![]() Most of the time though, we experience our Selves either from either the perspective of an Inner Critic who tells us how we’re failing at Life (or how Life is failing us), or from the Driver’s Seat of our Core Self. This perspective might also become one we develop in our relationship with that person (“me” or another therapist) who would like to accompany you and assist you with your journey into understanding, healing, and developing your Self. ![]() Maybe from the perspective of someone who cares for us, but also knows us really well. We can also step back (as we often do, especially in therapy) and look at the Self from a more detached, less conflicted perspective. This is not our whole Being or Consciousness. Which is to say: our personality style, character, Ego, Self. Not in the negative sense of having a “big ego”, but simply in terms of this psychological “I”. ![]() Therapy is perhaps an opportunity for us to look at, and work through the content of our experience, the different ways we might have filled the gaps above to describe what is going on in our lives, but also to pay a slightly different kind of attention to how our struggles are often being shaped or contained in a certain ways for us through this “Self”, or Ego, or “I”. Like fish, we swim in the “waters” of Self, but are usually completely oblivious to what “water” actually is. Of course we don’t normally think about these utterances as a “Self” talking through us, because it (we) are always just sort of here in the conscious experience of “I”, of Self, with its particular filter on the world always present. I find this painful to think about or deal with. Whenever we express a thought, or belief, or opinion about our lives and our struggles, it is usually the Self (an “I”) that is doing the talking for us: One way to think about the Self is that it might work as a kind of Lens or “Operating System” through which our psyche (?) mind (?) “life force” (?) or “soul” (?) flows. Perhaps you’ve landed on this page because you’ve done an Online Enneagram Personality Test which has given you a Two as your main personality type, and now you’re scratching your head wondering what this means in terms of your self-development or therapy journey.Īre personality types no more than just a description of different traits – like a star sign? Or can a deeper understanding of our personality structure, or “self”, and the way it works at a psychological level, help us to play the game of life with a little bit more grace, and less suffering?
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