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"An Inspired Approach" by Michael J. Goldberg
"A Book To Live By" by Ray Keedy-Lilley, M. A. N. L. P.
"Explaining the Enneagram Positively" By Clarence Thomson
Readers' Reviews

Excerpts

	Introduction: Journey Into Soul
	Sample Description of a Type — ONE: THE ACHIEVER

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An Inspired Approach
By Michael J. Goldberg, author of The 9 Ways of Working

Hurley and Donson, who are among the most prominent of the senior Enneagram teachers — Theodorre is a former president of IEA and Kathy was director of the 1997 International Conference in Baltimore — are out with a new introduction to the nine types and their own original take on the workings of the symbol and the three centers.

Now perhaps you, as I, wonder whether the world pines for another round-up of the usual nine suspects, but Hurley and Donson have an inspired approach: their type descriptions are crisp, well written, with nice overview charts at the head of each chapter. The psychology of each type is on target. The book serves as a find introduction or a valuable quick reference, no matter what your Enneagram theology. It is the only Enneagram book with a glossary, as far as I know. And it has the boldest cover of any Enneagram book, Goya a la Peter Max.

Hurley and Donson’s contribution is their approach to the three centers. They posit a dominant center, a support center and an underactualized center. For example, Ones see the world through the doing center: they see themselves as good only when they are living up to their internal standards for hard work. Their secondary center is feeling; they’re emotionally attached to what they do and how well they do it. But their thinking center is underactualized: too focused on details, they overanalyze and can’t get the big picture.

The ideal state, according to Hurley and Donson, is for the centers to operate independently without encumbrance. They offer many suggestions for balancing the centers. The descriptions of the centers themselves will be useful to anyone working with the system. Hurley and Donson explicitly put the Enneagram in the context of "soul" work, but without the familiar trendy pretensions. Here we have straightforward explanations of the fixations as distortions of the True Self and then much guidance aimed at authentic and heartful Self expression.

Hurley and Donson keep it simple, the book’s greatest virtue. There is no surgical deconstruction of the subtypes of the wings, no Thomist hierarchies of levels of attainment, no Copernican epicycles to explain how the symbol works, no Narcissian references to Greek mythos. This straightforward, optimistic book lacks pretension, which makes it remarkable in the Enneagram world and especially suitable to offer to someone new.

Reprinted from "Enneagram Monthly," June 2000

Reviews

"An Inspired Approach" by Michael J. Goldberg
"A Book To Live By" by Ray Keedy-Lilley, M. A. N. L. P.
"Explaining the Enneagram Positively" By Clarence Thomson
Readers' Reviews

Excerpts

	Introduction: Journey Into Soul
	Sample Description of a Type — ONE: THE ACHIEVER

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A BOOK TO LIVE BY
by Ray Keedy-Lilley, M. A .N. L. P., director of the National School of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, London, England

I still remember with pleasure how, several years ago, after flying from London to Denver to attend Kathy and Theodorre’s five-day training program, I was allowed to enter their lives through their teaching. I was invited to enter so completely that I had a feeling of "coming home."

On reading Discover Your Soul Potential, distance and time disappeared and once again I was in their presence, listening to them share their knowledge and wisdom. This is not a book for merely reading and placing on a bookshelf for casual reference. It is a map for using the Enneagram and therefore for all who are on a spiritual search. It will be a most timely addition to the libraries of those who are Seekers of the Way.

In 1974 John G. Bennett, in his book Enneagram Studies, wrote about groups who are seeking to prepare themselves for the coming times of troubles. Those troublesome times are here, now, and Kathy Hurley and Theodorre Donson’s latest book has arrived at a most appropriate time. In it are page after page devoted to spiritual advancement for each of us who desire change.

Gurdjieff said that the Work, and thereby the Path, is difficult. Ouspensky, in an extremely pessimistic fashion, indicated that there is no chance of redemption. A bleak outlook indeed!

However, Discover Your Soul Potential shows that there is a way out of our human predicament, while accepting that the way is hard and long, and that the stress and pressures of the present tend to undermine anything spiritual.

Kathy and Theodorre have broken new ground. Even in those parts of the book in which the format is similar to what is usually written about the nine types, the entire book is presented in a form that enables almost instant assimilation of the core of each type.

