The Solar Plexus is the sixth energy center in Human Design. This is the center for understanding our experiences through emotions, in order to learn and grow on our life path. Emotions bring us closer to others and to ourselves. As we develop our awareness of emotions we can strengthen our insight into a variety of opportunities.
How To Find Out Whether You Have An Open Or A Closed/Defined Emotional Solar Plexus (Creative Center)
Go to www.freehumandesignchart.com to get your free Human Design chart. When you have your BodyGraph, take a look at the large triangle on the far right. If it is white your Solar Plexus is open. If it is colored in, you are defined.
The Open Emotional Solar Plexus
About half of all humans have an open Emotional Solar Plexus. As an emotionally open person, you are here to learn about emotional energy and develop wisdom around feelings. You are empathic and amplify the energy of those around you. This empathic openness can be a great gift because you are able to read the emotions of others.
Because the open Emotional Solar Plexus will take in emotional energy and amplify it, this can be a very painful center to have open when you do not understand how it works. It is easy to think that the emotions you are experiencing are your own, and if someone else’s energy is negative, it can be painful when it flows into your awareness.
Consequently, it is common for open-emotional people to develop coping strategies that involve being nice, pleasing, avoiding conflict, and having a secret life.
It is not that emotionally open people are weak or lack character. It is truly more painful for these people to enter into highly charged emotional situations. It is crucial to become conscious of emotional energy when you are emotionally open so that you can allow that frequency of energy to flow through you without you feeling responsible for it or as if you need to fix it. Be an emotional screen, not a sponge.
Challenges For Those Who Have An Open Emotional Solar Plexus
Having an open Emotional Solar Plexus can be an opportunity and a challenge. You are naturally empathic and truly feel the emotions of others in your body. Your whole life you have been able to sense what someone else was feeling. Many with this undefined or open center describe a “knowing without knowing” about those around them.
Your empathy will come at a cost if you are not careful. You have spent a large portion of your life processing emotions that are not your own. Not only processing but your open center actually makes the emotions more intense!
For example, you’re having a great day but you walk into a room and feel sad all of a sudden. Maybe your child is throwing a tantrum and you become irrationally angry. Whatever emotions are “in the air” are absorbed by you – if you let them.
The challenge here is to become aware of these energy shifts and recognize that they are not yours to handle.
Opportunities For Those Who Have An Open Emotional Solar Plexus
How do you thrive in our emotionally charged world without being swept away by the emotional waves surrounding you?
Acceptance
Just as each type has a not-self, each center does as well. The open Solar Plexus has a not-self theme of self-blaming. You may always feel like something is your fault or you are broken in some way. If someone around you is angry you must have done something to cause it. Accept that this is how you are designed so you can develop a repertoire of ways to recognize your empathy as a gift to the world.
Grounding
Develop a practice of grounding yourself with the Earth. Our bodies may feel tense or even disconnected from the world when we are full of others’ emotions. This disconnect can cause anxiety so we need to find a way to ground ourselves back to the Earth. This can be as simple as standing on the ground with bare feet. You can also visualize a chord connecting your body to the Earth’s core. Try different techniques and see what feels right for you.
Energetic Boundary
With all that energy bombarding you it feels like you need an energy-proof vest. With a little visualization, you can have just that. There is no right or wrong way to do this. You can imagine a protective shield, a Star Trek like force-field, or even a protective sphere around your body. Whatever your choice may be it is impenetrable to energy that does not serve you or belong to you.
Get rid of the extras
Even with all of our best efforts, we will take in residual emotions. If you feel these emotions creep in there are a variety of ways to shake them off:
- Literally, shake. Shake your arms, legs, hands, your whole body.
- Take a bath or shower
- Walking, or any physical movement
- Spend time alone. This discharges others’ emotions and allows you to return to your true emotional state.
- Walk barefoot outside
Affirmations For An Open Emotional Solar Plexus
- I can make decisions in the moment
- I pay attention to the source of my emotions and allow others to experience their feelings without making their experience my own
- Walking, or any physical movement
- I am very sensitive, and I trust my insights about other people’s feelings
- I take frequent breaks when the emotional energy around me feels too intense.
The Defined Emotional Solar Plexus
The defined Emotional Solar Plexus will be colored in. If you are part of the 50 percent of the population that has a defined Emotional Solar Plexus, you carry emotional energy at all times.
The channels connecting your Emotional Solar Plexus to other centers will determine the kind of emotional waves that you experience. Some of you have only small waves in your emotional frequency. Others may experience high emotional highs and low emotional lows, with plateaus in between.
Because of the variable nature of emotional energy, it is easy to mistake the melancholy of the low end of the wave for depression. If you are emotionally defined, depression can become a big problem if you are looking for a reason why you are feeling down.
We have a lot of judgment against negative emotions in our culture. But not all negative emotions are destructive. Melancholy or the low end of an emotional wave is also a very important creative energy. It allows a person to evaluate an issue from many different emotional perspectives.
Regardless of your Human Design type, you have Emotional Authority if you have a defined Emotional Solar Plexus. Your emotional waves are a crucial piece of your process because you can make a clear decision when the emotion passes.
Waiting for the right emotional state before taking action will keep you from leaping into emotional decisions and regretting them later. It is a good idea to keep a log of your emotional energy on a daily basis. Each person has their own unique emotional rhythm, and knowing your emotional pattern will help you make healthy decisions and understand the timeframe that you may need in order to reach emotional clarity about an issue.
Opportunities For Those Who Have A Defined Emotional Solar Plexus
With a defined Solar Plexus you have emotional authority. Emotions occur in a wave and that wave often gets misinterpreted, by our modern world, as a mood swing. You have a unique opportunity to give yourself permission to feel your emotions. We are conditioned to shove our feelings down and move on but you are designed to feel and to experience your emotions. Allow yourself to embrace them.
Challenges For Those Who Have A Defined Emotional Solar Plexus
How many times have you made a quick decision and had it backfire? Maybe you broke up with someone who made you mad or quit your job because you just knew that another job offer was better. There are probably other opportunities that have come along that you look back and think, ohhh I certainly dodged a bullet there.
If you have Emotional Authority, you can probably think of plenty of examples where a decision made in the moment didn’t turn out so well. Give yourself the gift of time and understand you always need time to make decisions, and the larger the opportunity- the more time you might need. If the opportunity is right for you, it will wait.
Remember to be kind to yourself. You are designed to experience emotions, and there is nothing wrong with you for feeling how you feel. When you are over the moon excited or when you are down in the dumps sad, you are living your design.
Affirmations For A Defined Emotional Solar Plexus
- I take my time making decisions and know that I reach clarity over time.
- I am here to be deliberate, not spontaneous.
- I allow myself to experience the full range of emotions.
The Emotional Motor Operates In A Wave
Those with Emotional Authority are always experiencing an emotional wave of some kind. One day they are up. The next day they are down. These waves don’t always have a cause and can make them appear, to others, as moody or indecisive.
They feel their emotions deeply, and that emotional intensity can be tricky when presented with opportunities. Meeting new people or getting a job offer will activate these emotions and cause someone to react before they’re ready.
The challenge with emotional authority is waiting. You have to wait for the emotional wave to settle before making a decision. Do not give in to pressure to “make up your mind” because you will likely regret it.
Emotional Solar Plexus emotions are simply energy. The more time you give yourself and the more acceptance you bring to your emotions, whatever they are, the more comfortable you’ll become with this Center.
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