Healthy / Unhealthy Gut Triad:
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At their best: heroic mercy, resourceful action, decisive honor.
Mid-levels: rugged pragmatism, expansive domination, belligerent aggression.
At their worst: ruthless brutality, megalomaniacal rage, murderous cruelty.
Healthy 8w7: softens up, gains charm and tact. Loses some of the compulsive combativeness and moderates the tendency to go to extremes. Real personal power, from essence, becomes more available in place of artificial bravado. Realizes sometimes the most powerful thing to do is to wait, rather than charging in blindly. Finds that when dominance is a choice (and eight integrates to two), one can choose to be kind and gentle, using power constructively instead of combatively. Seven integrates to five, and impulsive action is replaced by considered, perceptive understanding, making rash actions unnecessary. A person who may have been unpolished, rude, and rough becomes a sophisticated judge of situations, intuitively in touch with the flow of human interaction.
Unhealthy 8w7: can become physically dangerous. With little or no concern for the rules, almost no emotional sensitivity, and an unsociable, highly belligerent nature, this person can become a rough character. Here is the schoolyard bully, the street thug, and the uncultured slob. If you don’t like it, tough. Why bother to be careful when I can get what I want through brute force? Becomes violent, rude, and deadly, lashing out at whatever gets in the way. As the violence increases, so does the need to defend against counter-attacks. Eight pulls in the worst of five, creating the need for walls and protection, while seven’s stress to one brings increasingly intolerant, judgmental thoughts. The world becomes a crazy battlefield, where one must kill or be killed, and every moment requires constant defensive and offensive maneuvering.
Healthy 8w9: uses gentle strength with kindness. Becomes more in touch with the inner self, the drive to dominate becomes less compulsive, and the contradictory desire to withdraw and be settled is less overwhelming. This frees the will, allowing them to see the value of choosing carefully when to be powerful and when to pull back, rather than being enslaved by alternating sleepiness and angry outbursts. Others benefit from the well-timed use of personal power. Someone whose healthy, unselfconscious threeish ambition (from integrated nine) is augmented by a twoish benevolence (from integrated eight). Abe able to be tough when toughness is needed, and gentle and loving at other times.
Unhealthy 8w9: carries within a deep conflict between self-forgetting and combativeness. As these contradictory urges intensify, becomes less predictable and more dangerous. Times of quiet are deceptive, because anger simmers under the surface. Sudden explosions of rage become more intense and frequent. In extreme imbalance the influences of nine stressing to six and eight stressing to five add two different flavors of paranoid anxiety, which combines with the withdrawal of the nine to bring 8w9 into a state of self-protective isolation.
At their best: serene exuberance, receptive sensuality, imaginative synthesis.
Mid-levels: conventional compliance, habitual complacence, indolent resignation.
At their worst: obstinate neglect, helpless amnesia, catatonic vacancy.
Healthy 9w8: use their lusty eight-wing to pull themselves out of the dream. For them, the expansiveness and energy of eight is a direct antidote to nineish apathy and resignation. When eight begins to pull in the benevolence of two and nine finds the ambition of three, there is no stopping these powerful, generous people. Carries the goodness and generosity of two and the deep self-actualization of three, without any trace of pride or vanity. People feel uplifted in the presence of such completely humble, giving, magnificent, fully self-created beings. It is not what they do, it’s how they are. They simply are without trying to be anything in particular.
Unhealthy 9w8: tends to fall into a dream state. If the dream deepens, apathy leads to sixish suspicion, while eightish defensiveness leads to fiveish paranoia. Nine’s primary defense of withdrawal is enhanced by both tendencies, and they become a reclusive, lazy, mistrustful, hermit. In the worst cases, the tendency to escape by going to sleep leads to total avoidance of any kind of real interaction. Bills go unpaid, the phone rings without being answered, and the lawn goes unmowed. Somnolence leads them deeper and deeper into self-negation, resulting in a paranoid sort of comatose sloth. No one is home in the body, and the body is powered down.
Healthy 9w1: becomes more present. Now there is really somebody home, a genuine being with actual goals and self-interest who happily starts creating results in the world. Nine begins to show some threeish ambition and the one-wing begins to loosen up its perfectionism. While such a person is still involved in activities that are non-threatening and not particularly visible in the world at large, the results often affect others in useful and subtle ways. Finds deep sevenish joy in the accomplishment of personal goals. Usually the goals involve teaching or empowering others. Oneish intellectual rigor assumes real importance when the desire for withdrawal diminishes, allowing them to risk genuine involvement. Thoughts and internal images finally correspond to actual reality. They are able to transmit to others a special and powerful kind of integrated self-actualization.