Most books on the Enneagram consist of page after page containing a welter of words to describe the types — so much information that many readers end up with mental indigestion. Discover Your Soul Potential doesn’t fall into this trap. By explaining each type with a diagram, it follows the ancient Chinese saying, "One picture is worth 10,000 words." A simple format and yet so effective. And the book continues to break new ground in this way.

It is not a "passive" book. It resounds with inspiration and literally commands us to accept the challenge that there is infinitely more to life than just living. It lights the path we can take to "grow our own soul"! This book reflects the mission of Kathy and Theodorre’s lives — to recover the almost forgotten teachings about the destiny of our souls so we can reclaim our right to once again be in union with the God who lives in us all. It reminds me of a song offering from Rabindranath Tagore’s "Gitanjali":

I shall ever try to drive all evils from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the innermost shrine of my heart. And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power that gives me strength to act.

This book is a spiritual pleasure. The first paragraph on page 1 stresses that "authentic spirituality and transformation are born out of simple ideas, not complicated ones." The final paragraph speaks of "knowing our individual soul potential" and that "God does not live outside us." From the first paragraph to the last, this is a "how" and a "where to" book — it explores how each type can use the Enneagram for spiritual development and where it will lead.

The depth of Kathy and Theodorre’s understanding of human nature and of their spirituality is rare in the materialistic outlook of the present day. Their beliefs shine through every page of Discover Your Soul Potential. This is a book to use and to live by.

Reprinted from "Enneagram Monthly," June 2000

Reviews

"An Inspired Approach" by Michael J. Goldberg
"A Book To Live By" by Ray Keedy-Lilley, M. A. N. L. P.
"Explaining the Enneagram Positively" By Clarence Thomson
Readers' Reviews

Excerpts

	Introduction: Journey Into Soul
	Sample Description of a Type — ONE: THE ACHIEVER

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Explaining the Enneagram Positively
By Clarence Thomson, author of The Parables and the Enneagram

Everyone knows the Enneagram has three centers. But Hurley and Donson use them creatively in a way no one else quite does. They use relationships of the three centers as their primary explanation for the distortion of the personalities of the nine types.

The theory is simple in its conception and is carried out throughout the book. Each number has a lead center. This is one of the three functions: feeling, doing or thinking. Each number has a dominant center. This is the center that the person overuses. The dominant center may not be the same as the lead center. For example, Threes value doing and thinking too much, but their lead center is feeling because that is the intelligence of the 2-3-4 triad.

Every number has a support center. For Threes it is either thinking or doing. In some Threes doing is dominant with thinking supporting it, and in other Threes thinking is dominant with doing supporting it. This is unlike a Four, who consistently puts his thinking in support of his lead/dominant feeling center.

To explain all nine numbers would be to repeat the book. Suffice it to say that by manipulating the doing, feeling and thinking centers, they not only explain the distortions of each of the personalities, they also provide an agenda for personal change. This agenda for personal change clings to the theory and fundamentally contains exercises and suggestions for throttling back on the dominant center and supporting the underactualized center. By bringing the centers into harmony, they restore wholeness to the personality. In a certain sense, they balance the energy like a massage therapist.

Perhaps a metaphor would help. If you are flying a kite, you need to keep all the strings at equal tension or your kite won't fly. Or if it does fly, it will be erratic and out of control. If you can maintain equal tension, you will take full advantage of the wind power moving the kite.

Here's a sample of their suggestions for Fours, Fives and Nines, often called the withdrawing types. According to Hurley and Donson, these are types that do not properly exercise their 'doing' center. This does not mean, they insist, that they don't do things. They just do the wrong things, do them badly or don't like to do what they are able to get done.

They can notice what needs to be done and do it the way it should be done without being asked. (Things that need to be done can range from picking up the pop can on the coffee table and taking it to the recycle bin to providing regular maintenance for their automobile.)
Learning to think practically and to think about the physical world would improve the quality of their lives.

In a way, Hurley and Donson answer the many people who say the Enneagram is not positive enough. The Enneagram is about distorted energies. When those energies are completely in harmony, the Enneagram type is not visible to others or experienced inwardly very dramatically. Their contribution is welcome. Their theories underscore what is so often overlooked: our Enneagram type is about an energy, it is not a series of characteristics or behaviors. Hurley and Donson detail just how these energies work.

