The Physical Center

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The Physical Center

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People in this center are active and finely tuned to physical sensation. Out of all the centers, the physical is most likely to have the strongest visceral reactions.

This is the ordinal center of the action axis.

With this centering, due to its ordinality, most repercussions to events are accompanied by an inward thrust of energy, like a chain reaction of little implosions. Physical sensations associated with emotion, anxiety, and other hormonal and chemical responses are unusually heightened in their effect.

The typical amalgam of physical manifestations are some of the following: feelings of peace and joy may radiate through the body with intense pleasure; sexual arousal and release may be profound or even sublime; clenched-fist bouts of anger, sickly waves of anxiety or emotional upset often sit menacingly in the pit of the stomach, causing nausea or a need to vomit. Guttural reactions are common to this centering.

This awareness of the body and its inner mechanisms differentiates this center from the others. The body, with its intricate network of systems, both autonomic and somatic, becomes a touchstone for deciphering the mixed signals in the world and uses these physical impressions to help make sense of it all, incorporating a variant of gut logic to any interpretation.

Overall, this ordinal action center then serves as a barometer of physical sensations. The body tingles, throbs, buzzes, shimmers, trembles, flutters, along with a docket of other internalized kinetic reactions.

The focus of the physical center is often vibrational, the energy of a wind chime or a plucked string, for example. In that sense, the pulse of the center resonates like a musical instrument — a violin, per se, and life is the bow. But on a more practical level, the center acts as a tuning fork in the body, an internal compass that, through close monitoring, can help assess the mental and spiritual health of a person, and whether a course correction is needed. For instance, is the energy expansive, aglow, flowing, and warm, or is it heavy, untethered, knotted and explosive? A daily tally of these sensations offers important clues.

Originally called the sexual center in the Yarbro books, the term was later changed to the more neutral, physical. The excitations of sex are certainly governed by this center, with the elevated heart rate, increased blood flow, and the reward of pleasurable sensations, but to illuminate only the carnal aspect of the physical center is limiting.

Some channels have argued that the physical center is cardinal (or exalted) in energy, even going as far as to call it the higher moving center. But when you examine how the center manifests in a personality, all the earmarks of ordinality are evident. Whereas the moving center is outward and expansive, with an impetus to take action, the physical center is internalized and withdrawn, focused more on inner sensations and looking inward; the action occurs within. Even sex, although the act often facilitates a slide to the moving center, is one-on-one.

Compared to the cardinal action center, the ordinality of the physical center is narrowly focused and contracted. Rather than the muscle and brawn of physically directed enterprise seen in the moving center, where dancers and athletes seek peak performances, the activity of the physical center is more corporeal, with agitated states that vibrate down to the molecular level, and further, to the electromagnetic spin of subatomic particles.

These physical excitations, which include sexual highs, states of anxiety and what adrenaline junkies call a rush, are the key to understanding the physical center. The manifestations exist within the body; internalized movement that does not stir the air or burn calories. The energy is contained and, by its nature, more importantly, ordinal.

In the positive pole of BEAUTY, people in the physical center are animated by the simple fact of their existence. There is beauty in being in a body. There is beauty in having experiences. Living life feels like enough.

In the negative Pole of DESIRE, a yearning for heightened sensations may lead to unhealthy avenues of stimulation, such as addictive disorders, quick-fix gratifications, and erotic fantasies. Sexual objectification may create ego formations that fragment the personality and take on a life of their own.

Channeling from Michael:

When speaking of the physical center, it is important to contrast the differences with the moving center. Both centers involve the body, but the moving center is like an extension of the body, with a drive to be outwardly physical and engaged to face the challenges in the world. Inversely, the physical center involves fully inhabiting the body and being immersed in the sensations of the physical form. We view the moving center as a vehicle to meet the physical demands of life, while the physical center is more about being at one with life.

The physical center has an inner-directed quality, lending a greater awareness to the more passive side of being physical, as if the body is a computer-driven mechanism and the operator is merely reading the code that allows the internal programs to function. This instills a sort of hypersensitivity to the inner workings of the body, and an intuitive knowledge of the instinctive center running in the background. Thus, people with physical centering are often the first to know when the body is not functioning at optimal levels. They immediately sense the imbalance.

As expected, aside from varied influences from overleaves, bodily sensations are more pronounced with this centering, which sometimes results in a psychological array of yearnings that may border on obsessions.

Instinctive-driven negative emotions, in particular, because of the magnitude of unsavory sensations generated, can be overwhelming. But they are also easier to remedy given the body-memory of those with this centering. In other words, the root cause of the sensations are easier to track.

David Gregg

Channeling on the Physical Center

Your body or physical center is a gateway to all sorts of physical excitations; it lets you know when you are thirsty or hungry, for example. Your intellect frames your experiences in concepts; for instance, it lets you remember what time it is so that you can go where you need to. Your emotions provide the content (rather than form) of your daily experience; one of their functions is to let you know how you and others feel about what is happening, how it is affecting you.

Someone who is primarily in the physical center reacts not with his whole body but from within his body, such as having a gut reaction to his environment. Someone physically centered may be turned on sexually more easily, and may exude sexuality more easily to others. However, it could be something as simple as reacting with heat or cold when something first happens.

The soul seeks a variety of experiences on the physical plane. If you are a warrior or king soul, you already have a natural affinity for physical experiences. If you have, in addition, a moving or physical center, you are underlining that tendency; you are focusing more on the physical. On the other hand, if you are a priest soul choosing one of those centers, you are seeking to round out your experience, to be less internal and more physical.

Someone in the physical center may start to move his whole body that leads to a profound gestalt that feels liberating, such as on the dance floor where his body seems to be moving itself; time seems to stop.

Shepherd Hoodwin