Underneath Your Personality: Discover Greater Well-Being Through Deep Living With the Enneagram

The basic symbol for the Enneagram was introduced before World War I by philosopher and spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff to highlight the challenges humans experience when they are asleep to their true nature.

Think of noticing (without judgment) as a capacity you can develop to observe yourself more clearly. Noticing allows you to go underneath the stories you’ve told yourself and into the territory where real change can begin to take place.

The practice of being judgment-free builds our capacity to fully accept ourselves as human.

Acceptance of ourselves and of our life journey is far more powerful than self-judgment in terms of our transformation.

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our intention is to learn how to distinguish between personality patterns that reveal our innate gifts when we are more present and those that get in the way of our true well-being by having a grip on us. Being

The grounded body, open heart, and quiet mind are well-known in the Enneagram field as the three centers of intelligence.

in stark contrast to actively trying to fix something or make yourself better? Instead of pushing for change, it involves relaxing into yourself—not holding onto your ideas about who you think you are so tightly. You may notice that your heart begins to open more as your body releases some of its tension.

when we allow our personalities to drive our focus of attention, we end up with a narrowing field of possibilities. And as time goes by, that becomes more pronounced, defined, and fixed. Anything outside the scope of our increasingly limited emotional vision can create an inaccurate sense of security in our narrow perspectives.