Buddhist Psychologists Rick Hanson, Stephen Gilligan and Richard Chambers

Essential Wholeness will change your understanding of Personality and Psychotherapy

Buddhist Psychologists Rick Hanson, Stephen Gilligan and Richard Chambers’ thoughts about Essential Wholeness, Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram  Both profound and practical, this book integrates cutting edge neuroscience, esoteric wisdom, a heartfelt appreciation of the natural world, and powerfully effective psychological methods. It’s genuinely brilliant. ‘Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Buddha’s Brain: The […]

Enneagram Essential Quality of phase FIVE – Space

Inner Spaciousness It is our experience of essential space that puts our petty attachments and the self-imposed limitations into perspective, like the vastness of Outer Space reminds us that Earth is but a speck of dust in a universe of billions of galaxies. At phase FIVE the old boundaries of the way we have thought […]

Enneagram of Essential Qualities of Soul

Our essential quality of peace seeks to cooperate more fully with life as it is emerging within and around us. This inspires greater mindfulness of our internal and external experience. This leads us to a greater sense of compassion in the way we relate to ourselves and the rest of creation. Out of compassion we find the strength to promote life’s emerging agendas and address our inadequacies and past mistakes with forgiveness. Through forgiveness we are able to experience the present moment as it is, which in turn opens up the space in our consciousness to investigate the nature of reality more fully. Spacious awareness just accepts everything as it is, whereby we can differentiate fact from fiction. Acceptance of everything opens us to appreciation of everything and the joyously blissful nature of consciousness. It is when we follow our deepest bliss that we are in alignment with divine will (dharma). In the surrendering to divine will, we manifest our part to play in peaceful harmony with the rest of creatio

Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy

Why Intelligent Successful People Meditate

Essential Wholeness Meditation An Integration of Psychology and Spirituality (excerpt from Essential Wholeness by Eric Lyleson)  Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy has evolved out of forty years of practicing meditation and psychotherapy. It recognises that different people and traditions hold different pieces of the puzzle and when we can bring them all together we get a more complete […]

Your Personality Type and Essential Qualities

Essential Wholeness Enneagram

New Insights into Enneagram Personality Types – 
Your personality is shaped by your relationship with the essential qualities of peace, consciousness, compassion, strength, forgiveness, space, acceptance, joy and will.

Vulnerability and Evolution

Brene Brown, Pema Chodron and other innovators help us to realise the power of vulnerability  Psychotherapy is learning how to relate more effectively with Life. Evolution is Life learning to relate in more effective ways. Over time species have adapted by becoming more varied, intelligent, resilient, perceptive and cooperative. This has required becoming more open and […]