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EXPLANATIONS
Ginger Lapid-Bogda (Enneagram author, trainer, keynote speaker) on her site “The Enneagram in Business”, provides a variety of ways to understand how each Type handles the many positive & negative aspects of being human.

🤔 This series of posts includes the way each Type exhibits each of the Fixations (Habits of Mind) normally associated with only one of the Enneagram styles – each in our own specific way.

◆ Included are the 3 Instinct sub-types of Self-preservation, Sexual & Social groupings (Def. & QUIZ) which effect the strength & style of how each Type expresses each of their fixations
NOTE: Virtues / Gifts for each Type in 2024

DEFINITIONS – basic for each characteristic flaw
◼︎ Cowardice – typically associated with SIXES. It’s the fear of taking actions, from doubt & worry caused by continual thoughts of worst-case scenarios. It’s found more strongly in the Self-Preservation version of any Type who is more concerned with safety, security, & least trusting / most wary.

◼︎ Flattery – typically associated with TWOS, because they’re trying to be accepted by a specific person or group. 2s manipulate by giving others compliments, gifts or other forms of attention

◼︎ Laziness / Indolence = avoidance of activity or exertion, typically associated with NINES. It’s the process of mentally diffusing their attention so they forget what’s important, & keeping them from stating their own opinions, in order to minimize conflict with others

◼︎ Moodiness / Melancholy: typically associated with FOURS. It’s thinking about what’s missing in oneself or one’s life, along with feeling disconnected or separate from others

◼︎ Planning – typically associated with SEVENS. It refers to the mental process by which the mind goes into “hyper-gear,“ moving in rapid succession from one thing to another, without peaceful consideration, ignoring consequences

◼︎ Resentment – typically associated with ONES. It’s paying attention to flaws in oneself & others, so that nothing ever seems good or good enough

◼︎ Stinginess – typically associated with FIVES. It’s a scarcity paradigm that leads to an insatiable thirst for ‘knowing’, and a reluctance to share – info, time, space & personal information. Often strategize about how to control their environment

■ Vanity – typically associated with THREES. It’s strategic thinking / planning about how to create an idealized image, being self-absorbed about how they seem to others

■ Vengeance – typically associated with EIGHTS. It’s the mental process of wanting to balance out wrongs done to themself (real or imagined), with angry thoughts of blame, & plans for intimidation & punishment

ALSO:
■ Distorted Lens – difficulty listening to & accepting many points of view, or being able to objectively evaluate different aspects of a problem or situation, when colored by the focus of your Type’s specific version of the world

■ Hanging on – to anything that keeps us stuck, so that energy can’t flow through us. It skews perspective & limits options, which can lead to disappointment

■ Off-Balance – whenever we can’t see people & situations in perspective, OR without a fixed point of reference in life, adding more distortion to our specific Type

■ Maya (illusion/ delusion) – when positive it can mean the “power by which the universe is manifest”, BUT used here to mean the appearance of or illusions in the physical world.
Illusion (Maya) = unreal vision // Delusion = false belief

■ Worry – mental obsession on past distressing actions / events, OR projecting negative outcomes into the future – to the point of dulling our awareness to real danger in the present.
Habitual, unconscious worry blocks us from direct contact with something greater than ourself (H.P.) & limits our ability to be whole.

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