An Introduction to The Five Ways of Being (Type)

By Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D.

The Five Ways of Being or Five Types
Five basic distinct Ways of Being or Types describe how energy predisposes you to respond at certain times in
certain ways. Dr. Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D., did research on over 45,000 people. The research showed that
Five Types statistically measure different energy patterns. Each Way of Being or Type filters your perceptions
and each has its own unique strategy. Yet, that is only a portion of the whole picture when it comes to
understanding your Self. You have more than one Way of Being!
You have the capacity to respond in accord with all five types. If you want to learn the strategy of only one
type, youll benefit most by learning the strategy of a Manifesting Generator, because you most likely function
as a Manifesting Generator a good part of the time. However, remember that your pattern of energy is as
unique as your fingerprint. Thus, it is important to learn and understand about your own unique pattern.
When Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D. looks at your Noble Sciences Sacred Synthesis Energy Chart, she
reads how you make decisions, how you experience your unique energy flow, and where and how you are
vulnerable and sensitive to other people. Because you function on multiple layers of awareness at all times the
way you align your energy is important for your health. Your best strategies for aligning your unique energy
can be seen in your Noble Sciences charts based on your birth information.
As a start for yourself right now, learn about the five basic energy patterns and self-reflect on what you already
know about yourself. Mind Maps of the Five Ways of Being give you a quick reference tool along with
descriptions in this document.

The Five Ways of Being or Five Types are:

The Manifesting Generator (Anticipatory Responding Initiator)
The Manifestor (Active Initiator)
The Generator (Instinctive Responder)
The Projector (Self-Recognition of Inner and Outer Perceptions)
The Reflector (Open Sensitivity)

The Manifesting Generator or Anticipatory Responding Initiator

Represented by the letters MG
As a Manifesting Generator, you use a complex strategy that involves both instinctive responses to things and
active initiation of things so they manifest congruently for you. In order to achieve this goal, instinctive
responses must be clear and you must then envision how your responses are likely to play out. If your
considered path feels congruent, proceed. However, if upon envisioning your path, you feel doubtful and
confused, you reconsider your path to maximize success.
As a Manifesting Generator you learn and grow. This process is part of your learning process challenging you to
become the most you can be and to manifest your life purpose. Always attempt to balance between your Inner
Self and Outer Self, your internal instinctive responses, and your cognitive transformations or modifications of
responses that shape your life. Finding balance is part of the complex process of living.
Manifesting Generators integrate functioning to know and feel at ease within the Self. Its natural to take
charge or attempt to take charge of things. Personal empowerment is human potential lived fully. You are likely
to be Manifesting Generators at some point in how you function. Rely upon this energy flow in
making decisions to live an aligned life.

The Manifestor or Active Initiator

Represented by the letter M
The Manifestor actively initiates things to make them happen. As a Manifestor, you feel actively enlivened when
you accomplish things you want to do, i.e., when you work toward your goals. For the best possible outcome,
initiate or start things when you feel clear about what you are doing. Recognize that when you act precipitously
or impulsively, you sometimes cause turmoil.
As a Manifestor when you do not let others in on your plans, you are likely to meet surprise and encounter
resistance to what you want. In other words, you may meet some angry feelings when you act without clarity,
impulsively, and without informing others.
You are likely to function as a pure Manifestor only about eight percent of the time. Thus, allow receptivity
when appropriate, and make sure you take time to self-reflect and consider consequences before taking action.

The Generator or Responder

Represented by the letter G
Generator responses are instinctive, but they always involve human intelligence in assessing a situation. Be
clear about your feelings so you know how you want to proceed. If you feel hesitation, wait for inner clarity.
When you feel indecision your Generator energy keeps you from taking a clear path because your feelings and
instincts operate on many layers of awareness. Frustration arises when elusive feelings make your various
options and choices appealing for different reasons.
If you find yourself busy, without knowing why, it may be the generator energy in you contributing to your
sense that you are spinning your wheels. In general, indecision is most likely a result of a conflict between
instinctive responses and what your mind interprets as a should. When you are uncertain of your decision,
wait until your responses align in all parts of yourself. Empowerment often builds internally before it manifests
in action. When in conflict or uncertain about your direction, confusion and frustration are natural and
understandable.
Ask yourself new questions and live with more focus by deepening your ability to hear and listen to your inner
voice of wisdom. Awaken to your Self so you hear your instincts and communicate with your higher mind at the
same time. You are likely to function as a pure generator about a third of the time.

