How to Thrive with an Open or Undefined Solar Plexus
If you have a Solar Plexus that is not filled in on your Chart, you have an undefined Emotional Solar Plexus.
Being emotionally open is both a gift and a challenge. You are able to empathize with others easily and feel into other people’s emotions. Likely you have been using this as a sixth sense your entire life without being completely aware; you’ve been able to access information about others, or about a situation, that wasn’t explicitly stated. It might be normal for you to “know” things about the inner lives of family members, friends, and co-workers that they’ve never told you. You picked up on their waves.
At the same time, you have also probably spent a lot of your life processing emotions that didn’t originate inside of you or in your life, or feeling other peoples’ pain. If your partner is having a bad day, you feel it as if it were your own. If your child is frustrated and yells, it might feel like someone is energetically stabbing you, too. You have probably walked into a room and felt a sudden, inexplicable heaviness. Watching the news or watching a sad or violent movie may affect you in a personal way. When you feel other people’s pain, it can be hard to not feel responsible for fixing a situation or making them feel better.
According to Human Design, the undefined Solar Plexus not only easily feels into other peoples’ emotions, but also magnifies those emotions. Having this center undefined means that you aren’t consistently generating your own waves from that center. When left alone, you tend to come back to a more peaceful state than those with defined centers. However, because you’re magnifying the emotions around you, you can also feel very off-center when you’re around an emotionally-charged environment.
Also, take a look at how many active gates you have coming out of the Solar Plexus. If you have no gates colored in, you have a completely open Solar Plexus. This lends an additional layer of sensitivity to the mix; because you don’t have any gates filtering or connecting out, you may be extremely sensitive but also have a difficulty analyzing or understanding feelings.
If you have gates activated, it means that your Solar Plexus will naturally reach out to connect with other people who have the other half of the channel which define your heart center and pressure that center to get the emotion out.
Given the sensitivity of this undefined center in a world where the collective is just beginning to understand how to process emotion, how can you maneuver our emotionally-charged world and thrive?
ACCEPT THIS PART OF YOURSELF
A “not-self” trait of the undefined Solar Plexus is self-blame. Being a sensitive person can feel like a curse, and Western culture and capitalism have a long way to go in terms of understanding and accepting the fact that humans, well, have emotions. You’re likely to have felt like a freak at least a few times in your life. I am here to tell you that you’re not! You’re a very, very important part of our world and the more empowered sensitive people become, the better our world will become. If you haven’t already, start seeing your sensitivity as a blessing and a gift to yourself and those around you. How? Well, that brings us to:
DAILY GROUNDING
Sensitive people can have a tendency to become ungrounded i.e. have our energy retreat and disconnect from the Earth’s energy. It makes sense why we might do this - being sensitive and open to the emotions of others, Earth can feel like a harsh place to be. I personally find myself hovering a few inches out of my body when I forget to ground. However, when I disconnect, I have a tendency to lose a sense of flow in my life, and I’m also more susceptible to getting sucked into anxiety in my head.
After years of trial and error, I now have a daily practice of grounding. To ground and connect to Earth, I sit straight up with my feet on the ground, or stand, and imagine a strong cord coming out of the base of my spine that has a hook on the end. Sometimes it is twisted, and I have to untwist it until it feels like it is ready to go down. Then I imagine it sinking down all the way to the core of the Earth, where it hooks in with its hook. I then draw energy up from the center of the Earth through the cord into the base of my spine and up to my head. Depending on the day I can see which color of energy is coming in to me.
If you don’t have a grounding practice, try mine or visualize your own. Rituals like this can’t be grasped by the mind, but the way you will feel and the alignment and connection you will feel to your flow (which is so important to a Generator!) will make a huge difference.
BOUNDARIES - BOTH ENERGETIC AND PHYSICAL
To thrive, you will need to figure out what you need to stay emotionally healthy, and demand that from the world. No one will give you what you need if you don’t take the steps necessary to let others know what you can and cannot handle. You may not even know that yet yourself!
