As 2021 draws to a close many of us pictured something a bit different going into 2022.
A friend of mine has a tradition each time he rings in the new year. He opens the back door of the house to allow the old year to leave and opens the front door to usher in the new one. Simple, but I found it so meaningful in the way we look at turning over of the year.
As we all say good-bye to 2021, what needs to be let out the back door?
This week I received an email from one of the websites I subscribe to. It was titled: “While we watch the world going down the tubes, the key question is whether you are going with it!”. I had to pause, firstly at the jarring statement, and secondly because it drove home a point I have been pondering…that is how easily we can become numb to actions that are disconcerting and how quickly we can come to label those actions as “normal”.
When a ONE does not express their anger, it is held. This held anger is called resentment. With a sense of always needing to be “good", ONEs can hold their anger (because being angry is not “good”) and one day, when you least expect it, they blast it all on some unsuspecting target. This is not a healthy way for a ONE to live.
Read MoreMany of us have come to know our enneagram spaces or types. These energies affect everything on this plane of existence, and therefore affect us at different times as we move about the world. Can we use how we are affected to live differently?
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Read MoreEach of the spaces of the enneagram has their own set of dualistic behaviors that keep us from finding an inner calm. The calm comes when a third force is brought into our dualistic two-pronged approach to living. This third force acts as a “midpoint” between the two dualistic thoughts or ways of living.
Read MoreRight in the centre of the enneagram is the triangle that connects THREE, SIX and NINE. This triangle gives us the clues to open up our judgments
Read MoreThe answers we seek about our true wholeness cannot be realized by simple head knowledge, Internet or otherwise. As we have learned by working with the enneagram, we have three brains, not just the one in our head. We also have a Heart brain as well as our Body brain. All must be engaged to live a full life.
Read MoreSo often in our lives we get so busy that we are swept away in a state of inertia. This state of “doing” enlivens us for a while. We have been exposed to it countless years of our parents and friends implying that we are only valuable in what we “do”.
Read MoreSometimes you marry the same person three times.
Read MoreWouldn’t life be so much easier if everyone just did things my way?
Read MoreLearning your enneagram type is the easy part. How long can you live with just knowing your number and not answering your call to evolve?
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