove of them and in what contexts?


    3. Be suspicious if you find that you never act a certain way and consider that “never” may be equivalent to “always.” An issue specified for an IT is just that—an issue; it’s irrelevant whether you yield to or repress it. An ennea type 4 who claims she never competes is as likely to be dominated by the sexual instinct as the one who admits to a compulsive competitive urge.


    Specific Issues for Instinctual Types


    Type 1
    • SP: Anxiety (catastrophic expectations, sense of incompleteness)
    • SO: Rigidity (inadaptability, inflexibility)
    • SX: Jealousy (rivalry centered around perfection; explosive expression or total repression of criticalness)


    Type 2
    • SP: “Me first” (especially evident in crisis)
    • SO: Ambition (sucking up to status symbols, using people, craving admiration, saintly aspirations)
    • SX: Seduction/conquest (impersonal and compulsive)


    Type 3
    • SP: Security (accumulating enough to last forever, amass money)
    • SO: Prestige, achievement (must get to the top)
    • SX: Masculine/feminine (differentiation in terms of role playing, going after image)


    Type 4
    • SP: Dauntlessness, recklessness (my fate is so awful that I might as well make it worse)
    • SO: Shame (saving face, honor violated worse than death)
    • SX: Competition (compulsive comparing of self and other)


    Type 5
    • SP: “My home, my castle” (safe, hidden place—not family!)
    • SO: Totem (assume a role, pick an identity and relate exclusively through that)
    • SX: Trust, confidence (need for total love and acceptance)


    Type 6
    • SP: Warmth (need and/or rejection of)
    • SO: Duty (relationship as authority dictating conduct, to be obeyed or opposed)
    • SX: “Strength and beauty” (both within and without)


    Type 7
    • SP: Family or group (security of belonging)
    • SO: Sacrifice (narcissistic reward in their own goodness, cheerful enduring of martyrdom)
    • SX: Suggestibility (pervasive; fascination by all that is new and fantastic)


    Type 8
    • SP: Satisfactory survival (not just any kind of survival; pushing, grabbing, ordering, controlling)
    • SO: Friends/enemies (world perceived in black and white; champion of the people, largesse)
    • SX: Possession/surrender (need for total domination or willingness to give up all control)


    Type 9
    • SP: Appetite (in all senses, not what he needs but what he wants; hunger can be satisfied but not appetite)
    • SO: Participation (careful to avoid the center, don’t want to get really involved)
    • SX: Union (merging; much more than sex)

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    Quote Originally Posted by VenusRose View Post

    The self-preserving instinct is associated with vigilance, protectiveness and aggression; in one way or another you have to fight to stay alive, and you must destroy in order to eat.
    I honestly think I need SP much more than I can provide it for myself; hence why I might be attracted to it...


    The social instinct corresponds to the herd instinct in animals; it involves the sense of belonging to a group, and a preoccupation with your interactions with and place within the group, the pecking order.
    I relate to this, except I don't take it quite as seriously as I do SX.


    The sexual instinct strives towards syntony with the world, to be in tune and vibrate with it; you have to cover a lot of space, emit the strongest and pick up the subtlest signals when searching for the most or best of mates.
    Honestly I think SX has been my own "blindspot" if you will. Not in the sense of last instinct being blindspot; but being so immersed in it (plus having a lot of anxiety around it) that I did not at first, when I delved into the enneagram, realize I was SX first. Then my friend (being SX first herself) who I had been talking to for a while pointed it out...
    But the description, yeah I think it makes sense...I am always looking for someone who is "on the same frequency" if you will. Always. I search for it everywhere. Someone or something really - it doesn't even have to be a person. When I find that, I become very excited, because it doesn't happen very often.

    Self-preserving (SP):
    • I am my body
    • Heaviness
    • Anxiety all the way to hysterical visions of annihilation; cold panic (if I move, something awful is going to happen; think of a Hitchcock movie)
    • Paranoid streak; blaming and accusing others for damaging/endangering/ exploiting self
    • Aggressive/defensive
    • Money
    • Nourishment
    • Health; hypochondria
    • Logistics
    • Generous at feeding others, helping others out in SP crises
    • The people who shop only in health food stores, filter the water, install triple locks and security system, refuse vaccination
    • Excessively cautious or self-destructive, even suicidal
    I don't relate to most of this except a couple and that's when I have been abused or hurt badly when my SP pushes to the forefront of my consciousness; otherwise I am really not good at being "in tune" with this.


