THE SACRAL AUTHORITY

"Follow Your Gut."

This is your strategy if the Sacral is defined and the Emo­tions are undefined.

Your correct decision making process is about "following your gut" ­and trusting it.

Am I seriously telling you that your best decisions in life will stem from that sensation in the lower belly?

Yes, I am. Indeed, you were born with a natural inclination to follow the gut, but this was quickly drummed out of you by…

… well meaning parents and teachers who provided the con­ditioning to use the Mind instead.

The most important thing for anyone with Sacral Authority to appre­ciate is that this inner guidance system is only ever effective when in response.

It is not proactive; it is responsive.

Thus, your authority is designed to wait until there is a clear response that speaks from the lower belly with an "uh-huh" for "yes" and "uh-uh" for "no," or that sensation of being drawn toward or repelled by something.

If there is no response, this in itself implies a lack of interest at the time.

This authority needs to be applied to everything in life.

It is not healthy for you to commit to, or engage in, anything without first wait­ing and then receiving a gut response in agreement.

You've got to be careful not to be tempted into making decisions just because of conditioning or the people around you.

An emotional friend with a contagious excitement could make an idea sound like the best thing since sliced bread;

an iron willed colleague could make a persua­sive argument to commit your vast life force energy to an important project.

At such times, your authority demands that you sit and wait for your gut response to make its voice known.

Because, as we already know, once you commit, there is no stopping you being carried onward by the Sacral's relentless momentum.

Learning to get out of the head and into the gut is how you'll learn to make wiser decisions.

Many people with a defined Sacral struggle to differentiate between gut response and emotional reaction.

A response is patient, relaxed, and measured, whereas a reaction is an unconscious reflex and hasty.

With practice, you'll learn to notice the difference and hone this authoritative skill within you.

With that in mind, I will now give you something to ponder.

Consider a time in your life when you made an important decision that turned out to be one you regretted, be that a decision to get married or let someone go, sell your house or buy a car, move to another country or move down the street.

Now recall how you made that decision.

Were you over… analyzing and thinking too much?

Did the influence of another person convince you in some way?

Were you feeling obliged to commit?

Rewind and review it all.

Look at what unfolded when you made that poor decision.

Now consider an important decision where everything turned out favorably and you felt an inner harmony.

How did you make that deci­sion?

Did you, perhaps, wait, trust your gut, and then go for it?

Your golden key to making correct and consistently better decisions lies in identifying the answers to these questions.

One Important Note: When you have both the Spleen and Sacral defined, your gut response becomes greatly enhanced by the Spleen senses.

This means that your gut is fast tracked into an instantaneous split second response.

~ Chetan Parkyn - Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be