"Sixes Wonder: What can I Believe in?"

Spellbind by Clare Cherikoff

Words can be powerful spells. Most of us were taught that it was sticks and stones that break the bones. Words? Not so much. But words have a mostly unexamined grip on our lives. When we believe them, they shape us and they shape us early. In this book for children and parents of all ages, author Clare Cherikoff spins a tale that shows us the seemingly magical spells woven by words, helps us to recognize them and learn how it is possible to live life more freely.

Words we believe + our personality = who we think we are.

The other important theme here is that of human personality. The nine temperaments types are familiar to students of the enneagram. They play a major part of the story and noted with great humor and compassion. A simple and useful mythology arises within the story to explain this often unexamined system to us.

The issues they are facing are no less fascinating than:
1: Who do you think you are?
2: What if that's Not True?

This book is a great addition to this genre of storytelling indeed an homage to J.K. Rowling, etc. It might help SOME PEOPLE to get a better understanding of the 9 Temperament Types, a topic which Clare deftly teaches. If you have that knowledge, it adds to the joy of watching the plot unfold.

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Sixes Wonder: What can I Believe in?
To print a copy of an Free Enneagram ebook

The study of the Nine Temperaments is called the Enneagram and is described in the free ebook listed above. The Enneagram types (Temperaments) are not made up of lists of character traits, but are founded in a person's core values. Each Temperament represents what that person considers something very important to their life such as power, security, harmony, knowledge, fulfillment, i.e.

Your Temperament enables you to make a valuable contributions to your life; but it also causes you to neglect other values, creating a psychological ‘blind spot” for you.

This is why, if you:

“KEEP DOING WHAT YOU BEEN DOING, YOU WILL CONTINUE TO GET WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN GETTING.”

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Would you describe yourself as:
1. Warm ?
2. Faithful ?
3. See the world as a dangerous place?
4. Need to make sure everyone is safe?

You could just have the six Temperament Type. The six personality acts as a trance making the person feel as if deep down they're untrustworthy. This is then unconsciously projected onto others which makes them feel paranoid and unsafe. The way to find security is by questioning everything a hundred times over. Everything is doubted and their head spins with questions and possible answers. Unable to feel secure they consult their friends but their friends answers are doubted too. They busy themselves with mental activity and this often masks their fears.

When this personality type is first introduced to Temperament Type 6 they doubt they're a six, they doubt the enneagram, they're sure they aren't motivated by fear. Usually by the second day the Temperament Type 6 is struck by the enneagram's precise mapping of their thoughts and fears.

As a way to manage their fears this type often becomes extremely skilled at managing their friends and families. They feel that if they could just organize everyone then we could all be safe.

The talking style of the six is called setting limits. They don't like to leave options too wide open as this wouldn't be safe so they put limits on everything. Some examples of setting limits would be - 'I'll come out to dinner but lets be home by 10pm', or 'Have a fun time camping but just make sure you don't swim in the river'.

They are cautious so putting a limit on things is how they create security. They also tend to herd people into teams - teams are safe.

The relentless thought process for the six is doubt. They can become slaves to it. The illusion is that there is a right action that will dispel their doubts, anxieties and fears to make them feel safe. This isn't a bad action to take at certain times in our lives but for the six it can become a constant preoccupation.

Did you know?

The Power of Nine is your Key to Happiness and Joy.

There are nine Temperaments. Fifty percent (50%) of your happiness is determined by your Temperament.

Understanding your Temperament Type allows you to work with it and increase your own happiness. The ways individual people inherently view the world/themselves and process information are not the same but do tend to group in different clumps.

Pick the person about that you admire, like and think you are like and click on that number below and listen to the Video.

One way to view this distribution is as nine basic Temperaments Types. They all need different experiences to be really happy.

What do they really want?

