Find Your Dominant Instinct. It’s Your Super Driver {Video}

What do you do when you first get to an event, gathering?

  1. Do you check out the space, quickly scope it out to make sure you can take care of your needs, and find the food, bathrooms and the exit?

  2. Do you scan the room to see who is there that’s interesting and that you may want to connect with? What individuals or groups?

  3. Do you walk into the room and see who is the most interesting person there, who you’re attracted to, and try to connect with them?

Your answer gives you a hint to your instinctual driver…. your dominant instinct. Instincts are hardwired in you/ us as living beings. And, you’re thought to have a dominant instinct and a repressed one. Finding what’s your dominant and repressed instinct is a key growth catalyst.

{Video share} Susan, at Bend of Ivy’s koi pond.

In the Enneagram systems, there are 3 instincts: Self-Preservation, Social and Sexual. Some teachers use different terms, names, for an instinct. The instinct term in italics is used by some when referring to instincts in business or organizational settings.

The 3 Instincts are:

Self-preservation (SP) or Preserving - a ‘Me’ focus

Social (SO) or Navigating– a ‘We’ focus

Sexual (SX) or Transmitting – an ‘It’ focus


Another quick way to explore on this, is to ask your self:

In your thoughts and words, do you normally respond from a perspective of:

  1. Me

  2. We

  3. It (what attracts you…person, place, cause)

 How did you answer?

If:

1 -> SP

2 -> SO

3 -> SX

If you’re still uncertain, that’s normal. Just continue to explore and be curious.

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Well-Being Resets: Morning Ritual Tips {Video}

Well-being morning rituals and reset practices change your energy, day and stress level. They do so for me.

This is not new knowledge. Ancient and indigenous cultures embedded some of these practices into their daily living in conscious and unconscious ways.

My morning routine has some daily rituals, and some practices I do a few times a week. The morning resets I do come from several practices that call to me. The practice either energizes, opens or calms my wiring… my body, heart, mind or spirit in some way.

Some of my red flag reset nudges are when my mind feels foggy or chaotic, or my body feels tight or constricted. My practices and morning routine may be longer then, as I consider my energy and time management. I ask myself, “what do I need now to be a better functioning human today.”

Susan, sharing from Bend of Ivy’s koi pond. {Video}

By need, I mean I sense into what in me needs some extra TLC… my body, heart, mind or spirit. Signs for me, and most, are what feels tight, constricted.

My favorite regular morning reset practices that I choose from include nature walks, breathe work, qigong (arm swings especially), meditation, kundalini and yoga. Daily, even brief some days, are: walks, gratitude journaling, breath work and qigong arm swings.

Getting started? Pick one practice to do, or two. Keep it simple.

What morning practices do you do? What resets you …your body, mind, heart?

Take a step and start.

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