HBLU Introduction to the Heart Centered Enneatypes 2,3,4

What’s great about being a 2:

2’s are generous, helpful, considerate, loving, and emotionally warm people.
They do well in the caretaking professions because they understand what people need and
are happy to provide for others. They make terrific spouses.

What’s great about being a 3:

3’s are optimistic, creative, productive, and successful people. They are
motivated to achieve and inspire others around them. 3’s often excel in business and
sales because they understand what people need and feel that winning means making a
good deal in which everyone is happy. They believe that they can do anything they
decide to do and faster and better than anyone else.

What’s great about being a 4:

4’s are creative, emotionally deep, and loving from the heart. They have the
greatest emotional range of any Enneatype. They make wonderful, compassionate
therapists/healers. They make wonderful artists, an endeavor that combines creativity
and originality with emotion.
The 2,3,4’s are the heart points i.e. the feeling points. The gift of feeling points is
heart love and emotional connection.
Their motivating energy is away from shame and towards passion. Unfortunately,
shame is a very nebulous, foggy kind of energy without a lot of power. Passion, although
it is very high energy, can’t be sustained for very long. Thus, heart centered points often
tend to enthusiastically start projects that they then have trouble finishing. They also tend
to believe that they have to “feel like doing something” before they do it. This is a
problem in many real life situations in which we find ourselves having to do things we
don’t feel like doing.

What’s difficult about being a 2:

1. I’m Invisible. The 2’s, 3’s and 4’s are the image points, i.e. their sense of identity
comes from outside of themselves, from how other people see them. They are types
most susceptible to what other people think about them. This problem is caused by
the Enneagram layer “I’m void and invisible/ I don’t exist.” All three types use
physical attractiveness to get attention, dislike being alone (because they feel that
they disappear), and get energetically recharged by being around people. Each
specific type tries to prove that they exist and get other people to fill them with love
and substance using different compensating strategies:

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• The Enneagram 2’s pretend that they are not needy by taking care of everybody else
and pretending that they don’t need anything. Like a poltergeist that nobody can see
unless it moves an object, the 2 can’t be seen unless s/he does something for
someone. The hope is that the other person will appreciate what s/he has done for
him and reciprocate. This is the “give to get strategy.” When people ignore 2’s or
don’t reciprocate in kind, 2’s tend to get very angry and resentful and develop
grudges. “There’s no pleasing him/her” is a common lament.

• Of the heart points, the 2’s feel the most empty and invisible. They are the only
people Judith knows who come to HBLU sessions and ask, “Judith how am I doing?”
Usually that’s the first question Judith asks of the client for the client to answer.

• Enneagram 2’s feel that there is not enough love or attention in the whole universe to
fill them up. In order to get seen and filled up with love, 2’s may even resort to
manipulating others by trying to “heal people with my love” or making others need
them. If they are a first-born child, they have a terrible time with sibling rivalry
because any attention given to the sibling = attention taken away from them.

• It is not uncommon to see, particularly amongst female 2’s, that they devote their
whole life to taking care of their spouse and family and anybody else who needs
them. In their 40’s or 50’s they have a midlife crisis when they realize (quite angrily)
that they never had the life they wanted.

• Another common way to compensate for the feeling of non-existence is to develop

autoimmune diseases that cause body pain. This allows them to feel their physicality
as well as getting other people to take care of them… for a change.
Because all the heart points wing or arrow to each other, each type may use
compensating strategies from all three types.
• The Enneagram 3’s achieve to be admired. Since everyone in the world has to admire
them, they tend to use public displays of financial success to attract attention (i.e., the
big house, fancy car, expensive clothes and jewelry, etc.) In the 3 world view, success
is God, and money = love.

• The Enneagram 4’s have to be worshipped for their uniqueness and are often artistic
creative types.

• While 2’s only feel compelled to please the person they are with at the time, 3’s and
4’s feel compelled to impress everyone in the world… talk about pressure!

As a heart centered point, we perform a “mission of mercy” in the first session (unless
you have a blocked energy field) in which we transform this layer so that you don’t have
to be “on” 24/7.

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ENNEAGRAM 2: ADDICTION TO PRIDE.

I AM VOID/ ON THE PERIPHERY/ INVISIBLE/ THERE IS NO ONE HERE/ I AM

NEEDY.

