#instincts enneagram

[ladylejean]

Sp/sx primal side

[ladylejean]

Instincts are like so....

@subconsciousmysteries mentioned more clarity is needed regarding the chemistry orientation of the sx instinct. Basically, instincts are in the brain. 

The lower brain is about the bodily needs like food, water, sleep and sex. The midbrain and up has processing systems that you can categorise as seeking for resources, registering interpersonal awareness and attunement to chemistry.

To simplify things: sp is the lower brain (food, water, sleep, sex) and social and sexual is the midbrain and up. 

Another simplification: having sex for fun is sp. 

Having sex because you want to have children and not for fun means using sx in its basic sense. Genes are being recombined and a child is the result.  

Being sx-dom or sx-aux means you’re using sx in a much broader sense. You follow the things and the people that call to you. These things transform you and you’re another person because of them. You uproot your life and experience chemical dissolving and being remade, only different. That’s chemistry for enneagram-sx.  

And yes, most people will have sex both for fun and for procreation meaning they combine sp and sx. That wasn’t the point.