Daniel Brown - Enneagram. The Road to Self-Discovery: The Complete Guide to Discover Your Personal Type, Achieve Self Healing and Spiritual Growth, Empower Your True Self, Build Fulfilling Relationships.

Chapter 1: The Fundamentals of Enneagram

This is the first chapter of the book, and the book is all about Enneagram. A detailed understanding of Enneagram will be discussed in this chapter. Enneagram is the inner self-discovery, and it is tough to understand it without a thorough knowledge of how it works, and with that, we will discuss in detail the different emotions and exploration of our core personality.

To understand the fundamentals, it is important to focus on these points as if you ever feel like something was lacking inside of you? Like a need that's never been filled, a word that you needed to hear but never heard? Do many of your life's choices derive from an instinctual sense of fear, rage or shame? We are all guided by certain core impulses, fears and yearnings that are difficult to vocalize.

We are all trying to make up for signals and desires that were not fulfilled in childhood. The Enneagram is a typology system intended to show each of us the origins of many of our guiding impulses, fears, and strategies for dealing with them.

1.1 THE ENNEAGRAM

The Enneagram is a personality typing system that describes patterns of how people conceptualize the world and how they manage their emotions; it is a strong instrument for personal and social change. The Enneagram is a geometrical figure which maps nine possible types of personality and their complex interrelationships.

The model of the Enneagram describes these nine different types of personality and maps each of these types on a nine-pointed diagram that helps illustrate how the types relate to each other, as these are distinct methods to respond to oneself, others, and the world.

In this method of character typing nine different types, it relates everyone considered to be a type , though one may have characteristics that belong to another.

While it is unclear how genetically determined this form is, many believe it is already in place at birth. Each type of Enneagram has a different pattern of thought, feeling, and behaving resulting from a deeper inner purpose or worldview.

Thinking about these trends fosters greater understanding through a language of universality that transcends gender, ethnicity, nationality and culture. While all of us are special, we share common experiences.

The numbers 1 to 9 uniformly classify the nine forms. These numbers are placed around the Enneagram symbol in a standard way. Each personality has a certain world view according to the Enneagram and looks at the world through its lens or filter. It allows for explaining why people are behaving in specific ways.

The Enneagram illustrates potential for personal development by describing how the basic personality adapts and reacts to both challenging and positive circumstances and provides a basis for understanding others.