Your Nervous System Is a Tangled Ball of Yarn

human nervous system

As metaphors go, this image may be a pretty good way to describe the situation. Your nervous system is something like a tangled ball of yarn. Some strands are pulled tight, some loop around others, some disappear into knots, and some connect what is happening now with experiences that occurred decades ago. You may have … Read more

The Enneagram is Orthogonal

Personality is the Face of Process Describing the Enneagram symbol as orthogonal means that its distinct geometric components and functional layers intersect like independent axes on a coordinate grid. Rather than flattening the symbol into a single personality taxonomy, an orthogonal perspective recognizes that multiple distinct processes operate simultaneously on different dimensions without collapsing into … Read more