Walking a Six Home
The Return Journey for the Six
“Darling, you are safe.”
We began by saying that the spiritual path for the Six, and the Six in all of us, is finding True Guidance. This is because the Six exemplifies how we fear and doubt.
Now that you have explored Six you have a deeper understanding of what fear and doubt really means for this type. At the level of unhealthy personality, it means becoming stuck in anxious, suspicious and negative thinking.
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 points to specific ways to counter our personality patterns.
When they are healthy, Sixes understand that they are supported by reality, they are safe and things will work out and they can count on themselves. They don’t need to search outside for answers, they connect to their own inner ground and guidance.
Healing message for a Six - “You are safe”
The Virtue of Six is Courage. Feeling the fear, facing the danger or the unknown, and moving forward in life anyway requires true Courage.
The Line of Integration on the Enneagram for Six is to Nine. Nine holds the energy of calm relaxation and grounded Belly that can counter the Six fear and over reliance on thinking. It is the shadow aspect of themselves that the Six needs to reclaim.
The Stress Line to Three is a place where Six moves into action ending the paralysis of over thinking and doubt. It can be a good move because it relieves the indecision with more of a “just do it” energy.
The Centers of Intelligence tell us the Six is in the Head Center of Intelligence. Sixes have a lot going on in their heads as they try to think their way through their doubts and worries, but they are out of touch with clear mind. When they are grounded in their Belly and connected to their Heart as support for the Head Center, they can connect to their open, spacious mind and connect to the deeper knowing that is their source of True Guidance.
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 Six this means really noticing how, according to their personality structure, they are only ok if they “do what is expected of them”- and how impossible this is. And how the IC is keeping them focused on outside answers.
We can also access the essence of our type directly when we practice presence. Reminded that they are tuned into True Guidance, Sixes can “go for the gold” by simply being present to the support that is in the nature of reality that they can trust.
You at Six
Alert and Prepared
Loyal and Brave
In Touch with Inner Guidance
Trusting Life
