How Enneagram Type 6 Informs The False Core Pattern

Last updated on: March 25, 2015 at 11:09 am by Barbara Alexander

How Enneagram Type 6 Informs The False Core Pattern 2015-03-25T11:09:06-06:00 Barbara Alexander

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In the Unique Self Coaching Process we use the Enneagram particularly because the “cognitive-emotional habit” of each type helps in the discovery of one’s False Core Belief. Each week we are exploring one of the Enneagram types in order to give you a sense of each type’s particular beliefs and mini practices to help you become more aware of your own pattern with the intent of beginning to unloosen the grip of your False Self Pattern.

Today, we’ll continue the exploration of the Head Triad which hold points 5 6 7. The energy of these points is masculine, linear, and detached. People whose home base is at this center have the potential to be particularly aware of ideas and the mental dimension of life. Enneatype Sixes see the world as dangerous and thus they adopt a strategy that allows them to find a sense of control and security by watching, doubting, testing, and questioning.

False Self Contraction in Sixes is revealed in scanning for danger for fear of not getting their basic needs for safety and protection fulfilled.

Here are the False Core Sentences/Beliefs followed by descriptions of patterns that are common to Sixes.If one of these sentences, and/or pattern feels familiar to you, you might want to explore the practices that accompany the pattern. Each of these practices is geared towards creating more awareness of the ways into which you contract. Creating awareness is the first step towards dismantling your False Core Pattern. Practices are most effectively when used daily.

Common False Core Sentences:

I am not safe

I am powerless

I am alone

I’m weak

Common Patterns:

Questioning self and others and getting caught up in a mental loop of doubt and anxiety

Observation Practice: Observe your habit of questioning yourself and others or overthinking situations. Notice how you tend to doubt and people and situations as well as how you set up situations that might test other people.

Daily journaling:

In what ways do you see your anxiety affecting your life?
How does the doubting manifest in you in terms of your behavior, your energy, and the ways in which you relate to others?

Projecting fear, anxiety, and power out onto others, especially authorities

Observation Practice: Observe during the day how you might find fault in others or build negative fantasies about others’ bad intentions, as a distraction from your own fears and insecurity. Pay close attention to how you feel, think, and relate to authority figures

Daily journaling:

When do you gain from believing your fear is caused by an outside source?
What are you learning about how you relate to authority figures?

Acting out fear in different ways instead of owning it, being with it, and managing it

Observation Practice: During the day, notice how you “act out” your fear and anxiety in order to avoid feeling things that may be hard to feel. (For example: creating worst-case scenarios, procrastinating, being unable to take a decision)

Daily Journaling:

How did you behave when you were scared?
What were you true motives behind the way you saw and handled your fear?

Next week, we’ll explore Enneatype Seven, the last type of the Head Center. In the meantime, and if you do not personally resonate with Type Six, we invite you to ask yourself who in your close surroundings might be a Six and how does this description of their way of functioning in the world, might help you understand them better? And if you think it’s appropriate, you might want to share this post with them.

If you are uncertain about your type and would like to take a free inventory we recommend either the Enneagram Institute or Enneagram Dimensions.

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