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267 - Human Design Centers: The Root 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, everybody.
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I am your host, Nicole Laino.
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Welcome.
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We are back with another series, the profile series that we did a couple
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months ago was such a success and we got such amazing feedback from that series.
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People really, really loved us taking the time to go through each of the six
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lines of the profiles, going deep on them, and really just having them in
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succession, I think, really made it feel like people were getting the concept.
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So we're doing it again.
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Don't worry, we're not going to repeat the same thing.
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We're going to do it on the centers now.
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I actually asked in my Instagram stories what the next series people wanted to hear
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from was and centers won by a huge margin.
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People really wanted to learn about the centers.
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So I am excited about this because the centers are at the center of our design.
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Human design is what tunes us into who we were really meant to be.
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Who are we?
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I always say human design tells you who you are and who you're not.
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And centers are really at the core of that because it tells
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you what your energy is like.
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Probably if you have more defined centers, if you have motor centers defined, if
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you have lots of centers defined, you're probably going to have a lot of energy.
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You might feel like a lot to people.
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And if you have fewer centers defined, then there is going to be a very
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different quality to your energy.
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Do you have motors defined?
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Do you not have motors defined?
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All totally tied to what centers do you have.
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Then we get into all of the other nuances of it.
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What are the themes that are yours and what are the themes that you receive?
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So, that's what we're gonna go through, there's gonna be an episode dedicated to
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each of the nine centers, so there will be nine separate episodes in this series.
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We will not do them all in order, there might be a gap in between,
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because we do two episodes a week.
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But they will be every week.
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You should be able to expect these episodes.
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We're going to be doing them over the course of several weeks to really dive
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deep into each of these centers with you.
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So, let's talk about what the centers are.
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Let's talk about the Human Design Chart, and what we're diving into to
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give you a little bit of a background.
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Synthesis, looking at the entire chart together, is the most important.
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thing.
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That's how you really get to fully understand your design, is not just, I
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have this, but I have this that connects to this, that connects to this with
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the channel of X and with these gates.
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And this is my conscious sun.
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It's a lot.
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I totally get that.
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That's what readings are for.
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But as you're going through this, the synthesis is something that comes over
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time, or obviously readings can make that go a whole lot faster because
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I tell you literally what it is.
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That's what a reading is for.
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But, what we do to start out is we understand the parts.
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Understand what do I have, what do I not have.
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And how does that start to put together the puzzle that is me.
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Cause this is the science of differentiation.
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That is at the core of what human design is.
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It is the science of differentiation.
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Differentiation of you.
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What makes you an individual.
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And that's why it becomes a powerful tool in our business, because the
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more we get to know ourselves, the more we ground into who we naturally
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are, the more powerful we become.
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Because we're sending out the right signal.
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And the centers tell us what signals we are transmitting and
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which ones we are receiving.
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So let's talk about that for a second.
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Now, when you download your chart, whether you have never downloaded
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your chart, if you haven't, go to nicolelaino.com/chart and you can
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download it on our website for free.
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Or if you have downloaded your chart, you already know what it looks like.
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You've seen colors and shapes and all of these things.
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Some things are colored in, some things are white.
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Depending on who you are, what your type is, what your chart is, you
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might have more white or more color.
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Maybe you have kind of an even distribution.
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So take a look at that.
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Are you more colored in?
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Do you have more color on your chart?
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Is it very colorful?
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Or does it feel like it's more white?
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That tells you something.
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But when we're looking at centers and today, we are going into the root center.
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The root center is such a powerful, powerful energy center.
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There are nine centers in the body graph, and each of the centers
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represents an energetic theme.
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Now, if you are familiar with chakras, the Hindu chakra system has seven centers.
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It's very similar.
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It's almost exactly the same.
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The difference between these two systems, the human design centers versus the
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chakras is they're all energy centers, but in human design, there is this
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theory that we have evolved from a seven centered being to a nine centered being.
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And the two big differences here are that what's traditionally known as
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the solar plexus in the Hindu chakra system is split off into the spleen
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and the emotional solar plexus.
