THE 5 INSTINCTS
The primary “FEAR” in all humans is the fear of death. More completely, it is the fear of death without completing our task. Even non-believer social scientists have noted that there is an underlying innate desire to fulfill our task wired into every human. This is the fear that feeds all other fears. Just as fear is the underlying emotion to all destructive emotions such as anger or sadness, the fear of dying without completing our task is the root of all fears.
Each of us has been given 5 instinctual gifts from God to support our longevity and ultimately complete our purpose.
The 5 instincts:
Self Esteem Instinct: Our self-esteem was not designed to be a comparative. It was simply designed as an internal report card that gives us gentle feedback. We are either on track or off of it. This instinct is our guide. We are to be leveraging its existence to become the best version of ourselves not necessarily anyone else.
When we compare ourselves to another, this is not the proper use of our internal messaging. This is a signal that our esteem is facing the wrong direction and evaluating incorrectly. We call this BROKEN self-esteem or hyper-active self-esteem. You were made for a unique purpose. Your life and experiences are unique. Your face, body and mind are unique. You were fashioned to be optimized version of YOU. As you become the best version of you, purpose manifests more deeply and we are more in alignment with our great part in the life plan.
Security Instinct: Our security instinct is designed to keep us physically safe. It alerts us to put on a coat in the snow and earn money to provide shelter. It is the internal alarm that goes off when the car breaks down or if we are on the edge of a roof. When it is balanced, we avoid making physically, emotionally and financially unsafe decisions. When it is hyper-active, we are apt to avoid any and all risks or worthy ambitions or on the converse, climb a mountain without ropes. We find ourselves on one end or the other of the safety spectrum.
This instinct is as old as man. It is wired to push adrenaline into our muscles, race our heart and fill our lungs with oxygen so that we are prepared to act. Fight or flee. When our security instinct is affected by life experiences over and over it can adjust to being overly sensitive or completely unwired and this could put us into an unrealistic sense of danger or nullify our ability to move out of the way of true threat.
Ambitions Instinct: This instinct is our fundamental desire to know more and become more. We reach for answers, new innovations and evolve into more efficient humans. It is how we developed medicine, new farming techniques, safer cars and laws that govern man more effectively. Ambition is the reason why our average life span has increased from 28-years to 86 years. As we are doubling technology in the world every 90 days now. Imagine what our life span could be 200 years from now.
If our ambition instinct is hyperactive, we will either sit on the couch and reach for zero tall goals or perhaps conquer the world. One end of the spectrum or the other. Each experience from child hood adjusts the minds interpretation of the meaning of events and can make the instinctual alarm go off when there is nothing to be rationally afraid of. We are at the mercy of our perspectives. If our line of site is cleared up then this instinct begins to calm down and act appropriately and we reach for worthwhile causes and goals that fit our purpose.
Sex Instinct: the sex instinct is wired into us to look for a worthwhile partner in life. Make children, bring passion wisdom and accountability to the table and have joy in love. The fruit is a family with children that carry on the human race. This is a wonderful gift. However, if our instinct is hyperactive, we are apt to never settle with any spouse out of fear of commitment or cheat on the one we have at every chance. This instinct is such a lovely privilege and without taking action in the weaknesses of this sector we will be left to the bump and push of our heart instinct alerting us to danger that is not real. We will run away from growth enabling struggle or harm our partner viciously with hurtful betrayals.
Social Instinct: The social instinct creates the internal desire to develop community. Out of it came civilization. Man is not the apex predator alone. Without his ambition instinct that harvested weapons and his social instinct that enables team work he would be vulnerable to wolves and bears and other large predators. God gave us this instinct to care for each other and work together as a family for great purpose. When this instinct is hyperactive, we are inclined to run away and live in the woods alone to escape people or starve too never be alone.
When we are threatened, it is one or more of these instincts that are alerted. So, imagine, if one or more of your instincts are sensitive then you are at the mercy of irrational phantom fears that suggest your life is in danger. We react with defective behavior in irrational fear. All broken defects come from FEAR. If we could learn to shift one or two of these instincts into balance, then irrational fear would subside and we will act out less and function in principles more often.
Principles lead to prosperity
Defects lead to destruction
How important is it to adjust hyperactive instincts? Balanced instinctual perspectives is paramount to fear abolishment. This is why abandonment and going bankrupt keep us in stasis. They affect nearly every instinct. 5 alarm fire! Later you will learn how to identify which instincts are threatened and what to do to calm the client down and help them to walk out of irrational fear and back into action.
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