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Triadic Relations: Reactive

Triad: Harmonics

Types Included: 4, 6, 8

All types within the reactive triad are known for having strong, immediate reactions to the outside world, emotions, and stress, especially in the area involving their core fixations.  These types are often considered as key catalysts in bringing attention and working to resolve important issues and concerns which they believe are important.  These types are often highly opinionated and value both truth and honesty in the way that they express themselves.  In their minds, the quickest and most effective way to combat a problem is by bringing attention to the issue at hand in it’s rawest form and making sure that their voices are heard.  All these types tend to detest deceit, fakeness, and blind group-think by principle (regardless of whether or not they are deceitful or a follower themselves).  At their worst, these types often have difficulty separating themselves from their emotions centering around their core passions and beliefs, thus becoming rigid and unopen to alternatives.  They are often criticized for having an over the top response to an issue, though they tend to be (arguably) the least evasive of problems in their entirety.  People who are of reactive core or have multiple reactive types in their tritype tend to be very connected and attentive to their core fixation, idealize truthfulness and/or individuality, opinionated, expressive, untrusting, and responsive.  People lacking reactive influence tend to be disconnected from emotion or emotionally restrained, unoponionated or, tactful, evasive and contained

How They Embody Their Triad

4: Fours are intensely emotional, sensitive, and aware of their shame, mostly because they are most willing to dig into themselves and experience these emotions in their rawest form.  Due to this, their expression and behavior is often tailored to mirror this internal depth of experience. These emotions and defects that separate them from others compose their identity.  Feeling more honest than others, fours detest “sheeple” almost as much as they hate being defined by others, and are not afraid to voice or express this opinion. They romanticize the concept of individuality and their separation from the masses so much they often come across as moody, self absorbed, and unnecessarily contradictory.

6: Sixes are a walking contradiction, with a strong distrust and skepticism for just about everything and a strong connection to things that are consistent or deemed as truth or security inducing.  More than other types, they are troubleshooters and adept problem solvers, attentive to and almost seeking out problems, threats, and areas of weakness.  Sixes fear “blindness;” things that are uncertain, things that are unknown, things that will mislead and blind them , leading them to detest those who do not seem as though they can think for themselves or contradictory, despite often clinging to trusted sources themselves.  Attentive and often prepared, they are difficult to blindside and, due to their desire for control, great at creating structures of understanding and addressing threats.  Despite this, they are often reactionary, overly pessimistic, and often paranoid in their search for security, sometimes blinding themselves by the strength of their dedication to what they trust.

8: Eights are characterized by the intensity of their connection with their anger, impulses, and desires.  Raw in their presentation, they use their larger than life presence to plow through obstacles in search of obtaining what they desire without restrictions or, at their worst, concern for consequence.  In this pursuit, strategy, tact, and restraint are almost always ignored, as they are seen as indirect or even unnecessary in dismantling restrictions, as well as roadways to being manipulated or controlled.  Highly impulsive, challenging, and disagreeable, eight finds its strength in it’s refusal to ignore problems and dedication to addressing them truthfully and without censorship.  They detest all who run and cannot stand and fight for themselves or handle the truth despite running and ignoring that they too have their weaknesses and vulnerabilities.  Often come across overly aggressive, defiant, and ignorant to the needs of others.

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Triadic Relations: Attachment

Triad: Object Relations

Types Included: 3, 6, 9

Attachment types relate and interact with the world by connecting to things in the external world that they see as valuable.  Each attachment type lies at the center of their specific centre of intelligence, which can make for types that seem to embody their specific centre.  These types are known for their adaptability, especially in terms of dealing with their core fixation (ie. anger, shame, fear).  Each type tends to blend the strategies of their neighboring types in order to combat this fixation, but at the cost of disconnection from the quality they seek to combat and themselves alike.  Those with heavy attachment influence tend to struggle to type themselves within the theory because of this blending and ability to adapt to combat the world around them, both of which allow them to relate to a wide variety of traits.  Those lacking in attachment influence tend to have less fluid and inconsistent personality styles, but tend to have difficulty adjusting themselves to the outside world (or view such as purposeless).

How They Embody Their Triad

3: Being the center of the heart triad, threes tend to be most out of touch with their “true self” and their shame.  By both reframing their weaknesses as adjustable and narrowing down skill sets and traits that they deem as useful and desirable, threes adapt to the outside world by focusing on combating their weaknesses and working towards integrating these traits that they see as ideal.  As a result, they tend to reject their natural self as mediocre or worthless without adjustment.

6: Being the center of the head triad, sixes tend to be most out of touch with their inner guidance and fear.  Being at odds with both their inner world and self trust as well as the unstructured external world and the reliability of others, sixes adapt to the world by seeking security in external and reliable structure, be it a belief system, a network of information, or other trustworthy individuals.  Nonetheless, this leaves them uncentered and persistent ambivalence.

9: Being both the center of the gut triad and the attachment triad, nines tend to be most out of touch with their presence, anger, and self.  By erecting boundaries between themselves and both their internal and external world, nines adapt to the world by becoming incredibly fluid and adjustable in both behavior and personality in attempts to maintain inner harmony and avoid external pressure.  This can leave them disconnected from their inner drives and self as well as quelch their overall presence through merging.

