While I share a lot of decluttering ideas and minimalism inspiration on this blog, I also love to explore how the concept of clearing clutter can apply to our minds and inner selves. When you clear psychical clutter, you feel relief, freedom, and clarity. I find that this goes double for mental clutter, though we don’t often talk about it. And learning about your personality type, in particular the Enneagram types, is one of the best ways to start on a mental decluttering project. If you’re looking to pursue personal development or even self actualization, you need to first understand yourself. I find that personality psychology is a powerful tool to gain that self-understanding. I’ve written before about Myers Briggs personality types, and I think the Myers Briggs Type Indicator is a fantastic tool. But the Enneagram is a unique personality typology…
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I’ve shared plenty of tips about how to declutter your physical space. But our minds also collect clutter. This clutter consists of habits, beliefs, and thought patterns accumulated in our youth that no longer serve us. While clearing physical clutter can be empowering, clearing mental clutter is life changing. This series on the Enneagram addresses how each type can declutter their minds. I’m writing individual posts on each type, because each type has unique psychic clutter. For more context, check out the introduction to my first post about the Enneagram 1. This post focuses on the Enneagram 8. I want to first address how I see personality typology as a useful tool when for intentional living. Systems like the Enneagram show how differently people’s individual psyches can operate, proving that…
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I’ve shared plenty of tips here for how to declutter your physical space. Most of us have experienced a cluttered home. Things piled up in our living space because we didn’t take time to decide what is worth keeping. This series on the Enneagram offers similar advice for our minds. Each Enneagram type tends to hoard unique “psychic clutter” – unhelpful beliefs and habits that hold us back. For more context, see the introduction to my first post about the Enneagram 1. Here, we’ll focus on the Enneagram 7. How can personality typology help us with mental decluttering? Well, systems like the Enneagram and MBTI help us identify destructive patterns that tend to go together. Identifying your personality type doesn’t tell you everything about who you are. But it can show you some common pitfalls to…
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I often share decluttering tips for our physical space. We’ve all experienced stuff piling up around us because we weren’t intentional about what we bring into our homes. But what about our minds? Can they collect clutter, as well? My intention with this series on the Enneagram types is to show how we unconsciously build up “psychic clutter” and provide guidance on which unhelpful beliefs each type can declutter for a more fulfilling life. For more context, see the introduction to my post about the Enneagram 1. Here, we’ll focus on the Enneagram 6. There’s a lot of debate about the utility of personality typology, whether it’s MBTI, the Enneagram,…
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My goal for this series on what each Enneagram type can let go is to apply minimalist and essentialist principles to personal development. On this blog, I share a lot of decluttering tips and minimalist inspiration related to material possessions. But it’s not only physical things that pile up and distract us from what’s important. Our minds are also cluttered with outdated beliefs and habits that may have served us well in our childhood, but now do more harm than good. This “psychic clutter” collects over time and crowds out our ability to explore new perspectives and improve ourselves. For more context, please see the introduction to my post about the…
