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How to Overcome the Freeze Response
In my search to find out about what keeps us stuck, I came to know more about the freeze response…
Freeze response: a survival strategy used when fight or flight is impossible.
Apparently, it is often overlooked in our studies on reactions to stress. What is the case is that we go into a fight-flight-freeze response every time we perceive that we are facing a threat. Our coping mechanism helps us to guard against threats to our survival. When we see a lion running towards us, we can choose to fight or flee. However, there is also the freeze response that could take place right before fight or flight.
“Based on recent literature, freeze, flight, fight, fright, faint provides a more complete description of the human acute stress response sequence than current descriptions.” Merie Friedman
We may not meet menacing lions everyday. However, there could be many situations where we perceive we are in danger. While the threat we face in our lives is hardly real, it is our perception of it that keeps it real. The illusion of danger gets played out in the physical world as if it truly exists.
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Enneagram Type 9: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of the Enneagram Type 9: The Peacemaker, Mediator, Spiritual Seeker
If you are an Enneagram Type 9, you are about harmony. You are peace-loving, trusting, easy-going and even-tempered. Your mantra is to go with the flow. Sitting on the crown of the Enneagram, you hold spiritual instincts. What is ironical is that despite your orientation to spirituality, you are potentially the most grounded in the physical world.
You exude a positive energy. What appeals is the pleasant side of life. You enjoy being stress-free and desire life to be effortless. Being optimistic, you carry the faith that things will somehow work out on its own. Your belief is that everything will be okay should everyone stay cool and collected and no one rocks the boat.
“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.” — 14th Dalai Lama
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Enneagram Type 8: Positive Affirmations for the Path of Growth
Overview of the Enneagram Type 8: The Challenger, Leader, Protector, Boss
If you are an Enneagram type 8, you are open, direct, driven, strong-willed and all powerful. The thrill of breaking barriers excites you. Taking pride in overcoming adversity, you love taking on challenges. You understand what it takes to reach great heights and you seek to develop strength, tenacity and resilience. Nothing deters you.
You are also charismatic. With strong persuasive abilities, you possess an innate ability to influence others to follow your lead in endeavours such as waging wars, starting a new company, managing a task force and so on. You have a commander’s aura.
“I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.
If not, it can’t be helped.” — Fritz Perls
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Enneagram Type 7: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of the Enneagram Type 7: The Enthusiast, Optimist, Pleasure Seekers
If you are a Type 7, you are an extrovert. You are spontaneous, spirited, cheerful, playful, creative, versatile and optimistic. You are always on the lookout for exciting adventures.
You live in the world of imagination. Approaching life with child-like curiosity, you are in rapt attention of all the good things in life. You have no lack of ideas and enjoy having more than enough options.
“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.” — Mel BrooksContinue reading
Enneagram Type 6: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of the Enneagram Type 6: The Loyalist, The Guardian, Security-Seeker
If you are an Enneagram Type 6, you are faithful, friendly and conservative. You enjoy certainty and security. You are a protector, keeping yourself and your loved ones safe from harm.
As an excellent troubleshooter, you place attention on worst-case scenarios. You are on the lookout for danger signs. Your core belief is that the world is a dangerous place. Thus, you avoid taking risks. You strive to put systems in place that keep people safe.
“Better encounter a danger than live in continual fear.”- William H Browne
Enneagram Type 5: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of the Enneagram Type 5: The Observer, Investigator, Thinker, Sage
If you are an Enneagram Type 5, you are intellectual, informed and logical. You are an observer of life, and prefer to stay on the sidelines. You like others to see you as someone wise, perceptive and knowledgeable.
You prefer to conserve your energy instead of participating or engaging actively in life. Staying on the sidelines is your way of maintaining calm and composure in a seemingly chaotic world. To make sense of the chaos, you seek refuge in knowledge. Subject mastery appeals to you. As an Enneagram Type 5, you are part of the thinking triad (Types 5, 6 and 7).
“I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.” Charles Darwin
Enneagram Type 4: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of Enneagram Type 4: Individualist, Romantic, Artist
As an Enneagram Type 4, you are authentic, creative, expressive and self-aware. You have the need to express yourself uniquely. Typically, you enjoy expressing your feelings through some creative works such as music, painting, and acting. What you desire are experiences that are rich and meaningful.
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” e. e. cummings
Enneagram Type 3: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of Enneagram Type 3: The Performer, Achiever, Motivator
If you are an Enneagram Type 3, you enjoy projecting the image of success. You place focus on goals, efficiency and checking off your to-do lists. Ambitious, you are driven by your desire for personal accomplishments. As a high functioning Type 3, you are confident, with the ability to harness your strengths and to motivate others to greater heights.
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough. We must do.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Enneagram Type 2: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of Enneagram Type 2: The Helper, Partner, Nurturer
If you are an Enneagram Type 2, you are extremely helpful, considerate, compassionate, empathetic, generous and loving. You are like Mother Theresa. You feel guided by the mission to save the world.
For you, going out of the way to help others makes life meaningful. Your life feels enriched when you have friends, family, connection, sharing and support. You inspire the world to be of service to one another.
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Theresa
Enneagram Type 1: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
I am on a Round-The-Enneagram tour, covering all 9 Enneagram Types in turn. Over the course of 9 weeks, I will be laying out positive affirmations aimed at serving the path of growth for each Enneagram Type. Please start off with a basic introduction to The Enneagram, as a guide for transformation, before reading on.
Overview of Enneagram Type 1: The Reformer, Perfectionist, Achiever
If you are a Type 1, you strongly emphasise key moral values such as responsibility, integrity, order, discipline and control. You place attention on what is right and what is wrong and will fight for justice. You have idealistic dreams, with the goal of improving the world.
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