Summary of Beatrice Chestnut's The Complete Enneagram

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Enneagram is a personality test that views the personality as a false self that developed to allow your true self to adapt and fit in with other humans. It views the personality as a defensive or compensatory self whose coping strategies developed to help you fulfill your needs and reduce your anxieties.
#2 The Enneagram is a tool that helps us recognize and accept all of who we are, including the Shadow side and difficult parts of our experience. It allows us to compassionately address the disowned and fixated parts of our personalities.
#3 The Enneagram helps us identify specific patterns of personality and their accompanying Shadows. It describes the habits and traits of twenty-seven false selves in a systematic way. Each of these three centers is then further divided into three personality types, for a total of nine types.
#4 Each Enneagram type is associated with one of nine passions, which point to the central emotional-motivational issue for each type. The passions are emotional drivers based on an implicit view about what you need to survive and how you can get it.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• Général
• Personal development

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 26 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669365242
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Beatrice Chestnut's The Complete Enneagram
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Enneagram is a personality test that views the personality as a false self that developed to allow your true self to adapt and fit in with other humans. It views the personality as a defensive or compensatory self whose coping strategies developed to help you fulfill your needs and reduce your anxieties.

#2

The Enneagram is a tool that helps us recognize and accept all of who we are, including the Shadow side and difficult parts of our experience. It allows us to compassionately address the disowned and fixated parts of our personalities.

#3

The Enneagram helps us identify specific patterns of personality and their accompanying Shadows. It describes the habits and traits of twenty-seven false selves in a systematic way. Each of these three centers is then further divided into three personality types, for a total of nine types.

#4

Each Enneagram type is associated with one of nine passions, which point to the central emotional-motivational issue for each type. The passions are emotional drivers based on an implicit view about what you need to survive and how you can get it.

#5

Eights have a lot of energy, can accomplish big things, and can confront others when necessary. They can be workaholics who take on more and more without acknowledging their physical limits. They can sometimes overwork themselves, even to the point of physical illness.

#6

Threes focus on tasks and goals to create an image of success in the eyes of others. They identify with their work, and they lose touch with who they really are. Threes are extremely productive and effective because of their laser-like focus on getting things done and reaching their goals.

#7

The Twos focus on relationships, gaining approval, and seducing others through helpfulness as a strategic way to get their disowned needs met. They are upbeat and friendly, though sometimes this can mask repressed needs and a tendency toward depression.

#8

Fours focus on their own feelings, the feelings of others, and interpersonal connection and disconnection. They feel a sense of deficiency about their own worth, so they seek idealized experiences of qualities they perceive as outside themselves.

#9

The Sevens are focused on what feels pleasant and avoid unpleasant feelings by focusing on what feels pleasant. They are energetic, fast-paced, and active. They usually have many interests and activities.

#10

There are three instinctual goals that all social creatures share: Self-Preservation, Social Interaction, and Sexual Bonding. When the passion and the dominant instinctual drive come together, they create a more specific focus of attention that drives behavior.

#11

There are two subtypes that go with the flow of the energy of the passion, and one that goes against it. The countertype of each of the type’s group of three subtypes is called the countertype of the three subtypes. The most well-known of these is the Sexual Six, who is unafraid.

#12

The Self-Preservation Three has a sense of vanity for having no vanity. They want to be admired by others, but they avoid openly seeking recognition. The Social Three focuses on achievement in the service of looking good and getting the job done. The Sexual Three focuses on achievement in terms of personal attractiveness and supporting others.

#13

The One-to-One Two is similar to the femme fatale archetype, and they use the methods of classical seduction to attract a partner who will meet all their needs and give them whatever they want.

#14

The Sexual Sixes are afraid of being dependent on others, so they go against fear and become strong and intimidating. They trust themselves more than others, and have the inner programming that when you are afraid, the best defense is a good offense.

#15

The Enneagram is a model of transformation that indicates a path for growth. It helps you understand yourself better so that you can make more conscious choices. It is about self-observation, which is the path to dis-identifying from your personality.

#16

The point ahead of our core point along the arrow lines is not only a stress or defensive point that we get pushed to in distress, but a key opportunity for growth through meeting the specific challenges represented by that point.

