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• Archive: http://archive.is/xEf3k Identify and transform imbalances that are keeping you stuck... through your Enneagram subtype and your instincts.Nurture your weakest (least dominant) instinct... a key to your wholeness and your capacity to flourish.Experience the energy of your instincts through your body — cultivating a relationship with all three instincts.Do you ever have a day where you feel like it’s just hard being you?Or maybe, even after immersing yourself in a number of self-help books and workshops, you find the same patterns cropping up again?Or perhaps you’re wanting more intimacy in your relationship... or more vulnerability from your partner...Understanding and working with your type or subtype is just the beginning of what’s possible in working with these aspects of yourself... and the Enneagram.Deeper levels of transformation are available through discovering — and bringing more presence and awareness to — all of your instinctual drives.Your instinctual energies — including the behaviors they create, the pain they may cause, and the limiting beliefs they can perpetuate — are the path to real change, according to world-renowned Enneagram teacher Russ Hudson.Beyond descriptions of personality, the Enneagram can help you recognize the interplay between your core patterns and instinctual drives — and move beyond unconscious, destructive tendencies to live a more conscious, creative, and satisfying life…Your Instincts: Life Force Energies to Transform Yourself & Our WorldWhile everyone has each of the three primary instincts (Self-preservation, Sexual/attraction, and Social), the personality tends to prioritize them in habitual ways.Recognizing our dominant instinct, which many Enneagram teachings consider our primary subtype, is helpful.
• But it's easy to become overly identified with your subtype, overriding the other instincts...And paradoxically, your weakest instinct is your growing edge... it reveals the areas of your life that need attention and will allow you to flourish.Virtually all longstanding spiritual traditions deal with the instincts.
• Some traditions advocate asceticism and celibacy, while others deal explicitly with the felt sense of these drives... seeing them as energies necessary for human transformation.The latter perspective is the foundation of this groundbreaking new Enneagram training on the instincts.The central question we must answer about our primary drives, according to Russ Hudson, is: How we can convert these different energies into something useful for the development of our consciousness?This question is the foundation of this new 10-part training... a spiritually rich and intensely practical journey through the instincts...This is your opportunity to explore your relationship with your instincts, from the most dominant to the most neglected.
• The overall pattern of your instincts and how they influence your personality type (and vice versa) will emerge... and guide you.During this 10-module video training, you’ll discover:Each instinct is a beautiful expression of nature’s intelligence, as well as fuel for your spiritual developmentHow our Sexual and Social instincts are variations of the Self-preservation instinctExperiential and meditation practices that help you sense the energies of each instinctHow to nourish your most neglected instinct and tame your most dominant instinctHow we successfully or unsuccessfully manage our personal energy and resources, and how this influences developmentThe crucial distinction between comfort and development — and practices for enrolling the parts of ourselves that fear changeEach instinct gives clues about your primary needs in relationshipsThe ways your Enneagram type mixes with and sometimes distorts your instinctual drivesHow you unconsciously prioritize the instincts, creating imbalances in your lifePractices for sensing and integrating your weakest instinctHow balancing the instincts “quickens” spiritual breakthroughsThe “zones” of each instinct, and when there are 3 instincts operating in youAuthentic connection in the moment — outside of programming and historic psychological patternsA diverse perspective on cutting-edge teachings on the subtypes and instinctsYou’ll find clues to which instincts will open up new possibilities and liberate you from many core elements of your habitual self.
• The revelations, Russ says, will be “close to the bone”... and life-changing.You’ll pull the covers off of your ego and personality, and by embracing your drives fully, expand your consciousness as a human and a spiritual being.Self-preservation InstinctIn balance:Take care of your overall health and wellbeingFocus on what keeps your life grounded and running: finances, home and car repairs, etc.Cultivate a supportive and comfortable domestic lifeAppreciate the basics: enjoying simplicity in lifeOut of balance:Challenges with self-care: poor sleep or nutrition, ignore physical needsRigidity or procrastination around needs related to your body, home, or financesLack of financial abundance, or scarcity consciousnessOverly attached to routines, or lacking structure in lifeSexual (or Attraction) InstinctIn balance:Aware of attraction: both of what we are attracted to and of our own power to attractFeel vital and alive: open to new experiences, willing to take risks, learn new things, and explore your edgeAbility to immerse oneself deeply — to “merge” energetically with lovers, to spontaneously flow with eros and inspirationOut of balance:Lose yourself in intimate relationships: difficulty with healthy attachmentCan become addicted to romance and excitementNarcissistic display and/or shameObsessive tendencies or energetic deadnessSocial InstinctIn balance:Skilled at reading people and situationsConsistently create and maintain connections with intimates, friends, and colleaguesParticipate in and contribute to your friendships, family, community, etc.Out of balance:Overly concerned with the opinions of others — fear of social mistakes and loss of supportExcessive focus on others or lack of awareness of their needsOver-committing or avoiding commitmentsSocial insecurity can lead us to avoid communicating or dominate the conversation to cover up feelings of inadequacyA Master Guide for Balancing Your Instincts Through EnneagramRuss Hudson represents one of the largest and most respected schools for Enneagram studies and application in the world.