#29: Body Responses and Following Your Joy with the Sacral Center Human Design [Discover Who You Are Series]
Today’s episode is all about the sacral center human design. There is so much power in the sacral center
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For today's episode we are continuing the Discover Who You Are Series, all about human design and the centers – specifically the sacral center human design. Now you don't need to be a human design expert, you don't need to know anything about it really because the way I'm sharing these episodes is that I'm offering reflections and prompts for you for where you are on your journey. We're just going through each of the centers so that you can learn the themes of it and then see where you are in relationship with that theme in your own life. If you do want to get a copy of your chart and follow along, you can grab a copy here. If you want to go deeper with this work and information and you want to book a human design reading from me, of course you can do that too.
Overview of the Sacral Center Human Design
Today we're talking about the sacral center human design. If you're looking at a copy of your chart and you see the vertical line down the middle of all the shapes on the body graph, it's the second square up from the bottom. This is the sacral center.
The sacral is the energy battery of your body. It is where all of your activity comes from. About 70% of the population has this center defined. When you have the center defined (colored in on your chart), it means you have consistent access to this energy. If you have it undefined (white shape on your chart), you have inconsistent access to the energy in your chart.
In terms of human design, I look at all of this as a tool. It's a tool for you to use a roadmap and a compass for you to figure out where you want to go next. Nothing is set in stone. And always, always please use your discernment. Take what resonates and leave the rest.
You may find that you want to reflect on quite a few questions or prompts from this episode, or you may feel called to one in particular. Either way is fine. Do what works for you. I'm just offering different perspectives and ways that you can look at this to support you in your own mind, body connection, in your awareness of yourself, in your decision making. All of these things to help you in your life.
Okay, so the sacral center, it's the energy battery. Now if you have this colored in, it means that you wake up in the morning with a set amount of energy for the day and you're meant to run out this energy battery throughout the day by doing things that you love to do and following the joy and following the nudges from your body.
If you have it undefined, if you have the inconsistent access to this energy, you're what's called a non energy being. And in this case, your energy doesn't work as a straight battery through the day. It can have ups and downs. So you may have pockets of time where you feel energized and you're able to work, and then other pockets of time where you really need rest.
There's a lot that goes into this center, there's a lot with all of them, but there's especially a lot for this center and the differences between defined and undefined. I won't be able to cover all of it here, but I'm doing my best to share these highlights so that you can have an idea of what's in it for you, of how it might work for you.
Defined Sacral Center Human Design
If you have this center defined, if you have the consistent access to this energy, you'll want to follow that battery. You'll use it up throughout the day, following your joy and doing the things that you love. And then at the end of the day, the battery is worn out, you go to sleep, you wake up the next morning and the battery is there again. This battery is all about doing. It's making things and doing things throughout the day. It's very much connected to your body response. So the big theme with this is actually listening to your body in terms of decision making. It's about listening to your body cues. You'll actually feel them physically in your body or you'll see them in your body in some way. This is also tied to decision making, which I talk about in episode five. Your body is going to give you cues and signals for what feels correct to you or not and for how you follow that joy.
Like what are the things that are lighting you up?
You need to listen to your body enable in order to be able to do that. And this is probably the biggest thing I see with this center with clients is that they're not in connection with that body response. Again, this is. Is if you have it defined, if you have consistent access to this energy. So if it's colored in on your chart, most people are not in alignment with like paying attention to that body response.
I'll give you an example. I have a crazy example of how this works that I tell this story often. But one of the times that I saw this in action was with my daughter is a couple years ago. She was at the table and I was asking her questions. She wasn't answering. The thing that I used to love to tell her always was to use her words. I would always say, use your words. You know, I thought I was being a great mom, telling her use your words to get her to develop her words. But after I learned about some of this in Human Design, and she does have this center defined in her chart, the body response comes before the words. If the person is using their words, then it's already. It's already gone to their mind. I had a situation where she was sitting there. We were actually in the car driving somewhere, and I had put on an audiobook. She started squirming in her seat. And she was just squirming and squirming and getting really agitated, increasingly agitated. And I was like, what is going on? She started moving, squirming her body all over the place, getting upset, visibly upset, and she couldn't voice it. Basically what happened was she started saying that she didn't want the audiobook, she wanted music instead. I turned to him and I said, that's her sacral response in action. Her squirming was her body telling her that it didn't like what was happening. And so that happened way before she was even able to communicate it. It was really cool for me to see in the moment. Not cool that she was, let's say, suffering in some way, but cool to see that her body was responding. Then I had this realization about when I tell her to use her words. Because actually, if I ask her a question, she's not really meant to use her words to decide. She is meant to listen and pay attention to her body response.
After that, what I started doing is if I ask her a question, I look at her when I'm asking her the question because then I can see what she does first. I see this for clients too. Like if you're on a zoom call, for example, it might be that someone leans in or leans out, or they shrug their shoulders if they don't know, right. Or they might say, uh huh. Or if it's a yes or a no, there's a gut body response that's happening. It's really important to pay attention to this. And another example of not using your mind.