Projector (Self-Recognition of Inner and Outer Perceptions)

Represented by the letter P
Your Projector energy activates inner stirrings that are ready to connect what your inner voice knows when
properly recognized and acknowledged. To gain clarity, Projector energy turns inward. You benefit as a
Projector when another person (or situation) invites recognition of what lies beneath the surface of your
awareness.
Validation from another person who recognizes your sensibilities and abilities gives you energy because it adds
momentum to continue your process instead of supporting natural doubts or diminishing your process. The
Projector component is more introspective than activating.

Reflector (Open Sensitivity)

Represented by the letter R
The open Reflector part of you receives information from cosmic forces and from other beings openly with few
predetermined filters. You are highly sensitive to all that is around you on all levels. When most positive, you
experience being in the flow. When negative, the Reflector part of you may feel overwhelmed by information
and thus, powerless.
During sleep you generally function as a Reflector. During this phase of consciousness you move into the
cosmic soup where all humanity merges consciousness as one being in unity. You do not remain a Reflector
Type in your integrated functioning.
However, by paying attention to your areas of comfort, i.e., where, when, and with whom you feel most at ease
and most aligned as you move through your day and through each Type or Way of Being, you are most likely
going to be able to identify when and how these Types function in you, i.e., how you change during your day.
You never remain constant in Type over any six-month period. You reflect the breathing living organism of the
cosmos of which you are a perfect reflection within your self. By knowing one, you know all. By knowing all,
you know one. Know yourself. You are the universe.

Reference
Revised Research Verifies 5 Types in the Human Design System. Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D., Unified Life
Sciences, 2001, 2003.http://www.noblesciences.com/members/uploads/ULS/RevisedResearchULS37.pdf

Understanding the Nine Body Centers

Noble Sciences charts document the activity in energy centers at key points in time (up to three months before
and after birth) in order to see which energy centers come into play at key developmental moments. Each
energy center represents certain aspects of the human experience, or characteristics of being human. You will
notice that seven of the centers correspond to the seven main Hindu Chakras. In addition to these seven, there
are two other key energy centers, the splenic center and the self-center.

The centers can also be grouped into different types:

A wareness Centers (3)

The Ajna Center
The Splenic Center
The Solar Plexus Center (also a Motor Center)

Pressure (Fuel) Centers (2)

The Crown (Head) Center
The Root Center (also a Motor Center)

Motor Centers (4)

The Solar Plexus Center (also an Awareness Center)
The Sacral Center
The Root Center (also a Pressure Center)
The Heart Center

Other Centers (2)

The Throat Center
The Self Center

Now we will look in detail at each of the nine centers.

The Nine Centers

be answered.

The Ajna Center

The Crown Center

The Crown Center (Head) carries pressure to comprehend and make sense out of
things, i.e., the fuel to conceptualize. It is where mental activity begins. Energy activates
the Crown Center in three ways: in a cycle, in a pulse, or in a focused way. These three
forms of energy activation are instrumental in determining how energy movement is
processed, perceived, and filtered by individuals. The Root Center is the other Pressure
Center that has similar ways of activating energy: As above, so below. When the Crown
Center is colored in (defined) the person feels mental pressure to grasp and understand
things in a certain way. A colored in Crown Center moves the individual to seek answers.
When the Crown Center is not colored in, the person feels inspiration and ideas from all
different directions. That person lives in the questions, i.e., asks more questions than can

The Ajna Center serves as a very important hub that transforms cognitive information
into comprehension. The Ajna Center grounds ideas in reality by assisting us in creating
meaning. Located in the Ajna Center are the hypothalamus, pituitary, and other
autonomic nervous system structures. The Ajna Center, along with the Crown
Center , functions to help us interpret information. We often make decisions based on
this Center. The Ajna Center in its optimal functioning works in concert with the Sacral
Center to interpret information from the individuals gut feelings. It has the unique
capacity to transform the information from pure gut instinct into higher octave cognitive
information it gives it deeper and nuanced meaning. It is this capacity that
differentiates humans from other species. The Ajna Center is one of three Awareness
Centers (the others being the Splenic and the Solar Plexus Centers ).

The Throat Center

The Throat Center when colored in facilitates self- expression either in words or in
action, or in both. The Throat Center is important in determining someones way of
being (the five Types) as well as the way they communicate. It is the most complex
of all Centers. When the Throat Center is colored in and connects to any Motor
Center directly or indirectly, it makes the person a Manifestor. When the Throat
Center is colored in along with the Sacral Center and it connects to a Motor Center
(defined above), the person is a Manifesting Generator, i.e., they can make things
happen. When the Throat Center is uncolored, it indicates an openness to speak or
act under the influence of the context of the situation. The Throat Center is crucial in
our capacity to communicate and to take action in the world. The Throat Center is a
very complex and strong determiner of how a person speaks and acts.

