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Enneagram Type 9: The Mediator
 Definitions used in describing each type
“Lost” essential quality:
Unconditional love, with everyone of equal importance, belonging and regard.
Compensating
belief: The world makes you unimportant, requires that you blend in.
Attention/coping strategy:
Forgetting yourself and seeking belonging. Getting pulled away from personal priorities by external claims.
Trap: Seeking outside of yourself for comfort and harmony.
Driving energy: An inertia (sloth) toward yourself. Energy going into other people and many substitutes for your own priorities.
Avoidance: Conflict and discomfort, by “going along to get along” to avoid being dismissed.
Strengths: Excellent mediator, understanding, caring and supportive of others, adaptive.
Paradox:
Neglecting yourself in pursuit of comfort produces discomfort.
Path of development:
- Make self important
- Set own boundaries, limits, priorities
- Love self as well as others
- Accept discomfort and change as part of life
Ultimate task: Reclaiming the sense of perfection
in all things and everyone, which includes accepting differences,
mistakes, natural desires and the “dark side.”
More on Enneagram Type Nine:
Enneagram Type Nine Practices
for Growth | Enneagram Type Nine Key Themes
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