“All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.” ~ Gangaji Efforting is not an official word in the English language; it’s a verb made

“All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.” ~ Gangaji Efforting is not an official word in the English language; it’s a verb made
For this blog, I started with some answers I believe are important in both teaching the Enneagram myself as well as teaching others to teach the system and watching them do so. As a result, I pose these three questions
Here is the 2nd set 4 No-Nos accompanied by the Yes-Yes for that area. When typing ourselves on the enneagram or when assisting others in identifying their type, I’ve learned some important guidelines that can be useful in doing this,
When typing ourselves on the enneagram or when assisting others in identifying their type, I’ve developed some important guidelines over the years that can be useful in doing this. These are taken from both my own journey in teaching the
In the part 1 blog, the model of love in the 3 centers describes love from this perspective, but how do we use this understanding that each center plays a key role in conscious love? This blog, part 2, helps
What is love? It’s easy to say but hard to define. It means different things to different people. Perhaps the most common meaning is that love is a feeling in the heart. We care for another person; we feel something
In two previous blogs, I’ve written about how the importance of Centers of Intelligence – I believe it gets neglected when many teach the Enneagram – and the importance of subtypes, which I think people often either don’t understand well
In the world known as the Enneagram, some people – new and old enneagrammers alike – dismiss, ignore or downplay the importance of the 3 Centers of Intelligence. I am concerned about this, so I decided to write about why
In 2010, I wrote a series of blogs and invited several respected Enneagram teachers to write guest blogs, all on the topic of different theories that comprise the contemporary Enneagram, particularly the Enneagram of personality. My motivation for focusing on
This 10th blog in the Enneagram Theory: Fixations (Habits of Mind) series focuses on Indolence, the fixation normally associated with Enneagram style Nine. In Nines (really in all of us), Indolence refers to the mental process of mentally diffusing our