Enlightening Science of the Enneagram
The Essential Qualities of Being are the ways the soul enlightens our day-to-day challenges and the opportunities to realize our essential wholeness; and the underlying science of the Enneagram confirms this. Something traveling at light speed through space will have no speed left for motion through time. Thus light does not get old; a photon […]
Your Personality Type and Essential Qualities
New Insights into Enneagram Personality Types –
Your personality is shaped by your relationship with the essential qualities of peace, consciousness, compassion, strength, forgiveness, space, acceptance, joy and will.
Transformative Conversations
What is transformation? How does it happen? Is there a universal pattern how people and all living systems evolve? Change is inevitable. It is only a fearful mind that clings to what is familiar. Underlying every Enneagram fixation is the hope to maintain a stable sense of self and a life that is fairly predicable, […]
Sleep soundly, think clearly, love deeply – Meditate
Do you have trouble sleeping or wake up tired? Is your concentration or problem solving not as good as you would like? Are your relationships as fulfilling as you would like them to be? It is only common sense that: The more deeply relaxed you are, the better you sleep. The more soundly you […]
Why Intelligent Successful People Meditate?
Padmasree Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer of Cisco Systems oversaw 22,000 employees, and she said that taking time to meditate and unplug helped her to manage it all. Tony Schwartz, Founder & CEO, The Energy Project says that meditating has freed him from migraines and helped him develop patience, and he also advocates mindfulness […]
Meditation Benefits Validated by Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Why Learn Meditation? In 2000 the Dalai Lama invited neuroscientists to study the brain activity of expert Buddhist meditators. The University of Wisconsin along with other universities over the next fifteen years studied more than one hundred experienced meditators, as well as, beginning meditators. It became apparent that because of the brain’s neuroplasticity that […]
Questioning Beliefs – Phase SIX of Enneagram of Change
Questioning Beliefs “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer Beliefs are not things, so much as they are mental constructions that maintain their form through the action of believing. The more useful a belief appears to be, the more […]
Ten Reasons to not Meditate
Ten Reasons to Not Meditate What’s your excuse? 1. I’m too busy keeping myself busy to stop and meditate. Whenever I slow down I feel anxious or depressed so I keep myself constantly busy. One of the major reasons people feel stressed anxious and depressed is they don’t have enough time to relax and get […]
Science Confirms Meditation is Good for You
The Dalai Lama encouraged research on the brain and meditation at the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior at the University of Wisconsin. The primary types of meditation studied were Focused Attention (FA) meditation, which entails voluntary focusing attention on a chosen object in a sustained fashion, and Open Monitoring (OM) meditation, which involves […]