All About The Enneagram

My name is Lela and I find the enneagram very interesting so I decided to make a blog about it! I run a blog with my sister Lily about Myers Briggs (myersbriggs.tumblr.com) and it is a great way to learn and to share knowledge. I wanted the same for my enneagram blog. The enneagram is a personality typing system. The symbol has 9 points, each number representing a different personality type. The enneagram is great way to learn about yourself and to learn how to better yourself and your life.

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Enneagram Stereotypes

1- WHY IN THE WORLD DOES EVERYONE SAY I CRITICIZE AND JUDGE THEM I’M JUST HELPING THEM REACH PERFECTION, AND SHOWING THEM WHAT’S WRONG WITH WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE AND HOW MY IDEA OF PERFECTION IS SO MUCH BETTER AND THEIRS IS SUBPAR, DUH 

2- I FUCKING HELP EVERYONE SO MUCH AND NO ONE BOTHERS TO SAY THANKS EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN’T ASK FOR HELP IN THE FIRST PLACE  -bursts into song- I’M FEELING REALLY UNAPPRECIATED YOU TAKE MY LOVE FOR GRANTED BABE, AND I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE I CAN TAKE FROM YOUUUUU

3- No, I’m not at the top yet, baby. But does it matter? I will be there soon. -wink and blindingly white smile- 

4- -tears- No one understands me. HEY, I SAID NO ONE FUCKING UNDERSTANDS ME STOP TRYING TO UNDERSTAND ME I AM A BLINDING PLETHORA OF PAIN AND DEPTH THAT YOU CAN ONLY COMPREHEND ON THE MOST BASIC LEVEL

5- -leaves room after 500 years and squints- I’VE DONE IT. I’VE GAINED ENOUGH KNOWLEDGE, I AM THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD.  Although I did run away from Nancy when she tried to kiss me and I’m still terrified of human contact. -spoken to their 10 cats- 

6- HEY HEY STOP YELLING AT ME OK, I JUST WANTED TO KNOW, FOR SURE, IF YOU’RE REALLY SURE, LIKE, REALLY REALLY ABSOLUTELY SURE- WELL FUCK YOU, OH ‘IT’S COMMON SENSE ANGELA’ ARE YOU IMPLYING I HAVE NO COMMON SENSE? WHATEVER, I KNEW YOU WEREN’T REALLY GOING TO SUPPORT ME 

7- HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY LET’S GO SKYDIVING AND SKIING AND GO TO THE MOVIES AND HAVE REALLY KINKY SEX, OH OH OH BETTER IDEA, LET’S DO ALL THOSE THINGS, AT ONCE!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE’LL DIE YOU JOYKILL HAHAHAHAHA I KEEP RUNNING FROM THE THINGS IN MY HEAD HAHAHA HURRY HURRY WE NEED TO GO DO STUFF LOLOLOL OR ELSE I’M GOING TO HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN 

8- YOU’RE ALL MY BITCHES. ALL OF YOU. BITCHES. MINE. MY BITCHES. I’M IN CHARGE. I KNOW BEST. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I INTIMIDATE EVERYONE? WELL SPEAK UP FOR YOURSELVES THEN, GODDAMN WIMPS 

9- I mean…like…I just want peace is all. Oh um my opinion on stuff hahaah funny usually no one asks um and I don’t voice it to keep the harmony- Wait, what? N-no, I don’t view myself as a doormat. -nervous laughing- I’m perfectly content the way things are. -strained smile- I’m fine -gnashes teeth- I don’t have any issues with the way things are. -explodes-

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Challenges of the types, by triad.

edit: please note that tritype is a fringe theory and is still very controversial in the enneagram community. None of the major enneagram teachers have accepted it to date. Try taking a look first at wings and directions to see if what you think is tritype is simply a connected type. Also, familiarize yourself with look-alike types. David Daniels’ book, “The Essential Enneagram,” is a good resource for this.

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Enneagram briefly

Enneagram is the main reason people with the same MBTI type might seem very different from each other. Where MBTI deals with how you take in and process information, Enneagram is what motivates you.

CORE TYPE

Your core type tells about the most dominant motivations of your personality. This type is what everything else is filtered through. Your core type cannot change throughout life.

INSTINCTUAL VARIANTS

Enneagram recognizes three different instincts:

self-preservation (SP)

social (SOC)

sexual (SX).

SP is often characterized by an interest in health, safety, and security. SOC has an eye on the interpersonal, political, and species survival. SX deals with intensity, chemistry between people, and expression. You usually use these in different order.

TRITYPE

Tritype deals with your coping mechanisms.

Each type describes the way you deal with each centre. Head centre tells how you deal with fear, gut how you deal with anger, and heart how you cope with shame.

The types associated with each area are: Shame: 2, 3, 4 Fear: 5, 6, 7 Anger: 8, 9, 1

Tritype is written in order of core type –> next stongest type –> weakest type. When situation gets bad, your fist coping method is your core, “this is who I am”. If this coping method fails you move into Fear -state and start using your secondary type. If also fear fails you move to your final option: Anger stage.

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Want to know what your type is? Take the test here

There is a lot of interesting tests on this website as well

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This cartoon is for cloudyblueyes and  for anyone else out there who knows their enneagram personality type.  The illustration is from The Ennegram Made Easy by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele.

If you are interested in learning what your enneagram personality type is you can go here:

 http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test.php

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The Enneagram of Personality is a model of nine types of personalities. It describes each personality, and the details that make them tick.

Keep in mind that this isn’t specifically a factual model, it’s been applied to different people in...

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The Enneagram- Introduction

My name is Lela and I decided to make a blog about the Enneagram because I find it very interesting. I run a blog with my sister Lily about Myers Briggs (myersbriggs.tumblr.com) and it is a great way to learn and to share knowledge. I wanted the same for my enneagram blog. 

The enneagram is a personality typing system. The symbol has 9 points, each number representing a different personality type. The enneagram is great way to learn about yourself and to learn how to better yourself and your life.