Walking a Two Home
The Return Journey for
the Two
“Darling, you are wanted.”
In one way the return journey is a reversal of what we have seen as increasing constriction. Moving back up the levels of health and disidentifying with the self-images and patterns of the personality. This reverse journey is true for all types. This is why we practice presence and gentle awareness- just noticing how we constrict will loosen patterns.
We can look at every element of the personality structure from the perspective of loosening, relaxing, disidentifying, expanding awareness. The Enneagram also points to specific ways to counter our personality patterns. When they are healthy, Twos get that they are loved and wanted for themselves, that there are no hoops to go through to deserve love.
Healing message for a Two - “You are wanted”
The Virtue of Two is Humility. This is Humility in the sense of giving humbly, being genuinely loving and caring towards others without condition or expectation, and knowing our place in the scheme of things, that it is not up to us to create love in the universe.
The Line of Integration on the Enneagram for Two is to Four. Type Four holds the energy of self-nurturing and awareness of one’s own emotions and desires. It is the shadow aspect of themselves that the Two needs to reclaim.
The Stress Line to Eight is a place where Two feels angry and hits the limits of over-giving. Twos normally supress negative thoughts and feelings. Eight can be a place of suddenly knowing their power and boundaries. Twos also go to Eight on behalf of others, fiercely standing up for others.
The Centers of Intelligence tell us the Two is in the Heart Center. Twos need to stabilize their hearts, contact their grounded and spacious heart that knows love as essence.
The Inner Critic Message can be witnessed as the voice that is running the show and felt in the body, until we bring awareness and distance ourselves from it. For the Two this means really noticing how, according to their personality structure, they are only ok if they are loved and accepted by others- and how impossible this is. And how the IC drives them to focus on giving to others.
We can also access the essence of our type directly when we practice presence. Reminded that they are tuned into Unconditional Love, Twos can “go for the gold” by simply being present to their beautiful open hearts.
You at Two
Centered in your Open Heart
Kind and Generous
In balance with self and others
Knowing your worth and loving yourself