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And then what is the heart center in the chakras is known as the ego and
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the G center, two different pieces.
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And now we get nine instead of seven.
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So, if you have the root center defined, then this is energy that you transmit.
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This theme, the root center theme, is something that people will feel from you.
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And if it is white on your chart, it is a theme that you are going to pick up
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whenever you're around somebody else.
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You're going to be more susceptible to conditioning from the outside
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world because that's how you experience root center energy.
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You experience it as an experience of the other, of something
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else, not as the source of it.
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If you're defined, you are the source of that energy.
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It is what you are.
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So that's the big difference here.
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Before we go any further, if this topic interests you, how your human design ties
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in with your business, we actually have an ebook for you that we've put together.
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It's a really comprehensive ebook.
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It's a little bit different than our typical guides.
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We go into a lot of context here, a lot of applications, some really practical tips.
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It's very cool.
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My team and I have put it together.
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We're real proud of it.
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If you just DM me the word ebook on Instagram, I'm @NicoleLainoOfficial.
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We will send it to you or go to nicolelaino.com/ebook, and
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you can download it there.
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We incorporate all of these pieces.
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It's more of that synthesis, but as we're talking about these
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pieces, this root center energy.
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Let's talk about the theme of the root center, and then we'll break
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it down into defined and undefined.
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Now, the root center is a center of pressure.
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There are two centers in the body graph that have to do with pressure.
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The head and the root.
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And one of the things that is funny, I have an open root, and when I first
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started learning human design, I remember someone in my certification,
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she was like, I'm really struggling and she was like, I'm really struggling
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to see how the root center can be good and the head center can be good.
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I don't see how defined or undefined is better.
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And it was actually a really great question and something that obviously
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stuck with me since years later, I'm talking about it now, but there is no
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bad or good, there's definitely some that feel like they would be better.
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I feel like the ego, we can tend to think that it would be better
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to have a defined ego because then we are meant to be driven, all of
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those themes that we associate with success come with that defined ego.
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That's not really how it works.
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So I'm bringing that question up here because it's not good or bad.
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There's no better or worse.
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There's just whether you're doing it right for you or not.
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Bad if you're not.
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Good if you are.
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Defined or undefined does not matter.
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What does matter is that you understand what your relationship to the theme is.
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So the root center is associated, like I said, it's pressure.
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It is adrenaline and pressure.
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So think about that.
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Think about adrenaline.
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Adrenaline pumps through you, it gets you going.
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It is sort of the juice and fuel to survive, right?
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To evolve, to change, to grow, all of that.
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It can get very confused with the ego center because we think of some of
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those themes associated with the ego.
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It's different.
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The root center is also a motor, it's pressure and a motor, so it's very
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powerful, which to the point of that person's question, it sounded challenging,
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more challenging than some of the other ones do when you have it defined.
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And some of them when they're undefined they sound less challenging.
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I think it sounds a little less challenging to be an open solar plexus.
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So not necessarily goes where defined is always better.
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There is no better.
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There's just, what's your experience, what's your
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process, and are you good at it?
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Are you good at handling it?
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Now, if you have a defined root, you're going to have a lot of
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adrenalized pressure that's in you.
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You're the source of it.
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You are the transmitter of that type of energy.
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What can this also look like?
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Stress.
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It can look like stress in its lower frequency.
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Because again, defined does not mean that it's in a good expression.
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Defined just means consistent.
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So is it consistently stressed?
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And not able to handle stress?
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Which means you're not really good at handling the thing that's you.
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So it's going to be an area that you want to work on.
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You want to work on bringing your root center into a healthy expression.
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Because if you feel like you are knocked down by stress, if you feel like you
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are in adrenal fatigue, if you feel like you are a victim of pressure and you
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have a defined root, then you haven't learned to work with that energy yet.
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It's something that somewhere along the line you got pulled off your path with it,
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and it's time to find your way back on.
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Because what you are designed to do is you're designed to
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be able to handle stress.
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You're designed to be able to say, okay, let's go now when
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the moment presents itself.
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And it's very much about timing.