Reprinted from "Enneagram Central" website, June 2000

Reviews

"An Inspired Approach" by Michael J. Goldberg
"A Book To Live By" by Ray Keedy-Lilley, M. A. N. L. P.
"Explaining the Enneagram Positively" By Clarence Thomson
Readers' Reviews

Excerpts

	Introduction: Journey Into Soul
	Sample Description of a Type — ONE: THE ACHIEVER

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Readers' Reviews

These reviews were initially offered on Amazon.com and AuthorsDen.com and were copied from those web sites.

Powerful Insights, February 14, 2001, Reviewer: Christine from Littleton, Colorado
Hurley and Donson's book offers an eye-opening opportunity to discover the most intimate details of one's personality. The information about my "type" was so accurate I felt the authors must have known me all my life! Their simple, yet gentle, approach to discussing core strengths and potential obstacles is very powerful. I recommend this book to anyone who truly wants to grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually!

Personal and Relational Awareness, February 8, 2001, Reviewer: Ray Kurtz from Austin, Texas
Discover Your Soul Potential does a good job of integrating psychology and spirituality in a clear, concise format for personality/essence awareness, which can lead to individual and relational knowledge, development and transformation. The authors add a very personal touch in the Introduction by sharing their own stories. While there is disagreement among Enneagram authors as to which types are associated with each center, this book provides useful information as to the centers from a macro perspective. . . . Overall, a keeper! One that you would want to include in your self-discovery/personal growth library.

Using the Enneagram to Awaken, February 5, 2001, Reviewer: Patric from Denver, Colorado
This is a concise and practical explanation of the Enneagram with a simplified understanding of how the three centers (thinking, feeling and doing) are the keys to growth, relationship and healing. No matter what your type or number the insight shared around how the underactualized center plays a major role in your suffering, learning and transformation as a soul is essential. This book provides a deep revelation regarding how wounding and healing are tied together in understanding the process of our being. It brings forth the grounding that it is in relationship we are wounded and in relationship we can be healed, providing the distinctions that allow our souls to look into our wounds. Then we experience the blessing that awaits as we become conscious of our compulsion and build a new awareness as an observer. A good book for either the experienced Enneagram student or as an introduction to the "real work at hand" using the Enneagram.

Growing Your Soul, February 4, 2001, Reviewer: Gayle Laird from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hurley and Donson take the spiritual wisdom of the ages and distill it into a comprehensive system to grow your soul. I really liked the clear, concise descriptions of each of the nine Enneagram types. They use descriptions of the intellectual, emotional and instinctive centers of intelligence so readers know what areas to work on to awaken their spirituality. Under headings such as "Core Strengths," "Potential Obstacles" and "Ways to Develop Relationships and Spiritual Vitality" they offer practical advice to all types in their quest for a fulfilling life. A book to be read again and again as a reminder of how to develop the highest aspects of ourselves.

Wondrous discoveries await you!, February 3, 2001, Reviewer: A reader from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Over the last two decades I've read many books on spirituality, psychology and the Enneagram. This book surpasses them all. It is warm, inviting, encouraging and, best of all, it simplifies the Enneagram. Hurley and Donson will take you on a wondrous journey of discovery — you will be forever changed. This book is for beginners and advanced alike. It's easy to read, and it shows you the way. Each time I read it, I find a new gem — an aha, now I understand! If you invest in only one book on spirituality, or the Enneagram, make it this one.

Discover Your Soul Potential, February 4, 2001, Reviewer: Ron Busby
My initial approach to the book was one of skepticism, but the authors very quickly dispelled any reservations I had going in. It is certainly NOT a niche book but one with broad application to anyone bold enough to examine himself. The thesis should be seen for what it is: an engine for processing information in an orderly, critical way, not an icon or holy grail for miraculous transformation. It is not pretentious or dogmatic or assuming. The authors have done an excellent job arranging the material in an understandable format. I still have many unanswered questions about the system but the writing and the type of presenting the notion is very acceptable. (I think I am a "5"!)

Reviews

"An Inspired Approach" by Michael J. Goldberg
"A Book To Live By" by Ray Keedy-Lilley, M. A. N. L. P.
"Explaining the Enneagram Positively" By Clarence Thomson
Readers' Reviews

Excerpts

	Introduction: Journey Into Soul
	Sample Description of a Type — ONE: THE ACHIEVER

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Discover Your Soul Potential

One: The Achiever

Quick Overview
Thumbnail sketch. Ones are highly focused and intense people who measure everything — especially themselves and their own performance — by perfectionistic standards. Often presenting the smiling, sociable side of their personalities to the world, they experience great interior pressure to work hard and to be fair, moderate, just, kind and amiable in the process. They tend to think in black/white, either/or terms and can become inflexible and rigid.

