The Heart Reorientated: The Enneagram of Virtues w/Ron Esposito

Intentional Living Circles are offered free; this one is via Zoom.

Host: Nancy Markow - www.connectingyouwithyourself.com

Topic: The Heart Reorientated: The Enneagram of Virtues
Description:

Presenter: Ron Esposito
Bio: Ron Esposito, M.A. is a certified Life Coach, an IEA-accredited Enneagram Teacher, and a lifelong student of spirituality and mysticism. Ron is on the School of Conscious Living faculty at the Conscious Living Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has presented numerous times on Enneagram spirituality at IEA conferences in the United States, Canada, and Europe and has been published in the Enneagram Journal and Nine Points. Ron recently released the CD, “Lifting The Veil: Enneagram Meditations,” with Deborah Ooten, featuring Tibetan and crystal singing bowls. You will find that he presents with passion and an open heart.

Presentation: Each personality type within the Enneagram system has a way we fall away from awakening and a way we awaken. The system includes three intelligence centers – we all have all three. There is the head, the heart, and the body intelligence. In the heart center, the way of falling away is called the passions, and the pathway for awakening is called the Virtues.

The Virtues include essential qualities of the open heart, and
as we allow them to arise in us, they are a channel for self-transformation. The Virtues are the antidote to the Passions, the root causes of suffering.

In this workshop, we will explore the Virtues and how to weave them into our daily life. Participants can expect to experience a heart-centered approach to the material and a supportive atmosphere for sharing, contemplation, and noticing what is arising within. The presentation features a talk introducing the Virtues with small group discussion, dyads, and a compassion exercise.

Attendee participation is a key component of the workshop.

From the Enneagram spiritual perspective, the Virtues are qualities of the opened heart and as we allow them to arise in us they are a channel for self- transformation. So, they are not the result of human effort to become virtuous. They manifest themselves spontaneously in our lives when our internal barriers are lessened. That is, while we are becoming more
self-aware and conscious, working to be less dominated by the passions, we become more able to love all beings without distinction. The Virtues operate as profound spiritual, altruistic motivations rooted in universal love. They are the antidote to the Passions, whose roots are fear, ignorance, and
attachment, causing suffering.

The heart is the bridge between the personal and transpersonal levels of consciousness. The opened heart radiates transcendental love, compassion, empathy, generosity, and goodness, serving as a bridge to other paths of development, recognizing our unity in consciousness.

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