PERSONALITY & YOU
What is a Center?
Your CENTER is your Habitual way of Processing the people, experiences and events of LIFE.
"Center" is short for "Center of Gravity" and acts like a processing unit or a mass you "rotate" around.
This can be most easily seen when you are pondering & processing things alone, as your sense of self "shifts" through+around these people and experiences.
It is your basic means of reacting or responding, through:
Intellect or Thinking first, ranging from -Reasoning to +Insight.
Emotion or Feeling first, ranging from -Sentimentality to +Perception.
Movement or Acting first, ranging from -Frustrative to +Productive.
What is a Part?
Your PART is your way of processing the input of your Centering, and outputting that. "Part" is short for "Part of Centering" in that it's quite literally one part of how you process what's happening.
If your Center is like the planet you live on that keeps you together+sustains your focus- then your Part is what you revolve around+gravitate to. It is what you use to express and reflect back to the world what you've taken in- so it's also what others see first in your behavior.
ie: After first Thinking, would you then Feel? or then Act/Move?
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However, your Part can quickly become locked as your TRAP, in that you might often feel through your thoughts over and over- or act on the state of your emotions without second thought.
When this trap becomes a chronic pattern in life, it can easily create an anchor or vortex of energy that keeps you feeling weighted, empty, unfulfilled and blocked in your creativity.
Third Time's the Charm
This System is actually a TRIAD however, where the Center you're missing, actually is your means of Restoring Balance in yourself. It is a form of meditation and revitalization- because by consciously focusing on its presence in your process you heal.
ie: If you Thought about your Feelings over and over, you would eventually need to DO.
This ACTION, or BODY MOVEMENT would be your Restorative Meditation when you're trapped in the process of your Center>Part.
This Triad is how each Center returns to its +Pole or falls into its -Pole.
Remember that Centers are Habitual, so you may tend to be Intellectually Centered, Moving Part, but in certain instances you may access any other Center>Part combo.
Awareness & Health
In truth all Centers are always active, but the one you habitually use as your Center of Gravity is the one you're most AWARE of. So it goes that the more you use all Centers- the more you understand their dimensions and can use them as appropriate, rather than by force of habit.
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You probably already know about the triad of Heart, Mind and Body. This is quite similar to the concept of centering- in that it's an effort to understand, as well as heal our personal vitality.
Each Center has its own unique medium of HEALTH, so by consciously managing the state and well-being of all 3 of these Centers, you come to live holistically.
An easy way to access all 3 Centers at once is to listen to music while moving your body in tandem to express yourself. You can see how this engages all 3 in a healthy, energetic circuit.
There are 4 other Centers besides these:
Instinctive- governs FEAR and CHOICE- ranges from -Anatomic to +Atomic.
Higher Moving- governs PATTERN RECOGNITION- ranges from -Desire to +Beauty through Chaos.
Higher Emotional- governs WHOLENESS- ranges from -Intution to +Love through Fragmentation.
Higher Intellectual- governs LAW & PRINCIPLE- ranges from -Telepathy to +Truth through Illusions.
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The Instinctive is the root of every being in the universe, because it is what every consciousness uses to record all activities going on as memories, genetic codes & frequencies we can choose to react or respond to out of reactive self-preservation or propulsive evolution.
The 3 Higher Centers are integrative states only accessed in moments when our basic centers are all balanced. We do not access them as often because they take up a massive amount of energy for being so expansive & our body can't sustain them for long.
CENTER OF GRAVITY IN DETAIL
Because Center relates to the concept of "Gravity" it's important to know where that gravity is.
When we are born our center of gravity is within, and we allow our processing to be on our terms, but as we grow we begin to place our center of gravity outside of us and find that the state, health and processes of our Centers revolve around something that's not us.
This can be in:
Our Past/Caretakers, the World of Faceless "Others", our Health/Material World, Relationships with Specific Individuals, Life or the Forces Greater than us, the Future/Unknown, or Spirit/Non-Specifics.
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When your gravity revolves around some person, event or thing outside of you, Self-Awareness is lost.
These things literally push+pull you & draw your attention on a regular basis. You can find out where you've placed your gravity for each Center by asking which of these take up a lot of your attention.
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What entirely controls your emotions, attraction & repulsion? What dictates your thoughts, ideas & expressions? What do you depend on to take action & feel effective?
Is it how others behave & what's happening in the world, your children or mother, hopes for/fears of the future, your religion/spirituality, the power of something over you, your state of material well-being, traumas and longings from the past etc.
Self-Observation
If you've determined you want to return your centering and processes back to you, the only way is through Self-Observation. This can be used to defend or free you.
When this is fueled by defense, you return your processing of external things back to you, but cut off your participation+equation in life to protect yourself- this is Self-Absorbed.
When this is fueled by freedom, you return your processing of external things back to you to bring calm, healing and balance & realize your part in the equation/creation of your life- this is Self-Aware.
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Both allow your thoughts, emotions and actions to no longer be dictated by things- but one is exclusionary and the other is inclusive.
When Emotion is processed by you, it returns to its natural resting place of the Heart. Intellect will return to the Throat, Movement to the Gut, Instinct to the Base of the Spine, Higher Movement to the Sacrum, Higher Emotion to the Brow and Higher Intellect to the Crown.