    Social (SO):
    Can be the most decent yet often fake, manipulative, or subtly to grossly antisocial (essence present or left out when relating)
    • Prestige, popularity, fame eh
    • Superiority/inferiority problems (forgetting that we’re all equal in our essential functioning) kind of
    Delusions of grandeur or of outcast
    Involved in causes somewhat, not usually, but once in a while something catches my interest
    Clubs, parties, groups
    • The scene, the beautiful people, chic, fashionable, what’s in just a tiny bit, but I don't really care too much about it.
    • Going with or against the flow
    • Socialite/philanthropist/misanthrope not really
    Political or religious crime (terrorists, anarchists)
    Confusion of boundaries between “you” and “me,” “yours” and “mine” (i.e. using one’s home as a public place, picking from another’s plate as it were one’s own)


    Sexual (SX):
    Vibrating out there, looking for a mate; peacock displaying his feathers, deer locking antlers I wouldn't describe it (wrt to crossed out) like this personally, but I understand what they are trying to say
    • Susceptibility to states of intoxication, tripping idk, ofc not literally, but idk metaphorically or not either...
    • Schizoid disposition (split between affect and intellect, invalidating one with the other) I am not sure what they are trying to say here
    • Lightness, playfulness
    • Curious, seeking, searching
    • Often has shiny, leaky eyes (leaking the high energy of sexuality) I have observed this whenever SX is at play, regardless of stacking
    • Not about orgasm (which one can have alone) but about letting go, dropping barriers, intimacy, closeness, union through revealing/denuding oneself
    • Madonna or whore, abstinent or promiscuous
    Frigid or impotent, unusual sexual preferences maybe a tiny bit "unusual"? Not that unusual
    • Crime of passion This is interesting. Perhaps this might be a bit strange to say haha, but being a 4, I have often related to those who weren't good enough, there was something wrong with them...and I imagined what would be like, at my complete and absolute worst a human being could possibly be? I often imagined it as crimes of passion, yes.
    • Least likely to become famous (SP goes for immortality, SO intent on glory; SX has other things to do) haha


    Questions
    SP: How am I? (I can’t tell what I need to be safe and sound)
    SO: Who am I? (you tell me; I’m defined by my relation to you and them, my place in the hierarchy)
    SX: What’s going on? (all over the place; has to tune in on the lookout for a mate)


    Idealized self-image
    SP: I have psychic powers and I am invulnerable. My life is without a beginning or an end; I can see my past lives and my afterlife. I can predict the future and need not fear the unexpected. no
    SO: I am considerate, friendly, generous and self-sacrificing. I possess greatness which commands admiration and respect, and my position in life reflects my exceptional qualities. I don't take SO this seriously, so I suppose no. I don't want to be cruel either, though, but I don't think that's related to SO.
    SX: I have the power to attract whomever I choose and I know what passion means. I am in tune with the world around, sense its vibrations, and am ready to respond when my mate calls. This does sound ideal

    Central delusion
    SP: There must be a way to beat death (i.e. take lots of vitamin C, jog every day, rely on medical science, healing arts, psychic powers) I never could quite understand people who were extremely concerned with invulnerability, immortality and beating death - though that's not to say those aren't important things! Even I can sense in myself that SP is extremely important, I guess I just don't end up paying as much attention to it as I should.
    SO:I can get from the outside what I’m lacking inside (togetherness, self-approval, acceptance, love)
    SX: Through union with the One I can transcend myself, achieve wholeness (oneness with myself; I’m the half of a pair)


    Dilemma
    SP: To be or not to be; how to be kind of?
    • SO: To relate or not to relate; how to relate
    • SX: To be intimate or not to be intimate; how to be intimate


    Main concern with:
    SP: Self
    SO: Group
    • SX: Mate


    Aversion to:
    SP: Living
    SO: Relating
    SX: Sex
    I don't really understand this one.

    Special difficulties
    SP: Mortality irrevocable (suicidal impulse may arise because can’t take the anxious suspense)
    SO: Ephemeral and incomplete gratification (physical satisfaction possible for SP and SX but relating yields intangible satisfaction only; can’t feed all the hungry, can’t be liked by everyone)
    SX: Stop the high vibration, achieve stillness


    Get cookies from:
    SP: Safety, security I would really, really like this.SO: Popularity, fame
    • SX: Closeness, intimacy


    Fear of:
    SP: Poverty, illness, death (insecurity as one of first distortions)
    SO: Loneliness
    • SX: Worthlessness (no self-value)


    Craving:
    SP: Security
    SO: High ranking
    SX: Power ...to attract those who you wish to.


    Drugs:
    SP: Painkillers, tranquilizers, opiates
    SO: Alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine (activate relating)
    SX: LSD,mescaline (mind expanders)


    At a party:
    SP: What’s there to eat and drink? Why is it so hot in here? This chair is bad for my back!
    SO: Am I wearing the right clothes? Who are the right people to talk to? What’s the right thing to say?
    SX: What am I doing here? (scans the room looking for the one right person; ends up in a corner talking to one person)


    Focus when divorcing:
    SP: Finances, who will take care of me from now on, who will give me a glass of water when I’m sick
    SO: How can I cope with my new status, what will people say
    • SX: What happened, what went wrong between us? I’m a failure, I’m nothing I would imagine this, though ofc I have never been married so never divorced.


