The Feeling Centre

The Feeling Centre corresponds to the limbic brain: the seat of what we feel in relation to others, what comes from our heart, or what we shout about, our surges of emotion.

A feeling personality is highly responsive to atmosphere, to emotions, and to the expectations of others. Feeling people are ultra sensitive, function like sponges and adapt to other people without realising it.

When I am OK, I feel happy, loved, fulfilled, in harmony with everything, happy to be alive. I can just as quickly plunge into sadness, shame. Then I need people to accept me as I am.

"Feeling" personalities very quickly feel what another person with them is experiencing. They pick up joy, fear, anger or sadness very easily and adapt to these emotions depending on how they experience the moment and depending on their Type. They readily guess what they should say or do to make the other person happy, but will not always do it: that depends on their objective at the time.

"Feeling" people are preoccupied with sadness, although in very diverse ways. First and foremost they seek recognition by others, but don’t always get it in the way they expect and are disappointed by this.

In the Enneagram model, Feeling personalities have the numbers 2, 3 and 4. Each number type is very different.