The Emotions - Feelings

To the right of the Sacral is the Emotions center, which stirs our feelings. It is where life swings between
happiness and sadness, pain and passion, guilt and forgiveness. Of all the nine centers, it is the most intense because of what it arouses. It is unique because it is both one of the three awareness centers
and one of the three motor centers, meaning there is a perpetual balancing act between awareness
and the drive to act and accomplish.
Anatomically, this center greatly affects our pancreas, kidneys, stomach, lungs, and nervous system. This
is perhaps why countless people will associate heightened emotional problems with a visit to the doctors
office. It is why emotional situations can turn us off our food or make us binge, and why pain can lead to
problems within the nervous system. It is also the center associated with addictions, be they to sex, alcohol, food, or drugs.
Although this is the most complex center, it is perhaps the easiest to understand, because emotions are at
the core of human nature. But this center is about emotional
awareness. It is about addressing which emotional experiences are good for you and which ones are not.
Of course, it all depends on whether your Emotions are defined or undefined.
If Your Emotions Are Defined
Youre a feeling person and yet Id guess you have little idea about the true scope of your emotions.
Chances are that youre the life and soul of the party one minute, down in the dumps the next. Welcome to
your erratic emotional wave! You are in this life to fly high and sample the cloud nines and then dive deep
and find your nose in the mud. Emotionally, it is your nature to experience the full spectrum of feelings,
which, from time to time, may feel like chaos to you and everyone around you. Emotions never sit still for
long. They are like the restless ocean, rolling like waves, rising and falling, peaking and dipping. When you
feel happy, you want to capture that moment. When you feel sad, you wonder when the blues will end. But
there is never a state of permanence to emotion; recognizing these emotional waves and allowing them to
pass through you instead of owning you is all part of your evolution.
One lesson to heed is to not get attached to any particular feeling or the expectation of how something
might turn out. Emotional decisions made in the heat of the moment are your enemy. So its all about allowing emotions to pass through you, disengaging from them, and awaiting the calm like a storm-tossed
ship emerging from tumultuous seas spotting the steady beam of a lighthouse that guides the way home.
But heres the main revelation about having this center defined: you are responsible not only for your own
moods but also for influencing the moods of people around you. Your Human Design affects people within
your aura and triggers their emotions. As daft as it sounds, your emotions are contagious! The moods you
experience will be mirrored by the people around you. If youre feeling bummed out, watch others gradually join the despondency. If youre exultant, watch others exuberance rise. Your lifetime is all about learning to handle, appreciate, and embrace your feelings and how they affect others.
If Your Emotions Are Undefined
You will probably consider yourself an emotional person when, in fact, you are actually riding the emotions
transmitted by others. You laugh their laughs and cry their tears. So what you must realize is that your
emotions are triggered by the emotional impact of others. Your natural state, when alone, is to be cool,
calm, and collected.
What tends to happen when you step outside that personal space is that you get caught in other peoples
emotional waves. This is a conditioning influence because your design isnt made to cope with such intensity of feeling. People with this center undefined have the greatest trouble in allowing themselves to feel
emotions. If youre not comfortable in your own skin at certain moments, it messes with your nature, inducing confusion, temper, or frustration. On the plus side, if youre in the middle of a football stadium being
swept away by an air of triumph, youll feel that glory and celebration. If youre attending a religious ceremony, youll share the blessed uprising. But you are potentially subject to the emotions of those around
you, whether healthy or toxic, so you must remain aware and watchful.
To transform this conditioning influence into impassive wisdom, learn to not react
to emotions that are not part of you. Instead, reflect back your clear perception of what is going on, observed from the objective sidelines. Be a witness, not a player.
Put another way, if those with the defined center are flailing in the sea of their emotions, you are someone
on the shoreline, observing. This is where you have a choice: you can either dive in and magnify those
emotions or stay out of the sea and reflect back to those people what is transpiring and how to be responsible about it.