To celebrate the redesign of the Enneagram Instrument website, we are offering this excerpt of Point Three on the enneagram. Habits of Heart and Mind of the Performer Point Three on the enneagram represents the performer – the person who is so dedicated the task and job to be done that they almost completely forget […]
Enneagram Point 5 – The Observer
To celebrate the redesign of the Enneagram Instrument website, we are offering this excerpt of Point Five on the enneagram. Habits of Heart and Mind of the Observer My experience with Five’s goes back to my childhood. My father was a Five who exhibited a lot of the qualities described below. Five’s have this uncanny […]
Enneagram Point 1 – The Perfectionist
To celebrate the redesign of the Enneagram Instrument website, we are offering this excerpt of Point One on the enneagram. Habits of Heart and Mind of the Perfectionist Point one on the enneagram represents “The Perfectionist“. The fixation for point one is resentment, which is derived from the one’s preoccupation with getting things right and […]
What Personality Type Do You Have?
We are excited to announce our recently launched, completely redesigned Enneagram Instrument website with a new look and feel and easy navigation. The Enneagram The enneagram is a diagram which describes nine distinct personality types and their emotional, spiritual, and mental preoccupations and positive aspects. In addition to the enneagram of personality types, there are […]
The False Personality
We are excited to announce our recently launched, completely redesigned Enneagram Instrument website with a new look and feel and easy navigation. This article is about The False Personality. The False Personality Our goal is to understand our essential nature – those higher aspects of personality that make for a better human being and […]
5 Reasons To Meditate
In a video titled, How to Meditation Without Moving to the Himalayas, Brian Johnson gives us 5 reasons to meditate. Brian Johnson is 50% Philosopher and 50% CEO and creator of en*theos. He is 100% committed to helping people optimize their lives so we can change the world together. Brian is also the author of […]
The Brain Is Not The Mind
In the modern field of neuroscience, there are two extreme positions that ignore the simple fact that the brain is not the mind. According to David Brooks, an accomplished New York Times columnist, these two extremes are: At the lowbrow level, there are the conference circuit neuro-mappers. These are people who take pretty brain-scan images […]
Real Presence
The Weekly Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das for this week are from Father Richard Rohr. I first encountered Father Rohr when I was in my enneagram certification program with Helen Palmer between 1989 and 1991. His book, Enneagram, was a major contribution to enneagram studies at the time. The relevance of this quote […]
Contemplative Practices In Corporate America
Here is another installment of Weekly Words of Wisdom chosen by Lama Surya Das. I am especially interested in this one because I worked for many years as a software engineer and did try to do this myself. I gave one presentation on the enneagram at Sybase in 1988. It turned out that I could only […]
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