Get out of your mind and into your body. Because the way that you're going to know how to follow your joy and follow the correct path for you is by listening to that body response.
In my daughter's case, now I look at her when I ask her questions so that I can really know what her response is. As she's gotten older, I'm starting to explain some of this to her as well. Children are actually a great example of so many things in human design because they will instinctively do what feels correct for them. They're very connected to their bodies and they're very connected to the present moment. As they get older, then they add in conditioning and worries and anxieties and those things. But when they're young, they're really living for right in that moment.
For you as a listener, if you have this center defined, I would invite you to consider:
What is your relationship with your body responses?
How can you strengthen that in some way?
Now, this is different from last week's episode about the spleen. The spleen is the whispers and instinct. The sacral is about the gut response and body movement and action in some way. Okay, so there is a distinction there. The main thing is to start listening to this and listening to your relationship with it, because it's a very important center for paying attention to body cues. And I've seen it, I've seen it before with people. I'll be on a client call and if I ask a question and they start to tell me yes, but they start leaning back in their seat, I'm like, I don't know. Is that really a yes for you? Because their mind is telling them one thing and their body's telling them another and they're not matching. So learning how to work with that is key. It's really key for deepening your mind, body connection. And also strengthening your decision making, because decisions are meant to be made from the body, not from the mind. Okay, so that's if you have the sacral center human design defined.
Undefined Sacral Center Human Design
Now, if you have the sacral center undefined, if you have inconsistent access to this energy, and if it's white on your chart, I'm going to go in a little bit of a different direction. For someone that doesn't have access to this, the more important thing to be looking at is your ebbs and flows in energy. Because this center can have a lot of conditioning around feeling like you have to keep up with everyone else, forcing yourself or pushing yourself to feel like you have an energy battery even when you don't. And I've said in other episodes in this series too, that when you have it undefined, you're actually amplifying from others. So if you have this shape, this center with inconsistent access to the energy, undefined, and you are pushing, pushing, pushing. Well, if you're around someone that has definition here, you may find yourself then being conditioned to push and to go and to go and to do and to do. And you're not always meant to operate that way.
It's really important to pay attention to the ebbs and flows in your energy and honor that. And for someone that has this undefined, inconsistent access to the energy, this is one of the biggest areas where you're probably conditioned, because about 70% of the population has a defined sacral center human design. And if you are undefined, you're walking around amplifying everyone else's energy. You're conditioned to go into work, into a 9 to 5 and be pushing yourself to be productive all day. And that is not how your energy is meant to work. So where I was talking about more of the decision making and listening to your body for someone that has this defined, for someone that has it undefined, I'm saying pay attention to the ebbs and the flows in your energy and where you might have conditioning around this. Take a look at where you might have a need to overdo and over give because that's not how you're meant to be operating.
Reflection Questions for Sacral Center Human Design
For a defined sacral center human design, the invitation is to reflect on:
What is your relationship and connection with your body response and your body cues?
Do you listen to your body’s responses when you get them?
If you have an undefined sacral center human design, the invitation is to reflect on:
What is your relationship with your energy and your energy levels?
Because I'm telling you, if you have this undefined in your chart, this is probably one of the places where you have the most conditioning and you'll be the most out of alignment. Ask me how I know.
The invitation here is to take a look at these and be really honest with yourself. Start observing your body cues, start observing your energy levels and see where it takes you. There's so much more you can do with this work and so many different ways that you can use it and observe it in your life. But to start with, focus in, in one of these two areas, depending on what's in your chart. The more you can work with some of these bigger items, then you'll be able to go into some of the deeper things.
So much of how we operate and our alignment in the world is related to our overall mind body connection, how we pay attention to our energy, how we pay attention to our body cues and, and operating with that. These couple of areas can have a very big impact for you is what I'm saying. So that's why the invitation is to focus here.
Conclusion for the Sacral Center Human Design
That's what I have for you today on the sacral center human design. Hopefully it is helpful and supportive and not overwhelming. Again, stay with something simple. So start looking at your body cues or start paying attention to your energy levels and see what happens. Again, you can get your free chart. If you want to go deeper, we can do a human design reading. All of that is in the show notes. This is a first jumping off point for you, but I do recommend if you're looking at the reflection prompts for this, definitely pull up your chart at least so that you know if you have definition here or not. Better not to guess because if you guess, it's likely from a conditioned mindset, from a conditioned point of view because that's what happens to all of us through our lives.
Working Together on the Human Design Sacral Center
There is so much to explore and deepen into as it relates how our energy works and paying attention to our body’s cues. I'm here as a guide and a mentor to support more people in showing up and doing the work to become more of who they really truly are, live more in alignment so we can all be a part of this journey in a new and different way.
You’re also invited to check out my Human Design readings so that you can learn more about your own energy and how you operate. This tool is a powerful building block that will allow you to better understand the direction you want to go and what is most aligned for you as well as strengthen your mind body connection.
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Thank you so much again for being here today and for your support. I hope you have a great rest of your day.
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