07. Life Under Pressure

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Pressure itself is inevitable. Regardless of whether our pressure centers are defined or undefined, but maybe especially when they're undefined, that pressure can feel very uncomfortable. And so the not self will try to avoid or escape or compulsively relieve the pressure that we feel. And so we end up suffering when we fail in our attempts, but continue obsessively to attempt to avoid the feeling of pressure. And so oftentimes we can trace some aspects of our not self behavior or not self tendencies where we give into the not self mind back to this avoidance of pressure.

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I hope that it helps you remember and come home to yourself. Welcome to unit three. Over the next three units, units three, four, and five, we're going to be doing an overview of each of the nine centers in the body graph. And in this unit, we're gonna be be starting with the two pressure centers and the throat center. So we'll be looking at the head center, which is the center for mental pressure at the top of the body graph, the root center, the center for physical pressure at the bottom of the body graph and the throat center.

The way we're gonna break down this unit is into four videos. So in this one, we're doing a little intro to the pressure centers and the throat centers, and just talking about what these why why we're grouping these three centers together, and why even I chose to start with these three centers in regards to how they fit into the process within The Body Graph as a whole. And then we'll have a video on each of the three centers. So starting here with this idea of life under pressure. So life under pressure and its release valve, AKA why we're starting with the pressure centers and the throat center.

So before we get into it, let's just do a little review of the body graph, of the nine centers in the body graph. So we'll we'll look at this slide or a slightly edited version of this slide with each grouping of centers that we go over in the next three units. So in this unit, for our first grouping of centers, again, we're looking at the head, the throat, and the root center. So a reminder, the centers within the body graph are divided into five categories. In most cases, it's a group of centers that we're looking at, two or more centers, such as in the pressure centers, we have the root and the head.

In the awareness centers, we have the spleen, the and the solar plexus. In the motor centers, we have four, the root, the sacral, the solar plexus, and the ego. And so as you can see and as we talked about in unit two, some of those centers have two purposes. Right? So for example, the solar plexus is both a motor center and an awareness center.

The root center, which we'll talk about today, is both a pressure center and a motor center. And then two of the categories, or I guess we wouldn't really actually call them categories because they're just functions that one center alone holds are singular centers. So we've got the throat center, which we'll look at today that referred to as the manifestation center or sometimes the expression center and the g center referred to as the self center or sometimes the identity center. Getting into why are we looking first at the the pressure centers and the throat center, coming back to this idea over here, how all these centers sort of work together. When we look at the body graph, we're looking at a map of how energy, awareness, resonance, willpower, and pressure move through the human body, coloring each other, clarifying each other, supporting each other, shaping each other as that consciousness moves through.

And when I say each other, I mean, awareness clarifies fuel. Fuel from the motor centers powers awareness or resonance or willpower or pressure or whatever it may be. So we're looking at this movement of energy and awareness consciousness through the body, and all of the movement in the body graph begins in one of the pressure centers. So it begins either in the head center as mental pressure or in the root center as physical pressure. And all of that, pressure, it begins with pressure, which is then either filtered through awareness, powered by fuel, so on and so forth, but all of it is moving up to the throat to be expressed or as we'll talk about today, to be relieved through the throat.

And so we're starting with the starting and the end points, the bookends of this process today in unit three as we go through the pressure centers and the throat center. And then in units four and five, we'll talk about the awareness center. Well, first, we'll talk about the motor centers, so how the pressure on its way to the throat is powered or fueled through these four motor centers. And then in the next unit, we'll talk about the awareness centers as well as the g. So how that pressure, mo and then motorized in some cases pressure is clarified through these three functions of human awareness or filtered through the g center for a sense of resonance and love and direction.

So a couple thoughts to sort of ground into this idea of pressure moving to the throat. Everything begins everything in our entire human experience begins as or from I wasn't quite sure which it's called a preposition. Right? Which preposition I wanted to use there. It feels kind of like both.

Everything begins as or from pressure, either mental pressure in the head or physical pressure in the root, and then is released. That pressure is ultimately released through the throat center. Pressure itself is inevitable, and pressure can feel uncomfortable for human beings. Regardless of whether our pressure centers are defined or undefined, but maybe especially when they're undefined, that pressure can feel very uncomfortable. And so the not self will try to avoid or escape or compulsively relieve the pressure that we feel, and oftentimes will sort of run amok out of alignment with how our body organically wants to move in these sort of obsessive compulsive attempts to avoid escape or relieve pressure.

And pressure, as I said, is inevitable. And so we end up suffering when we fail in our attempts, but continue obsessively to attempt to avoid the feeling of pressure. And so oftentimes we can trace some aspects of our not self behavior or not self tendencies, where we give into the not self mind back to this avoidance of pressure. So we'll talk more about this idea of pressure and the discomfort of it, especially when we're talking about the not self tendencies of these three centers, the, the head, root, and throat as we go through the centers. But before we close out this introductory lecture and get into each of those three centers, I just wanna point out something to sort of frame the in the rest of this units as well as the two to follow as we do a bit of a deep dive into each of the centers.

I'm gonna be giving extra information, like too much information than than is necessary or in some cases able to be really integrated in this first cycle through, especially for those of you who are truly new to human design and to the body graph. So I wanna ask you to pay more attention to these pieces. So really what we're after in units three, four, and five, as we orient to each of the centers in the body graph, is getting gaining an awareness and a solid understanding of the functionality of each center on its own, but also within the entirety of the body graph so that we can sort of place that part of the human experience, that part of human consciousness onto our own experience historically, as well as our own somatic physical sensory experience with that center. For the centers that you have defined, as we're going over that center, I want you to really pay attention to to receive and consider the consistency in that center's functionality that you may be taking for granted, as well as the fixicity and nonnegotiable nature of how that aspect of that functional aspect operates within you. So remember where we're defined, we are fixed in our nature.

There's consistent access to that functionality, and we are fixed in our nature according to that center. And we can really get ourselves into a lot of trouble, experience a lot of suffering when we try to negotiate with that fixity. But on the other hand, we might not even realize the extent to which we actually do have consistent access to that center. So when we go through the centers for the ones that are defined, that's some of what I encourage you to sort of be thinking about and being in process with and reflecting on. And for your undefined and open centers, as we deep dive into each of those, I want you to consider, pay attention to, and really receive and reflect on the conditioning that you've taken on in this center, as well as the not self narratives that we'll go over for that center associated with the conditioning in that center.

And then some extra stuff I'll be sharing in regards I have like an extra slide that says stats and extras, I think, for each of the centers where I'm sharing the zodiac signs that are represented and the gates of each of those centers. And we'll talk about the breakdown of circuitry, whether they're individual gates, tribal gates, or collective gates for each center, as well as the biological correspondence and the percentage of people who have that center defined within the, the whole population. And so, you know, take from those slides, whatever feels cool, whatever naturally resonates or sticks. But I just wanted to note that at the point where I am in my human design learning and because I come to human design with the background in astrology and because of things within my own design, I tend to have a very patterny way of processing and learning and teaching. And so I'm just sharing these extras, especially like the Zodiac signs and the circuitry, just because it's fun for me.

And it might be fun for some of the other pattern brains and especially those of you coming from astrology, but they're not necessarily important. If you get deeper into design and to really learning the body graph as a whole beyond the centers, then the idea of will certainly support your understanding of the centers, knowing which centers have emphasis on individual tribal or collective. But within human design, as far as I can tell, most people really don't pay attention to the zodiacal correspondences. So that's just a little some sprinkles on top for you. And now we will get into the three centers beginning with the roots in the next lecture.

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