Type 1 Across the Dimensions of the Enneagram

[chime] Our first stop is the centers of intelligence, the dimension that helps us understand where each type primarily processes and responds to life.

For Type 1, that's the body center, also called the gut center.

The one is all about alignment.

And the sense of alignment when you think about the body is you see when we sit like this [laughs], you know, when we slouch, there is an experience of not being aligned.

When you look at the ones, there is a, even in their posture, you actually feel a sense of, like, erectness.

It's that everything in the body is actually aligned to what it needs to do.

They are here to bring good into the world, to experience goodness and to share that with others.

So they always have a cause that they're for, and that's something that they just feel in their gut.

What to align with, I just feel it in my gut, and then I create rationale around it.

Ones think, "Oh, I'm very sensible.

I'm very logical.

I'm very objective." Uh, it's partially true, but it's actually, that's not what's leading the way.

What's leading the way, and this is very subtle and very important, is a gut feeling of what is right that I feel in my bones.

I just know this is right.

Oftentimes I'm right.

Oftentimes I'm wrong, depending on the level of consciousness that we're talking about [laughs].

And according to the level of consciousness, they have a very, very different result.

There'll be an openness or a surety, a confidence that is really powerful.

That's at the upper end of consciousness.

At the lower end of consciousness, it's just a closeness and a squeeze and a you're not doing what's right.

Grr.

So I'm feeling that in my gut, but I'm not present and I'm giving all kinds of justifications in terms of, well, this is logic.

Here are the facts I'm substantiating.

But all of that is after I've made my decision [laughs].

This is what we have to pay attention to.