Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit
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 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 Deep Science Behind the 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.
Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
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 […]
Compassion
Mindfulness and compassion lead us to greater awareness of the nature of our suffering. We can become aware of aches and tensions on the body, disturbing, anxious thoughts, relating to painful events of the past or feared events of the future, that distract us from experiencing the fullness of the present moment. Meditation techniques serve as a vehicle to carry us through these difficulties on the path to experiencing our wholeness. Through the practice of meditation we can redirect the energy invested in automatic coping mechanisms into self-supporting processes of learning, evolution and resting in our essential wholeness.
What is Your Personality Type?
Have you ever heard of the Enneagram? It’s a model of human personality used in psychology, business and other areas to better understand the minds of others. It’s based on nine interconnected personality types. The Enneagram is considered to be one of the most powerful tools to provide a deeper insight to yourself and to those around you.
New Ideas Arise out of the Deep Ecology of our True Nature
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Alfred North Whitehead Ideas are the seminal cognitions of the objects of our perception; essentially, untried concepts. All creativity begins with the possibility of something new being conceived. New ideas that are inspiring lead to the birth of new hypotheses, beliefs, values, capabilities, behaviors and ideals of […]
Essential Wholeness – A Nine Phase Trans-theoretical Model of Change – Article & Video from Science and Non-Duality Conference 2018
click for more info about introductory experiential workshop Oct 4 by Eric Lyleson, MA Many clinicians in seeking to be effective with their clients have adopted an eclectic or integrated approach to psychotherapy. What seems to be lacking is a trans-theoretical model that can show us very specifically what methods are best to use […]
The Enneagram and the Lazy Approach to Enlightenment
Be lazy like a mountain by Eric Lyleson, author of Essential Wholeness, Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram Understanding the Enneagram of Essential Wholeness will not help us achieve awakening or enlightenment. Instead it will helps us see how we unconsciously unenlighten ourselves through the maintenance of our ego fixations that obscure our enlightened […]
Enneagram – Personality, Resistance to Change and Realising Potential
The Enneagram commonly known as a system of nine personality types, can be used as a nine- phase model of living Systems, including humans evolve and grow. It shows we evolve from one level of homeostasis to a higher and more complex level of organisation and homeostasis. NINE represents homeostasis and the process moves around […]
