What are emotions? Imagine standing on a windswept ridge with three friends: one laughs at the thrill, one grips the railing in panic, another stares out in quiet awe. Same altitude, same wind, three entirely different inner climates. To me emotions feel like the...

Introduction – how the brain spends its day Your brain is not a single-speed engine, it switches constantly among different “operational modes”. Habit autopilot lets you tie shoelaces or drive a familiar route with hardly a thought. Focused reasoning burns glucose as...

What is the Enneagram? The Enneagram is a personality typing system that describes nine core patterns of human motivation. Rather than cataloguing surface behaviours, it maps the inner drive – the fear, desire and coping style – through which each of us filters...