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273 - Human Design Centers: The Spleen Center · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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  Welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, the show dedicated to
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  helping entrepreneurs use human design to shift from hustle to
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  flow without sacrificing results.
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  Come here to become an unshakeable human and build an unshakeable business
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  according to your human design.
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  I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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  Nicole Laino: Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, everyone.
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  I'm your host, Nicole Laino, and we are here continuing our
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  Centers series on the show.
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  There are nine centers in the Human Design Body Graph, so there
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  are nine episodes in this series.
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  We are going through each of the centers and giving them their own episode.
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  So, if you have not been caught up with us and not been following along with this
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  series so far, this is the fourth in the installment, there are nine, like I said.
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  This is number four.
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  We've already covered the root center, the solar plexus, and the sacral.
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  And today we're going to be talking about the splenic center in human design.
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  And the reason for this is, first of all, we did a series on Human
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  Design profile lines, so all of the six lines in the profiles.
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  We did a series on those a few months ago and the feedback from
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  that was so strong and so fabulous that we decided to do another one.
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  And when we asked the listeners what you all wanted to hear about next, what
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  was the next series you wanted us to do?
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  It was a runaway hit.
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  The clear winner was centers.
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  Everybody wanted to hear about the centers and I understand why and I was happy
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  that everybody was tuned in at least to what is the most important thing to know.
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  The centers, they're at the core of our design, but they're also
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  giving us a lot of dimension.
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  So type is obviously a huge factor.
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  So like I always say there's the human design trifecta.
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  There's type, there's authority, and there's profile.
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  That's how you're operating correctly.
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  These are like the core foundations of what you need to be operating under.
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  You need to be operating according to your energy type, which is your type.
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  You have to be making decisions according to your deepest wisdom, that is yours and
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  yours alone, your own inner authority.
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  That's your authority.
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  And then your profile, that's who you're here to be.
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  That is the role you're here to play.
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  That is the correct version of you that you put out in the world.
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  That's the foundation of living your purpose.
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  But how we do that, and how we get more dimension to this, and what kind
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  of lies underneath, are the centers.
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  Because type and authority are determined by the centers that
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  you have defined in your chart.
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  It is what gives you your essence.
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  There's a very big difference between a projector who has seven centers defined.
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  They might be a very defined projector.
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  I just did an episode on Taylor Swift recently.
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  I did her Incarnation Cross.
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  I did an episode on that just a couple of weeks ago.
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  And she's a projector.
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  Now, you might have an idea of what a projector is like.
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  And she doesn't present like a typical projector.
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  She's highly prolific as far as the output of energy that she seems
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  to be putting out in the world.
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  She's kind of everywhere.
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  Which might seem exhausting to some projectors, but she
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  has a root center defined.
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  She has her ego center defined.
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  She is a single definition projector.
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  There are certain aspects to her design that lend to the energy that she puts
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  out and what we all get from her.
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  It's all of the chart and at the core of that is her centers.
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  She has two motor centers defined, the root and the ego.
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  So she has more energy than, say, a projector that is a self
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  projected projector who has just a G center and their throat defined.
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  Very different energy.
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  Very different qualities.
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  Now, it does not mean more powerful, less powerful.
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  It just means different.
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  And human design is the science of differentiation.
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  It tells us how we are different from one another.
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  It tells us what makes us special, and it tells us who
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  we are here to be in the world.
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  And at the core of that are our centers.
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  Because the centers determine what type you are.
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  Centers will tell you, and the connections to each of the centers, tell us whether
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  you're a manifester or a projector.
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  They tell us whether you are a generator or a projector.
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  All of that is determined by centers, and then the channels
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  that connect those centers.
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  And our authority is determined solely on the centers that we have
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  defined and that we have undefined.
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  If you have a solar plexus defined, you are an emotional authority.
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  Now we just got your decision making mechanism and process in this life.
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  Totally based on the fact that you have one center defined.
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  It doesn't matter what the rest of your design is.
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  Your authority is emotional.
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  Why?
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  Because that center is defined.
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  So that's how powerful the centers are.
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  So that is why we are giving the centers their due respect and giving
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  them these totally dedicated episodes.
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  So, if you're loving this series, if you are enjoying this and you're seeing
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  the value in it, I want to kind of call out here, we talked about it in the last
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  episode, that I'm going to be teaching a program, called Unshakeable Human, and
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  if you're listening to this later on, you can absolutely still get information
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  on this, but I am teaching a program called Unshakeable Human, which is
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  everything about becoming an unshakeable human according to your human design.
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  It's gonna be really comprehensive as far as how do you live your design.
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  So many of us want to start doing our branding according to our human
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  design, start living in our gifts, but this is the part that comes first.