    Joining spiritual/religious groups:
    SP: Looking for immortality
    SO: Looking for companionship kinda, not as important.
    • SX: Looking for the Beloved


    Demonstrations, causes:
    SP: Against nuclear power plants, against abortion, don’t feed hormones to cows, don’t use pesticides
    SO: Equal rights, Save the Whale, stop the war, stop capital punishment
    SX: Gay and lesbian rights but mostly none


    Chances are your dominant instinct is NOT:
    SP: If food is no big deal for you
    SO: If gatherings are no big deal for you
    SX: If sex is no big deal for you
    makes sense

    Examples for dominant instinct:
    SP: Moliere’s Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), Karl Marx, Thomas Robert Malthus, Howard Hughes, the Frugal Gourmet, Ralph Nader
    SO: Judas, Jane Austen, Charles Manson, Caesar Chavez, Emily Post, Mahatma Gandhi, Karen Horney, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter
    SX: Marquis de Sade, Tom Jones, James Bond, Don Giovanni, Anain Nin, Sigmund Freud, Marilyn Monroe, Lorena Bobbit


    Miscellaneous:
    SP and SX like to stay at home - for SO it’s an issue.
    SP and SX are prone to allergies (former more to food and chemicals, latter especially seasonally, i.e. to nature’s sex life).
    SP and SO are people for whom, fairly often, a cigar is really just a cigar. hahaha
    SP are prone to obesity and diet fads.
    SO most likely to be unwashed and unkempt (antisocial).
    SX are liable to insect phobias, tend to be picky eaters. I am not that much of a picky eater, I don't think. I honestly do feel like I am bothered by roaches more than others are. Though this seems like a trite point lol, this is interesting.
    SP lie and sit, SO stand and walk, SX run and fly.
    SP and SX are more readily identified than SO which, at least initially, may be recognized through elimination of the other two types only.

    A Few Recommendations
    1. Explore your personal history and priorities from the viewpoint of the instincts, preferably in writing. Some possible topics:
    • Relationship to money; I have none, perhaps I should better cultivate this...
    • Importance of popularity/status; like 1/millionth. Just a tiny bit but not something I really get 'triggered' over as I very much do with SX. Ultimately to me being authentic, happy and free-flowing if you will, is important than anything else.
    • The story of your sexuality from puberty to present.

    [skipped part about observing yourself over a few days]

    3. Be suspicious if you find that you never act a certain way and consider that “never” may be equivalent to “always.” An issue specified for an IT is just that—an issue; it’s irrelevant whether you yield to or repress it. An ennea type 4 who claims she never competes is as likely to be dominated by the sexual instinct as the one who admits to a compulsive competitive urge. I do not like being intentionally cruel to others due to Se PoLR, but I do feel like I am not good enough, and become jealous over that.


    Specific Issues for Instinctual Types


    Type 1
    • SP: Anxiety (catastrophic expectations, sense of incompleteness)
    • SO: Rigidity (inadaptability, inflexibility)
    • SX: Jealousy (rivalry centered around perfection; explosive expression or total repression of criticalness)


    Type 2
    • SP: “Me first” (especially evident in crisis)
    • SO: Ambition (sucking up to status symbols, using people, craving admiration, saintly aspirations)
    • SX: Seduction/conquest (impersonal and compulsive)


    Type 3
    • SP: Security (accumulating enough to last forever, amass money)
    • SO: Prestige, achievement (must get to the top)
    • SX: Masculine/feminine (differentiation in terms of role playing, going after image)


    Type 4
    • SP: Dauntlessness, recklessness (my fate is so awful that I might as well make it worse)
    • SO: Shame (saving face, honor violated worse than death) my shame is tied to sx though, and less importantly to social.
    • SX: Competition (compulsive comparing of self and other)


    Type 5
    • SP: “My home, my castle” (safe, hidden place—not family!)
    • SO: Totem (assume a role, pick an identity and relate exclusively through that)
    • SX: Trust, confidence (need for total love and acceptance)


    Type 6
    • SP: Warmth (need and/or rejection of) sure that's nice, but not something I actively look for• SO: Duty (relationship as authority dictating conduct, to be obeyed or opposed)
    • SX: “Strength and beauty” (both within and without)


    Type 7
    • SP: Family or group (security of belonging)
    • SO: Sacrifice (narcissistic reward in their own goodness, cheerful enduring of martyrdom)
    • SX: Suggestibility (pervasive; fascination by all that is new and fantastic)


    Type 8
    • SP: Satisfactory survival (not just any kind of survival; pushing, grabbing, ordering, controlling)
    • SO: Friends/enemies (world perceived in black and white; champion of the people, largesse)
    • SX: Possession/surrender (need for total domination or willingness to give up all control)


    Type 9
    • SP: Appetite (in all senses, not what he needs but what he wants; hunger can be satisfied but not appetite)
    • SO: Participation (careful to avoid the center, don’t want to get really involved)
    • SX: Union (merging; much more than sex)
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