The Self Center

The Self Center contains the core of our identity, the magnetic force field that
holds us together in time and space. The eight Gates in this Center set the roles
and perspectives in the way humans orient themselves in life. There are eight
Gates in the Self Center each having a different Lower Trigram of an I-Ching
Hexagram. Only two Upper Trigrams of I-Ching Hexagrams are represented in
the Self Center. The I-Ching Hexagrams fall primarily in the degrees of eight
different Astrological Signs and give an indication of the Self-Orientation or Roles
an individual expresses in their life. Each lower trigram has a double Hexagram in
the energetic body. The Self Center when colored in shows that the individual has
a sense of self-identity that is more defined than it is in someone whose Self
Center is uncolored. Two double Trigram Hexagrams are in the Self
Center, Hexagram 1 (Heaven/Heaven) The Creative is in the astrological sign of Scorpio (
) and Hexagram 2 (Earth/Earth) The Receptive is in the astrological sign of Taurus (

).

The Sacral Center

The Sacral Center is a primary source of energy within us, empowering life
itself. The Sacral Center generates the genetic imperative for reproduction,
intimacy, and nurturing of the species. Within this center resides the Life Force
energy also known in esoteric circles as Kundalini energy. It drives for survival.
It also interacts with cognitive understanding giving us intelligence to interpret
instincts. The Sacral Center coordinates with the Ajna Center in its optimal
functioning so information transforms from pure gut instinct into higher
octave cognitive information. It is this capacity of integration between the
Sacral and the Ajna Centers that makes humans unique among those on Earth.
It is from the Sacral Center that we feel gut feelings and respond to things instinctively. It responds to
internal as well as to external stimuli. When colored in it is easier to know your gut responses. When not
colored in, it may take more time to get clarity on your unique instinctive responses. The double
Trigram Hexagram 29, Water/Water The Abysmal is in the astrological sign of Leo (

).

The Root Center

The Root Center is both a Motor and a Fuel Center. It processes the movement
of energy through you. Its energies set in motion the way your body feels
pressure. The Root Center activates energy. Like the Crown Center three kinds
of energy originate in the Root Center determining the way the energy moves and
is processed and perceived: cyclic, pulsating, or focused energy are possible.
Again, as above, so below. When this center is colored in you may feel internal
motivational pressure that causes you stress if not acted upon. When uncolored
you may feel unmotivated unless something external triggers you. The Root
Center energy is the adrenalized energy that is essential for all areas of activity in
our life, grounding us in our foundation. Two double Trigram Hexagrams are
present in the Root Center: Mountain/Mountain Hexagram 52 "Keeping Still" is in the astrological sign
of Cancer (
).

) and Hexagram 58 Lake/Lake The Joyous is in the astrological sign of Capricorn (

The Splenic Center

The Splenic Center functions in the body to alert us to conditions both internal and
external as they affect our health. It operates as an awareness center. The Splenic
Center joins with other key centers that work together to
create the feeling /instinct /mind and body/instinct /mind axes of awareness;
the centers are the Sacral Center , the Mind (the Ajna & the Crown Centers ),
the Splenic Center, and the Solar Plexus Center . The Splenic Center, the
body/instinct/mind axis, attunes ones awareness to what affects health as it is
modulated by instinct and cognition. When integrated, health is optimized. When
colored in it is easier to feel spontaneous because the body instinct gives more
reliable information in each moment than when the Splenic Center is not colored in.
Someone with an uncolored Splenic Center is likely to be highly sensitive and to pick
up in their own body what others feel. This open Splenic Center often shows that
someone is highly empathic. All Hexagrams/Gates of the Splenic Center have the same lower trigram (Wind ) .
The double Trigram Hexagram 57 Wind/Wind The Gentle is in the astrological sign of Libra (
).