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  Like I say at the end of every episode, in order to have an unshakeable business, you
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  must first become an unshakeable human.
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  This is that part.
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  So if you've tried to apply this to your business, if you've tried to make your
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  mercury gate your message, and you've tried to work on your conscious sun to
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  figure out how you can jam it into your business and make it really sing so
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  that you're calling out to the people that you're meant to help in this world.
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  And that hasn't worked, it's probably because you haven't
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  become the unshakeable human.
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  It's probably because you know what your potential is, but you're not
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  living it, and that's what this program is going to be all about.
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  So that is how you will get into this one.
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  I'll explain more at the end of the episode, the details of that.
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  But just wanted to call that out.
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  If you're loving this series, then you definitely want to get on the
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  waitlist because that's how you would go further with this exact work.
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  Okay, so let's dive into the spleen, shall we?
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  The splenic center is the oldest, most primal center that we have.
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  This is the center of survival.
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  It is the center of security, safety, body awareness, and intuition.
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  It is so powerful, but it's also an awareness center.
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  So it doesn't carry energy.
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  It is evaluating things.
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  An alarm system is really what the splenic center is.
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  That is kind of how it is designed.
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  It's biologically connected to our immune system.
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  And you might have a defined spleen or an undefined spleen.
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  And like we've said in the other episodes where we talk about centers
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  and we talk about definition.
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  When you have something defined, it means that it's consistent
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  and it is fixed for you.
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  So what that means is it's going to be on all the time, it'll be happening
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  all the time, it's a consistent process that's happening to you,
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  you have access to it all the time.
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  But it is also fixed, meaning you have particular ways that you experience it.
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  And when you are undefined, it means that you have a myriad of
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  ways that you can experience it.
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  And those things will come to you at different times, in different
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  ways, through different pathways.
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  Because you're open.
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  You are flexible in that space.
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  It's not strong or weak.
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  It is just different.
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  Are you consistent and fixed, or are you open and flexible and more
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  inconsistent and variable in the way that you experience these things?
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  So, it's connected to the immune system.
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  If you have it defined, then you may naturally, when you were born,
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  had a stronger immune system.
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  It kind of knew what it was doing, it was working in a consistent, strong fashion.
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  So typically people who have a defined spleen, just from this body awareness
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  side of things, I have a defined spleen, so I'm going to say we, we
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  can take our health for granted.
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  Because it's just always come easy to us.
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  So we haven't really had to work at it.
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  Sometimes we could take it for granted.
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  We might fall behind on going to the doctor.
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  We might fall behind on some of those checks and things that we should be doing.
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  Some of the tests that we should have run.
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  And we may not give ourselves the appropriate amount of rest during
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  our sickness and after our sickness.
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  Because we don't need as much generally.
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  But we can often overstretch our immune system.
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  So we take it for granted.
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  On the other side, if you have an undefined spleen, you may have gotten
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  sick and your body might have had to learn how to fight off different things.
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  It might have taken longer, you might have gotten sick over and over again
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  with the same illnesses as a kid, because your body had to learn it,
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  and it took a little bit longer for it to understand how to process that.
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  How do we fight this?
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  It had more data to take in, it didn't have a consistent process,
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  that was always on, always learning.
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  But what that can result in, sometimes, is a very resilient immune system later on.
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  But it might have had to go through periods of learning that,
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  of being trained, so to speak.
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  Kind of like how we're training AIs now to get smarter.
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  You have to train your immune system to get smarter, to fight off the things
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  that maybe someone with a defined spleen kind of knew out of the gate.
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  Beyond this though, beyond just that immune system, immunity, body awareness
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  response, we also have intuition.
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  It's all connected.
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  Basically, what the splenic system is about, is telling you what is
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  safe, right, and good for your body.
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  For your well being.
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  And it communicates to us through intuition.
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  This is that voice that says, go to the doctor.
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  This is that voice that says, don't get in the car right now.
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  It's that voice that maybe doesn't necessarily make sense, but it's
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  just this intuitive knowing.
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  This is where we feel like I just know in my heart that I should
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  or should not do something.
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  That this is or is not good for me.
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  That's the spleen.
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  That is what it's doing.
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  Defined, you have that happening all the time.
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  Undefined, it's happening on and off.
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  And maybe not as consistent a process for you.
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  So, this feeling of safe, right, and good for me.
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  What is good for my well being and what is not?
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  That is what the splenic system is designed to do.
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  It's designed to communicate with us and whisper when something
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  is right or something is not.
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  I said earlier that it was like an alarm system, and it really is.
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  It's like, don't go there!
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  Don't do that!
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  And because the spleen in its low expression or how it can
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  communicate is through fear.