Temperament One examples are: Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Martha Stewart, Al Gore, and Tony Randall. These people want to be good. They have high ideals and value and are attracted to situations where those ideals are met. They want to realize all their potential and help others actualize theirs. They envision making the world a better place to live.

Temperament Two examples are: Bill Cosby, Alan Alda, Nancy Reagan, Dolly Parton, and Pat Boone. These people want to know they are loving. They want to nurture others and foster relationships. They value and are attracted to love. They envision making the world a more loving place to live.

Temperament Three examples are: Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Bill Clinton. These people are attracted to and value productivity, industry, and competence. They envision making the world more productive, organized, efficient, and smooth running. They see the universe as chaos and want to really make it a cosmos, a harmonious and orderly system.

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Temperament Four examples are: Michael Jackson, Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Neil Diamond, and Angelina Jolie. These people want to be unique individuals with lots of originality. They enjoy putting their personal touch on everything in which they are involved. They also value beauty and want to make the world a more beautiful place to live.

Temperament Five examples are: Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Howard Hughes, George Lucas, and Karl Marx. These people long for wisdom, understanding, knowledge, truth. They want to make the world a more enlightened place by discovering what is real and true and making it more intelligible to others.

Temperament Six examples are: Helen Palmer, Michael Moore, Tom Hanks, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Nixon, and Mel Gibson. These people want to make the world a safer, more secure, more reliable, more trustworthy place to live and they will question anyone’s authority in their effort to do so. They value loyalty in themselves and others and stand by their commitments.

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Temperament Seven examples are: Robin Williams, Steve Jobs, Tom Hanks, Anthony Quinn, Richard Branson and Terry Bradshaw. These people want to enjoy life and experience all its possibilities. They value joy and variety. They envision making the world a more delightful place to live.

Temperament Eight examples are: Martin Luther King, Jr., FDR, Sean Connery, Donald Trump, and John Wayne. These people want to live life fully and freely. They are attracted to, appreciate, and effectively use power. They envision using their strength to influence others and bring about a more just world where power and resources are equitably distributed.

Temperament Nine examples are: Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Stewart, Carl Jung, and Dwight Eisenhower. These people want to feel at one with others and at home in the universe. They value peace, harmony, and unity. They envision making the world a more harmonious, ecumenical, and comfortable place to live for everyone.

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Why do we use numbers?

Names such as: Sixes are the: Loyal Person, Devil's Advocate, Faithful Skeptic, Guardian, or True Believer are commonly used to decribed the Temperaments Types. We use numbers instead of any names.

We use numbers to designate each of the Temperament Types because numbers are value neutral. They imply the whole range of attitudes and behaviors of each Temperament without specifying anything either positive or negative.

The numerical ranking of the Types is not significant. A larger number is no better than a smaller number.

No Temperament Type is inherently better or worse than any other. While all the Temperament Types have unique assets and liabilities, some Types are often more desirable than others in our society. You may not be happy with your particular Type. You may feel that your Type is “limited" in some way. As you learn more about all the Types, you will see that just as each has unique capacities, each has different “limits.”

People do not change from one basic Temperament Type to another. Some Types are more valued in our society than others; it is because of the qualities that society rewards, not because of any superior value of those Types.

The descriptions of the Temperament Types apply equally to males and females, since no Type is inherently masculine or feminine. Not everything in the description of your basic Type will apply to you all the time because you fluctuate constantly.

Additional Resources

More information about Clare Cherikoff teacher, NLP, the enneagram, seminar presenter, documentary maker, author, animator and cartoonist

Home of the best-selling Enneagram authors Don Riso and Russ Hudson, and the Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator. Training, workshops, online testing, and discussion board

Enneagram Worldwide offers you a unique experience of the Enneagram through our Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition, founded by Helen Palmer and David Daniels, M.D.

Welcome to Changeworks News from Changeworks-The Enneagram, Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP with Thomas Condon

Awareness To Action International helps professionals improve performance and reach their full potential through our practical, business-minded application of the Enneagram model of personality styles

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