The Solar Plexus Center

The Solar Plexus Center activates energy in a wave or cyclic pattern and is both an
awareness center and a motor center. The Solar Plexus Center, the center of emotions
or feelings, joins with other key centers that work together to create
the feeling /instinct /mind and body/instinct /mind axes of awareness; the
centers are the Sacral Center , the Mind (the Ajna & the Crown Centers ),
the Splenic Center , and the Solar Plexus Center. While both of these axes are
important, it is the feeling /instinct /mind axis that attunes ones awareness to
what affects feelings, i.e., emotions as modulated by instinct and cognition. When
integrated, emotions are balanced and expression is optimized. The Solar Plexus
Center has impact on all people, regardless of whether it is colored in because of the
nature of human consciousness and of human nature at this time in our evolution. However, when the Solar
Plexus is colored in, emotional cycles and the intensity of feelings may be stronger physiologically. They may
also be more difficult for the individual to modulate cognitively than when the Solar Plexus is not colored in. All
Gates in the Solar Plexus Center except for Hexagram/Gate 6 have the same Lower Trigram with the double
Trigram Hexagram in the Solar Plexus being Hexagram 30 (Fire/Fire)Clinging Fire in the astrological sign
of Aquarius (
).

The Heart Center

The Heart Center is the only Center of strong motivating action that
has no direct access to the Sacral Center ; it is a Center that bridges
the World of Biological Form and functions primarily in the body
chemistry and through the autonomic nervous system. Although it
has access to conscious modulation, it operates automatically beneath
any level of awareness for most people, most of the time on the
biological level. It is a Center of Ego and Will Power. It gives one
Dominion (control) over oneself and one's life. In addition, it controls
the inflow of the resource Oxygen into the heart itself. When the
Heart Center is colored in, the intention to take charge and to manage
resources for ones self and others is strong; it may lead to promising
more than can be delivered. When the Heart Center is uncolored the
use of ones inner and outer resources carries challenges because
even minor promises are taken in so deeply that they can create
internal pressure that may undermine ones sense of ones own value.
The double Trigram Hexagram 51(Thunder/Thunder ) The
Arousing is in the astrological sign of Aries (

).

When looking at a chart, it is important to observe which centers are colored in or defined across
the six-month snapshot. Some centers may be defined three months prior to birth but switch to
being undefined after birth. Noting these patterns of changing definitions allows for a deeper
understanding of the personal make up of the individual or day being analyzed. When centers turn
on and off they tell us what layer(s) of functioning are affected: mental, spiritual, emotional, or
physical.

THE AXES OF AWARENESS: HOW CENTERS OF AWARENESS

FUNCTION
(THE
BODY/INSTINCT/MIND
AND
FEELING/INSTINCT/MIND)
Introduction | Mind Map | Mind Map Summary
Introduction
By: Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D.
Two distinct axes through which humans process information for cognitive interpretation have been
documented through research and clinical experience in Multidimensional Human Design at Noble Sciences.
Three awareness centers process information through the bodys nervous and neuroendocrine systems. These
three awareness centers, the Splenic Center, the Solar Plexus Center, and the Ajna Center (Mind) were
conceptually described in the Human Design System. All body centers function in multidimensional human
consciousness and organize information through interpretive as well as through physiological pathways. By
understanding their flow of energy you have a key to understanding yourself.
The three awareness centers form two axes that must be integrated at the core of all layers of being in order
for balance and flow to be optimized in your life.These two axes show the way information impacts you.You
constantly experience stimuli in your world and respond to it. Moreover, the world impacts you physically and
emotionally both consciously and unconsciously all the time.
In all mammals, neurological functioning operates either through the autonomic nervous system (beneath the
level of conscious control) or through the central nervous system (partially available to conscious control). The
complex neurological pathways run through your nervous system to bring information for response that
requires highly complex interpretation. From the standpoint of experiences, however, how you function is
relatively simple to understand.
What makes humans unique, as a species, is their capacity for cognition and language. Humans are capable of
describing their experiences and of interpreting them. You use your body chemistry for feedback in situations to
which you are exposed, and you also use complex needs, wants, and desires that affect your chemistry. By
learning to understand the two axes of information, it is possible to gain a deep understanding of your own
internal process and by so doing you can begin to alter the deeply ingrained patterns that have outlived their
survival value for you in your body chemistry.
The phrases Body/Instinct/Mind (BIM) and the Feeling/Instinct/Mind (FIM) describe the integration of the
Splenic Center (body), the Ajna Center (mind), and the Solar Plexus Center (feelings/emotions). The Sacral
Center (instinct) functions as a motor that anchors life force survival needs through its responses. If you look at
the picture below (Illustration 1), the Splenic side of the body energy map would be considered the BIM axis. It
traces a pathway that involves the Splenic Center (body), the Sacral Center
(instinct), and the Ajna Center (mind). The Solar Plexus side of the body energy map would be considered the
FIM. It traces a pathway that involves the Solar Plexus Center (feeling), the Sacral Center (instinct), and the
Ajna Center (mind).