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That's where a lot of people get screwed up with the Root Center, is that
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they want it to turn on all the time.
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They want that adrenaline.
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Adrenaline kicks in when you need it.
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It's not meant to be used all the time or you end up in adrenal fatigue.
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See the difference?
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So the Root Center is about mastering stress if you have it defined.
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It's mastering your own sense of that burst of adrenaline.
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Being able to wait for it and not feel like it needs to be there all the time.
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To feel like you are empowered by it and not pressured by it, so to speak.
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To know what it feels like in you.
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And this is why human design can show us what your personal homework is.
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Become a student of you and I promise you, your life will change.
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I can't even count the number of ways that understanding how the mechanics
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of my design work just naturally helped them work better and changed my life.
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Changed what people get from me.
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Strengthened my frequency because what I send out consistently is strong.
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versus what I send out consistently being something that is in an
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unhealthy state or a conditioned state.
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So if you have a defined root, then you are here to be a
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master of stress and pressure.
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You are here to feel it all the time and know how to be calm through it.
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You become a source of strength for people.
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But you can also be a very destabilizing force for them if
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you are unhealthy in that space.
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It can be a lot to be around somebody with a defined root who doesn't
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have a handle on it, who doesn't have a healthy expression of it.
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Cause honestly, for those of us with an undefined root, it's a lot
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to be around someone with a defined root, no matter what, even when
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they are in a good expression of it.
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That energy is something that we pick up on.
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That energy is something that whether you want to or not, it's
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nobody's fault, but you put that on other people who don't have it.
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Anything that we have defined, we put on other people who don't have it defined.
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That's what we do.
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Not because we try to, we can't do anything to stop it.
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So don't feel bad about it.
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When people say, take responsibility for your energy, this is what they mean.
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Take responsibility for the fact that if you have nine centers defined,
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if you are fully defined, take responsibility for the fact that you
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might be a whole lot to people and you may need to give them some space.
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That you may cause reactions in them that have absolutely nothing
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to do with who you are as a person.
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So learning to ground your energy, and that is ultimately
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what the root center is about.
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When you master the root, whether it's defined or undefined, you are grounded.
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When you do not have it mastered, defined or undefined, you are not grounded.
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And almost everything in your life and everyone in your
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life will be affected by that.
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So now let's go to the other side.
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Let's talk about what it means if you have the root center undefined.
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If you have the root center undefined, which I fall into this category.
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I have an undefined root.
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And what that can feel like is the pressure doesn't come from inside of us.
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We're meant to be cool, calm, and collected when no one's around us.
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When I'm sitting in my house, just doing my thing, I should sort of be on my time.
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I should be hanging out, doing my thing when I want to do my thing.
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And being real happy and cool until then.
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But that's not how it works for most of us because we're conditioned.
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Either by the outside world to think that we should be moving all the time,
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by deadlines, by people, by pressure of society to change something, by money,
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whatever the stress is of our life.
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We aren't in control of it because we don't have a
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consistent way of dealing with it.
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We have an inconsistent way of dealing with it.
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That's what the root center is.
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That's what having an open root center is about.
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Inconsistency in the theme of that center.
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I have an inconsistency in my ability to handle stress.
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Until I learn, and I love this, and you'll hear me say this throughout
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the series because it bears repeating, there is a saying for openness
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to be a screen, not a sponge.
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You will never stop the conditioning from happening.
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Other people's energy, you will always feel, and you'll
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feel it most in your openness.
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So if you have seven centers defined, if you're a projector or a generator
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with two centers defined or a manifester, you're going to feel a lot.
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People are going to have, the outside world is going
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to have a big effect on you.
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But how you handle that.
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Do you take it on?
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That would be being a sponge.
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I take it on.
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I wonder what's wrong with me.
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I start to act from that place.
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I start to act out of trying to relieve that stress, get rid of the pressure.
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How do I do that?
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How do I feel better, is really the underlying feeling
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underneath the open root.
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So how do I overcome that?
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You don't overcome it by doing anything.
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You overcome it by being able to work with that and know what that is.
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That's what being a screen is.
