The Receptive, Reassuring, Agreeable, and
Complacent Person
Healthy. Healthy Nines are deeply receptive, open, unselfconscious,
emotionally stable, and serene. Accepting, trusting of self and others,
easygoing, at ease with self and with life. Patient and gentle, but also direct
and unpretentious, they have an innocence and simplicity about them, and are
genuinely kind people. Their attitude is optimistic, reassuring, and
supportive; they make people feel comfortable and have a calming, healing
influence, harmonizing groups and bringing people together. When healthy, Nines
are also powerful and dynamic when they need to be. Their steadiness, common
sense, and quiet strength are reassuring to others. They easily can see other
people’s points of view, making good mediators, negotiators, and counselors.
Their sense of well-being comforts and sustains others. Have enormous dignity,
deep serenity, and real peace that come from acceptance of their human
condition. At their best: Become self-possessed and have great
equanimity and genuine contentment. Feel autonomous and fulfilled, paradoxically
at one with themselves yet able to form more profound relationships because of
their union with themselves. Become powerfully alive, awake, grounded, alert to
self and others. Develop an indomitable spirit, like a force of nature —
dynamic, connected, truly at one with life. They are exuberant, vital, and
self-possessed.
I’ve seen this kind of observational post done for functions and MBTI types, but not for Enneagram I don’t think?? Disclaimer: based off personal observation.
Feel free to contribute :)
One:(Note: I don’t know many of this type) Least relaxed, gaze can become fixated on one thing in the environment esp. when talking/trying to explain something, bright, slightly strained.
Two: Expressive, attentive, anticipating, reactive, open (but can also look very closed-off if unhealthy - focus overwhelmingly on the other person); often cheerful, ‘alight’.
Three:(Note: I don’t know many of this type) Level, straightforward, superficially expressive, confident, shiny, can look very inexpressive/serious when not interacting with people.
Four: Tired, often compassionate, self-absorbed, self-deprecating, can look cynical; soft, starry, ‘piercing’ but in that you are drawn to look into their eyes not necessarily that they’re invading your soul.
Five: Quiet but not absent, observing, piercing, detached but only purposely, from withholding (compared to 9’s typical ‘floatiness’), direct-facing but not so challenging (as 8) more matter of fact.
Six: Searching and responsive, like they’re waiting for you/the world to make the first move; petitioning, checking, may make a lot of sideways glances in person and in photos.
Seven: Lively, outwardly-focused, often flitting between things in the environment (more so if Ne, more acting-on if Se). When they make direct eye contact and speak, you may feel like they’re using you as an anchor as they run along with their thoughts.
Eight: Very outwardly-focused, intense, direct and challenging like laser beams are coming from their eyes; can look cold, kind of lizard-like but if warm, purposeful.
Nine: Relaxed around eyes, not showing much strong emotion, staring into the distance slightly glazed over, eye contact can be genuine but generally doesn’t emphasise strong ‘alliances’ as such; can look enigmatic.
I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.
It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.
Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.
It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.
Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.
Have a great day x
Go unfollow this blog all you want, I am reblogging this.
I am aware this does not follow this blog’s style, however, I find it necessary to reblog this
My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won’t stop; in fact, I will be right there with you, as a citizen, for all my days that remain. For now, whether you’re young or young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your President - the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago.
I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change - but in yours. I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written:
Yes We Can. Yes We Did. Yes We Can.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA FOR EIGHT AMAZING YEARS [2008-2016]