4 Ways the Enneagram Can Help You Have a More Balanced Life (...and better relationships/communication too)
Have you ever felt fine one moment, and then the next moment something throws you completely off balance?
Life is like that. And the Enneagram can be an excellent framework for regaining balance.
In this episode, Sandy uses a hiking trail (and one spectacularly ungraceful cat) to explore what balance looks like through the lens of the Enneagram.
Rather than treating balance as a fixed state you finally arrive at, Sandy reframes it as a series of small, constant adjustments. She also walks you through four aspects of the Enneagram that can help you see where those adjustments are needed most.
This episode explores:
- Why balance isn't the absence of movement, and what that reframe means for how we use the Enneagram day-to-day
- Centers of Intelligence and Stance: how we take in the world, and how we move through it to get our needs met
- Harmonic Groups: the three different ways we respond when things get difficult, including a true story about a hiking accident on a Colorado 14er
- Instincts: where our attention and energy naturally go, and how self-preservation, social, and sexual instincts shape each Enneagram type
- Why trying to be balanced all the time isn't actually the goal (and what is)
Balance is never about standing still. It's about knowing how to adjust, one small shift at a time.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-self-improvement-becomes-another-way-to-fail-finding/id1822403955?i=1000791758415
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