Awareness: The Key to Acceptance, Respect, Forgiveness, and Growth

by Miriam Adahan

Aptly titled AWARENESS , this fascinating, insightful text encompasses both self-awareness and other-awareness.
Awareness is based on an age-old system of personality analysis known as the Enneagram. It is an astonishingly precise and accurate explanation of nine basic personality types their distinct gifts, temperaments, strengths, and weaknesses. As you read, you will clearly recognize yourself and others. This deeper level of awareness is not only enlightening, but empowering. It enables you to realize your own inner essence and drives, as it provides the understanding you need to relate better in all personal with spouse, family, friends, business, and work associates.
What gives this title an added dimension is its fusion with the divine wisdom and life values of traditional Judaism, so this becomes a true spiritual journey as well. Written in a manner that all readers can easily relate to, Awareness is an illuminating life-transforming tool for personal growth and genuine fulfillment.

Genres: Judaism

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Ari · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Personality identifier, which accurately identifies strengths and weaknesses, offers well worded goals, and paints a clear picture at the difference between Ideal, Intermediate, and Unhealthy displays of behavior.

Awareness adapts Myers-Briggs (Extroverted/Introverted, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, percieving/judging) as well as the enneagram, a nine-type model of personality traits, into a guide for exploring your weaknesses and growing. It does so with a thin Torah-study centered approach, but the advice is applicable to any walk of life.

This book is only for people who genuinelly want their flaws revealed so that they can work on them, and who believe that spirituality and discipline are worthwhile goals. IDEAL nature is one who is genuinely focused on maximizing each moment and building toward a future, while UNHEALTHY focuses on self-centered, self-destructive, present-focused, emotionally numbing moments.

I found my fit (SEVEN) captured me extremely well. It gave me a well defined personality goal to strive for that I will continue to reference going forward.

[Yitzchak · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loooveee the Enneagram. I'm 5w4. This was a very solid practical guide on how to apply these concepts to personal growth.

[Shoshana Troppe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Within the various typology systems that I have read, the enneagram is the best. The reason is because it describes the level of one's connection to G-d versus one's connection to their arrogance.