When we look at someone with a defined emotional center we know right away that this is a person whose body chemistry continually cycles them through a binary experience of emotions.

It is variously defined as experiencing high and low, up and down, hope and pain. If you are not emotionally defined then it is simply impossible for you to grasp what this is really like. If you are emotionally defined it is possible that you might grasp what it is like – but it’s not necessarily the case that you will. Someone whose emotional definition is the result of a completely unconscious channel, might not ever be aware of their wave.

Anyone who has the solar plexus defined can NOT rely on their feelings of the moment. However, once they have gone through the entirety of their emotional wave they MUST make decisions based on how it makes them feel.

As noted in the introduction, authority is not a “separate dynamic”. It’s not a little control center sitting off to the side carefully observing and analyzing the present with a full awareness of everything that happened in the past and carefully considering all possible future outcomes in the light of sometimes competing goals. Every person is a complex amalgam of various states of being that are the result of internal and external sensory data AND the relationship that each person is continually building between the internal and external.

As we saw when looking at centers, the solar plexus always operates in a wave and that works from hope to pain in some variation, but the shape of the wave differs depending on the defined circuitry.

Let's recap the wave variations:

Collective The abstract, collective wave, operating in the gates 41, 30, 35, and 36, is a crash wave; climbing up, then moving along a plateau, to be followed by a crash down. This wave when it’s in the hope part of the cycle is kind of saying “ohhhhh great!” But in the pain cycle it’s saying “Oh is that all?” This is reflected in the 35-36 channel of “Been there, done that”.
Tribal The tribal wave of the 19, 49, 37, and 40, is very reliable in its cyclical nature of moving up and down like a roller coaster. Here the dynamics of hope and pain play out more like “"It's a .....benign....catastrophe!" There’s often the sense that one is, indeed needed and wanted, but it’s followed by the feeling that one is rejected and doesn’t belong.
Individual The emotional individual (the 39/55, 12/22) goes along almost flat; people don’t even know that they are emotional. Then they either go straight up like a rocket or straight down. When they are up things are just fabulous, but when they are down they really feel like they will never, ever be up again. The pain and despair can be all encompassing and they see no light at the end of the tunnel.

How Long is Long Enough?

While we can know right away that a person’s body chemistry continually cycles them through a binary experience of emotions, there’s no way to know how long the cycle takes. Nor is it possible to say that the cycle always takes the same amount of time, nor even that the wave is a singularity. The wave can be happening in multiple time frames such that one relates to the daily world via their wave, but relates to more extended interactions with the world from a larger wave.

The major mantra for emotional authority is “There is no truth in the now”, or “Never be spontaneous”. An emotionally defined person should always sleep on it before making a decision. Sleeping on it may be enough time for some kinds of decisions such as “Do you want to have dinner tomorrow?” The longer the possible interaction with the world, the longer the person needs to experience the larger wave.

For example, someone may be just a single paper away from obtaining their Ph.D. and wake up one morning suddenly feeling that “Oh no, I don’t want this!” Just sleeping on it simply isn’t enough time for them to really decide that they don’t want it. That feeling may just be part of a daily or weekly cycle

Authority and Decision Making

When an emotionally defined person gets up in the morning and goes to the closet to select their attire for the day, they don’t need to ‘sleep on that decision’. There are many decisions to be made in life that don’t require that much time. Odds are that emotional authority probably does happen with respect to picking out ones clothes of the day, but that manifestation of the wave is very fast – faster than the person can be aware of – or needs to be.

What is dangerous for the emotional person is to make a decision based upon someone else’s insistence or manipulation. Often, particularly in today’s world, salesman use the technique of forcing an immediate decision either by offering a reward for the quick decision or instilling fear about delaying.

It may be OK for some authorities to make that snap decision, but it’s not healthy for the emotional authority. If they are closer to the hope end of their cycle the reward is very tempting, and if they’re closer to the pain/despair end of the cycle then the fear of delay can be overwhelming. Making a decision from either end is simply to make an incomplete decision. If the decision looks good from both ends then there is clarity. If it looks bad when they’re up as well as when they’re down then there is clarity. If it looks good and bad, then you just need to wait some more :).

The emotional authority only knows after some time has passed. They may meet someone and have an instant dislike for them, but then that emotional authority will keep coming back and checking the person out again and again. Each iteration gives them a slightly different take on the person depending where they are in the wave at that moment. This is the great gift of emotional authority. They have the ability to fully feel in an experiential manner the completeness of things.

Like this movie title, emotional authority has to see life from all angles before making a decision. And yes, some are ugly.

Spiritual Potential

The emotional center has spiritual potential to see that in life there are no good things or bad things, there’s just the incredible fact of the immensity of existence. This emotional experience allows people to really come to grips with what is. Life is pleasurable and it is uncomfortable. That’s not the point. The point is that there is life and that is simply wonderful.

Understanding this takes time and it is not easy. For example an emotional manifestor; they are wired to do what they feel. If you tell them “Now listen here, you can’t simply do whatever you feel like doing, you have to wait, sleep on it to get clear and then you have to inform the other and get permission”. Hah! Easy for you to say.

Another example might be an emotional projector with 3 defined motors. They are constantly filled with energy and intent on finding some way to express that energy. If you simply say to them “Hey you have to wait to be recognized and invited, then you have to sleep on it before you can act” they’re not really well positioned to hear that and the pressure is hard to resist.

The emotional center is the squeaky wheel that gets the grease because it is very hard to ignore the emotional wave. Some emotionally defined people are very squeaky, but they have the option of being, rather than engines of chaos, sentinels of depth. The difference is if they follow what feels right after waiting until there is some clarity.

Emotional authority never has 100% clarity. But with time, they can generally feel good or calm about something. Or the reverse will happen: they will generally feel nervous or over emotional about something, in which case it is a "no" to whatever they are dealing with.