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Enneagram Type 4 Board Archive Re: How healthy do you consider yourself to be?Posted by Tiggy on April 01, 2002 at 16:42:10: In Reply to: How healthy do you consider yourself to be? posted by Interested on April 01, 2002 at 12:34:45: I think it's rather a misnomer, because the levels tend to put the individual way above society. They focus on how the individual manages for themselves and tend to forget about those who abuse and exploit others. I'm ure there are many nasty pieces of work around who might look at those levels and consider themselves healthy, because, they are 'doing all right Jack', but their unhealthy tendencies lay in the way they treat other. I'm not saying the Levels totally exclude that, but they are don't take it into accout sufficiently. Also the complexity of people is such that different parts of them can be said to be more 'healthy' than others. Personally I don't like the model of health/illness as it suggests that being human is a matter of ill health rather than a journey into wholeness. We can talk of healing in the sense of healing wounds as a metaphor, but to go around pointing to others and saying, 'Your unhealthy, whereas I'm healthy' is what one might term an 'unhealthy' dualism which ignores the complexity of life. As currently presented the Enneagram tends to be very individualistic and to leave out the interdependence of selves shaped within a community. Consequently it focuses on individual rather than societal 'health'.
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