| 68% 32% adrenaline gland motor, pressure pressure, drive, stress, kundalini is here to have a consistent internal way of processing pressure. is not here to let others pressure them into anything. can allow themselves to be conditioned by other people's pressure but need to be very careful that they follow their strategy to get the correct pressure. is hard on others who can't deal with stress, puts others under unnecessary stress. lets stress rule their life, either by being addicted to the adrenaline rush or by constantly shying away from it and working hard to get rid of it (usually in a state of stress!). |
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Adrenal Gland
The adrenal, or suprarenal, gland is paired with one gland located near the upper portion of each kidney. Each gland is divided into an outer cortex and an inner medulla. The cortex and medulla of the adrenal gland, like the anterior and posterior lobes of the pituitary, develop from different embryonic tissues and secrete different hormones. The adrenal cortex is essential to life, but the medulla may be removed with no life-threatening effects (that we know of).
The outer part, the adrenal cortex, produces several steroid hormones that can be categorized into three classes: mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, and sex hormones.
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The first maintain electrolyte balance, i.e. salt and water levels in the body (this is why you pee your pants when scared!).
The second produce a long-term, slow response to stress by raising blood glucose levels through the breakdown of fats and proteins; they also suppress the immune response and inhibit the inflammatory response. Basically, glucocorticoids regulate the body's response to stress, metabolism, and the immune system.
Finally, the sex hormones, well, they increase your chances of having sex! These hormones are secreted by the innermost region in both sexes by the adrenal cortex, but their effect is usually masked by the hormones from the testes and ovaries. In females, the masculinization effect of androgen secretion may become evident after menopause, when estrogen levels from the ovaries decrease.
The inner part, the adrenal medulla, produces catecholamines, such as the well known adrenaline (a.k.a. epinephrine). Adrenaline increases blood pressure and heart rate when the body experiences stress.
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Fight or Flight
Stimulation of the cortex by the sympathetic nervous system causes release of hormones into the blood to initiate the "fight or flight" response. This is most familiar aspect of the adrenal glands. Imagine you are walking in the forest and a large bear pops out from behind a bush. Your eyes perceive the image of the bear; your brain integrates the information and decodes the image BEAR! Immediately your sympathetic nervous system, in response to the information that a B-BEAR!! is standing in front of you sends a message to the adrenal medulla; the adrenal medulla releases adrenaline into the blood. This hormone has a number of target organs. It causes your gut musculature to stop peristalsis; your pupils to dilate; your circulatory system to start sending plenty of oxygenated blood to your limbs. Thus, when you turn and run as fast as you can away from that B-B-BEAR!!! you are putting maximum effort into the escape. (Good luck!)
This process is very useful in short bursts to remove you from immediate danger. But increased levels of stress over long periods of time can be harmful because of the extra work this heightened state puts on the body.
Remember the Pressure Sandwich?
In the section on the head center we talk about mental pressure. Now we are looking at the other side: physical pressure. This is yet another duality of being alive. The human body is where the duality comes to meet. In this case the duality is between two pressures, and that's what keeps us moving along. This pressure sandwich is a stress-anxiety sandwich, stress from below and anxiety from above.
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We are never free of these two centers of pressure, but don't forget we are designed to be between them. The other thing to notice is that it is designed to pass. As you can see in the mechanic of the adrenal glands the pressure is not designed to constantly be there. Otherwise we would simply burn out.
This means it's just passing through, both from above and below. Stress is part of us and it is very useful to push us to the next stage, but it is not something that belongs to us technically - it's just a temporary state.
To understand this is very important. It means that all stress in your life will never last forever. It is not designed to. The person with the open root center can easily forget this. And then they stress themselves out trying to get rid of the stress! The mantra of the open root is "Are you in a hurry to be free of the stress?"
The open root center thinks that if they don't do something to get rid of it then it will never leave. Instead they should remain aware of the pressure and even use positively, but never let it control them. And even if you have a defined you, if you are not living your strategy you are always taking on stress that is not right for you.
