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Hello, it's Suzanne. My name is Anita.

And your podcasts and books have played a big part in helping me broaden my understanding

and deepen my journey of transformation with God through the Enneagram.

I found particularly helpful the way you unpack the stances, what particular Enneagram numbers

notice and orientation of time. My question is a simple one related to orientation of time.

Obviously, we each have our home orientation of time in our particular space on the Enneagram.

But here's my question.

Might we move into a different orientation of time if we move toward the numbers that represent our stress or health spaces

or one of our wings that has a different orientation of time than the number with which we identify?

I ask this because as a one who has a time orientation to the present, I'm noticing that when I move toward my stress number

four or draw heavily off of my nine wing, my focus shifts to the past and when I'm moving toward my health number

seven, my focus shifts more toward the future.

It seems to me if this is accurate that it's another way to help with the work of inter observation and noticing and to respond rather than to react.

Thank you for taking my question and especially for being willing to share the gifts that God has entrusted to you by serving others with them.

Welcome back everyone to the Enneagram journey.

Thank you so much Anita for your question and a reminder to everybody that you can send in your questions at theenneagramjourney.org

and Suzanne and her guests will do their best to try to answer them.

Her guest today is Enneagram Ford David Gaffney and he is Suzanne to a great job of addressing Anita's question

as well as several other key issues and strengths and weaknesses of Enneagram Force.

We hope you enjoy their conversation.

My guest today is David Gaffney, a four on the Enneagram and you know I wasn't going to say this but I can't keep from it.

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