
About The Sub-Types
There are 3 main areas that we tend to focus our energy and attention on, to varying degrees, as we navigate through life. Some authors call them our instincts, or the way we naturally respond to situations. These instincts are:
- Self-preservation (SP): Focuses on basic necessities for survival – food, shelter, safety of the physical being, warmth, creature comforts, keeping away from danger, etc.
- Sexual (SX) or One-to-one: Focuses on relationship with one other party; forming intimacy in relationships, not with many people at one go, but with one particular person at each point in time.
- Social (SO): Focuses on belonging to a bigger community, what everyone else is doing, influence in a group, group processes, etc.