Walking a Three Home
The Return Journey for the Three
“Darling, you are loved for yourself.”
We began by saying that the spiritual path for the Three, and the Three in all of us, is the return to simple Being through Authenticity.
Now that you have explored Three you have a deeper understanding of what authenticity really means for this type. At the level of unhealthy personality, inauthenticity means feeling the need to promote an image of success even to the degree of deceit.
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, Threes get that they have worth just for Being- there is nothing they have to accomplish to prove their value.
Healing message for a Three
“You are loved for yourself”
The Virtue of Three is Authenticity in the sense of being real and letting their true self show, knowing there is no image of success they need to create to be loved.
The Line of Integration on the Enneagram for Three is to Six. Type Six holds the energy of down to earth, straightforward being with no angles for the Three. It is the split-off aspect of themselves that the Three needs to reclaim.
The Stress Line to Nine is a place where the Three gives up trying so hard and “collapses”. This can be an antidote to all the striving and a place where Three shuts down.
The Centers of Intelligence tell us the Three is blocked to the Heart and feelings. So, sensing the Heart and allowing feelings to come into awareness and be expressed are growth practices for a Three.
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 Three this means really noticing how, according to their personality structure, they are only ok if they are successful and others admire them, and that this is an impossible task. Also noticing how the IC is a relentlessly pushy force.
We can also access the essence of our type directly when we practice presence. Reminded that they are tuned into the glory of Being and that their soul loves the magnificence of pure Being, Threes can “go for the gold” by simply being present to Being, authentic Being.
You at Three
Open in your Heart
Authentic and on your spiritual path
In touch with your essential worth
Preciousness in your soul