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Triadic Relations: The Head

Triad: Centres

Types Included: 5, 6, 7

The head triad is characterized by a strange focus on the chaotic and expansive world that surrounds them, leaving them believing that they lack security and internal guidance.  Thus, the triad as a whole gains a preoccupation with fear and finding security.  There is a focus on finding strategies to mitigate their unease and quiet the mind that refuses to stop moving.  People with lots of head influence (such as head firsts) tend to be prone to planning, have a future orientation (in an anticipatory sort of way), and often come across uncertain or restless.  Those lacking head influence (such as head lasts) come across more easy going, relaxed, and grounded, finding it somewhat easier than others to navigate and deal with the surrounding world via self trust.

How They Embody Their Triad

5: 5s internalize their fear.  To them, the outside world is incredibly vast, but they themselves are small, weak, and out of control.  To compensate for this fear, 5s take on the role of the observer and flee to their minds, searching for and hoarding any information they can find to make themselves competent enough to deal with the real world.

6: Being the center of the head triad, 6 has no distinct way of dealing with fear.  On one side of the coin, the outside world is expansive and chaotic, which leaves them feeling out of control and desiring to flee into their inner world.  However, their inner mind is just as loud, chaotic and anxiety ridden.  Thus, type 6 seeks external forces in which it can rely on and find certainty in.

7: 7s runs from their fear.  To them, the outside world is vast and moves at a quick pace.  Unlike the other type, 7 runs into the action, preoccupying themselves with a variety of activities and interests “fearlessly.”  In the end, this preoccupation with novelty only exists as a way to evade their inner insecurities and emotions and their fear of getting stuck inside of it and stagnating.

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Triadic Relations: The Gut

Triad: Centres

Types Included: 1, 9, 8

The gut triad is characterized by the inability to regulate one’s presence in the face of a world that they are unable to influence, resulting in an unstable sense of self and an overall feeling of powerlessness.  Thus, fueled by rage and the feeling of being out of control, those within the gut triad focus on creating boundaries between themselves and the outside world in attempts of both cultivating and maintaining the self and their autonomy, as well as increasing their ability to manipulate their environments. Those with heavy gut influence (such as gut firsts) tend to have a focus on the present, coming across as grounded, aware, and noticeable in terms of having a strong presence (or a complete lack of one).  Those lacking such an influence (such as gut lasts) have less of a focus on maintaining boundaries and take on a more fluid and flighty and baseless deposition.

How They Embody Their Triad

8: 8’s externalize their anger.  There is the belief that the self is easier maintained when one is able to manipulate and influence their surroundings. Therefore, 8s anger is channeled into a larger than life presence which acts as an offensive front that serves the purpose of repelling and plowing all external influences and obstacles before they have a chance to leave them vulnerable and subject to attack

9: 9’s find themselves at the center of the gut triad.  On one hand, there is the fear of becoming vulnerable to the outside world, which leads to a desire to keep the outside world out.  Still, there is a large degree of discomfort with their own impulses and emotions.  In the end, both the outer and inner worlds are repelled in attempts to maintain inner stability and protect the self, minimizing presence as a whole.

1: 1’s internalize their anger.  To maintain the self, it is understood that one should become an “iron fortress” incapable to being affected by the outside world.  1s therefore end up erecting boundaries directed against the self, becoming angry that they are indeed affected by the outside world.  Feeling their responses are unjustified or wrong, they repress and act against their own impulses.

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Triadic Relations: The Heart

Triad: Centres

Types Included: 2, 3, 4

The heart triad is characterized by a lack of connection to their true self and, therefore, become focused on both how they are perceived and received by others as well as their own self reception.  Thus, these types become enveloped in shame and finding a way to feel as if they are worth something.  All three types in a sense focus on some “ideal self” that they have created, identifying with it in order to gain acceptance from others and, more importantly, themselves.  Those with a good deal of heart influence (such as heart firsts) have a tendency towards attentiveness (in a relational sort of way), past oriented, and somewhat fluid in terms of personality.  Those lacking heart influence (such as heart lasts) are generally unconcerned with the self/perception as well as that of others and more static and stable in deposition.

How They Embody Their Triad

2: 2s externalize their shame.  There is a belief that a lack of self worth can be improved if they are loved by others.  Therefore, the 2 identifies with an image that they feel appeals to others; They pride themselves on being helpful, caring, attentive to the needs of others and rejecting of their own needs and desires.

3: 3s find themselves in the center of the heart triad, therefore have a more fluid way of dealing with shame.  There is an inner attentiveness to weakness and flaws that exist within the self, which on one hand incites the creation of an “ideal” self.  On the other hand though, there is still that belief that self worth can be derived from others, therefore, the ideal becomes worn as a mask, fluid and adapting to different environments and expectations.

4: 4s internalize their shame.  They take their lack of self worth, their perceived defects (both true and untrue), and make that their identity, as there is an expectation to be rejected despite a desire to be “worthy.”  They feel defective because they see themselves as different from others, but at the same time see those subtle differences as the only things that give them any worth.  There is erected an ideal self which they romanticize, though can never be reached.