Creativity and the Enneagram with Sleeping at Last

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What can we learn about ourselves from and through art? Sleeping At Last, an incredible musician, joins us to explore the Enneagram, the creative process, art and emotion, and how we can become ever more true to ourselves. About Our Guest: Sleeping at Last, also known as Ryan O’Neal, is a well-known singer, songwriter, and composer who's written music for shows like Grey's Anatomy. Over the last seven years Ryan has worked on his Atlas series, an ongoing project that includes an incredible series of songs based on the Enneagram of Personality, which is my favorite personality typing system. New Sponsor: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Key Topics: 3:00: Sleeping at Last’s background and artistic origin story. 6:30: Music as a kind of journal. 8:30: How masks allow for vulnerability. 11:10: Writing in theme, and finding safe spaces for emotion through art. 17:00: Sleeping at Last’s creative process. 20:00: The Enneagram. 25:00: Forrest and Type 6 30:30: Ryan and Type 9. 33:50: 6 by Sleeping at Last 38:15: Learning about people through art. 43:00: Pressure. 44:45: Increasing creative output. 53:00: A message to Ryan's younger self. Listen to the fantastic Sleeping at Last Podcast! On it, Ryan explains the process and inspiration behind his music, and I couldn’t recommend it more strongly. Learn more about The Nine Types Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Hardwire lasting change into your mind and heart in just a few minutes a day with Dr. Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price! Connect with the show: Visit us on the web Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to Being Well, I'm Forrest Hansen and today we have a bit of a different
0:08.9	episode for you and one that honestly I've been really looking forward to for a while.
0:13.4	One of the things that's always been profoundly interesting to me personally
0:17.0	is the both personal and psychological relationship that artists can have with their work. From finding new sources of
0:24.1	creativity to actually managing their own internal psychological states through
0:28.2	the creation of art, there's always seem to be such a rich territory and an
0:32.4	interplay between the internal world of the artist and the external
0:36.0	expression of that art. This has definitely been my personal experience when I've engaged in various
0:41.5	forms of creative work.
0:43.0	And I can think a few better examples of this than today's guest,
0:46.6	an incredible singer-songwriter, producer, and composer that you might know by the name
0:51.2	Sleeping at Last, Ryan O'Neil.
0:53.7	Ryan released his debut album, Capture, alongside his brother Chad O'Neill and bassist Dan Purdue in 2000.
0:59.4	Since then he's released three other full-length albums and a wide variety of other creative solo projects,
1:04.4	EPs and singles. You may have heard his music on TV shows and in movies like the Twilight Saga,
1:09.5	Gray's Anatomy, American Idol, and The Fault in Our Stars, among many others.
1:14.0	Over the last seven years, Ryan has worked on his Atlas series, which is this pretty incredible high-concept
1:19.9	series of songs that's based on and inspired by little things like the origins of the
1:24.4	universe and all the life that lies within it. Atlas one began with 30 songs that were
1:28.9	inspired by the origins of that universe and then at least two continued with 25 songs inspired by
1:34.9	involuntary human development which includes things like life and emotions and
1:39.5	intelligence and a personal favorite of mine the aneagram of personality and then Atlas 3
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