Sublime

Sevens need flexibility and avoid making long-term, option-limiting commitments.

As we consider how our dominant enneagram type impacts our employment of the three centers of intelligence, two specific triadic groupings are helpful: triads and stances. Triads are enneagram types that share a common dominant center of intelligence. Stances are enneagram types that share a common repressed center of intelligence.

In each center, one type represses, one expresses, and one does a bit of both. Twos, Sevens, and Eights express their respective shame, fear, and anger into the world. Ones, Fours, and Fives repress their respective shame, fear and anger. Threes, Sixes, and Nines both repress and express their respective shame, fear, and anger.

This is a book about how impasse, like the Greek god Hermes, often appears in our lives as a herald, to let us know we must change. But it is also about vision.

new ways, changing and restructuring our life and our behavior. Yet an innate resistance limits this possibility; this resistance is based on our most fundamental physical and psychological structures, connected to the larger universe and to the ways we learn and adapt to our environment when young. Our tendency to form

The Life-Purpose System

The path through the 61st Gift is necessarily a very creative path, since true inspiration destroys some aspect of your inner delusion, thus releasing a great surge of trapped energy into your body and life. Such energy naturally seeks an outlet through creativity. Creativity is the single most important Gift for drawing humanity out of its mass ps

Awareness of your inner imbalances pinpoints the work you can do to transform those challenging inner qualities.

The purpose of the Enneagram is to show us how we can release the paralyzing arthritic grip we’ve kept on old, self-defeating ways of living so we can open ourselves to experiencing more interior freedom and become our best selves.