So in the Enneagram, it's seeing that your personality is actually a defense mechanism that's hiding you from the real world, the real you you are not your personality. It is an ego defensive psychological structure designed to keep all the trauma and wounds and things undelt with hidden and protected in a way. And so you use that person to interact with the world, but it's not the real you.

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The anyogram might date back to as early as the ancient Babylon around four and a half thousand years ago.

It is a circle with nine points into connector with the lines and each number represents a personality type. Richard Raw writes that if you could look out at reality from nine pairs of eyes and honor all of them,

you would be looking at reality through the eyes of God because all nine numbers together represent the image of God in humanity.

So how can the anyogram help you to find your true self? I'm chatting with Samantha Mackay, any a gram coach who says your personality is actually a defense mechanism that is hiding your true self.

You are not your personality. Your personality is a psychological structure designed to keep all the trauma and the wounds hidden and protected from view.

As a child, this is an important survival strategy, but as an adult, we're meant to function differently, but we've forgotten that we're using these survival strategies because they become our normal.

The anyogram tells us which survival strategies we are using so that we can dig down to break through the survival strategies and find and live as our true selves.

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