Deep Listening For Enneagram Type 1

The Unfolding Enneagram

What is Deep Listening? It comes from the teachings of Buddhist Monk ticht nacht hahn. He says Deep Listening (or Compassionate Listening) is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. ... You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less.

Take a few seconds to feel the power of those words….to empty their heart so they can suffer less.

Now….feel the shift when we say…”To empty my own heart so I can suffer less.”

I’d like to offer the suggestion that we LISTEN to our own voice…starting with the inner childhood messages for each of our types. Oh way be adults but we carry memories and messages from the very beginning of our lives.

The childhood messages may come from a loved one, a parental figure, a teacher or a friend. Yet, the words themselves may have never actually been spoken and even beyond actually being said at all, we, as children, often create the belief in our own fragile minds through a filter we’ve already begun to create from our limited life experience. But early on, we all create a foundational message from which we begin to create our lives.

For Enneagram type 1 the message was “It’s not ok to make mistakes.”

Type 1s….who told you it’s not ok to make mistakes? And how did you feel when you do? Ashamed? Afraid?

Who told you were anything less than you perfect love? Who made you feel that being LOVED depended on your being good? And who decided for you what “GOOD” looked like.

Oh sweet child….you are GOOD because you are a living.

Can you empty your heart just a little bit today? Can you listen DEEPLY with a loving voice? Say it out loud….I am not ashamed. I am not afraid. It’s not up to me to prove my worth or my goodness.

I am Good.

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