Illustration 1: The Axes of Awareness: Three Awareness Centers operate on Two Axes of
Interpretative Awareness
Another way to look at it is that the Splenic side deals with your instinctual (Sacral) responses regarding your
body or physical perspective in the current moment while the Solar Plexus side deals with your instinctual
(Sacral) responses from a feeling/emotional perspective, also related to body or physical perspectives but more
importantly operating in a cycle over time. It activates the needs, wants, and desires of your organism in an
emotional way. The feeling/emotional perspectives that involve needs, wants, and desires may be
physiologically mediated but also may be quite intentional. The Solar Plexus functions as both an awareness
center (emotions (feelings)) and as a motor center that drives you emotionally (feelings) to fulfill your bodys
needs, wants, and desires.

Two Experiences Describe the Two Axes of Interpretive Awareness: A

Body/Instinct/Mind Experience
The Snake Flight: In one of my early California hiking experiences, I came upon an almost dry streambed.
There had been little rain for two years. I moved ready to take a step onto a rock, when I heard a rattling
sound. The next moment, with no consciousness of how I had gotten there, I found myself on the other side of
the streambed. I had lifted into the air like a helicopter, flew four feet and I landed in safety, all in a split
second. My heart was racing, my mouth was dry, and the bright sun suddenly flashed into my dilated eyes. I
turned to see a rattlesnake next to the rock I had almost stepped on.
This profound experience of instant flight in the face of danger is an example of the essential life sustaining
Body/Instinct/Mind (BIM) consciousness in operation. My brain/mind had learned the meaning of the rattle (it
is well-known to hikers in California that rattlesnakes hang out near water during times of drought). The
flight-fight response involves the Splenic Centers now awareness that connects to the Sacral and Root
Centers instinctive reactions. This link involves the forceful motor/fuel activation of two powerful energy
centers in the body. The hormones released by the adrenal gland in response to hearing a rattle was
mediated by the brain with the integrated reaction of all the muscle power needed for me to fly, yet without
my conscious intervention. The autonomic nervous system activated the heart and blood system bringing
instant fuel and oxygen to my reacting tissues. My breathing and heart rates were thus sharply increased, my
mouth was dry, and my pupils dilated. All this happened in a split second! (Marvin M. Portner, M.D.)
A Feeling/Instinct Mind Experience
A Train Ticket to Munich: In order to reach Munich (my feeling (need) solar plexus) by 5 pm I needed to
take a train from Karlsruhe at 2 pm because the trip takes 3 hours. Store A sold the train ticket at a cost of 5
dollars whereas the store B sold the same ticket at a reduced rate of 3.5 dollars. Because I had the desire
(feeling solar plexus) to save my money and to get the best deal I could find (instinct for survival), my
mind (Ajna) compared the different options to find what would best serve me and make me feel positive
(feeling-solar plexus) and I then was able to find what would serve me best (survival). My instinct was to get
the most for myself to preserve my resources and my need allowed me to wait for the knowing I needed in
making an informed decision rather than just jumping with the first instinct I had to get the first train I could
get. Had my need been to get to Munich faster and to have extra time, I would have factored that into my
mental equation and interpreted my desires and needs differently. (Yoshi Suzuki).
Interpretation/Commentaries
The sacral gut feeling is the seat of our life force energy. It is the instinctive seat that protects us during sleep
and during life threatening events. All living beings have an instinctive mind that lives in its gut and responds
automatically to things. This gut life-protecting response connects to the Root Center and to the adrenal
glands in mammals for flight or fight. However, in humans the Ajna (Mind) Center mediates as it becomes
aware of our responses and it determines, over time, how to interpret circumstances as they affect survival.
Thus, the mind is able to use cognition independently to make judgments. Needs, wants, and desires are also
interpreted and anchored, as in the case of what and how often we eat, based on basics of our physiology and
interpretation of it for our survival. The need, want, and desire to be at a certain place at a certain time, or to
buy something for a certain amount of money rather than another is generated by the likes, dislikes,
attractions, and responses to things that have the capacity to make life more or less enjoyable or enhance
ones life and community in some way. Different orientations in human awareness components can be viewed
as Body/Instinct connecting from the Sacral Center to the Splenic Center and as Feeling (Emotional)/Instinct
that connects from the Sacral Center to the Solar Plexus. In order to function in a cognitively intelligent world
as a higher form (human), we use cognition and intelligence to reinterpret information we receive. It is
processed through our physical vehicle. What comes in to our organism physiologically either comes in through
autonomic nervous system pathways (body/instinct Sacral to Splenic) or through central nervous system
pathways (feeling/instinct Sacral to Solar Plexus- like hunger, desires, or emotions).
We have the capacity to impact both sides of our selves. One axis connects the Splenic Center to the Sacral
Center (body/instinct) and links to the Ajna center (body/mind) for interpretation. The other axis is the Solar
Plexus Center connecting to the Sacral Center (feeling/instinct) and then linking to the Ajna Center
(feeling/mind) for interpretation. Because of the nature of the Sacral Center, and its capacity to function in the
awake as well as in the sleep state, it has a great deal of complexity. The way the Sacral Center activation
operates in an individual in different layers of being affects their capacity, ease, and manner of decisionmaking. The way information is interpreted and especially its timing also determines when and how the Sacral
Center turns on and off. Someone, for example, like myself, who has Sacral activation relating to my inner way
of knowing things, must wait for that inner knowing before I can manifest in the world, despite the fact that I
am someone who may be considered in my waking world to be a Manifestor (The Five Types). On the other
hand, many individuals, who are Sacral beings (Generators) in their waking world, have their Sacral Center turn
off on their inner layer and thus, often lose a sense of what their gut response is when they go to sleep at
night. This turning on and off of the Sacral Center is very important in knowing how someone functions because
awareness is multifaceted and multi-determined.

