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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. I did an episode on that just a couple of weeks ago.

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And she's a projector. 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. 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. 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. 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. Very different qualities.

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Now, it does not mean more powerful, less powerful.

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It just means different. 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. 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. And our authority is determined solely on the centers that we have

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defined and that we have undefined. 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? Because that center is defined. 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. 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. 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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We have a very unique way that we are launching this particular program.

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It's through a waitlist. So if you just go to Instagram and DM me the words, Embody Waitlist on Instagram.

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I'm @NicoleLainoOfficial. We will sign you up there.

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Or you can go to nicolelaino.com/embody-waitlist

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and you can sign up on the website. 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. 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. 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. 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. And those things will come to you at different times, in different

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ways, through different pathways. Because you're open.

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You are flexible in that space.

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It's not strong or weak. 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. 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. Because it's just always come easy to us.

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So we haven't really had to work at it. Sometimes we could take it for granted.

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We might fall behind on going to the doctor. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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. This is where we feel like I just know in my heart that I should

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or should not do something. That this is or is not good for me.

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That's the spleen. 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. 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! Don't do that! 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? And how do we know what's truly an alarm saying, don't go that way.

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It's not safe. And that's what building the relationship with the splenic system is about.

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Part of that is the deconditioning. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Was that a big theme in my life? 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. And there's a difference between fundamentally not good enough, like

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me as a person, I'm not good enough. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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