Will Center (receptive): To Prove & To Create Sustainably in Alignment with Self-Worth
Resiliency Keys
I’ll experience and explore the theme of self-worth (the other foundational resiliency key) in various ways through my Will Center. Additional resiliency keys affected by Will Gates are vitality and empowerment.
About the Will Center
The Will Center is the place where we experience the physical manifestation of creative energy into the physical. In other words, this is a very material energy center. Here we have the energy for money, the ego, and will power.
One way to understand these energies and how they work together is through the concept of endurance. In order to keep generating resources and material goods, I have to have sustainable energy. In order to have sustainable energy, I must rest. In order to rest, I must believe that my contribution to the world is so valuable that I’m worthy of resting to sustain it. Any disrupt in the cycle and I’ll find myself pushing with energy I don’t have and potentially burning out.
The Will Center operates through cycles. Therefore, I can manifest in the material world, but I won’t have the energy to keep manifesting if I don’t regularly stop and resource myself. This means pausing and doing something purely for relaxation and rest.
Interestingly, there is also mysticism in this center, which helps to better understand the ego. By nature, we each have a differentiated ego (or human Self) and this differentiation says “I’m a piece of the puzzle and I have to do my piece very well to be of service to the greater good.” And so, we are meant to surrender our ego and use our uniqueness as a foundation for service toward the wellbeing of others.
This can look like supporting people financially and materially as well as through other resources like teaching. When I surrender the energies of the Will Center (money, things of value, the ego, and personal will power) to something Greater than myself, I allow the energy of Source/the universe to lead me in the right direction.
The world teaches that there’s only one way to be successful, be healthy, and make a meaningful contribution to the world, even though few people fit that mold (or are happy while trying to). I might have learned to hide who I really am, compromise my desires, and give up what is most natural for me in order to try to be successful and healthy in the rigid way the world expects and praises.
It takes an enormous amount of energy to maintain an identity that isn’t true to who I am, which includes every time I:
• say “yes” to something I really want to say “no” to
• try to be something or someone I’m not
• make a choice that feels wrong to me (even if my Mind is telling me the choice is logical)
• give up a dream or a desire
• nurture someone else at cost to myself
• do something to make someone feel good that doesn’t feel good to me
• choose circumstances that actually take me away from my joy and my Authentic Self
When I use my energy to maintain a façade and inauthentic choices, I’ll eventually burn out (and likely sabotage everything in my life, including my health). The greater my disconnect from my Authentic Self, the greater the pain in my life. My pain is telling me that I’m off-course; it’s there to help me realize that I need some serious course correction.
Whatever I’m currently experiencing in life is the sum total of every choice I’ve made so far. Since integrity is part of the Will Center, I can’t live in integrity if I struggle with my self-worth and my sense of personal value or others’ value (more on that in Part II).
My Receptive Will Center
Since my Will Center is receptive, I receive and amplify the signals broadcast from others’ activated Will Centers. That means my sense of willpower is variable and not a reliable way for me to get things done. If I try, I’ll have little success and be prone to burnout, especially if I make a lot of promises that lead to overcommitment.
If I find that I’m trying to force myself to do something through willpower, I’m likely ignoring signals from my Intuitive Center that it’s not the right thing for me. I’ll be much more successful when I create in flow (i.e., in alignment with my Intuitive Center, which provides me with sustainable energy and motivation).
I’m here to become wise about managing material and energetic resources, as well as what’s truly valuable in life – spoiler: I’ll likely discover a lot of what’s valuable to me isn’t about material things at all. The currency of the material world is money, but there’s a higher currency with a more significant impact on quality of life: well-being.
The biggest theme of the receptive Will Center is in questioning my own value. Self-worth lives in this part of the circuitry and can create a drive to prove myself. I may feel terrified that I have no value or feel like I’m not being valued in a relationship or other part of my life. I may also find that I undervalue my contribution to something or even my work as a whole.
Additionally, I’ll feel pressured to prove my ability to figure things out, my lovability, and my ability to get everything done. Underscoring all of these will be pressure to avoid conflict; when anyone around me is unhappy, I’ll feel pressured to prove my value by fixing it so they’re happy. These pressures are created by my other receptive Centers and feed into the pressure to prove my value.
I may also find that I have a tendency to override my need for rest. We live in a society that is obsessed with working harder in order to get better results (despite the fact that most of us don’t have the willpower to maintain it!). We can get tied up in this idea that if we just keep working we’ll eventually prove how good, strong, capable, intelligent, or otherwise valuable we are.
