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 […]
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 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
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.
Enlightenment is our Natural way of Being
Meditation is learning to rest in your true nature
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 […]
Why Should I Meditate?
One in five of Australians are taking anti-depressant medication, others are drinking too much alcohol, and others are just stressed out. Which might lead us to ask…
Meditation and Enneagram Personality Types
Meditation and Enneagram Personality Types Assets and stumbling blocks By Eric Lyleson, MA The Enneagram system of nine personality types can help us understand the resistances to meditation and the obstacles encountered in meditation for our personality type. We also can see the assets they compulsively over-use and what are helpful remedies for each type. […]
