In addition to your three Enneagram Types — in the Enneagram System of Personality you also have 3 core instincts — that you use in a preferential order called your Instinctual Stack. The Three Core Instincts in the Enneagram are called: Self-Preservation, Social, and Intimate (or Sexual). The Primary Instinct is often known as your Instinctual Subtype.

Knowing our instinctual patterns can help us live healthier, more balanced lives. Our subtype pattern is one of the primary ways that we fall asleep to our True Nature. It is like a shadow element outside of awareness where we don’t often notice its impact as clearly as others in our lives do, especially when they are a different subtype.

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You have an aspect of yourself in all 3 descriptions as all humans have all 3 instincts inside us to varying degrees. We will launch a free test to determine that soon, stay tuned.