Additional Key Themes for Reflection

Growth Enneagram Type 4


Growth for Type 4: The Romantic

Basic Essential Practice: From a grounded, receptive, openhearted, and non-judgmental stance, notice your deep longing for fulfillment, for the ideal, for what is missing fueled by your driving energy of envy or longing for this fulfillment. This stems from your core belief that to be loved, valued, and secure you must obtain the ideal love and life in which nothing of importance is missing. Can you realize that your intense emotions come from an inner sense of loss, of lacking fulfillment. Notice and bring the energy invested in the intense emotion associated with longing for the ultimate ideal life back down and in by breathing into your belly center. Know that feelings come and go just as the heart naturally opens and closes with each beat. Steady yourself in the present with gratitude for all that is here and now and not what is missing. Remind yourself to remember that you are loved as you are irrespective of any deficiencies. And remind yourself to notice how others respond when you allow yourself to appreciate all that is here now in self, them, and life.

 

David Daniels Free Enneagram Guided Audio Meditation Practice for Type Four (4) Romantic Personality Reflection and Growth

 

 

Additional Key Themes for Reflection: Simply stop for a minute or so 3-4 times a day to center and reflect on one of the following:

Longing for what is missing. Simply stop to sense in your body and notice how your attention and energy recurrently go to what you feel is important yet missing. Then come back to what is present and positive as best you can.

Emotional intensity. Stop to observe the bodily intensity of your often fluctuating feelings and allow yourself to come back to a more calm stance.

Idealizing specialness. Simply stop to notice how you often focus on being unique, unusual, different and spurn the ordinary. Allow yourself to make the ordinary extraordinary.

 

Short Reflections for Reclaiming the Essential Quality

With openhearted kindness toward yourself simply practice several times a day for a minute or so saying and living one of the following each for a few days at a time. Do these all with the receptive energy encompassed in the “may I.” Recall that the higher quality or virtue for type Four is equanimity, meaning being grateful for all there is in the present moment and that nothing of genuine substance is missing.

  • May I overcome envy and longing by actively cultivating the happiness of self and others.
  • May I delight in the happiness of others from a generous heart.
  • May I appreciate myself just as I am knowing little of importance actually is missing.
  • May I treat all beings with equal positive regard.
  • May I rejoice in and appreciate what is rather than what isn’t.

 

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Growth Enneagram Type 3


Growth for Type 3: The Performer

Basic Essential Practice: From a grounded, receptive, openhearted, and non-judgmental stance, notice your zeal for efficiently accomplishing tasks and goals, and to give and receive approval and recognition for doing rather than for being. This stems from your core belief that to be loved, valued, and secure you must perform, accomplish, and succeed. Recognize how your go-ahead driving energy can take you away from your own true feelings. Notice and pull your driving energy to accomplish back inside yourself by breathing down and in with slow breaths. You can then do the work of inquiry and realize that love comes from being as well as from doing. From this place of self-observation, you can notice your pace and pressure to accomplish. Then with each breath focus on slowing and easing the tightness and constriction accompanying the impatience to move forward into doing. In slowing your pace, you actually expand your pace. Then your heart can be receptive to your own and others true feelings. Remind yourself to notice that everything is not dependent on your effort. And remind yourself to notice how others respond when you allow yourself to slow your pace and open your heart.

 

David Daniels Free Enneagram Guided Audio Meditation Practice for Type Three (3) Achiever, Performer Personality Growth and Reflection

 

 

Additional Key Themes for Reflection: Simply stop for a minute or so 3-4 times a day to center and reflect on one of the following:

Image. Simply stop to sense in your body and notice how looking good and behaving in ways that gain approval and recognition can run your life. Then do your best to allow in your own true feelings.

Focus on tasks. Simply stop to notice how you focus attention and energy on doing and performance and do your best to expand your pace by slowing it.

Feelings. Simply stop to ask yourself, “Have I been paying any attention to my feeling?” And when not, pause further to encourage your feelings to manifest themselves.

Short Reflections for Reclaiming the Essential Quality

With openhearted kindness toward yourself simply practice several times a day for a minute or so saying and living one of the following each for a few days at a time. Do these all with the receptive energy encompassed in the “may I.” Recall that the higher quality or virtue for type Three is veracity, meaning being present to self and others and allowing your own true feelings to manifest in the present moment.

  • May I cultivate stillness, letting things and feelings be as they are.
  • May I expand my range of pace to include a slower pace, allowing for my true feelings to manifest.
  • May I allow greater patience, just letting things be.
  • May I cultivate my own feelings and allow my heart to open to self and others.
  • May I have compassion in the face of suffering for myself and others.

 

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Growth Enneagram Type 2


Growth for Type 2: The Giver

Basic Essential Practice: From a grounded, receptive, openhearted, and non-judgmental stance, notice your urge to help and heal others along with the feeling that you know best what is needed fueled by your driving energy of pride or indispensability. This stems from your core belief that to be loved, valued, and secure you must fulfill the needs and desires of others and repress your own. Pull your active giving energy back inside yourself by taking slow, deep breaths into your abdomen and heart. You can then do the work of inquiry and realize that it’s just as important to receive, as it is to give. And to nurture yourself as well as to nurture others. Experience what your own separate self truly desires. Remind yourself to notice that love and nurturance flow both from and to you and the freedom that goes with this flow. And remind yourself to notice how others respond when you allow yourself to receive as well as give and to take care of yourself.

