{"id":18621,"date":"2020-02-26T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18621"},"modified":"2020-02-26T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:30:04","slug":"enneagram-part-one-body-center-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18621","title":{"rendered":"Enneagram Part One: Body Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Type Eight: The\nNeed to Be Against<\/strong><br>\nWednesday, February 26, 2020<br>\n(Ash Wednesday)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Holy Idea:<\/em>&nbsp;Holy Truth&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Virtue:<\/em>&nbsp;Innocence&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Passion:<\/em>&nbsp;Lust [1]&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OsccUg4TDd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>My friend Chris Heuertz has a type Eight personality.\nHere\u2019s how he describes Eights in his book,<\/em>&nbsp;The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path\nto Spiritual Growth:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eights are a source of strength and determination, an\ninitiating and intimidating force of vitality in the world. . . . &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll observe Eights being rude or offensive, trying to\nget a reaction out of people to see what they\u2019re made of. This behavior is\npartly due to their Childhood Wound, an acceleration of maturity as a result of\nconflict or harsh environments where they felt they needed to be strong in\norder to survive. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The self-survival instinct of Eights informs their Basic\nFear of being destroyed\u2014though I think more accurately it is the fear of not\nbeing in control. . . . &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eights are intense. Eights hate bullies but are the\nbiggest bullies. Though Eights use their force of personality to try to\nconvince people of their strongly held opinions, they are not so much emotional\nas they are impassioned. Passionate and forceful, Eights are extremists in the\npositions they hold, the vocations they\u2019re called to, and the causes they\nchampion. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traditional passion of the Eight is lust, not\nnecessarily sexual lust but more like a lust for intensity, which is aimed\ntoward everything. . . . Because Eights fear that they will be destroyed, they\noverdo everything to make themselves feel alive\u2014even overdoing things that are\nharmful to themselves. This often leads to tremendous pain for themselves and\nthose they love. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally, the Fixation of the Eight is vengeance,\nwhich is first aimed at themselves. No one can be harder on Eights than\nthemselves, and in turn Eights can be extremely hard on others\u2014demanding more\nthan is fair or realistic and making people pay for the ways Eights feel\nbetrayed by them. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are intimidating and they know it, but it surprises\neven them because inside they know they are using their strength to protect the\nvulnerable child within them who never seemed safe enough to grow up. [2]&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson describe the emergence\nof Essence in the Eight:&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Eights give\nup their own willfulness, they discover the Divine Will. Instead of trying to\nhave power through the assertion of their egos, they align themselves with\nDivine Power. . . . &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eights also\nremember the omnipotence and strength that comes from being a part of the\nDivine reality. The Divine will is not the same as willfulness. As Eights\nunderstand this, they end their war with the world and discover that the\nsolidity, power, and independence that they have been seeking are already here.\n[3]&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Richard\nagain: Because of their passion for justice and truth, healthy Eights often\ntake the side of the weak and defenseless. For the sake of justice, Eights are\nwilling to fight the powers that be with every available weapon, and our world\nis a better place for it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type Eight: The Need to Be Against Wednesday, February 26, 2020 (Ash Wednesday) Holy Idea:&nbsp;Holy Truth&nbsp; Virtue:&nbsp;Innocence&nbsp; Passion:&nbsp;Lust [1]&nbsp; My friend Chris Heuertz has a type Eight personality. Here\u2019s how he describes Eights in his book,&nbsp;The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth:&nbsp; Eights are a source of strength and determination, an initiating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18622,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions\/18622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}