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

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

Feedback from other people plays a role in shaping our personalities as well.

Sometimes our personalities get covered with a shiny coat of expectations that don’t necessarily reflect what’s happening underneath.

Learning to edit the ego code’s inner rules and logic can give us the freedom to use new approaches that honor who we are at our core. Here’s what that might look like using the previous example:

Keep in mind that our personality is not just connected to our thoughts. It’s ingrained in every part of our finite nature: in our bodies and the sensations they carry, in our hearts and the range of feelings we habitually experience,

You may recall from the Introduction that 95% of everything we do, think, believe, and feel takes place below our general level of awareness. Pause for a moment with that statement.

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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.

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.