Ones keep a tight rein on their emotions, especially anger, to attain the perfectly acceptable response. An insistent mental voice criticizes them if they do not live up to all their standards; often it causes them to criticize others as well. Ones feel caught in imperfection so strive to avoid it; they want to feel perfect.

Positive descriptors. Dedicated, ethical, hard working, reliable, practical, conscientious, disciplined, responsible, honest, fair, idealistic, creative.

Negative descriptors. Self-righteous, moralistic, judgmental, critical, resentful, perfectionistic, puritanical, rigid, angry, intense, dogmatic, myopic.

Checklist
If you are a One, it’s likely that you:

Obey (or fight with) an inner voice that points out your faults and mistakes and tells you how you could have done things better.
Measure everything — especially yourself and your own performance — by exacting standards because there is a right and wrong way to do everything.
Work long and hard and expect others to do the same but feel guilty if you say so because you also feel you must be kind, amiable and fair toward others.
Have to finish all your work before you can play, but somehow all the work never seems to get done.
Tend to make To-Do lists — whether verbal or written— for yourself and for others.
Have to meet all needs of the people around you before you can meet your own and therefore usually put yourself last on your own list.
Often feel resentment which you try to mask so that others don’t see or feel it.
Reflect on issues until you can state your conclusion with the conviction that you are right.
Feel that, because you’ve thought it through so clearly, your way is usually the right and best way to do something.
Encourage others to be as responsible as you feel you are.
Are a high energy person who desires to get a lot done.
Are a private person who is guarded in conversation lest you reveal more about yourself than you want others to know.

What’s Going On Inside
Center configuration. Ones see the world through the doing center and therefore interpret life through the values of determination, action and protecting themselves. They process information with the feeling and doing Diagram showing how the three centers configure to create the One personality type intelligences, which orients their interest toward how well they respond to a particular situation. Because their thinking center is repressed, they are unable to evaluate their performance so they try their best in every situation hoping to achieve excellence. They mechanically respond to life by being dedicated and working hard to excel in every project they undertake.

Preferred center and dominant center. Because the doing center is preferred in Ones, they see life in terms of responsibilities and work. Simultaneously using the doing center to make sense out of life, they focus their energy directly in front of them. Ones pressure themselves to perform faultlessly in every situation. They have To-Do lists that never end. They insist on perfection, myopically focus on details, and feel a need to improve the world. Ones’ intense tenacity for their projects often requires they sacrifice their personal needs for rest and relaxation.

They release the inner pressure created by such intensity only by taking time away from their responsibilities. But as a One said to us, "It’s not relaxing for me to goof off because the tension builds and I just feel guilty about all the things I should be doing at home or at the office." Their right-and-wrong, black-and-white approach to life, which can cause others to view them as rigid, superior or stubborn, is tempered by their high personal standards of honesty, integrity, justice and moral character.

Support center. While the feeling center supports the doing center, this does not mean that Ones are emotional people. Although they can be sociable, relational and accommodating to others’ needs, Ones have an emotional attachment to their actions. They feel deeply about what they do and how well they do it, which does not leave much feeling energy left for relationships. When things don’t turn out the way Ones think they should, they can easily slip into a downward spiral of negative feelings that shift quickly from self-blame to self-justification to blaming others, resulting in resentment, anger and guilt.

Repressed center. Ones repress the thinking center, which usually comes as a surprise to them because they experience themselves as thinking all the time. But that’s precisely the point: Ones think nonproductively by looking at situations from all sides several times and overanalyzing them.

They find it difficult to separate one issue from another and deal with one thing at a time. Ones often experience their underdeveloped thinking center as a relentless voice in their minds that criticizes, finds fault, and overemphasizes even minor mistakes. This "inner critic" is thinking at its worst; it dismisses all truly rational and logical arguments by upholding limitless standards of excellence. As a way of compensating for the uncomfortable feeling their spinning minds create, Ones may value and collect credentials (outer validation of thinking), including graduate degrees.

