Type 3
What's the Point?
Joel M. Rothaizer (Ashoka), Type 3
All of us need to ask what we truly want. To what are we truly committed? Most all of us would say that we want to be happy, to be at peace. Most people still believe that happiness lies in attaining or getting rid of some objects of consciousness: if I just had the right lover, if I just had enough money, if I could just feel really healthy, then I’d be really happy. Those with a more therapeutic bent may feel that: if I could just get in touch with my anger, if I could heal my inner child, if I could just work through some early memories, then I could be free. Within the human potential movement if might be: if I could just keep my agreements, if I could just clarify, visualize and manifest my goals, then I’d be more happy. Even those on a spiritual path have generally traded in those objects of consciousness for others: if I could just understand this theory, if I could just find the time to meditate more, if I could just get all of my chakras opened, if I could just master this particular practice, if I could just reach the next level, then I’d be closer to enlightenment.
Joel M. Rothaizer (Ashoka), Type 3
All of us need to ask what we truly want. To what are we truly committed? Most all of us would say that we want to be happy, to be at peace. Most people still believe that happiness lies in attaining or getting rid of some objects of consciousness: if I just had the right lover, if I just had enough money, if I could just feel really healthy, then I’d be really happy. Those with a more therapeutic bent may feel that: if I could just get in touch with my anger, if I could heal my inner child, if I could just work through some early memories, then I could be free. Within the human potential movement if might be: if I could just keep my agreements, if I could just clarify, visualize and manifest my goals, then I’d be more happy. Even those on a spiritual path have generally traded in those objects of consciousness for others: if I could just understand this theory, if I could just find the time to meditate more, if I could just get all of my chakras opened, if I could just master this particular practice, if I could just reach the next level, then I’d be closer to enlightenment.
Type Three and Anxiety
Tsivya R. Larson (Type 3)
Enneagram Type Three (the Performer), the ideal of our culture with its projections of boundless health and self-confidence, hardly seems the place to begin research on anxiety. However, a Three who has begun to practice self-observation may begin to notice that the air of self-confidence is a performance designed to hide anxieties from the audience consisting of oneself, as well as others.
The onset of an anxiety attack can be quite sudden. Those of us with type Three personalities can be the life of the party one minute and find ourselves obsessing over an offhand remark or a look the next. Often this begins in a moment of solitude after a period of social interaction when our attention is no longer focused outward.