A common mental habit holds our Enneagram problems in place. Polarization is the habit of taking a single reality and dividing it into two opposites. Each style does a number of these mental distortions.
Style One often polarizes against sensual pleasure. Religion in America is colored with puritanism, a Oneish religion. So we have Christine O'Donnell campaigning against masturbation and pornography a thriving industry. Many Ones will report alternately being very tightly disciplined in matters of the flesh (sex, food, bodily pleasure) and then becoming debauched for a while.
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Hmmmm...wondering what this might be for a IV, then realized maybe I unknowingly wrote all about it (or always/often do?). Get a big charge out of creating "unique" self with avante-garde thrift-store original combinations, then sit down in front of the tv (with everyone else in America)in velour sweatpants and a Hy-Vee cupcake.
ReplyDeletewhoops, that is WITH a Hy-Vee cupcake...and that has got to be a III-wing thing... Don't III's often go showerless, unshaven and grungy at home where "no one" will see?
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