![]() ![]() Two: I refuse to honour my own experience and to care for myself.I want an experience other than the one I am having. Four: I reject my reaction, refuse to own it.I feel this in my body as tightness, nausea, heat, paralysis, or something else that I perceive to be negative. One: I react to whatever it is that has affected me.However, if I approach my reaction unconsciously, I end up going “down the drain”, following the numbers of the hexagram one after the other. It describes movement through a process for all Enneagram types, even those not included on the hexagram. There can be conscious or unconscious movement in a continuing cycle through all points on the hexagram, no matter what your identified Enneagram type is.įinally, movement via the Law of Seven does not start from your identified personality type. The description of movement to stress or security does not go far enough. We can move to either adjoining point unconsciously, resulting in deterioration. We can consciously move to either connecting point, with a benefit in either movement. Integration and disintegration can move in either direction. It doesn’t account for other movements, as described by the Law of Seven. The stress and security dynamic restricts certain movements to certain Enneagram types. ![]() This is an oversimplification, for several reasons. So, for example, the stress point of Five is Seven and the security point of Five is Eight. The security point is the connected space you reach when moving against the arrows. The stress point of an Enneagram space is the next space in the direction of a connecting arrow. Many Enneagram teachings speak of stress and security points, where a person will “disintegrate to” their stress point or “integrate to” their security point in reaction to something external. This will happen it depends on us whether we use the Law of Seven consciously or get swept along by its action unconsciously. When we cannot avoid some impact – an unkind word, a frustration, a shameful thought, an injustice of some sort – the Law of Seven kicks in to deal with it. So much sensory, mental, and emotional energy is coming at us that we have to choose what to pay attention to. ![]() We face many impacts from the world every day. The Law of Seven governs how we process a reaction to something that upsets our equilibrium. The Hexagram Symbolizes the Law of Seven Consciously and Unconsciously Following the Law of Seven It applies to your way of dealing with reactions, no matter which space on the Enneagram you identify as your personality type. The Law of Seven is about movement and processing. This component incorporates thought (Five and Seven), emotion (Two and Four), and action (One and Eight). When they are held in tension, they hold space for Spirit to drop in via the reconciling force.īut how do you actually do this? You can learn to navigate the polarities of each space via the Law of Seven, symbolized by the hexagram component of the Enneagram. The affirming and denying forces work on the horizontal, or earthly, level. ![]() It is through the Law of Three that heaven and earth meet. The Law of Three describes these movements via the affirming, denying, and reconciling forces particular to each Enneagram space. Home » The Enneagram » Working with the Enneagram Symbol » Working with Reactions: The Law of Seven Navigating Polarities in the EnneagramĮach Enneagram space has its own way of resolving conflicting demands and tensions. ![]()
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