Biological Instincts Center (activated): Trusting My Instincts
Resiliency Keys
Through my Biological Instincts Center, I’ll experience and explore one of the two resiliency keys that build on the previous six keys: courage. Self-trust is also a key theme in Biological Instincts Gates.
About the Biological Instincts Center
The Biological Instincts Center regulates time, instincts, health, and survival. In exploring the relationship between these factors, it can be helpful to begin with the concept of instinct, which is essential for survival. When I hear a sound that doesn’t feel safe, go into a dark alley at night, or even decide to throw out food from the fridge that seems “off,” I’m accessing my instinctual sense. It’s all about helping me stay alive.
I have inside myself an energetic, instinctive capacity that can be thought of as a survival drive. This instinct to keep myself alive is very time specific. It is a direct, reactive response in the moment to a situation or circumstance. In that moment, I take action – fight, flight, or freeze – to keep myself alive.
Health comes in as another key aspect of survival – I’m instinctually driven to maintain my health to keep myself alive. I’m kicked into action when I’m in danger and need to make a certain choice in the moment to protect myself.
We all have this survival instinct and it is an important aspect of keeping us safe when real danger arises. However, there are sometimes situations in my life where I feel extremely afraid despite the situation actually being quite benign in terms of staying alive in that moment. This is because we are complex beings with consciousness, emotions, inspirations, drivers around lovability and worthiness, etc. So instead of only feeling afraid when our safety is threatened, we also experience fear when moving to a new city, writing a book, saying “I love you” in a romantic relationship, or changing careers.
The energies that trigger these types of fears are catalogued in the Gates of the Biological Instincts Center.
Whether the Biological Instincts is activated or receptive, we’re all vulnerable to experiencing these fears. The good news is that the solution to working with them is simple! The trick to moving forward is to feel the fear and do it anyway. Although it’s simple, it isn’t always easy because the experience of fear is hardwired.
I can literally feel like I’m about to die before giving a big speech if I have a deep, unquestioned fear of being inadequate and failing, for example. It can feel completely unnatural to walk up on the stage when I’m terrified, but this energy is time-limited. Taking action will break through the fear and when I get to the other side I’ll notice how hard it is to reconnect with that same fear again. I’ll be creating a new, more courageous narrative and my neural network will begin to rewire!
The Fears of the Gates of the Biological Instincts Center
GATE 48: Fear of inadequacy – “I don’t know enough/have enough training/have the right experience, etc.”
GATE 57: Fear of the future – “I’m afraid of what might happen if I …”
GATE 44: Fear of the past – “Last time I did _____, it didn’t work, so I’m not going to do it again.”
GATE 50: Fear of failing my responsibility – “I’m afraid I’ll let them down or I’ll feel guilty if I don’t do …”
GATE 32: Fear of failing – “I’m afraid I will fail, so I’m not going to try.”
GATE 28: Fear that life has no meaning – “I’m afraid it’s going to be too hard and what’s the point anyway.”
GATE 18: Perfectionism – “I’m never going to get it right; it/I will never be perfect.”
My Activated Intuitive Center
With my activated Biological Instincts Center, I’ll have a consistent experience of time, intuition, health, and survival.
I have an innate connection to time and the calendar. My inner sense of time is deep, and I may be able to tell what time it is without looking at the clock, for example. I may be late getting somewhere, but I know it if it’s happening.
My experience of my instinctive awareness is likely consistent. There are many ways to experience instinctive awareness, including clairaudience (hearing), clairvoyance (seeing), claircognizance (knowing), clairsentience (sensing/perceiving), clairolfactance (smelling), and dreaming. So whichever way I get my seemingly extrasensory knowing, it’s likely my consistent way of accessing my instinctive awareness.
I also have a fixed, insensitive immune system. This means that by the time I realize I’m coming down with something, I’m quite sick and may need medical intervention to help me recover. I need to make sure to take good care of my physical body and get support as soon as I start feeling under the weather.
When it comes to the fears of the Biological Instincts Center, I may find myself grounded in one or more of them. It can feel like I’ve lost momentum and enthusiasm or like I’m paralyzed and can’t move forward. With activated Biological Instincts, I’ll find that moving through these fears by taking intentional action breaks the hold of the fear and moves me into courage.
Purpose of the Activated Biological Instincts
• To be connected to consistent instinctual awareness around decisions related to honing skills, increasing proficiency, and excellence
• Intuitive connection to a sense of timing for actions related to survival, avoiding pain, increasing value, sustainability, and alignment with integrity
Novice Expression of the Activated Biological Instincts
• Being hypervigilant and allowing fear to run patterns of avoidance and over-preparation that keep me from being present to do what actually needs to be done
Lessons/Challenges
• To learn to be present in order to interpret my instinctive awareness for right timing, survival, health and wellness, and economic action
Wisdom and Optimal Expression of the Activated Biological Instincts
• Having the presence and awareness to know what I need to know when I need to know it and to do what I need to do when I need to do it to be aligned with sustainability, integrity, and expansion
Affirmations for Wise Expression
• I trust my intuition.
• I listen to my instincts and take guided action.
• I listen to my body.
• I rest and take care of myself.
• I honor my sense of time.
• I remember that not everyone is as fast as me and I flow with Universal Timing.
• I have a deep connection with the pulse of Universal/Divine Timing and Wisdom that informs me when I need to take action.
• I am deeply aligned with the awareness necessary to cultivate and hone my skills.
• I integrate my experiences and allow myself to grow beyond past patterns.
• I stand firm in the integrity of my Authentic Self and completely trust that when I am wholly occupying my unique, vital, and irreplaceable role in the Universal Plan, I’ll know what I need to know when I need to know it.
• My sense of timing allows me to make aligned and informed choices around what I need to continue to become self-actualized.
Sound frequencies: listening while meditating on affirmations (or simply repeating them) can help with finding balance and healing.
• For the Biological Instincts
• For cultivating my sense of courage
Clearing old beliefs/stories that are holding me back
• Courage
Contemplations:
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- Have I experienced pain, dis-ease, or dysfunction associated with my lymphatic system, spleen, and/or B-cells? What about anxiety disorders? 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.) - Do I let fear keep me paralyzed in inaction? What fears are holding me back from taking action in my life?
- Am I taking good care of my physical body? Am I trusting my instincts?
- Do I trust myself?
- Do I trust that I’ll know what I need to know when I need to know it?
- Am I creating in alignment with my integrity?
- Do I have patterns from the past that are keeping me trapped?
- Have I experienced pain, dis-ease, or dysfunction associated with my lymphatic system, spleen, and/or B-cells? What about anxiety disorders? 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
continue to Week 9, Part II