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

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.

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The problem with all these personality labels is that they are inherently limiting. We start to live within the narrow walls of who we think we’re

All of our conscious focus tends to be reserved for the world around us rather than for what’s going on inside of us. The unfortunate consequence of this imbalance in focus is that we may not really know who we are below the surface. And whether we acknowledge it or not, that lack of knowing creates inner friction.

Our personalities are directly linked to our emotional reactions, decision-making, and behaviors. But what if the ego code is flawed? Maybe planning a successful event would be just the thing to boost Nadia’s confidence.

unconscious filters that only accept supporting information. Regrettably, that means these filters miss and dismiss data that would otherwise provide alternative perspectives. Information that doesn’t fit our core belief patterns is subliminally discarded.

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

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.

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