Emergence of the Divine Child

I have also seen that so many people have so many judgments against their emotions, are so conditioned away from spontaneous emotional expression, so blocked and disconnected emotionally and so frightened of the pictures their judgments have created about what they have denied, that they have wanted to avoid this path altogether.

The mind, with its thoughts, is driven by feelings. Each feeling is the cumulative derivative of many thousands of thoughts. Because most people throughout their lives repress, suppress, and try to escape from their feelings, the suppressed energy accumulates and seeks expression through psychosomatic distress, bodily disorders, emotional illnesse

When we are disconnected from an authentic sense of self, each type slams into a powerful impeding emotion, one they share in common with the other two types in their center. Riso and Hudson refer to this as each center’s dominant emotion. The enneagram invites us into further exploration of our dominant impeding emotion and its excessive qualities

the internal environment of irritation, frustration, anger, blame, and judgment that creates our stress and causes the heart to shut down. Our core heart feelings are cut off when judgments or blame dominate, and then we can no longer feel the nurturing textures of life. When we’re out of touch with appreciation, care, and love, life becomes dry an