Yet what’s true is that each person is inherently valuable and worthy, including me. When I live from this place, I recognize my need for rest and I value and respect myself enough to take it. When I do, I become more able to offer my value to others.
I’m so valuable that I must take care of myself so that I can do a better job of expanding, growing, and evolving my community. I’m worthy of restoring my energy because I’m a more brilliant version of myself when I do.
Conditioning Influences
If I’ve been around people with an activated Will in novice expression (or grew up that way), I’m likely to have been influenced by a very egoistic perspective that causes a belief that I must prove my worth by:
• pushing and using the force of Will to accomplish tasks at great cost to my energy and well-being and regardless of whether a goal or task feels right for me
• giving of myself to others without replenishing, depleting and exhausting my reserves, even to the point of burnout
• misusing and overcompensating with actions or material goods
• measuring value only on the material plane
• failing to create from a place of alignment with sustainable well-being
Mature expression of an activated Will Center will teach me to create in an enduring and sustainable way that’s aligned with my values and integrity of Self. People with activated Will wisdom and optimal expression exemplify:
• giving from abundant resources and staying consistently resourced to avoid cycles of depletion and exhaustion
• living and creating from a place of knowing my value
• taking the right actions to to take up my right place and right space
• living and creating in physical, resource, identity, moral, and energetic integrity
• using conscious rest and re-Sourcing myself as a way of sustaining integrity
• knowing that simply being who I am serves a unique and vital role in serving others
Purpose of the Receptive Will
• To learn to define value on my own terms
• To learn to create in flow, not through willing my way through
Novice Expression of the Receptive Will
• Engaging in actions and choices due to a mistaken perception that I must prove my value to others
• Struggling with low self-esteem
• Trying to build self-esteem by making unrealistic promises or pushing myself too hard, even though it’s not healthy or sustainable
• Engaging in constant self-improvement or self-development to the point of exhaustion without addressing the underlying issue
Lessons/Challenges
• To stop defining my value by the expectations and formulas of others
• To experience a variety of different values and consciously choose my own values
• To define success on my own terms
• To focus on recognizing my own value and worth, setting realistic goals and making positive choices that lead to personal growth and fulfillment, which helps me build a healthier and more sustainable sense of self-esteem
Wisdom and Optimal Expression of the Receptive Will
• Evaluating the integrity and alignment with value in others
• Gauging my level of investment in circumstances that do not match my own value and values
• Having the freedom to consciously choose what I consider to be valuable and to build my life around it
• Living from an internal sense of my own value just as I am and recognizing I don’t need to prove anything to anyone
• Communicating effectively without feeling the need to make promises I can’t keep
• Not beating myself up if I do need to break an agreement and instead taking responsibility for my actions, learning from the situation, and moving forward
• Nor trying to improve myself out of a belief that there’s something inherently wrong with me, but instead out of a self-directed desire for growth and fulfillment
• Trusting in sufficiency
• Fully embodying enoughness (“I AM enough”)
Affirmations for Wise Expression
• I define value and what is truly valuable on my terms.
• I decide for myself what is valuable and construct a life that reflects my values.
• I trust in Source and the flow of sufficiency in my life.
• I know I have a unique, vital, and irreplaceable role in the Divine Plan.
• I follow my right path in the fulfillment of this right place, and I trust I’ll have all I need to fulfill my purpose when I need it.
• I enter into all agreements according to my strategy (responding from my Intuitive Center)
• I make promises and commitments very carefully, deliberately, and only according to my strategy (responding from my Intuitive Center)
• I have nothing to prove and I value myself deeply.
• I fearlessly expect others to treat me according to my exceptional value and do the same in return.
Sound frequencies: listening while meditating on affirmations (or simply repeating them) can help with finding balance and healing.
• For the Will
• For cultivating my sense of self-worth
Clearing old beliefs/stories that are holding me back
• Self-worth
Contemplations:
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- Have I experienced pain, dis-ease, or dysfunction associated with my heart, gall bladder, stomach, and/or thymus gland? If so, what could my body be trying to tell me? What story about myself and/or my life could my body be holding?
(I can revisit this question in the future if new health/body issues develop.) - What am I trying to prove?
- Do I know my value?
- Do I trust Source?
- Do I live my life in alignment with my values?
- Have I experienced pain, dis-ease, or dysfunction associated with my heart, gall bladder, stomach, and/or thymus gland? If so, what could my body be trying to tell me? What story about myself and/or my life could my body be holding?
If I want more insight, I can always request a message from the universe.
For reference:
Matt’s Circuitry
Ben’s Circuitry