This is a void layer. The story is that the person feels like a ghost with no solid
form/substance. No one notices this ghost because s/he is invisible. The only way the
ghost can be noticed (at a séance) is to move the spoon or shake the table ie. do
something tangible for someone else. One strategy involves becoming what would
please or attract the other person ie. become a chameleon. In the sexual subtype 2, the
arrogance is I am a sex god/goddess (which I have nicknamed the Venus flytrap
approach). Another strategy involves taking care of the other person’s needs. Pride is an
arrogance about “I know what you need better than you do yourself.” The hope is that
not only will the other person notice the 2, but the other person will reciprocate in kind
and return love and other good energetic qualities to fill up the void.
Not surprisingly, 2’s have a very difficult time with sibling rivalry because every
sibling diverts more attention away from the 2 who needs more than s/he can get. 2’s are
the only people I know who ask me how they are. Ask a 2 what s/he wants to do, and
s/he immediately tries to figure out what answer would please you most.

Ext. Ext. There’s no love out there

that can fill me up. CE: Whole Body

Arrogance: Pride: I know what you need

ID: Whole Body better than you do.
Use other people: I’m a chameleon, and
can do and be whatever you find attractive
I am void (of and pleasing.
substance, love, I’m helpful, giving, and generous. I give
energy, power, etc.) to get.
I’m beautiful.
I’m invisible and Justification: It’s a good thing I’m needy
needy. because it makes other people feel wanted.
Misc: Develop autoimmune diseases to:
1. be able to feel my physicality
2. get other people to take care of me
(for a change),

Worst Fear: There’s nothing here.

Greatest Shame: I’m needy.

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I AM INVISIBLE AND I PUT UP A MASK/HOLOGRAM
Although this layer does not run the addiction to deceit, it is the layer that causes
deception on the muscle testing. Enneagram 3’s deceive themselves and others about
who they are and what they feel and automatically/compulsively put up a holographic
mask to broadcast an image of someone they think everyone in the world must admire.
It also contributes to the belief that, “I cannot be loved for who I am; I can only be
admired for what I do.” Thus, 3’s are typically afraid to do deep emotional work
because they feel their “true” negative self will be exposed.
At the first HBLU session I set up ground rules. I tell them I know about the
deceit patterns. I warn them that HBLU work goes right through the mask, so they
shouldn’t freak out. As a mission of mercy we ask their deepest wisdom if this is the first
piece of work we need to do. If not, I assure them that when they leave my office they
will be able to put the mask back on until we transform this layer of their Enneagram
wound so they won’t need the mask anymore. I also tell them not to be offended when I
ask if they are deceiving. I say it is a neat trick to leads us quickly and efficiently to the
bottom line. When we start the work, I ask for the priority goal. Then I will ask if s/he is
deceiving about that goal being the priority. If the answer is yes, the next question is,
“what is bothering you worse?” Usually one or two rounds of questioning lead to the
priority issue. After we have transformed this Void/Invisible layer and the
Deceptive/Honest layers, we don’t need to check for this deception loop, and the 3’s do
really in-depth work!

ID: Whole Body CE: Whole Body

I’m invisible,
needy, and Arrogance: My mind is superior.
completely void. Use other people: I put up an image. I
achieve/succeed to be admired. I have to
be the best. I come out on top.
Avoidance: I avoid people and
confrontation.
Misc. depression, and manipulate people
Worst Fear: failure (and then I’ll be
ignored)

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 MISSION OF MERCY, TRANSFORMING HEART CENTERED POINTS “I’M
INVISIBLE” LAYER
TYPE 2 CE, WHOLE BODY

ID, WHOLE BODY,

I’m a chameleon, and can do and
+ 3-10 foot external
be whatever you find attractive
extension bubble of
and pleasing.
illusion
I’m helpful, giving, and generous.
I know and do what you need so
I am void, you’ll appreciate me.
invisible,
and needy.
TYPE 3 CE, WHOLE BODY

I’m successful.
I achieve to be
admired.

TYPE 4 CE, WHOLE BODY

I am worshipped
for my creativity
and uniqueness.

1. Transform this void layer usually with Essence process (or if needed, HBLU level III or IV
protocols).
2. After transforming the void layer, ask the client consciously, “where are you? Point to me,
where are you?” The client should point to his/her chest.
3. Tell the client that now that their identity is back inside their body rather than out there in other
people’s eyes, they will understand why Judith calls this intervention, “putting the Genie back
in the bottle.
4. Their homework for the next two weeks is to ask inside (now that there is someone there to
ask), “What would make me happy?” 15 X/day, and do it.
5. To avoid the fear of becoming selfish, when you are with someone else, first ask yourself, “what
do I want to do that would make me happy?” Then ask the other person what does he/she want
to do. Put both answers out on the table and negotiate a solution that makes both of you happy.
6. Notice that this is very different from your past habit of trying to figure out what answer would
please them when somebody else asked you what you wanted to do!

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Copyright 1999, revised 2017 Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. HBLU, Inc. 56 Pickering St. Needham, MA
02492, ph. 781-444-6940 e-mail, judith@HBLU.org www.HBLU.org