#17

If we can see the personality not as all of who we are but as a necessary survival mechanism, we can rise above it and embody our higher capacities.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The wisdom behind the Enneagram is a body of knowledge that can help us understand our purpose and potential, and it comes from a universal understanding of human purpose and possibility. It can be found in the root teachings of all the world’s major spiritual traditions, as well as in many ancient philosophical teachings.

#2

The path of personal transformation starts with the effort to know yourself. You must crack open your defenses and allow your disowned feelings, blind spots, and Shadow traits to be integrated so that you can become all that you are meant to be.

#3

The wisdom path involves three basic steps: dis-identification from the Personality through self-observation, surrendering to the fear and emotional suffering associated with loosening ego defenses, and actively working toward transcendence and union.

#4

Dis-identifying from the false self’s focus on the desires, passions, and fixations of your Personality requires you to develop humility because the Personality wants to stay in charge. When you can see this, you can begin a personal development program.

#5

When you engage in a process of conscious growth, fear inevitably arises. This step in the wisdom path of transformation entails a willingness to feel this fear rather than falling back into the usual patterns of your Personality, which are kept in place by fear.

#6

The Enneagram symbol is made up of three symbolic forms: the circle, the inner triangle, and the hexad representing the Law of Seven. It is structured by the combination of the Law of Three and the Law of Seven, and it symbolizes the universe’s eternal development.

#7

The circle and the Law of One are two examples of how ancient mathematical philosophers represented unity and the natural order of the universe. The idea that all is one or that there is an underlying unity to all things is conveyed by the fact that when any number is multiplied or divided by one, it remains itself.

#8

The Law of Three states that three forces must enter into every kind of creation. These forces are an active force, a passive force, and a neutralizing force. The triad is the form of the completion of all things.

#9

The Law of Three is the geometric figure that represents one. The universal significance of the Law of Three can be seen in the many trinities at the center of the world’s major spiritual teachings.

#10

The Law of Seven is the process of transformation, and it can be seen in the lines of the Enneagram. The Law of Seven represents the cycle of change, and it can be likened to the organic unfolding of natural processes.

#11

The Enneagram is a nine-pointed star that represents the beginning and end of a cycle, which gives the form of a whole. It is the source of the purpose that has to be realized. The Kabbalah says that the essence of the unknowable divine is portrayed in a diagram called the Tree of Life. The nine Sefirot represent divine principles, and nine of them correspond to the nine Enneagram archetypes.

#12

The Inferno is a classic of Western literature that explores the human personality starting with its deepest Shadow aspects. It describes the different kinds of sins and the consequences of those sins, which are exacted in the unconsciousness of those who fail to do the work entailed in facing their Shadow sides.

#13

The Enneagram is a nine-pointed star that was developed by G. I. Gurdjieff in the early 1900s. It was first introduced to the public in the 1970s by three individuals: G. Gurdjieff, Oscar Ichazo, and Claudio Naranjo.

#14

G. I. Gurdjieff, a Russian teacher, presented the Enneagram symbol and a practical teaching called The Work or The Fourth Way to students in Russia and Europe beginning in the early 1900s. He communicated a system of hidden knowledge he said came from many sources, but primarily from esoteric Christianity.

#15

The Enneagram of psychological types is the result of the work of Oscar Ichazo. It is a system that describes groupings of psychological traits that have resulted from some early injury to the psyche and a corresponding compensation of some kind.

#16

The Enneagram is a personality model that is based on the nine enneagram types. It was developed by Oscar Ichazo, a Chilean psychiatrist, and it has been adapted and spread throughout the world by people like Claudio Naranjo, a psychiatrist who developed it into a broader program of self-work.

#17

The Enneagram is a model of wholeness that represents each of the points of the Enneagram not only as individual personalities but also as certain archetypal elements that are universal. Each point also expresses a range of possibilities, a vertical dimension that indicates an archetype’s higher aspect of expression when its fixated aspects can be loosened and transcended, and a lower side that describes a more unconscious, automatic level of functioning.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The Nine is the archetype of the person who seeks to harmonize with the external environment as a way of staying comfortable and peaceful, even