The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
Explore your tendency to amp up your emotions (or your emotional intensity) in response to feeling misunderstood.
Beatrice Chestnut, Uranio Paes, • The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
Share your feelings more often, even if others are not sharing theirs.
Beatrice Chestnut, Uranio Paes, • The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
In other words, they attribute positive qualities to others without realizing that they are placing their own goodness outside themselves.
Beatrice Chestnut, Uranio Paes, • The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
Then integrate Type 5 traits by noticing when you feel overwhelmed by a strong emotion and making a conscious effort to be more calm and balanced. Analyze your feelings to “make sense of ” whatever is happening. Learn to recognize when you focus too intently on emotions and shift your attention from your feelings to your thoughts. Learn to extract
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Understand things, not only through your intellect, but also from an embodied sense of being. Access other forms of knowledge, including emotion and intuition.
Beatrice Chestnut, Uranio Paes, • The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
the impulse to contract against life out of a sense of scarce inner resources—shrinks the heart and makes life less interesting. Knowledge doesn't make up for the lost experience of living more fully.
Beatrice Chestnut, Uranio Paes, • The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. HAROLD COFFIN Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity. ANNE LAMOTT
Beatrice Chestnut, Uranio Paes, • The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
Recognize that your energy is limited only because you think it is.
Beatrice Chestnut, Uranio Paes, • The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up
body work before doing emotional work. This will help you achieve a more profound and sustainable experience of opening your heart later on.