TYPE 9: THE PEACE-SEEKER

In One Sentence I pride myself in being a calm, easy-going, unassuming person who can flow with whatever comes and doesn’t need recognition or attention, but I don’t readily admit to myself my problems or work to resolve conflicts because that’s really difficult and makes me not feel peaceful

Essence Qualities Wholeness, Unity, Flow

Basic Fear losing my world of internal peace

Basic Desire to feel harmonious

Famous 9s

Rosa Parks, Jack Johnson, Grace Kelly, Jim McAllister in Election, Marge Sherwood in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Henri Rousseau, James Taylor, Nina Sayers in Black Swan

**There are generally very few famous 9s, but if you know of any, please email us**

Levels of Consciousness

Creative: easygoing, synthesizing

Controlling: disengaged, procrastinating

Destructive: passive-aggressive, listless

Shock point fear (the fear that causes the slip from Creative to Controlling consciousness) 

I may not have the inner stability to deal with conflicts, internally and externally

Examples of shock point fears

  • My wife wants to “talk” again… I don’t know how to do that. Everything’s fine enough, isn’t it?

  • I know I’m not totally fulfilled in my career, but why fix something that ain’t broke? It just keeps gnawing at me that this is not what I want to be doing in life, but I tell that gnawing to go away and be peaceful.

  • I have a deadline at work that’s creeping up on me. Yeah, I don’t fully believe in deadlines. They’re helpful sometimes, but I can also be all right without them… Things will get done when they get done; the key is to smile at people when they want something that’s overdue.

  • My roommate moved the place where we store the soap to create more space – that completely threw me off. So what that I could find it easily (and they left a note in case)? I really lost my balance with that move. Uncalled for.

  • I read the newspaper

Why I get provoked  Disrupting my peace of mind by creating expectations, requesting me to step out of my comfort zone, interfering with my routines, or inviting me to deal with the things I don’t want to deal with

How I cope with anger I become The Teakettle. I rise and rise and rise and rise in temperature, but you can’t really tell that I’m getting hotter until little bubbles of moodiness, and then bigger bubbles of passive aggressiveness start to show, before I finally burst, when my anger comes out and morphs into a Grenade or a Firehose depending on my wing

My Emotions are okay – I just keep them on a very low flame so I can be peaceful

How was your day, Type 9?

“Fine”

Behavioral pattern Withdrawn. I need to be left alone to my own comfort zone because there’s too much chaos and conflict in the world out there which forever disturbs my peace

9 with 8 Wing I’m cool and casual with an intensity that I keep guarded as I continue to be perceived as the shy one in the room, while deep down I hate weakness, am ever so subtly attracted to conflict, and know how to make waves when I need to, though I still walk out of every situation the calm, quiet one

9 with 1 Wing I’m sensitive, kind, and deeply concerned with ethics, constantly thinking about the ideal way to live though I prefer to philosophize about it rather than truly live it because it would require me to give up all of my homey, comfortable habits to step out into the world of conflict and make it better

A Personal Meditation for Growth  “I have the courage within me to deal with overwhelming problems in life”

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