Mind Rating Chart

Hey, take a break. Just stop for a minute and rate yourself. This is a “health chart” that’s a little different from the norm. Take your life or someone else’s and rate yourself, or them, and see how you experience your life. Remember, your life was given to you and you don’t know why. And you don’t know for how long. The only thing you really have is your Self-Awareness and your attention in your present moment.

0) Personality type. Do you know your personality type? The way you have been socially and personally “wound up” to act and experience life? Try doing an Enneagram Test and find out about yourself, answering all 144 questions. Accept the way you are and work with what you’ve got. (If you want a test in English or Spanish, just ask us or leave a comment, and you can have one to do, and we'll give your personality type.)

1) THE NOW. On a percentage scale, estimate how much time per day you spend in THE NOW, as opposed to being occupied and dwelling on the PAST or the FUTURE, ie, memories, conflicts from the past, hopes and expectations for the future, what kind of language you use to describe your thoughts and feelings… If you use “should”, “would”, “might”, the passive voice, impersonal forms and other thought-motivated expressions, you are probably living in a thought-generated fantasy world. If you tend to speak more from the I, use the active voice, the present and only use more complicated grammatical forms to talk reasonably about past and future experiences with a laugh, you are more likely to be in THE NOW.

2) LIFE PLAN. On a yes-no scale, or if not a definite “yes”, then on a percentage scale, say whether you have a life philosophy or life plan and whether you adhere to this to a major degree or whether it is only a thought or opinion that comes and goes depending on mood and circumstances, and you’re actually just drifting.

3) MORALS. Take into account all 26 Virtues for a well-developed Moral Structure of the mind and heart and say whether you have a set of standards that you adhere to, live up to, and how successfully you do so. You take into account all Virtues as given: 1. Fearlessness; 2. Purity of Mind/Heart; 3. Steadfastness/Perseverance; 4. Charitableness/Almsgiving; 5. Self-Mastery/Control of Senses-Passions; 6. Readiness to Make Sacrifices/Worship; 7. Studiousness; 8. Austerity/Ability to Make Efforts; 9. Straightforwardness; 10.Non-Violence/Non-injury in thought, word, deed; 11. Truthfulness; 12. Absence of Anger/Wrath; 13. Renunciation (of fruits of action)/Non-Attachment; 14. Tranquillity/Peacefulness (of mind); 15. Aversion to Slander/Nonmaliciousness; 16. Compassion towards Living Beings; 17. Non-Covetousness; 18. Gentleness; 19. Sense of Shame in Doing Evil Actions/Modesty; 20. Faith in the Strength of your Higher Nature (Absence of fickleness); 21. Energy/Vigour; 22. Forgiveness; 23. Endurance/Forbearance; 24. Chastity/Cleanliness in Thought and Act; 25. Absence of Malice/Hatred; 26. Aversion to Praise/Absence of Overweening Pride.

4) THINKING. Score yourself for logical, rational thinking processes, ie, thinking in a self-beneficial way, facing the NOW, or whether you thinking process is basically OUT OF TUNE with the NOW and dwells mostly on the PAST or the FUTURE or on SELF-JUSTIFICATION or SELF-DEFENCE or SELF-DEFEATING or SELF-INCRIMINATING processes.

5) FEELING. Score yourself for positive emotions, affirmative feelings, empathy and compassion for others, in application of your MORALS or VIRTUES in relation to yourself and to others, or whether you are un-empathetic or uncaring in any way or have difficulty connecting or understanding others due to negative feelings or obsession with yourself only.

6) INSTINCTS. Score yourself for instinctive behaviour or ingrained attitudes that signify you are AT HOME / IN CONNECTION with your basic instincts and you have them under some degree of control or whether they are OUT OF CONTROL, BLOCKED or DISTURBED in any way.

7) EGO. Score yourself for your Egoic behaviour, ie, whether you place others or your life circumstances before your egoic needs, your SELF or IDEA OF YOURSELF over others, defending yourself and your appearance and ideas over those of others, or whether you have your EGO under control and do not allow it to overstep certain boundaries and cause havoc with your surroundings.

8-9) LOWER VS. HIGHER. Now give yourself a rating for HIGHER NATURE versus LOWER NATURE and see where you stand on the rating of SPIRITUALITY vs. PHYSICALITY.

NAME
ENNEA-TYPE
“NOW” RATING
LIFE PLAN
MORALS
THINKING
FEELING
INSTINCT
EGO
LOWER NATURE
HIGHER NATURE

After doing all this, just give up for the time being and have some fun, or meditate without thinking. Just be. This was just a “pause that refreshes”.