![]() Type 6’s fixation on threat and doubt results in numerous stressful preoccupations. Type 6’s Stressors: What Makes Them Most Personally Reactive Because 6s doubt, they want to control that which is located both externally and internally, in the present and future. Type 6’s heightened vigilance sometimes leads them to jump to conclusions, using their imagination to make implications and inferences about the dangers they feel. Because they feel an inner sense of threat and doubt, Type 6 scans their environment for potential dangers, focusing on any threat (even minor ones) and magnifying them out of proportion. Type 6’s attention goes to avoiding danger. As compensation, Type 6 sometimes control and dominate by testing and doubting others, blaming, challenging authority, going to negatives, magnifying situations, and being secretive. Their ultimate concern or fear is ending up helpless and defenseless or unable to rely on themselves to cope with life. Projection glues the structure together by helping them attribute inner concerns and fears to others and external situations, in order to avoid or challenge. Concurrently, 6s rally fear, which may be hidden or unrecognized, but that shows up as doubt and questioning, a consistent concern with what might threaten safety and security.Type 6’s attention naturally goes to what could go wrong, potential hazards, worst cases and how to deal with them. Type 6 comes to believe that they can assure life and certainty through avoiding (the phobic stance) or facing danger (the counter-phobic stance) through vigilance, an active imagination, questioning, and either escaping or battling the perceived hazards. The original state of faith in self, others, and the universe goes into the background in a world that Type 6s perceive is threatening, hazardous, unpredictable and untrustworthy. Nature AND Nurture: Acquiring an Enneagram Type.Enneagram Test – Discover Your Enneagram Type
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