First Steps in Soul Development
Reclaiming full personhood in type One begins by separating the doing and feeling centers so each can achieve its true purpose. In compulsion, the feeling center’s qualities are primarily used to support the doing center’s agenda — accomplishment, achievement, drive and purposefulness.

As Ones develop the deeper values of the feeling center, they allow themselves the luxury of personal and intimate relationships, artistic creation, and relationship with the transcendent values of the universe and the divine. This frees them to experience the greater fulfillment and meaning in life that comes with soul development. Then the highly developed gifts of their doing center will no longer be held in bondage to unconscious negative emotional states. They also experience the doing center’s wisdom of knowing when not to do something. Creative leisure results.

Finally, as Ones learn to trust their impressions and thinking process, they feel less need to overanalyze every situation. They create space in their very active lives, their inner view broadens, and they give time and energy to all the important aspects of their lives, not just to work. Expression of balance. As Ones move toward the goal of transformation, they become patient.

The Formula for the Passion of Anger
The preferred doing center causes Ones to prize hard work and accomplishment. Their feeling center supports the doing center, which means they have deep feelings about what they do. They also compulsively control their emotions so they can make the perfect response to any situation.

Their repressed thinking center prevents them from evaluating how well they do, from setting boundaries around work, or from setting limits on what they can expect from themselves and others. The only result of this combination of energies could be anger, a nagging resentment that leads to being overly critical and judgmental — attitudes they compulsively keep to a slow burn just under the surface of their daily lives.

Core Strengths

Ones lead through dedication to excellence and clarity of focus.
They are able to see the potential in people and situations and work diligently to bring these aptitudes into reality.
Their high ideals create appreciation of fairness and justice.
Their discipline, honesty and high moral character motivate others to strive for a higher level of commitment and responsibility.
Ones inspire cooperation through personal loyalty and a deep appreciation for the value of the individual.
Ones work hard and pursue a quiet but persistent course of action.

Potential Obstacles

When Ones are preoccupied with what is wrong, they do not recognize or appreciate all that is right.
They can become too attached to a single perception of how something should be done and then rigidly close down to new possibilities or ideas.
They can be overly critical, resentful and demanding.
When they are enmeshed in details, they lose the overall picture and ignore important tasks.
They easily develop a self-righteous morality that becomes an intrusive, unbending yardstick by which others are judged.
For Ones, resentment, intolerance and perfectionism can become constant, harmful emotional attitudes.

Ways to Develop Relationships and Spiritual Vitality

Set aside time regularly for the sole purpose of expanding and clarifying your overall vision and direction.
Open to new ideas and possibilities.
Examine the possibility that you set unreachable standards of perfection and therefore have become a source of irritation and resentment for both you and others.
Take time to learn about different philosophies that could challenge and expand your current attitudes and perceptions.
Lighten up, relax and develop your sense of humor.
Take the initiative to plan something fun with someone you care about.
Work at becoming an objective thinker who can trust and value the natural process of growth and development.
Find ways to appreciate people, lifestyles and values different from yours.

Wound
Ones’ thinking center is most damaged; consequently, betrayal is the wound of the One. Early on, Ones learned the information they received could not be trusted. As children, often the untrustworthy information was as simple as being expected to act in a proper, adult fashion. They came to believe their safety and happiness depended on not being in the way, not being a burden to anyone. Verbally or nonverbally, Ones were told it was important to be "nice" to others, to act "grown up," to do a "good job" to help lighten the load of others. This way of living became their ticket to receiving approval and love.

Ones often grow up too quickly — often taking parental responsibility for their siblings or even for their own parents. Having learned to be responsible, Ones perpetuate the betrayal wound in adulthood by intensely focusing on their own efforts and never "wasting" time, especially on themselves. They count only on themselves to get a job done right. They are inevitably angry about their situation but because they learned as children that anger is unacceptable, they control their feelings and follow the rules.

Ones also perpetuate their wound of betrayal by believing other people will always let them down, so it’s best to go it alone. Depending only on themselves, they spend needless hours overworking, overinvestigating, overrationalizing and overanalyzing. This habit of cyclical thinking helps explain why Ones usually prefer to have limited options, rules, and a rigid standard of right and wrong to guide them.

Healing the wound involves activities that awaken the thinking center. Reading books and articles that ignite new thoughts and ideas regarding the true meaning of life is a good exercise. Discussing these ideas with others develops thinking and keeps the ideas alive. Breathing meditations can focus and quiet their minds. Noticing when irritability or pickiness begin to rise and consciously choosing to refocus on something positive interrupts habitual patterns. It awakens the soul.