Unhealthy 9w1: nineish withdrawal increases, accompanied by oneish judgment of self and others. Retreats into a fantasy world inhabited by comfortably fuzzy generalities and stereotyped images of other people. These are the people 9w1 wishes could inhabit the real world – wishful, perfect images of real people. Unfortunately, because 9w1 is convinced of the reality of these internally generated images, real-life interactions suffer when people do not live up to their idealized images. But the 9w1 tries very hard not to notice. It becomes nearly impossible not to see the discrepancies between the perfect inner images and the outward reality. Total isolation becomes the only way to avoid seeing the world is populated by disturbingly imperfect, unpredictable, demanding, untrustworthy beings. Life falls apart at the seams and psychotic 9w1 may reach a state of catatonic pseudo-coma. Even eating and drinking can become too much work. No one is home in the body, and the body itself is allowed to fall into ruins.
At their best: wise acceptance, discerning rationality, self-disciplined ethics.
Mid-levels: preachy idealism, rigid logic, perfectionistic judgment.
At their worst: vitriolic self-righteousness, hypocritical obsession, sadistic condemnation.
Healthy 1w9: overcomes emotional repression, discovering an inner warmth. Although they still have a tendency to judge, they do not take their judgments as seriously, admitting they may be wrong. They consciously control their nineish tendency to withdraw from stress, allowing them to take a more active role in life, although there’s still a gentle, quiet feeling. The compulsive workaholic turns into a responsible but fun-loving person who allows time for letting go and relaxing. Has a 7ish joy for life and 3ish charisma and accomplishment.
Unhealthy 1w9: over-controls their emotions, resulting in physical rigidity and an undercurrent of explosive energy. The repressed emotions, particularly anger, build up unnoticed and leak out. One disintegrates to four, resulting in hostility, introspective withdrawal, and deep self-hatred, while nine disintegrates to six, bringing in suspicion, blaming, and passive-aggressive behavior. Keeps the fearful blaming and suspicion inside, where they bottle up more tightly. All of life becomes a lockstep repetition of stylized routines. Extremely anxious about getting everything right. Every tiny move is subject to intense, painful scrutiny, and past behaviors are examined in agonizing detail. (Did I leave the oven on? Did I lock the door? Did I run over somebody on the way to work?) Psychotic 1/9 might become completely paralyzed into inaction, stabbed through the heart by the endless need to repeat behaviors until they feel precisely correct.
Healthy 1w2: loosens up, becoming able to let go of righteous judgments. They allow for the possibility their views might not be accurate. Their other-directed corrections soften and become helpful rather than intrusive. They are able to see the difference between proud perfectionism and healthy tolerance of differences. One integrates to seven, bringing in joy and enthusiasm, while two integrates to four, replacing selfish manipulation with genuine compassionate concern for others. Deep oneish wisdom combines with twoish loving generosity for an intensely personal kind of guidance, even when addressing large groups. Healthy 1w2s seem to know exactly what is needed for maximum teaching value in any situation. They teach by asking the right questions, gently guiding the student to deeper insights.
Unhealthy 1w2: pride and perfectionism. Tremendous inner conflict rages between the 2-wing that says “I am a good, generous person” and the one that sees every tiny error as a sign of fundamental worthlessness. One disintegrates to four, where self-critical introspection creates a spiral of hopelessness, while two disintegrates to eight, so when the heavily repressed anger erupts it does so in sudden (but usually short) fits of hyper-critical rage, sometimes accompanied by overt violence. These violent fits become more food for the self-judgment spiral, as the 1w2 falls into guilty remorse. In the worst cases, repressed oneish anger and hostile twoish pride combine, creating intense sessions of wrenching, hand-wringing despair. If my anger is not expressed towards others, it is directed at myself. I am not good enough if I cannot meet my own standards. I must work harder and harder, or I will fail my own increasingly difficult self-tests. Self-punishment is necessary, in the form of grueling work days, endless tormented repetitions of not-quite perfect tasks, and every kind of refusal to experience any sort of pleasure.
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