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A sabotage transformational pattern is a block which
prevents the client from working on her/his HPI. For example, imagine
that you are trying to fix a house, and then you discover that there is
a crack in the foundation. You cannot begin to work on the original issue
until you have dealt with the deeper, sabotaging problem.
Sabotage transformational patterns fall into one of the following three
categories:
- Single Center Patterns
- these affect only one of our energetic centers (head, heart or belly).
- Major Energetic Patterns
- these affect all three of our energetic centers simultaneously.
- Identity Patterns
- are stories in which we have obscured our True Self with a mask in
order to survive in a threatening situation.
Single Center Sabotage Transformational
Patterns
These are simple sabotages which affect the head, heart or belly centers.
A block in any of these centers follows a characteristic pattern:
- Head Center: Reversed
or Conflicted Belief. This occurs when you believe something
to be true which you know on a deeper level is not true. For example,
you might believe that you are unworthy of love, yet, on a deeper level,
you know that everybody is worthy of love.
- Heart Center: Blocked
Access to Emotion. This manifests as an inability to feel our
heart’s full range of emotions (joy, anger, sadness, grief, fear,
peace …). It may be an emotion that we feel positively about (perhaps
joy), but it may also be an inability to feel an emotion that we feel
negatively about (for example, anger).
- Belly Center: Problems
with Boundaries. This occurs when we can’t fully choose
what comes into or out of our lives. Our container has fractured. For
example, one might have a boundary problem around money, feeling that
one is not able to hold onto it adequately, or compulsively striving
to take in too much.
Major Energetic Sabotage Transformational
Patterns
These are more complex and adversely affect our beliefs, emotions and
boundaries (all three of our major energy centers). These might be described
as mythic or thematic stories applying to both the individual and the
collective. Mythic stories exceed the personal and yet are experienced
in a very personal way.
These patterns include core feeling states like:
- Part of me wants to die.
- I’m not all here.
- I feel fragmented.
- I feel vulnerable or polluted.
- When I need someone for my very survival, that person will not be
there for me.
- To feel alive, I seduce others or they seduce me.
- I’ve broken a sacred covenant regarding my evolution or that
of my community
- Something is attached to me and draining my energy.
Identity Sabotage Transformational
Patterns
These involve stories where as a survival response we took on a false
self to protect our true nature, obscuring, and thereby protecting (and
also limiting) ourselves. For example, a child believes that to make his
parents happy he must take on a different identity, become what he thinks
his parents want or need. The child, however, forgets that he made this
choice, obscuring his true Self in order to best play the part. Although
this false Self serves the child for a while, eventually the choice becomes
fundamentally limiting, because they are no longer in touch with their
true inner being.
These stories can manifest in one of three ways:
- Blocked Identity.When
you are being true to yourself and something terrible happens, you fear
that if you remain your true self, you will be annihilated. As a result,
you choose to obscure that self, then forget you have made that choice.
You continue to be the obscuring self, even if you relaise it limits
you.
- Archetypal
Identity. This occurs when we compulsively live a story that
mythologizes our life in order to avoid a deep fear. The new identity
then takes on a life of its own, becoming compulsive and destructive,
as in addictions, obsessions, compulsions, illnesses, or relationship
patterns.
- Core Fear
Trauma. The trauma of feeling that we are no longer connected
with all consciousness (God, Source, Prana, or however you hold it personally).
Basically, this can be understood as: the “soul” experiences
a great trauma when it becomes embodied in a material, physical body.
It feels that it is no longer connected with everything, it is separate.When
we embody, a part of us experiences this as a trauma. This part then
believes if it were its true self, everything would cease to exist.
Therefore, it chooses to obscure its true self with a false identity.
This identity is filtered through the trauma it takes on as a negative.
For example, "I am bad." We compulsively compensate for this
with a counter-balancing identity. For example, "I am good."
This compulsion becomes the foundation for the obscuring we call our
personality. For example, a person may have an inner fear that they
are somehow defective. To counter this, they spend their time trying
to be as perfect as possible in all of the tasks that they take on.
The core fears, personalities and compensations that can be taken on
conform to the personality types, three centers (heart, head, belly),
and the thirteen instinctive drives of the Enneagram. The process of coming
to a deeper understanding of Self and of the ways in which we compensate
for our deepest fears, is the Essence Process, and can be in conjunction
with the Enneagram. You do not need to know the Enneagram to learn the
process.
The Essence Process
works by helping us to experience our Essence (or True Self). It does
this by helping us allow and accept our deepest wounds and core fears,
including the reason why we feel most unacceptable to God, others and
ourselves. In accepting the qualities we work so hard to avoid, and the
ways we avoid them, we discover that this “wound-energy” is
in fact our greatest teacher and our pathway home to greater resourcefulness,
freedom and choice in all aspects of our lives.
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