K, I've translated this from a spanish site (google translated and then translated the rest on my own). Here's what it says about each triad... Instinctive Triad (8, 9 and 1), Feeling Triad (2, 3 and 4), and Thinking Triad ( 5, 6 and 7):
I'll start first with the Instinctive Triad:
Translated from: http://personarte.com/instinto.htm
Instinctive Triad
Types Eight, Nine and One have formed around distortions of their instincts, that are the root of their vital force.
The Instinct Triad has to do with the intelligence of the body, the vital basic operation and the survival. The body has a very important role in all the forms of authentic work because returning the conscience to the body affirms the quality of the presence. The body exists in here and now, at the present moment, which is fundamental to be able to make a good work of personal development.
When in fact the instinctive center is inhabited, this one gives a deep sensation of fullness, stability and autonomy or independence. When the contact with that essence is lost, the personality tries “to fill it” providing a false sensation of autonomy. In order to find that false sensation of autonomy the personality creates what in psychology it is called defense mechanisms. The types of personality of this triad try to resist to the reality (creating limits for the "I", based on physical tensions).
These types of personalities tend to have repression and aggressiveness problems; under the defenses of the personality they have a lot of anger/wrath.
The Eights, Nines and Ones know how they feel and in general they do not have great difficulty in taking action. They, instead of that, ignore themselves, and is common that they react from the emotional foundation of the rage. It is typical for these three styles to have the greatest difficulty in the field of the reason and fight to remember their own necessities.
In the Literature of the Eneagrama, to the Eights, Nines, and Ones are called the “instinctive types” because they tend to be detectors of the corporal sensation, people that perceive things very intuitively and physically, before knowing them in a cognative way. They are more prone to the difficulties with the appropriate rational conception and often experience a species of mental fogginess(?).
Imagine that you are in a party that is very active with lots of people that you know, and nobody can see you or hear you. Just as the invisible man you can intervene physically, but you remain without being seen. You know that you are present, but for some mysterious reason nobody else knows it. From time to time some watch in your direction, and you begin to correspond with something; soon you realize that they are actually looking at someone behind you. At other moments, you listens “by chance” your friends, babble about you. “In your absence”, of course.
After trying in vain to interact reciprocally, every time you more are frustrated by the situation. But suddenly and gradually, you begin to think: "Maybe I'm not really here.” A type of darkening begins to dominate itself on your perception and little by little you forget why you came to the party, what it is you wish for, and even of whom you are. Parts of you have been convinced and have accepted the situation. But in another level, you feel furious.
Eights, Nines and Ones feel invisible and angry but they each react differently. Perhaps Eight in the imaginary party, solve to affirm their presence using some impossible form of not noticing to correct the injustice of being ignored(?). Perhaps Nines resign to not being seen and might become dedicated to provide the drinks at the counter, burying their rage or expressing it indirectly. A One might work hard on correcting the disasters at the buffet table, channeling their anger by being worried about order.
Generally, the Eights, Nines and Ones are more cenestésicos(don't know what it means, sorry [ ] ?) and auditory than visual. And even though they can see with clarity the external world, usually they have a foggy or distorted internal vision, especially when it comes to seeing their own necessities and priorities. The three styles tend to lean towards polar thought and can reduce a complex situations to problems of "everything or nothing", or to neither this, nor the other either. This is much more a problem of reason that some limitation with the heart or the will; it is hard to think with clarity when you are not there really.
The thought of Eight will tend to be polarized to the service of the necessity to feel strong, taking the form from “either you are with me or you are against me”. The Nines could be absorbed in the irrelevant things or feel trapped between two opposite options when neither of the options matter to him or her at all. The Ones will twist their reason by means of the reduction of the multidimensional reality to the simplified categories of black and white.
Like detectors of the corporal sensation all Ones, Eights and Nines tend to numb out their emotions by means of its conversion in physical sensations. Instead of saying “That hurts my feelings” or “I am disturbed”, somebody of this trio could say “This boils my skin” or “I am anxious”. The person is more conscious of a physical sensations than of an emotion.
The Eights usually turn their emotions to sexual lust and physical energy, whereas the Nines can turn theirs to salpullidos of the skin, somnolencia, headaches or problems in the eyes. Not yet wide-awake ones usually translate their emotions to tension in the body and rigidity to which is called "armor of the character “. A One could be needing to shout and on the contrary they become stiff and exhausted.
In books of Eneagrama, the tendency to suppress or to neglect the own personal position is called "auto-forgetfulness"(It's spanish guys... it's a whole 'nother language), but another term for it could be "Hypnotic Amnesia"(?. This difficulty usually is described like a condition of “sleepy mind”; nevertheless, another term for the polarized and confused reason exists: pseudothought.
The Eights, Nines and Ones generally grew feeling ignored. People with these styles could have experienced their early world as indifferent, an atmosphere where their vulnerabilities and necessities did not find a place. Unlike Two, Three and Fours who felt misunderstood, the Eights, Nines and Ones often felt ignored or invisible.
Still carrying these experiences of their childhood, it is common that when adult they ignore themselves as much as their necessities, anticipating themselves to be invisible for the others. Eights, Nines and Ones all have a tendency towards "Auto-Carelessness" like a process (??? to anticipate and to avoid the negligence of others. As well as Two, Threes and Fours tend to "auto-reject", and the Fives, Six and Sevens tend to fall in "auto-opposition", the Eights, Nines and they tend to "auto-erase".
The adult Eights erase themselves and then compensate by overexaggerating their presence. The Nines erase themselves and then they concentrate on adapting themselves to their environment. Ones "auto-supress" themselves by relegating (???) their necessities over their objective principles (???), forgetting what they really desire and concentrating on what should be done.
The main wound that these styles share lies in their sense of the being; it is a loss of recognizing oneself, hurt by the scorn. The paradox that reigns in these styles is: “To be taken care of and taken into account, I must try not to be here.”
The general challenge for the Eights, Nines and Ones is to begin to see themselves themselves and to recover their presence, to become aware of their own necessities, and to focus on their personal priorities and the inner sense of themselves. They learn to reveal a real being, once invisible, and begin to reason and to see the things from a more loveable attitude.
Center: Instinctive
Interest or preoccupation: Resistance and control of the surroundings, power, fear to be dominated and to be operated
Problems of: Aggressiveness and repression that are translated in “bad” relations with the others and the surroundings in general.
They look for: Autonomy
Buried feeling: Wrath/Anger
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