Repressed Virtue
The virtue that Ones find most difficult to develop is faith, which, along with hope and love, is key to the process of healing the soul and finding wholeness. Because of childhood wounding, the natural capacity to trust others became unconscious. With their desire to trust others unfulfilled, they learned to resent a world they believe forces them to make up for its untrustworthiness by being overly responsible.

Faith, like all great virtues, takes root in childhood. To have faith does not primarily mean believing in ideas or doctrines. Rather, it means believing in someone. Early on in life, Ones decided they could not depend on anyone but themselves.

The opposite of faith is not disbelief but distrust and the kind of fear that causes someone to hold fast to many small beliefs. To compensate for the repression of faith, Ones adopt attitudes like rules, "shoulds," perfectionistic standards, rigid rights and wrongs, and an intensely serious approach to life.

The rebirth of faith in Ones begins in trusting their own impressions of life, then learning to trust others, forgiving them when they fail in trustworthiness. It continues in accepting their own limitations and forgiving themselves. They also can learn to trust the situation and not be so intense in manipulating it to improve it. These inner movements free them to flow with divine energy until their souls trustingly reconnect with the Source of all wisdom.

Forgotten Child
In Ones, the bright, curious, questioning child receded into the background while taking responsibility and exerting effort became more and more important to their egos. Any curious child can, at times, be a pest by stretching limits and getting into trouble. Yet, when this child can trust that he or she is loved in spite of, or perhaps because of, this impishness, the child will continue to search, discover and be filled with the wonder of life.

As children, Ones did not allow themselves to make trouble, be an intrusion, or act impishly. They learned that never being a pest was the way to make other people happy. By trusting themselves to work hard and figure life out as they went along, they felt safe. Reclaiming and integrating this forgotten aspect of themselves takes time spent in relaxation. Questioning their rigid standards and surrendering the demands they place on themselves lead to a new sense of purpose, meaning and freedom.

Orientation to Time
Ones are tyrannized by the demands of the immediate. Staying focused on the situation before them compensates for the lost virtue of faith or trust, for people don’t need to have faith to deal with the here and now.

Ones feel they will finally have time for themselves when the present situation stops demanding all their time. But time for themselves will only arrive when they consciously choose to create it. Then new dreams can be born. Courage will increase as they let go of the familiar and trust in the unknown. Thus they plant themselves in the land of soul.

Challenge
The most important quest for Ones is to become the assertive, wise guide of their own destiny. Their preferred doing center and support feeling center work together to make them perfectionists. However, because they repress the thinking center, Ones allow other people to set their agenda, which means they don’t reap the harvest of their own hard work; it’s all done to please others or meet their needs. This is the root of the anger they constantly deal with.

Ones are aware of the limitations of their approach to life. They don’t trust their thinking until they touch a higher expression of self through spiritual practice. Then, by placing confidence in the will of the higher self rather than the will of their compulsive personality, they are able to set an agenda that allows time to regain the creative freedom that is their birthright.

With the values of the soul guiding them, they are able to regulate their world and cease being controlled by circumstance. They allow the voice of intuition to rise and refine their sense of discrimination and discernment. By balancing their lives, wisdom rises and the critical inner voice fades into silence.

Summary of Type One
Avoidance. Imperfection.
Passion. Anger.
Preferred center. Doing center.
Dominant center. Doing center.
Support center. Feeling center.
Repressed center. Thinking center.
Stance. Dependent.
Orientation to time. Immediate.
Wound. Betrayal.
Repressed virtue. Faith.
Forgotten child. Bright, curious, questioning child.
Divine image. Wisdom.

Questions for Reflection for Ones
1. In what specific ways does holding on to resentments and anger undermine my relationship with myself and others?
2. When I become angry because others are not doing their fair share, how might I creatively and relationally resolve the issue?
3. How would my life and relationships be more fulfilling if I placed limits on the time I spent working?
4. What are the qualities and gifts in others that I most admire, and what prevents me from developing my own version of these attributes?
5. What are the anxieties or fears that cause me to automatically resist change?
6. How might listening to a new idea or a different standard than my own and asking open-minded questions broaden my understanding and acceptance of life and people?
7. What values would I most like to be known for, and what concrete steps can I take now to develop them?

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