The Journey Toward Wholeness
Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation
Suzanne Stabile
- 220 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Journey Toward Wholeness
Enneagram Wisdom for Stress, Balance, and Transformation
Suzanne Stabile
About This Book
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistIn everything from health care and politics to technology and economics, we are experiencing feelings of loss, anger, and anxiety. In the Enneagram's wisdom, our number determines how we respond. We automatically move to another number when we're feeling stress and to yet another when we're feeling secure. Such moves may help us feel better temporarily but don't last.For those who want to dive deeper into Enneagram wisdom, expert teacher Suzanne Stabile opens the concept of three Centers of Intelligence: thinking, feeling, and doing. When we learn to manage these centers, each for its intended purpose, we open a path to reducing fear, improving relationships, growing spiritually, and finding wholeness. Drawing on the dynamic stability of the Enneagram, she explains each number's preferred and repressed Center of Intelligence and its role in helping us move toward internal balance. Using brief focused chapters, this book provides what we need to deal with the constant change and complexity of our world to achieve lasting transformation in our lives.
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OVERVIEW
HOW WE ARE BROKEN . . .
AND HOW WE CAN BE HEALED
OUR RESPONSES TO STRESS
- ■ living with family members who are struggling with addiction or who are in recovery.
- ■ aging and everything that goes with it.
- ■ facing health challenges—our own or those of friends or family.
- ■ dealing with rapidly changing technology can be a challenge for some (that’s me) because it can make you feel so inadequate.
- ■ understanding our national and local political situations, no matter the political party or beliefs.
TRIADS AND THE CENTERS OF INTELLIGENCE
The Feeling Triad: Twos, Threes, and Fours
- ■ In the Feeling (or Heart) Triad, Twos, Threes, and Fours respond to information, events, and people with the question, “What am I feeling?”
- ■ They are fully aware of, and always paying attention to, the needs and agendas of others.
- ■ They have a significant need for approval and yet they struggle to believe that they are loveable as they are. Their response to life is due, in part, to the fact that they generally search for both love and affirmation outside of themselves.
- ■ Twos, Threes, and Fours are very familiar with anxiety. In fact, many of them can even tell you how it manifests itself in their bodies. And because they feel “somewhat anxious” most of the time, they often turn other emotions into anxiety.
- ■ Those who make up the Feeling Triad are pulled to the outer world by focusing on everything outside of themselves. This focus on the outer world results in a desire to control their environment by ordering other people and activities.
- ■ They like people. They also easily adapt to what they think other people want from them. In fact, sometimes they adapt so easily and so quickly to the feelings of others that they don’t have any idea what they feel.
The Thinking Triad: Fives, Sixes, and Sevens
- ■ In the Thinking (or Head) Triad, Fives, Sixes, and Sevens respond to what’s happening around them by asking, “What do I think?”
- ■ Those in this triad want to fully understand everything that interests them. They want to perceive things before acting. And they often work things out in their head—their focus is on their inner world—without ever engaging with others.
- ■ Intelligence and understanding and mental connection are important in this triad, so they find themselves at home in what has been called the information age.
- ■ They like to gather and sort information, perhaps because they are logical and usually very knowledgeable about things and ideas that interest them. Concerned with memory and strategy, they are really talented when it comes to finding where systems overlap.
- ■ These people live their lives by planning. It could even be said that making plans is what makes them happy.
- ■ Fives, Sixes, and Sevens find safety by trying to control or order their inner world. And safety can sometimes be a preoccupation. Hanging out in their heads, so to speak, feels great because they can arrange their perceptions in ways that suit them.
- ■ Someone in the Thinking Triad may be dismissive of a friend in the Feeling Triad whose response appears to be illogical or overly emotional. Managing the dominant center is the key to balancing all three, which is essential to health and wholeness.
The Doing Triad: Eights, Nines, and Ones
- ■ In the Doing (or Gut) Triad, Eights,...