Open Head Center - Are you acting on mental pressure?
Feeling weighed down by the mental process? Feeling pressured by confusions, doubts and a feeling of mental stuck-ness. Thinking you have to do something with this pressure and feeling frustrated?
When we look at the Human Design BodyGraph, approximately 70% of the population has an open Head Center which is experienced as an amplification of mental pressure. Remember that the openness, the areas in white in the Human Design BodyGraph, are what is not consistent in us.
Nothing is missing; everyone has everything. The areas in white are simply where we are quite literally open to the world. We absorb and amplify the conditioning from the transits and from those around us.
Please understand that conditioning is not a ‘bad’ thing. The areas in white are our greatest opportunities for wisdom in this life. We will experience each of the thematics of our openness in an infinite number of ways and can find growth through the lessons they bring.
The other side of this can show up as the mind leading us into resistance, frustration, bitterness, anger and disappointment. The mind can think there is something missing and then decide it has to do something with what it is picking up from the other instead of waiting for the Decision Making Authority.
As children growing up in unaware environments, conditioning sinks in at a deep level. We absorb what is going on around us and cope with discomforts however we can. Now, as we begin to understand these themes and the way that following the Not-Self stories leads us into resistance, we have the opportunity to wind back these stories, awaken to our true nature, trust in our Decision Making Authorities and experience satisfaction, success, peace and surprise.
Do you want to explore how the Not-Self themes show up in the Open Head Center? 70% of the population feels like they are under pressure to do something with the confusions about the past, doubts about the future and in the moment insights they feel from the transits and people around them.
Can you imagine? With the amount of confusion and doubt there is, those with Open Head Centers are taking in this pressure and thinking they have to make decisions to relieve it. Where does that lead?
With the Open Centers, the Not Self Strategies can never actually bring satisfaction, success, peace and surprise. The pressure the Open Head Center feels like it’s under can not be resolved through trying to answer everybody else’s questions. It’s simply about watching what comes through without being attached to it. Is it interesting? Is it inspiring? Or not? Remember there is nothing here to do or move from.
Those with a defined Head Center can actually experience a healthy level of pressure. Whether it’s confusion about the past, doubt about the future or spontaneous knowings about their inner truth, mental pressure is something that is consistent in them and can be healthy or not.
In the Open Head Center, trying to do something with the pressure consistently is simply not your trip.
I wonder with the amount of time we spend trying to make sense out of the past or find some stability into the future, how much of that is being done by the Not Self through the openness? How much of it leads to satisfaction and how much to frustration? Success or Bitterness? Peace or anger? Surprise or disappointment?
When you start getting these pressures through the Open Head Center to try to make sense of your past, does that ever bring satisfaction? There are all these therapeutic tools to try to get to the bottom of it, but what if it’s as simple as recognizing that these are stories that we have picked up from our surroundings that have been very deeply engrained and they are not here to dictate our decision making.
It something is making you feel constricted, down on yourself or less than, is it really coming from you? Why would your True Self ever want to make you feel this way? Your True Self radiates love and acceptance from it’s very being. If the thoughts are degrading, are they to be followed or believed?
There is a very practical way to experiment with this. The same as all things Human Design, follow your Strategy and Authority and watch for the signposts. If there hasn't been a response (Generators), an invitation (Projectors), it doesn’t feel like time to initiate your impact (Manifestors) or you haven’t waited a full lunar cycle (Reflectors), there is nothing to do.
If you are already engaged, just check in. Do you feel satisfied? Successful? At peace? Surprised? If not, let this simply be a signpost to redirect your energy and awareness into something that feels more expansive or into waiting for what will.
I hope this article has helped to expand on the way the Open Head Center in Human Design can be experienced as a teacher. Keep following your Inner Authority and love YourSelf <3
