What EAnimals are doing today on Thanksgiving

Chief (8) is cooking the turkey.
Kozy (2) is making the sides.
Einstein (5) is reading recipes to Kozy from a favorite internet source.
Solomon (1) is reminding Chief about making sure to put the meat thermometer in the turkey.
Picasso (4) is reading an inspirational Thanksgiving poem.
Trooper (6) is making sure that all the fire alarm batteries have been changed.
Zee (7)is frying another turkey in the outside fryer.
Buddy (9) is playing with the children.
Champ (3) is planning the bike ride they will take later that day to work off the turkey.

5 Reasons to take EAnimals Quiz

1. Understand your parents so you can forgive their annoying habits.
2. Understand your children so you can pick your battles wisely.
3. Understand yourself so you can put your best foot forward.
4. Understand your friends to bring out the best in them.
5. Understand your boss to play to his strengths.

Thought I would get a little personal today!

Just thought I would get a little personal today. I want to write about how I have worked on the downside traits of my Kozy personality style(Enneagram 2).

Actually I was pretty unaware of these traits until I discovered the Enneagram in the late 80's. But as I read more about the 2 (my EAnimal Kozy), I was pretty dismayed about the tendencies of the 2 style of "giving to get" and to using high EQ to "get on the inside track" with people. I didn't want to see these things about the 2 type in myself and wanted to concentrate instead on the positive characteristics. There's the characteristic Kozy pride!

As I continued to learn more about my preferred style and made a spiritual habit of going over Riso and Hudsons Transformation statements for the 2 type, I began to notice when I was acting out of my 2 trance. As I became more aware of these patterns, I was able to make some different choices: to hold back some with others, wait to be asked for help, give only what is asked for, and not to "go the extra mile!"

I like myself better now and find that I conserve my inner resources so that I am available to myself to be creative as well as to family and friends when they really seek my involvement.

Wake up from your eAnimal's Trance!!!

How do we become untrapped by our EAnimal style?

It's really not that difficult! Simply begin to identify your style and become aware of when you are acting out of that familiar childhood style. As you do this, you will begin to change. Start by taking the test at www.whatsyouranimal.com, as well as reviewing some of the other sources on the More Info page to more fully identify your style.

AWARENESS is the key. When we are aware of our ego controlled behavior, a whole new world of choices of how to think, feel and act will open up and you will find more and more freedom in your life.

Your Ego Trance

Most of us have experienced ourselves "going through the motions" of activities that seem very familiar to us. Or we've had that feeling of being controlled by an unseen hand almost against our will. This feeling is the awareness of the compulsive sets of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which make up the nine ego styles hidden in our unconscious minds. We adopt these styles as children to protect ourselves from pain and to make sense of the world around us.

These unconscious ego styles are represented here by the EAnimals. But you might say, they look kind of cute and harmless. How can an ego style get in my way?

Right, sometimes you may experience your ego style pleasantly, but at other times less than comfortably when the occasion may call for another more helpful set of behaviors. If you've ever gotten "ticked off" and reacted quickly in a way that seemed to come from out of the blue, this would your hidden ego style acting out old behaviors. You or someone else may have said "Where did that come from?" Well, it came from your unconscious mind!

These rigid personality styles becomes less and less useful to us as we make our way through life, leave home, forming new homes, working different jobs and responding to life's many challenges. Although you will retain some of the flavor of your personality style, you will find that not all aspects of that style will open you up to all that life has to offer.

So what's the answer? How do we become untrapped by our EAnimal style?

It's really not that difficult! Simply begin to identify your style and become aware of when you are acting out of that familiar childhood style. As you do this, you will begin to change. Start by taking the test at www.whatsyouranimal.com, as well as reviewing some of the other sources on the More Info page to more fully identify your style.

AWARENESS is the key. When we are aware of our ego controlled behavior, a whole new world of choices of how to think, feel and act will open up and you will find more and more freedom in your life.

Have fun and start living life more fully!

Are you trapped by your Ego type?

None of us like the feeling or the thought of being trapped. But the largest trap of all is inside us. These 9 little animals are actually symbols of the 9 Ego-Types. One of these 9 Ego-Types has you in a cage that keeps you from experiencing the fullness of your life by keeping you unconscious of the free person within.

Each ego-type has its style of approaching the world which worked quite well for us when we were children, but can hold us back from living life to the fullest as adults.

Becoming aware of your Ego Type (represented by one of these EAnimals) is the first and most important step towards letting yourself out of it's cage. More about this in the blog posts after you take the test at www.whatsyouranimal.com