Three Steps to Enlightenment with the Enneagram

Step 1: Know thyself.
Know your Enneagram type and what it can tell you about who you are, what you want and why you do the things you do. We are all more than just our type, of course we are. But sometimes our fixation takes over and it is helpful to recognise when this is happening and what is behind it.


Step 2: Forgive yourself.
Love and accept yourself just as you are, flaws and all. All those things you hate about yourself - the things you don't want to admit to anyone, even yourself - have a purpose, and a good purpose. Every behaviour has a positive intention, as they say in NLP.


Step 3: Respond from essence.
Now you have a choice. You can recognise when you are tempted to respond from your fixation, you know why you feel that way and you can see whether it is appropriate here and now. You can respond from your fixation, laugh about it, forgive yourself and try to do better next time. Or you can respond from essence, here and now.

Simple, innit?