Enneagram of Essential Qualities of Soul
Our essential quality of peace seeks to cooperate more fully with life as it is emerging within and around us. This inspires greater mindfulness of our internal and external experience. This leads us to a greater sense of compassion in the way we relate to ourselves and the rest of creation. Out of compassion we find the strength to promote life’s emerging agendas and address our inadequacies and past mistakes with forgiveness. Through forgiveness we are able to experience the present moment as it is, which in turn opens up the space in our consciousness to investigate the nature of reality more fully. Spacious awareness just accepts everything as it is, whereby we can differentiate fact from fiction. Acceptance of everything opens us to appreciation of everything and the joyously blissful nature of consciousness. It is when we follow our deepest bliss that we are in alignment with divine will (dharma). In the surrendering to divine will, we manifest our part to play in peaceful harmony with the rest of creatio
WILD MEDITATIONS – A Weekend of Deep Immersion in Wild Nature
A journey into the hidden beauty of the Blue Mountains where we will explore: clarifying your intentions for the upcoming year meditation practices that will open you to a deeper connection with your own wild nature cultivating the loving patience needed to hear the whispers of your heart’s calling the power of slowing down enough […]
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.
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 […]
New Scientific Evidence: Meditation can Rewire and Develop our Brains!
Science likes Meditation Although I have been meditating for 35 years I am excited that every time I take a look there are new scientific reports about the benefits of meditation. The changes are not just in our mood and concentration, but in the gray matter of our brains. Anti-aging Recently a study from UCLA found […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]