Mind Body Experience

Using the Enneagram as a Guide to Wellness (Part 2)

 Scott Mills, Ph.D.

    Whether you are seeking to make a big change in your life or a small one, the Enneagram can provide a powerful tool for assisting you in this effort.   In part, this happens as we realize that there are other people just like us.   We don't have to think that we are the only one like us out there. And in the process, it can help us to understand the differences in other people around us.  In the end, we come to see clearly that change happens in different ways for people depending on the deep patterns that have formed throughout our lives. Change is much easier when we work with these patterns rather than trying to butt heads with them.

Finding Your Own Way to Success: Using the Enneagram as a Guide to Wellness

Scott Mills, Ph.D.

     There are so many books and articles that pretend that they can offer you the one path to creating change in your life.  They tend to offer a series of steps that all too often seem to be out of step with who you are.  The Enneagram provides a powerful tool for creating a path that grows out of your own uniqueness.   

     A bit mysterious in its origins, with some saying it came from ancient mystic traditions, in the last thirty years it has been adapted to be a powerful personality indicator capable of giving people great insights into themselves. 

Welcoming Your Body into the New Year

Scott Mills, Ph.D.

"I am larger, better than I thought, 

I did not know I held so much goodness."

- Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road"

The New Year has begun and many of us are busy making resolutions about our body.  Perhaps we would like to lose weight, gain muscle or change our level of health and vitality.   All of these are great goals that are worth pursuing.

Unfortunately, we often pursue these goals as if we are a general on a battlefield and our bodies are the enemy.  We work out so hard that we hurt ourselves or we eat in ways that are unnatural and sometimes even damaging to our health.   

Ultimately, this battlefield mentality leads us to distrust the regulating mechanisms of our bodies that are designed to keep us healthy.

Why not start the New Year with a whole new relationship to your body.  You can begin with three simple ideas.