How can the Enneagram be useful to me?
The Enneagram can be useful source of self-knowledge because the descriptions of the types act a kind of “mirror” helping us to see features of our personality that are normally invisible to us. Within each of the types are patterns of behavior that demonstrate unhealthy, average, and healthy levels of development. At the average level of development and below, most of the time people function on a kind of “automatic pilot,” reacting to life according to the pattern of their basic personality type. Often this state of reactivity to life events is accompanied by some sense of being a victim, trapped, or somehow being found lacking. The key to freedom for all the nine types lies in seeing clearly what the habitual patterns are which limit them, and permits then an openness to a fuller array of choices in how to respond to life’s challenges. Working with the Enneagram helps us to restore balance to the personality structure, and helps us to orient ourselves to the higher spiritual and psy
