Most of us imagine our personality is shaped by what we think and feel. The Enneagram certainly helps illuminate those patterns. But beneath our thoughts and emotions lives something older, faster, and far more instinctive.
Long before we reflect on our reactions, our bodies are already scanning the environment for what will keep us safe, alive, connected, and significant. The Enneagram calls these forces the Instincts, and when they combine with the Passions of our type they create the twe...
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