 

David Daniels Free Enneagram Guided Audio Meditation Practice for Type Two (2) Giver Personality Growth and Reflection

 

 

Additional Key Themes for Reflection: Simply stop for a minute or so 3-4 times a day to center and reflect on one of the following:

Sensing others’ needs and jumping in to fulfill those needs. Simply stop to sense in your body and notice how quickly you move forward with active energy to help others often without reflecting if this is really best or fulfilling for the other.

Indispensability. Simply stop to notice your pride in fulfilling others needs and how this imperative drives your giving.

Own needs and desires. Simply stop to ask yourself, “Have I been tending to my own needs and desires and receiving from others?” If not, work at allowing this precious gift to self and to others into your daily life.

Short Reflections for Reclaiming the Essential Quality

With openhearted kindness toward yourself, simply practice several times a day for a minute or so saying and living one of the following each for a few days at a time. Do these all with the receptive energy encompassed in the “may I.” Recall that the higher quality or virtue for type Two is humility, which simply means being in the natural flow of giving and receiving in the present moment.

  • May I learn to love myself separate from what I give to others.
  • May I adhere to loving-kindness practice that focuses equally on myself as to others.
  • May I realize that love is found in oneself which facilitates love for others.
  • May I receive from others with grace and love knowing that this nurtures them as well as me.
  • May I experience joy in others’ well-being and happiness separate from my giving.

 


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Growth Enneagram Type 1


Growth for Type 1: The Perfectionist

Basic Essential Practice: From a grounded, receptive, openhearted and non-judgmental stance, notice how tension and suppressed anger or resentment over what is wrong and needs correcting can overshadow your life. Can you sense how your driving energy of anger often in the form of resentment or tension is associated with your version of what is right and good. This stems from your core belief that to be loved, valued, and secure you must be good and right and improvement oriented. When you stop to notice this and breathe down into your belly center to bring yourself back to the present moment you can do the work of inquiry. Then what does your reactive anger tell you about judgmentalness and non-acceptance and your need to release from these and appreciate disparity and dissimilarities as just differences, yes just differences, and your need to reconnect to acceptance and your own desires. Then you can coach yourself into releasing from judgmentalness and into what you truly value and want. Remind yourself to notice how others respond when you don’t hold anger and resentments over differences and errors.

 

Free Enneagram Guided Audio Meditation Practice for Type One (1) Perfectionist Personality Growth with David Daniels

 

 

Additional Key Themes for Reflection: Simply stop for a minute or so 3-4 times a day to center and reflect on one of the following:

What the mind sees as wrong or needing to be corrected. Simply stop to notice how your mind repeatedly goes to error and what you judge as needing correcting and practice discerning what really needs correcting.

Inner critical voice. Simply stop to notice the judgmental edge and bodily energy in your inner critical voice and how often it is present and practice softening and releasing from it.

Judging others and being judged. Simply notice how often you are in reactivity in your body and how this points to judging yourself and feeling judged. Then inquire of yourself about just releasing from judgments that are just associated with old no longer valid beliefs.

Short Reflections for Reclaiming the Essential Quality

With openhearted kindness toward yourself, simply practice several times a day for a minute or so saying and living one of the following each for a few days at a time. Do these all with the receptive energy encompassed in the “may I.” Recall that the higher quality or virtue for type One is serenity, or calmness and untroubledness in the present moment.

  • May I realize that there is little to improve; much is perfect as it is.
  • May I be at peace with differences.
  • May I realize that serenity comes with congruence or correspondence of things as they are in the present moment.
  • May I be at ease with imperfection and with things the way they are, knowing that this brings serenity.
  • May I let go of judgment with self-forgiveness knowing this does not mean I capitulate, condone, or agree with any particular behavior.

 

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Enneagram Growth Practices

Essential Practices for Growth and a Universal Basic Practice for All Types

 

David Daniel Free Guided Audio Meditation Practice for Enneagram Nine (9) Personality Types Growth and Development

The Basic Practices for each type form the basis for growth and development. Each contains the key elements of the type’s structure and its particular path of development. Here are the steps for each:

  • First, center yourself by breathing down and in, allow your heart to open in order to get grounded, receptive, and non-judgmental.
  • Then, softly and slowly read the Basic Practice for your type or one you’d like to use for your personal and relationship development.
  • Next, just take a minute to reflect on this practice with your eyes closed.
  • Lastly, come back and do your best to carry out your Basic Practice and the other key practices for reflection and your development.

In addition to the Universal Basic Practice, pick one of the short practices that feels important to you, and practice it for a few days before going on to another practice. These practices are grouped under the titles “Additional Key Themes for Reflection” and “Short Reflections for Reclaiming the Essential Quality.”

 

Find Growth Practices Specific to Your Type

Please visit the individual pages on this website for more specific growth practices for each of the nine types.

For a page that lists short, type-specific growth practices for every type, click here.

For pages that focus solely on one type’s growth practice in depth, click the links below. The types are categorized here by their center of intelligence:

HEART CENTER

TYPE 2
TYPE 3

TYPE 4


HEAD CENTER

TYPE 5
TYPE 6

TYPE 7


GUT/BODY CENTER

TYPE 1
TYPE 8
TYPE 9

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