1. Seeking – The seeking instinct is the instinct within all humans that make us want to explore. It's built into us because it has evolutionary benefits: by seeking, we find food, shelter, and water. It helps us sustain ourselves.
Humans all have three main survival instincts: Self-Preservation, Sexual, and Social. Our enneagram type is a strategy used to meet the needs of these three instinctual drives. Our personality tends to have an imbalance with the three rather than use them equally.
These are seeking, anger, fear, panic-grief, care, pleasure/lust and play. Interestingly, it is thought that the most powerful instinct is “seeking”. Something that we generally give little thought or credence to. This is the instinct that moves us to explore our environment in order to meet our needs.
-- Waiving, then, the question of the order of appearance, we find the generally recognised instincts in man to be as follows: Fear, anger, shyness, curiosity, affection, sexual love, jealousy and envy, rivalry, sociability, sympathy, modesty ( ?), play, imitation, constructiveness, secretiveness, and acquisitiveness.
It became the catch-all explanation for those adaptive and complex abilities that do not obviously result from learning or experience. Today, various animals are said to possess a survival instinct, migratory instinct, herding instinct, maternal instinct, or language instinct.
The three Instincts are Self-Preservation, Sexual, and Social. Self-Preservation is about conserving energy, Sexual about releasing energy, and Social about receiving energy from others.
In his 1920 book Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Sigmund Freud applied the concept of Eros to psychoanalysis. He referred to Eros as the life instinct, which include sexual instincts, the drive to live, and basic instinctual impulses such as thirst and hunger. Its counterpart is Thanatos, which is the death instinct.
"Human beings have survived as a species because we have evolved the capacities to care for those in need and to cooperate. As Darwin long ago surmised, sympathy is our strongest instinct."
Biology also shapes who we are and how we act. To that end, Enneagram experts have identified three key biological drives, or “instincts,” that influence our feelings and actions: self-preservation, sexual, and social. While one instinct tends to dominate in each of us, we're endowed with all three in varying measures.
The first six urges—food, clothing, shelter, safety, protection, and sex—focus primarily on survival of the individual and the species, but they also have social implications as well, such as one's belonging within a tribe or relationship to others.
With the publication of his book "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" in 1920, Freud concluded that all instincts fall into one of two major classes: life drives and death drives—later dubbed Eros and Thanatos by other psychologists.
Migration, hibernation, eating, drinking and sleeping are examples of instinctual behaviors. Most instincts are driven by the need to survive, either in response to environmental cues or internal signals from the organism itself.
These eight primal needs are acceptance, connectedness, contentment, freedom, gratification, guardianship, prestige, and survival. Many of these needs have been described by the work done in neuromarketing (consumer neuroscience) during the last decade.
According to Harvard Health Publishing, the flight or fight response evolved as a survival mechanism. When the human brain sensed danger, it triggered stress hormones that initiated physiological changes to prepare the body to either get away from the danger (flight) or fight it.
We share a common set of emotions and the capacity for self-awareness, abstract thinking, knowing right from wrong, and doing complicated math. All are examples of the hundreds of traits shared by all human beings in the world today.
According to Self-Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000), the three motivators of human behavior are: autonomy – the need to have control and choice over one's actions, competence – the need to feel capable and effective, and. relatedness – the need for social connection and interaction with others.
The Biology and Evolution of Falling in Love
This interest is specifically to facilitate reproduction. He says that “Romantic love, is an instinctive part of human nature”.
Like all animals, humans have instincts, genetically hard-wired behaviors that enhance our ability to cope with vital environmental contingencies. Our innate fear of snakes is an example. Other instincts, including denial, revenge, tribal loyalty, greed and our urge to procreate, now threaten our very existence.
Love is not just hearts, roses, candy and living happily ever after. Love is also how you fight with your partner and is ruled not by thunderbolts or cherubs but by primitive instincts.
SO/SX is the "one to one" instinct if there is one at all. All stackings can have certain preferences for whether they spend time in groups or pairs, and it's not related to the instinct necessarily. However, if there's one stacking that is religious about "one to one" intimacy, it is likely SO/SX.
In the classic personal development book Think and Grow Rich,Napoleon Hill says "Sex desire is the most powerful of human desires. When driven by this desire, men develop keenness of imagination, courage, will-power, persistence, and creative ability unknown to them at other times."
“The deepest desire of every human heart is to be known and to be loved,” Father Joe Campbell said in a Feast of St. Joseph the Worker homily Saturday. “This desire reaches its fullness in the desire to be known by God Himself.”
Humans by birth have the natural instinct to survive. It is those best adapted to the environment that continue to survive and pass their characteristics, feelings, and behaviors to generations to come. The primal instincts of humans is to hunt and gather.
Although humans still possess most of the instincts of our primal ancestors, other instincts have adapted and evolved, which override the older reactions.