Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit

Essential Wholeness is the sum total of what it is to be a human being. We are human and we are being. Our Essential Wholeness includes body, mind, soul and spirit. What is changing and what is unchanging. What is changing is like an ecosystem. As human animals we are imbedded in and dependent on […]

Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit

Essential Wholeness Enneagram

Essential Qualities The Enneagram, and the nine essential qualities, can be used a map to guide us into and through the meditative process. Although meditation is an organic process, we can assist ourselves by walking in the footsteps of the masters who have mapped out the path. Two methods using the Enneagram as a map […]

Enneagram Meditation

Essential Wholeness Enneagram

Essential Qualities The Enneagram, and the nine essential qualities, can be used a map to guide us into and through the meditative process. Although meditation is an organic process, we can assist ourselves by walking in the footsteps of the masters who have mapped out the path. Two methods using the Enneagram as a map […]

The Power of Being Part of a Constellation Community – Representing

Through the Family Constellation process, the emotions that have been entrenched in families for generations and contribute to a range of dysfunctional behaviours and moods such as addiction, co-dependency, depression, anxiety­­­ and some chronic illnesses­ - can be identified, understood and released.

Serving as a Representative “Representing in a family constellation is a great honour that truly defies logic. Having the opportunity to step into the shoes of another person and feel their pain, their joy and the many emotions between these and display their messages of truth so another person can witness the bigger picture of […]

Trans-generational Trauma at the Heart of Many Issues

trans-generational trauma

Transgenerational trauma is the genetic passing on of emotional, physical, or social pain down through the generations. It’s not new. In fact, the concept of transgenerational trauma originated in the after WWII. It was then that various studies proved that children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors demonstrated certain symptoms of trauma. Nightmares and emotional and behavioral problems […]

Guy Pearce on his Family Constellation Experience

Guy Pearce speaking about his experience with Family Constellations

If nothing else Family Constellations help people find forgiveness in their hearts. Forgiveness is the act of giving up all hope of a better past and allows the pain we have endured to heal.  When caught by the pain of the past our lives can get stuck in repeating patterns of recreating similar pain or […]

The Deep Science Behind the Enneagram

Eric Lyleson Enneagram

The Enneagram symbol is seen as a model of the underlying patterns that connect our knowledge of psychology, biology, physics, mythology and spirituality. Unlike other theories that show the Enneagram in a static two-dimensional way, this Essential Wholeness will broaden your perspective into an expanding multidimensional model, much like a three-dimensional spiral. With the right mathematics it might be represented as a fractal.

Systemic Family Constellations

Family Constellations can help youresolve longstanding reactive emotional issues, chronic health concerns and dysfunctional relationship patterns.  Please join our healing communinty on May 26 for our next Constellation Day.

Meditation Teachers – How Important are They?

Meditation, Buddhism and psychology

Meditation and mindfulness are how we practice trusting in the peaceful loving freedom of our essential Being, while observing how ridiculous it is to give our power away to the agonizing habits of our ego defences.

Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy

Rick Hanson and Eric Lyleson

Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Essential Wholeness: Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram, Eric Lyleson, Balboa Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015 ISBN 978‐1‐4525‐2820‐5, PB, 408 pages Yvonne McDonell Essential Wholeness by Eric Lyleson uses an extensive range of philosophy, psychology and spirituality to describe us as people and to broaden our role as therapists. We […]