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  So it's that voice, that little voice inside of us.
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  That voice may be the voice of fear for some of us.
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  And it's where we have to start to recognize that fear
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  is a way of keeping us safe.
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  Now what do we do when we want to walk through fear and we want to do
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  the things that feel a bit scary?
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  How can we trust that this primal center is leading us to something
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  that is right for us or not?
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  How do we know when the fear is safe for us to walk through and what we
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  want is on the other side of it?
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  And how do we know what's truly an alarm saying, don't go that way.
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  It's not safe.
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  And that's what building the relationship with the splenic system is about.
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  Part of that is the deconditioning.
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  I don't care whether you have it defined or undefined.
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  I have a very defined spleen, so I have channels there, and I have
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  a lot of gates that are activated, and I have a defined spleen.
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  Now, there are seven gates in the spleen, and they are all associated
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  in the low frequency with fear.
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  So there are seven gates of fear that sit in the splenic center.
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  Now all of the awareness centers have a low frequency of
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  fear, but this is primal fear.
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  It can feel like if we go that way, if we do the thing that we
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  are scared of, we're gonna die.
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  And I have felt like that most of my life, to tell you the truth.
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  I have felt in some way like the fear was so big and so strong that
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  I was always fighting with it.
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  That I was always succumbing to it for the earlier part of my life.
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  I'd get afraid and I would back off.
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  And what I've learned through bringing my spleen into a healthy expression, not
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  being in the shadow of my defined spleen, not playing small in this area, I have
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  learned what's on the other side of fear.
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  How to have courage.
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  How to have trust.
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  And this is the potential of the spleen is to have tremendous
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  courage and tremendous trust.
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  And why do we have that?
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  Because we trust that we would be warned if something were really dangerous for us.
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  With that defined spleen, I had to build a relationship with it so that I could
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  trust and understand what was a real warning sign and what was just that voice
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  of fear that was always going to be there.
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  Because I have a lot of voices of fear.
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  It was working with every single one of those gates, working with my gate
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  48, which is the fear of inadequacy, which was a huge theme in my life.
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  Oh boy.
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  Was that a big theme in my life?
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  We often think of the ego center as that feeling of not being good enough, but
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  when we look deeper into it, and that's, what's so powerful about these centers and
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  these gates is understanding that I really wasn't afraid that I wasn't good enough.
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  I was afraid I was inadequate.
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  And there's a difference between fundamentally not good enough, like
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  me as a person, I'm not good enough.
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  And I don't have a skill, which is sort of what Gate 48 tells us.
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  So this is how we could start to use a map of what's holding me back?
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  And what do I have in my chart that might be sending signals this way?
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  And for me, it was a lot of the fear.
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  My spleen is super active, so understanding those fear gates,
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  understanding my relationship with them, and understanding what was actual
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  fear that I should be listening to, that was trying to keep me safe, that
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  was truly an alarm system, versus what was actually just this voice that
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  was always going to be there, and how could I tune it, so to speak, so that
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  it wasn't going off all the time.
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  How could I set the sensitivity of it differently?
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  How could I strengthen it and become more courageous, more prepared so that
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  I could trust greater, so that I can have a greater sense of trust because
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  that is what the spleen holds for us.
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  The potential for trust.
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  So there are lessons in every element of the chart.
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  Every single element of the chart holds some key to what our lessons are in life.
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  For me, my spleen had a lot of them.
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  It taught me about my relationship with fear.
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  And it taught me how to work through it and what my fears were.
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  And how I could overcome them.
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  And learn to trust in my own intuition.
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  And so when we look at the chart as the lessons that we are here to
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  learn, what are our unique lessons, then we know where to put our efforts
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  as far as how we grow ourselves.
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  What personal development do we really want to focus on that is going to have the
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  greatest impact on our own personal growth and our lives and what we want to achieve?
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  So, if you have a very defined spleen, like I do, there might
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  be some lessons in there.
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  If you have an open spleen, you're going to be learning about the not self which
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  is holding on to things because you think other things make you feel safe.
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  And you're so afraid if they go away that you will no longer be
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  safe, that it will not be okay.
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  Different lessons.
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  They show us what our lessons are.
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  And that's the power of this amazing system is that it can show you what
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  your relationship to these themes are and how you uniquely work through them.
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  So I hope that this gave you a little insight into the Splenic Center.
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  And if you want to dive deeper in this and start to understand what your lessons
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  are, how you can grow to be uniquely you, to live your unique purpose in this life.
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  It starts with learning those lessons.
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  Growing and then living in that purpose.
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  Operating according to your own design so you're not experiencing the resistance
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  you've been experiencing up until now.
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