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Wings
In Enneagram terms, your “wing” is the type—adjacent to your primary type—that flavors the your type’s expression. For example: if you are a Nine, your wing would either be Eight or One. If you have an Eight wing, the nomenclature
Type Descriptions
Type Eight: The Challenger Self-confident, decisive, willful & confrontational The powerful, aggressive type. Eights are self-confident, strong, and assertive. Protective, resourceful, straight-talking, and decisive, but can also be ego-centric and domineering. Eights feel they must control their environment, especially people,
Discovering Your Type
In contrast to behavioral systems such as Meyers-Briggs in which type characteristics are easily observable, the Enneagram focuses on our deeper motivational structures. These structures can be largely unconscious and can take some “digging” to expose. Therefore, discovering your type
What is the Enneagram?
The Enneagram of personality is a system that defines nine basic patterns that not only help us understand ourselves and our loved ones, but it also shows us the nine ways we limit ourselves and our own potential. In the
Type Nine and the Reluctant Hero Archetype
Film, literature and stories passed down via oral traditions are rife with examples of the reluctant hero. The fact that we love these tales about ordinary people called to do extraordinary things that they don’t feel they’re qualified to tackle highlights the appeal of this archetype. Perhaps it’s because we all hope there’s some unlikely hero hidden within us who will rise to the occasion as soon as we’re called upon to do so.
Difficult Emotions: The Engine of Your Awakening
A few years back, I found myself rooting through cupboards in a familiar, desperate search for chocolate. Fortunately, we didn’t have any and this threw me back upon the suffering I was experiencing and gave me the opportunity to wonder what was driving this. For the first time in my life, I experienced a terrifyingly bottomless well of yearning without a story attached to it. The absolute rawness of this emotion was so consuming that I dropped right back into unconsciousness only to awaken a moment later as I was about to tear into some unsweetened baking chocolate. I was that desperate to not feel this.
Ego and Essence
The terms Ego and Essence are a big part of the Riso-Hudson Enneagram and they are integral to understanding the spiritual aspects of the teaching.
Cultivating a Heart that Can Contain the Infinite
Don Riso’s Levels of Development are usually presented in a downward-bound fashion with the implicit message that dropping down the Levels is a mistake brought about by a series of cognitive errors. While it gives us a powerful and insightful birds-eye view of exactly how each type makes its characteristic logical but misguided conclusions that lead them to bring about their own Basic Fear, perhaps dropping down the Levels is something we’re supposed to do.
The Power in Brokenness
It’s difficult to move through suffering and come out the other side with a scarred but open heart. But this is where we discover the power in our brokenness.