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The stress and the stuff, I can observe it.
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Why?
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Because I've been a student of me and I have watched me
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not be in alignment with this.
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I know what my gate activations are in the root.
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I know what my go to feelings are.
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I know what it feels like when I have pressure put on me by the outside world.
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I know because I've studied me.
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So I know me.
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So then I can start to improve me.
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We have a better chance of being able to improve that which we
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understand than that which we don't.
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So I understand me and I understand stress, and that's where the wisdom
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of the open centers comes from.
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From being able to observe it, from being able to not act from it, and
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to be able to sit there and say, I know exactly what this is, I've been
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here before, I've felt something like this before, and it does not move me.
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That's being grounded.
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That is being unshakeable.
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Hello, name of the show.
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The show is called Unshakeable with Human Design, not because it's a great word,
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because working with your human design grounds you and makes you unshakeable.
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It really does.
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It honestly does.
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And then all the questions that we try to answer with figuring out what
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gates mean and what all these other things mean, they start to evolve
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and they start to show themselves and they start to present themselves.
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The answers that we were looking for come through strategy and authority.
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When you are actually in alignment, the problem is that most people
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don't work on the alignment part.
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They work on the information part.
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So my goal with this series is that you are, you're understanding how the
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alignment piece works, how you can start to work with this, how you can
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move with your energy differently.
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That is my hope.
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So if you have an open root.
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You're going to be learning to deal with stress and you're going to be learning to
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deal with it in lots of different ways.
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You're going to know that it's not you and you're going to learn to work with that.
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And once you do, this is a really key piece of being unshakeable
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because it is the base of the spine.
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It is your grounding.
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It's your seat.
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When you are not grounded, it will throw off your type.
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It will throw off your authority because you're not listening to
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what is your power, which is your strategy and authority, which is your
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type, which is your actual energy.
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You're listening to your conditioning and you're moving based on your conditioning.
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So you are moving out of alignment.
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You're not in alignment.
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That's how it works.
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So I hope that this got you a little closer to understanding the root center.
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I hope that this got you understanding a little bit more about how
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we work the alignment process.
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How do we do the work of deconditioning?
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We start to work with these energies.
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We start to notice them.
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We can make deconditioning move faster with things like my deconditioning
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processes, EFT, NLP, all of the personal development tools and
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nervous system regulation tools that I have learned over the years.
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I apply to this and the deconditioning process goes much faster.
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You see progress much faster.
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But you can absolutely do this with awareness.
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That is the traditional method.
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In human design, what they would teach you is you're going to be aware of these
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things, you're not going to pay attention to them, you're going to move with
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strategy and authority, and that's it.
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That's deconditioning.
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Deconditioning is basically don't be conditioned anymore.
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If you want to move it faster, then you dive into each of these
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themes, you go deeper into them, you excavate and clean out everything
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that is there, and that's it.
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And then you're able to be different faster.
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Those are the two differences.
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So I hope that you're seeing how you can do this with gentle awareness,
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with just studying yourself, becoming a student of you and
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starting to notice how these show up.
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Are they healthy?
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Are they unhealthy?
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Am I conditioned?
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Am I not?
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How am I feeling this?
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So I hope you enjoyed this.
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I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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I hope you're excited for the series and for the rest of the episodes.
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They will be coming within the following weeks.
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If you want that ebook on business by design, developing a business by
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design, go to nicolelaino.com/ebook, or you can DM me just the word ebook.
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Ebook, all one word.
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Just DM me that.
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No hearts or anything else.
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It throws off the automation and it will be a bot sending that to you.
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But I do like to follow up, so I send you little messages after that.
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But that's how if you DM me at 2am, you'll still get the guide.
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So I'm @NicoleLainoOfficial.
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DM me ebook and we will send it to you there.
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Thank you for being here everybody.
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I'm excited to dive into this series some more with you in the coming episodes.
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Remember, in order to have an unshakeable business, you must
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first become an unshakeable human.
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And that's what we're doing here.
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So thank you for letting us help you in becoming unshakeable
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with human design, everyone.
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