XIV How do we discover our Limiting Habits?

Understanding our Enneagram (pronounced as ANY-a-gram) Style helps us to see and understand our default limiting habits and responses, which have made us captive to our worldview. It is like literally being caught up in a box. Both professional and personal growth requires us to break free from this box.

The Enneagram is a study of the 9 basic types of people and explains why we behave the way we do and points to specific directions for individual growth.

Research in the American Journal of Psychiatry describes the Enneagram as a personality theory that characterises nine distinct strategies by which the human psyche develops a worldview, and relates to the self and others. The theory proposes that by adulthood, individuals have developed a predominant personality strategy to cope with the external environment. Each of the nine core types described by the Enneagram has an associated basic fear, basic desire, and predictable pattern of behaviour in times of stress and security. The Enneagram uses these basic fears and desires to describe the essential motivations underlying much of the resulting behaviour. It thus captures a range of behaviour for each type and is capable of providing a great deal of insight into an individual's underlying psychology for greater awareness and growth. 

Enneagram is focused on internal motivations leading to external behaviours, instead of just being focused on external behaviours. It helps us uncover our blind spots, our behavioural patterns that everyone else can see except our own self, and provide a pathway to break those patterns. 

Personality is not something we have to accept as something fixed in us. It is a box that we have trapped ourselves in to protect ourselves. We built this box to protect ourselves in response to hurts in our growing years, or hurts from other lifetimes, or hurts passed down to us by our ancestors. Our personality is our self-defence mechanism that we have strengthened over the years to protect ourselves from our fears. 

In our RYD Language:
Hole-in-the-Soul in the spiritual body leads to small mind in the Mental Body, which leads to limiting roles in the Emotional Body, which leads to low energy in the Energy Body; which leads to a certain limiting Personality traits expressed through the Physical Body. 

Your coach will help you with your Enneagram Style assessment.

To assess and understand your own style, you can read The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People by Reene Baron and Elizabeth Wagle.
 
Here’s another article for a quick over-view of Enneagram: Understanding the Enneagram