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 […]

Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy

Why Intelligent Successful People Meditate

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 […]

Neuroscientist Dan Siegel Acknowledges Enneagram

Separation and Identity The anxieties, frustrations, insecurities, resentments or even the simple discontent that drives most people’s lives, is caused by the separation from our essential nature that occurs by the holding onto a solid, permanent sense of self. This sense of an isolated me is created and maintained by beliefs that create perceptions 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 […]

Forgiveness the Essential Quality of Phase FOUR of the Enneagram

Forgiveness is the Essential Quality of Enneagram Phase 4

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Forgiveness is remembering the innocence of all creation in each unfolding moment. All forgiveness is essentially self-forgiveness. No one, including ourselves, deserves to suffer; painful things are merely part of life. Forgiveness allows whatever arises in our senses to come and go without attaching a story to it and then getting lost in the […]