The Sacral Center, The Splenic Center, and the Solar Plexus Centers all function in all worlds. In order for an
individual to feel the kind of optimal congruity and authenticity at the core of their being that most people seek,
it is essential that balance between these axes of awareness be integrated in the body, in the needs, wants,
and desires, and in the interpretation of those components. When an individual misinterprets information in the
mental, spiritual, emotional, or physical world, they experience dissonance and disharmony that drives for
correction. Thus, the axes always find a pathway in individuals telling something about the way that person
functions. In meditation, we connect in multiple ways on multiple layers so we can transcend the worlds and
use our higher intelligence. We are then aligned and in touch with our deep still Self in multidimensional ways.

PATTERN OF CYCLES
By: Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D.

Download Mind Maps: Pattern of Cycles Overview | Channel 53-42 | Channel 54-32

New Moon July 11, 2010 @ 19:42 GMT

This is the only Sun

the Splenic
for two days.

/Earth

Pattern that Activates 3 Centers (the Root

, the Sacral

, and

Centers) in the Body Energy Map. This Pattern occurs in January and in July, each time lasting

What You May Want To Know

The Life Force Energy of Cycles activates spiraling movement through time and space that can
reaffirm an internal connection to you, as an individual, to your goals and aspirations in your
manifesting life.
A deep connection on a cellular level of the life and death process in all areas of life. Recognition
within the instinctive intuitive self that every process has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Recognition that a drive inherent in your cellular physiology is part of the critical life process.
Completing cycles is deeply transformational. It is a part nature and a instinctive drives toward
completion.
Cyclic Energy generates life.
This configuration helps move you from one area of focus to another. It involves a process of
transformation that brings strong continual change with it.

Channels Activated in the Pattern of Cycles

Three centers, Root
, the Sacral
, and the Splenic
Centers,
are activated. These Centers work together in this pattern to move you
toward action based on your perceptions, reasoning, intuition, and
judgement rather than from your instinctive animal response of pure
need and fear of extinction, i.e., the superconscious layer of awareness
mediates and brings alignment to your subconscious instinctive
responses.

The Sacral Center

The Sacral Center is the primary source of power within you.
It is life force energy itself.
The activation of the Sacral Center in the Pattern of Cycles moves you toward completion of old ways
of being so you may begin each experience, in each moment, renewed and anew.
You learn lessons through responses and how you interpret them.
You come to know your instincts through their associations in your body, i.e., through your unique
physiology.

The Root Center

Gates 53 and 54 activate the Root Center. The Root Center then functions as a bridge from the Mental
to the Spiritual and the Physical layers of existence.
The Root Center determines how your body experiences pressure as it processes the movement of
energy through you.
With the Pattern of Cycles, one of the three Format Energy Channels in the Root Center is activated
initiating a cyclic energy pattern.
An internal motivational pressure to act can cause stress if you are unable to act or if action does not
align with your higher Self.

The Splenic Center

Activates energies related to survival and health.
The need for competence, associated with Channel 54/32, activating the Splenic Center is a a wellknown and well-documented driving force in life.
The Pattern of Cycles, activating the Splenic Center, allows a deep commitment to tasks and a need to
excel, if so desired.
The Voice of Intuition whispers ever so gently into your ear, reaching toward the core of your self. You
intuition activates you through your cellular physiology.