If you don't interfere with it, it isn't going to disturb you. Stress and anxiety are not bad. They are essential fuels for our whole living process. The things we don't like the most - fear, stress, pain - this is what makes us human. It's what drives our consciousness and body. The mental anxiety is not bad nor is it good, it's both - always. It's just another this and that, but it's a fuel for awareness.
Likewise, stress is not good or bad, it is simply a pressure. That pressure can make you jump to it when needed or it can stop you from ever feeling relaxed. The difference is in how we are interact with it. If you don't hold onto it ("I'm so stressed out, I need to finish this report or the world will end..." vs. "I'm following my strategy and that's that") then it has a very useful place in our lives.
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The Caffeine of Life
The Root Centrex is a big time motor with one and only purpose: to pump out stress (the adrenaline gland literally produces stress hormones). And these get pumped up to three places: Spleen, Sacral, and Solar Plexus. We can easily see the correlation with the three types of hormones discussed above:
mineralocorticoids (water regulation - solar plex)
glucocorticoids (immune system - spleen)
sex hormones (kundalini - sacral)
Clearly the Root Centrex has an extraordinary impact as a fueling station for these processes. And they're all fueled with stress energy. This is where the juice is for our health (spleen), our sex (sacral) and our emotions (stored in our body's water). The root center is like caffeine. It can get you going in the morning, but it can also be addictive and destabilizing if abused.
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Format Energies
The format energies are the three channels connecting the root to the sacral. They are very powerful. The mere fact that they are connecting to motors makes this easy to see. Any time there is a format channel in a person's chart, that energy will govern the frequency that person has. Even if you see a gate activated in the format structure, you know that this aspect is going to strongly affect the energy of the whole being.
These three different energy formats represent the three different ways in which we operate in the world as energy systems.
Format Frequencies
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Every gate out of the Root Centrex can be a place for depression, just like one of the major side effects of stress is depression. This is especially true for the format energies, the three channels going from the root to the sacral. These are three archetypes of potential depression. This is a physical phenomena, so the depression is deeply rooted in the body (lethargy, low sex drive, body weight, sickness), although of course it effects the mind too.
Therefore, the formats are the three different ways in which stress and the resulting depression operates.
Both pressure centers (head, root) work the same way: they have two collective gates and one individual gate that connects them to another center. The two pressure centers are linked to each other through the column that passes through the centrex of the body. Therefore, any activation in the formats has a connection to the mental process. This is partly why depression can happen so easily.
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Live the Pressure Correctly
The trick with the root center is to understand what kinds of pressures you are built to deal with. The gates and channels defined in a root center will determine the pressure themes. They can be a positive aspect of your life or the cause of stress and depression.
For example, somebody with the 53rd gate is under great pressure to start things. The stress in their life revolves around what they start, don't start, how it is started etc. These people need variety, they need to feel like they are starting things that lead to maturation. ANd if that doesn't happen because they can't start anything or it starts wrong, then they can get depressed. Of course the only way they will start anything correctly is by living their strategy.
All the open channels and gates (and even the open center) is a place where the stress of the world can get to you. If you don;t live your strategy you will attempt to deal with the stress in unhealthy ways. You might try to get it over and done with (in a stressful way). You might drug yourself up with coffee to keep up, or drug yourself down with alcohol to artificially reduce the feeling of stress. There are many ways that aren't healthy. There is nothing wrong with the coffee or alcohol, but it needs to be in accordance with the strategy.
Conclusion
The root center is very much about speed. Of course your type, authority and definition plays a large part in how fast you move. A triple split emotional projector should work slower than a single definition splenic manifestor. But the root center will have an impact on how much pressure they are under to get something done.
If you have a defined root center then the pressure is consistent and thus your speed at getting things done will be more consistent. If you have an open root center then the pressure is inconsistent and therefore you won't always feel the same pressure to do something.
Of course life is full of different levels of external pressure. The pressure to change a baby's diapers is different than the pressure to get a new pair of shoes. But internally, the defined root center will have a less erratic pressure field. The open root center in general will feel under more pressure, especially if they are not aware of the ability for the open root to take on the pressure conditioning from others.
In general, the defined root is designed to deal with more pressure than the undefined root. But in the end it always comes down to living your strategy, which will always give the right amount of pressure for your design.