Physical boundaries can mean that you need to be around negative people only when necessary, and only for a limited amount of time. Or, that if someone is having an emotional outburst, you need to leave the room and re-engage when they have had time to cool down.
Energetic boundaries are something that we can put up everyday. As someone with an undefined and completely open Solar Plexus, every day I start by sitting down, grounding myself and doing the energetic boundary ritual that came to me one day when I decided that I needed some extra protection during a particularly turbulent time of life. Here is what I do:
Sit or stand with my eyes closed
Take two deep breaths
Imagine creating an impenetrable but translucent golden egg around my body, from my head to toes - I start on the sides, then move to front and back, and then fill in the missing edges. If I am not in public, I will do this with hand movements (seems to make it stronger!). I pull it from the head down, like pulling down a window shade
Once the egg is secure, I imagine any foreign or intruding energies from others being sucked out of the egg space I have created, so that it is pristine and neutral
Bask in this newly cleared space and feel into it with my body
This is just what came to me - take a few minutes to create your own protection and see what comes to you!
RELEASING RESIDUAL EMOTION
Check-in throughout the day and see if your Solar Plexus is feeling clear and peaceful, or if you are storing someone else’s emotion. There are many ways to clear this energy out without personalizing the emotion and feeling it ourselves. Some things that have worked for me:
Getting up and moving around
Taking a walk and deep breathing
Taking a shower
Visualizing the emotion as a ball of energy and picturing yourself pulling it out and releasing it like a bird
Shaking your body and literally shaking out the energy
There are many ways to do this, it all depends on what works for you!
ALONE TIME
With an undefined Solar Plexus, you may need alone time throughout the day to reset, release, and get in touch with yourself and your true state. I’ve found that having a dedicated space in my house that is only mine, with a physical door, has been essential to my well-being as someone with both an undefined and open Solar Plexus. However, anywhere that you can find some alone time will work!
DIG DEEP INTO YOUR CULTURAL CONDITIONING
Besides the day-to-day of being open to emotional energy that isn’t yours, an undefined Solar Plexus is also open to deeper cultural conditioning. We can get this conditioning from our families, and communities, but also from the world at large. As a child, you may have been a sponge for the anxieties, reactions, and fears of your caretakers and the broader community. Observing your own emotional reactions to every part of your life is a useful (and ongoing) exercise in seeing if there are any areas where you could help yourself to go deep into the source of where you learned a certain response, and see if you can free yourself to see things and deal with your feelings in a different way.
I’ve written more about deconditioning here.
PRACTICE CONFRONTATION
If you have an undefined Solar Plexus, chances are you don’t like confrontation. Depending on your life experiences you will likely fall somewhere on the spectrum of having severe anxiety about confrontation, to finding it unpleasant but necessary. It might never feel great but until we figure out how to openly communicate about things that make us uncomfortable, we won’t experience true intimacy in any area of our lives. No one will ever truly know us if we don’t share our needs, and we will also suffer unnecessarily. It’s important to tell the overbearing person at work to open their mind, to tell your partner what you need in order to feel loved, and tell your family what your boundaries are. These are good things, and when we can learn to communicate them confidently, we don’t have to hide important parts of ourselves. These people may or may not change, but at least you cared about yourself enough to say something. This isn’t an easy journey, but it’s a worthwhile one. Even if it doesn’t come naturally, it can become fulfilling with practice.
EMPOWERMENT
People with an undefined Solar Plexus are VERY important to the world right now. We are the barometers for the emotional environment that we are in. People who are less aware need us to own our sensitivity and communicate confidently what we are feeling. So many people in the world are unaware of how their emotions affect both themselves and others, and we are the people who can identify what is going on, state it so that it’s out in the open, and help those around us to recognize and process their own emotions. Keeping it all in is not making a helpful sacrifice; it’s truly doing everyone a disservice by selfishly hiding our gift!
Generators are found in the most intense, creative, and successful places on the planet, where we are creating, producing, and providing services that are building and changing the world. We owe it to ourselves and everyone else to love and express every part of ourselves.
Love,
Rachel
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