The Enneagram, Core Truths and Transformational Conversations
Essential Wholeness recognises the Enneagram as a symbol of a whole person. Each of the types as they awaken tends to be in tune with a particular core truth of what it is to be more fully human. Generally at the heart of any transformational conversation comes an experiential realisation that helps us have a practical understanding of something along the lines of these core truths.
Buddhism and Essential Wholeness
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 […]
Spiritual Awakening, Personal Evolution and the Enneagram
It is suffering that generally brings people to psychotherapy and spirituality. In the beginning it is the desire to be free from suffering that drives us to look deeper within or beyond our usual sense of self. Self-realization and psychotherapy are, on one hand, a retrograde process. In it, we are relaxing back through our layers of constructed trance-like reality and come to rest in radical acknowledgement and acceptance of where we actually are on the human level. We then, take one step deeper into the ground of our being.
Enneagram Type NINE’s Hero’s Journey
Enneagram Type NINE – Tales from the Therapy Room: Waking Up! Jane has an Enneagram type NINE personality structure. She came in with her husband Bill for marital therapy, was shocked when her husband announced he was leaving the marriage to live with a woman he’d been having an affair with for some time. Although she […]
Enneagram Personality Type NINE
Personality Type NINE Type NINEs identify with the: change cycle phase of homeostasis essential quality of peace basic function of mediation developmental task of cooperation psychological network of community/environment Type NINEs tend to resist the: change cycle phase of awareness of limitations essential quality of consciousness basic function of discernment developmental task of separation psychological […]
Family Constellations Can Change the Way you Relate
Unblock the flow of love in your life and the lives of your children Bringing out the best in ourselves and others Have you ever noticed how some people can bring out the best in you and others can bring out the worst? And sometimes the same person can bring out both? Or at other times you […]
Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy
Essential Wholeness Meditation An Integration of Psychology and Spirituality (excerpt from Essential Wholeness by Eric Lyleson) Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy has evolved out of forty years of practicing meditation and psychotherapy. It recognises that different people and traditions hold different pieces of the puzzle and when we can bring them all together we get a more complete […]
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.
Psychotherapy and Spirituality?
Essential Wholeness – Using the Enneagram to Integrate Psychotherapy and Spirituality Astrophysicists tell us the universe has been expanding at an accelerating pace ever since the Big Bang. Biologists tell a long and convoluted story of the evolution of life in which humans finally enter the scene on the last page of the last chapter. […]
