{"id":18615,"date":"2020-02-25T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18615"},"modified":"2020-02-25T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:21:21","slug":"enneagram-part-one-body-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18615","title":{"rendered":"Enneagram Part One: Body Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqpNGYbcy3U\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cac.org\/the-belly-center-2020-02-25\/\"><strong>The Belly Center<\/strong><\/a><br><strong>Tuesday, February 25, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My friend Russ Hudson of the Enneagram Institute has spent his life studying and teaching the Enneagram. I will be sharing many of his insights over the next three weeks, because he has such compassion for each Enneagram type, and he helps us have compassion for both ourselves and others. He has a gift for teaching the Enneagram as a tool to help us live in the Presence of God. Today Russ introduces the Body or Gut Center\u2014what he calls Belly\u2014which is home to types Eight, Nine, and One.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The body plays a crucial role in all forms of genuine spiritual work, because bringing awareness back to the body anchors the quality of Presence. The reason is fairly obvious: while our minds and feelings can wander to the past or the future,&nbsp;<em>our body can only exist here and now, in the present moment.<\/em>&nbsp;This is one of the fundamental reasons why virtually all meaningful spiritual work leads back to the body and becoming more grounded in it. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being in the Belly has to do with first of all the direct experience of our existence; in spiritual traditions and philosophical traditions [this] is often called \u201cbeing.\u201d The ability to be. This being is not dull. It\u2019s the sense of being&nbsp;<em>alive<\/em>, of being connected, of being at one with things. If you\u2019re actually fully here in your body, the spiritual rumors that we\u2019re all one cease being rumors. It\u2019s a little counter-intuitive. We think that if we get inside our body we\u2019re going to be stuck inside this sack of skin. We\u2019ll be cut off from everything. The opposite is true because your body is already connected with the whole sacred reality that God\u2019s expressing right now. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this whole [Body or Gut] part is teaching us what it means to&nbsp;<em>actually live in the here and now, to feel our existence, and to operate from that<\/em>, which gives us a sense of confidence, fullness, aliveness, being. In religious language, it\u2019s like you feel held in the Presence of God. And it\u2019s like feeling the solidity of spirit, the fullness, the gutsy vibrancy of presence, spirit, life, right now. To whatever degree we\u2019re not present, we lose that sense. We lose the confidence, we lose the fullness, we lose the sense of existing. [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we lose contact with our Essence, the personality attempts to \u201cfill in\u201d by providing a false sense of autonomy. [3]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once we\u2019ve got our egos up and running and we have this sense of intactness . . . , we don\u2019t want anyone messing with it. We call the Eight, Nine, and One the \u201cI-don\u2019t-want-to-be-messed-with\u201d types. Show me an ego, and I\u2019ll show you a structure that does not want to be interfered with. [4]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belly CenterTuesday, February 25, 2020 My friend Russ Hudson of the Enneagram Institute has spent his life studying and teaching the Enneagram. I will be sharing many of his insights over the next three weeks, because he has such compassion for each Enneagram type, and he helps us have compassion for both ourselves and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18619,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions\/18619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}