The Enneagram is a tool to uncover our compulsive life patterns. We create our own intimate world, by the thoughts we hold, the words we speak. What we believe about ourselves, is true for us. The past is gone, but our thoughts, attitudes and emotions about it are indelible. Our compulsive life patterns are the manifestation of our experience, our inner thoughts, our programming.
Theatre scripts written in childhood have a lasting effect on the adult mind.
The process of the Enneagram uncovers our compulsive life pattern so that we can claim where we 'sit' on the Enneagram circle. You may well wonder how we got that pattern, which leads to distortion of our selves and becomes so powerful that it dominates our perception. We are born of essence of consciousness into an egocentric world where to survive we developed our personality. An addictive pattern means surrender of an aspect of one's self to something in order to survive. Our mother's thoughts, experiences, traumas and shocks all impinge on us.