Channel 53-42
Channel 53-42 is a very powerful part of the instinctive drive that activates
the Life Force Energy of the Sacral Center. It has its foundation in the Root
Center setting a format energy in motion. There is a strong drive when this
channel is defined to initiate actions and projects and to see them through to
completion, i.e., to begin a cycle and to complete it. Note that for action to
be congruent at the authentic deepest level of the Self, there needs to be
strong confirming responses on mental (cognitive), spiritual, and physical
levels.
Channel 53-42 Operates in Two Centers in Three Worlds

and Spiritual/Archetypal Worlds.

Channel 53-42 is a Portal Bridge Channel between the Physical/Biological

Mental/Waking World Keynote: Maturation. Balanced development.

Physical/Biological World Keynote: Connection: The cellular life cycle (life and death) anchors
awareness in Reality.
Spiritual/Archetypal World Keynote: Freedom to experience one's own essence in the individual and
collective life process.

Hexagram/Gate 42 Wind/Thunder is in the astrological sign of Aries 1 2045'00" 2622'30" in the Sacral Center.
Gate 42 is a Portal Bridge between the Mental/Waking World, the Spiritual/Angelic, and the
Physical/Biological Worlds. Portal Bridge energy activates and opens a doorway into another world. The
world in which it is activated carries its most predominant energy. A given planet may activate a Gate
in more than one world.

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Mental/Waking World Keynote: Increase: Growth

Spiritual/Archetypal Gate Keynote:Dying
o Physical/Biological Gate Keynote: Cycle Regulator, Endings

Hexagram/Gate 53 Wind/Mountain is in the astrological sign of Cancer 1507'30" 2045'00" in the Root Center.
Gate 53 is a Portal Bridge between the Mental/Waking World, the Spiritual/Angelic, and the
Physical/Biological Worlds. Portal Bridge energy activates and opens a doorway into another world. The
world in which it is activated carries its most predominant energy. A given planet may activate a Gate
in more than one world.

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Mental/Waking World Keynote: Development: Beginnings, Gradual Progress

Spiritual/Archetypal Gate Keynote: Flight
Physical/Biological Gate Keynote: Vitality, Initiation Of Cycles

Channel 54-32
Channel 54-32 is related to digestion and liquid regulation. It carries a
connection to physical reactions and to bodily sensations as well as to the
way life is lived. Note that for action to be congruent at the authentic
deepest level of the Self, there needs to be strong confirming responses on
mental (cognitive), spiritual, and physical levels.
Channel 54-32 Operates in Two Centers in Three Worlds
Channel 54-32 carries a strong drive to reach one's highest potential while
maintaining health in uplifting ways. Each World carries its own Keynotes.
Mental/Waking World Keynote:Transformation: Being Driven
Emotional/Angelic World Keynote: Transformation: a sense of prospective positioning for the greatest
good of oneself and the whole.
Physical/Biological World Keynote: Sustenance: Expansiveness coupled with conservation assures well
being beyond oneself.
Hexagram/Gate 32 Thunder/ Wind is in the astrological sign of Libra
2045'00" 2622'30" in the Splenic Center.
Gate 32 is a Portal between the Physical/Biological and Emotional/Angelic Worlds. A Portal designates
the energy this Gate activates is able to open a door into another world although it may not be present
in more than one world.

Mental/Waking Gate Keynote:Duration: Continuity

o Physical/Biological Gate Keynote: Liquid Regulator

Hexagram/Gate 54 Thunder/Lake is in the astrological sign of Capricorn

1507'30" 2045'00" in the Root Center.
Gate 54 is a Portal Bridge between the Physical/Biological and Emotional/Angelic Worlds. Portal Bridge
energy activates and opens a doorway into another world. The world in which it is activated carries its
most predominant energy. A given planet may activate a Gate in more than one world.

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Mental/Waking Gate Keynote: Marrying Maiden: Ambition

Emotional/Angelic Gate Keynote: Enlivening
Physical/Biological Gate Keynote: Liquid Production

Want to Change Your Life?

Get to Know Your Metaphors by Using Clean Language
By Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D.
Your brain captures every experience you have. It shifts from short-term to long-term memory, processing and
binding cognitive information accessed from various parts of its working memory. Then, it organizes all this
information to form a single representation. In other words, your brain archives memories in the form of
stories.
Because when you speak, your brain encodes information as stories, you are likely to archive your stories in the
form of metaphors comparing your experiences or feelings to things you know. You form a frame of reference
from which you communicate. Thus, metaphors are primary components of story structure, including stories
you reference about yourself.

