Archives for February 2011

The Gates of Fear

Spleen Center

Be Afraid … Then Move On!
By Rev. Ric of RevRic.webs.com

There are 9 energy centers in Human Design and three of them are devoted to helping us all have a consciously aware life experience. The other 6 function in mechanical ways, but these 3 express their energies in ways that engage the senses, challenge the mind and evoke the spirit in us all. Its no wonder these centers are called the Awareness Centers.

It’s also no accident that these same centers carry the potential to express our fears as well. Awareness does not just mean being fully immersed in the life experience – it also means being alert to the potential dangers. Threats to our physical well-being, the inability to express our thoughts to others or the nervousness expressed in unfamiliar situations are all potential fears carried in the Awareness energy.
The Spleen carries our energy for intuitive insights and sensory awareness that help keep us alert to our surroundings and our physical well-being.

Ajna Center

The Ajna develops the thoughts and inspirations from the Head and organizes them into ideas and opinions that must be shared with others; thus, the mental anxiety felt when those ideas cannot be expressed coherently. The Solar Plexus is the seat of our emotional energy and functions in waves carrying at once the elation of a certain experience and the fear that when it ends we’ll be left empty with nothing to feel; or the dread of an unpleasant circumstance and the fear that we’ll be stuck in it forever.

Awareness and Fear get processed through the same energy centers and live in the same houses, the Gates of those centers. This would seem to imply that Fear has some important role to play in the conscious awareness of our daily experiences. Could it be that Fear is what keeps us in the moment? Perhaps Fear is meant to pull our attention to certain things in our environment that would otherwise be overlooked? Whatever the reason, one thing is certain: Fear is meant to make us PAUSE in our experiences, not STOP. When we allow a fear to stop us, then we give it too much control over its expression and that leads to debilitating, and sometimes paralyzing, results.

Solar Plexus Center

Lets take a new look at the purpose of Fear and what it means to be afraid. To paraphrase Dr. Susan Jeffers, Be Afraid, … Then Move On! (Dr. Jeffers wrote the book, “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway.”)

The Undefined Heart – Will Center

The will center is home to the ego and hold a lot of feelings regarding whether we feel worthy or not. Listen to this show about the characteristics and strategy around the undefined or open Heart/Will center.

The Three Types of Thinking

In this show we discuss the three ways of thinking.

Logical
Abstract
Individual Knowing

To Learn more listen to the show and check out the related article.

Individual Energy

In this show we will talk about the impact of Individual energy in Human Design. If you have a lot of individual energy you are design to express that and potentially create change. However it can sometimes be hard for others to understand your expression because it can be unique.

The 3 Types of Thinking

There are 3 types of thinking in the Human Design System.

Logical
Inner Knowing
Abstract

Depending on how you are defined will effect how you most often tend to think about things. It will also affect how you learn and how well you can remember what you have learned. The more definition of one type of thinking the more likely it will be to dominate the way you think and process information. However, the one caveat to that is we can be conditioned in or open gates and channels by those around us. A classic example might be a child who is defined to think in an abstract way but they grow up heavily influenced by their logically thinking parents or the logically structure teaching in school.

Logically thinking is ordered thinking like a recipe or a mathematical approach. Step 1 is followed by step 2 followed by step 3 and so on.This is probably more of an applied thinking style. You have principles or steps and then you apply them.

Inner knowing is a truth or a knowing that an individual comes to on there own. It is an internal knowing that does not always translate to others and is often hard to explain because you just know.

Abstract thinking is bring the different pieces of the puzzle together so they all mesh or fit into the picture or story. Abstract thinkers can see the whole picture even if some of the parts are missing. This is possibly the more creative thinking style.