THE PRIMARY THEMES OF THE HEART TRIAD INCLUDE: I OVER-CONNECT TO OTHERS which fits my idealized image of who I should be in the eyes of the other. Meanwhile, I leave my own personal experience rather than coming home to myself, as you are in this present moment....
https://youtu.be/Eaqn14zoMVc Each one of us over uses one of our centers. Types 5/6/7 overuse the head center, Types 8/9/1 overuse the Feeling/Sensing center and Types 2/3/4 overuse the Doing center in order to stay in connection. In hard times, our dominant center...
When I was in grad school, I did a lot of reading to look for Enneagram patterns in the wisdom traditions (I looked primarily at Christianity and Buddhism ). Concurrently, I was doing my Enneagram training. In listening to panels, you can see people’s core...
I used to have pat answers for people who say, “I don’t want to be put in a box.”After spending a week at the International Enneagram Association conference with the most diverse crowd I’ve ever seen, I experienced over 400 souls with lines, edges,...
“I’m bad at meditating” is a misunderstanding of meditation. The only bad meditation is the one you don’t do. Or… “I can’t meditate” is a way of saying “I have a hard time being with the silence of my own being.” Of course you do. There’s a lot of stimulation...
Types 2 and 9 both tend to reference their attention to others and have a hard time knowing what they need or want. Both tend towards (conscious) suppression and (unconscious) repression of their anger. Both are “positive reframe” types in conflict. One...