The details of your life are captured in your metaphors.

You are a product of your metaphors. In fact, research has shown that people speaking English use up to six
metaphors per minute. And, most people are generally unaware that they use metaphors in their daily
language. Nevertheless, metaphors are the language of the mind and they often reveal the unconscious depth
of your soul.
Although traditional therapy and coaching techniques work with a persons metaphors, these techniques often
either miss-out on the richness of an individuals story, or simply catches glimpses of the depth of the storys
metaphors in cursory ways.
A great deal has changed. During the 1980s, New Zealand psychotherapist David Grove was responsible for
the development of Clean Language. His work emerged from his work with trauma cases involving sexual abuse
and war veterans. Grove developed incredibly effective clean techniques or tools that work directly with a
clients language and inner space.

Going deep in just 15 minutes.

Utilizing Clean Language focuses attention solely on the clients internal perceptual relationships and their
outcome. Penny Tompkins, along with fellow therapist and coach, James Lawley, expanded Groves Clean
Language method documenting and recognizing its symbolic modeling components. Groves work opens up
interesting ways to work with clients because of its power and simplicity. Even experienced patients and
therapist are astounded at the transformational power of these systems.
In my practice, I find that using clean tools deepen the clients understanding of their issues moving them
quickly into a state of deep mindfulness because of the way their imagery and language moves them into their
inner world.
In a recent session with Jim P, who has had numerous therapy experiences over the past 15 years, the result
was profound. The session began with one simple and non-probing question:
When youre working at your best, its like what?
Its like silence with inner peace. You know, calm and secure.
And its like silence with inner peace, and calm and secure, and when peace, and calm and secure, is there
anything else about peace, and calm and secure?
Starting from this statement, I followed a clean line of questioning reflecting Jims own words back to him
with the most basic of the Clean Language questions. I reflected each statement Jim made back to him using
his words exactly. This technique systematically deepened the exploration and detail for Jim of his inner
landscape - he landed on a profound insight within just 15 minutes.
Jim recognized how he loses touch with himself and with the calm and secure place inside his soul that he so
values when he depends and looks outside himself for approval. He then said, When I know that I matter, its
safe for me to go into my soul.

We continued to explore this safe space in Jims soul. And when our short session ended Jim was excited by this
new approach. This was, by far, the best therapeutic experience Ive ever had, he said. What would normally
have taken two-years of digging around in my subconscious in traditional therapy, we accomplished in just 15
minutes! Jim was significantly impacted by this short experience.
I have been in practice as a clinical psychologist since 1973. From my professional perspective, Clean Language
and its derivative tools are unsurpassed in their power. Clean Language creates an immediate deepening of
self-awareness, i.e., it has practical application as a tool akin to Tibetan mindfulness. In Jims words, It cuts
through the B.S. very quickly. But, why is this method so effective?

Its the clients perceptions that count.

The idea behind Clean Language is to remove the therapist/coachs influence and biases as much as possible
from the process. This is the basis of the term clean. As a part of this questioning method, David Grove
developed a set of 12 clean questions designed to use the client/patient/coachees own words as the basis for
further questioning with none of the interviewers metaphors, assumptions, or points-of-view infused into the
dynamic. Grove discovered that the cleaner the questions, the more freedom clients had to use their own words
as the basis of healing and change rather than working through the therapists interpretations of their
metaphors, the client only relates to and utilizes their own perceptions. After all, it is only the clients
metaphors that count.
Even though there are only 12 questions, and the coach/therapist removes their own assumptions from the
process, the coach/therapist still plays an important role in the clients process. The fundamentals that a
therapist or coach must focus on are pretty simple:
Listen attentively to every word spoken;
Hold back any opinions or advice;
Ask Clean Language questions that develop and explore a persons metaphors.
Listen to the answers, choosing key words in and from clients statements, and ask additional Clean
Language questions based on what was said.
Hold and develop a model of the clients inner landscape and use it referentially using the clients
words to maintain their internal focus and its exploration.
All answers and insight in Clean Language emerge from the perspective and inner world of the client. Mastering
of the 12 basic Clean Language questions add a potent tool for helping clients achieve results far quicker, and
with as much, or more, depth as could be acquired in months or years of traditional therapy.
As another example, a client whom Ive seen off and on for the past 20 years experienced an extraordinarily
liberating insight during a Clean thera-coaching session. Since I had known her for so long, I could have
easily told her what she needed to know.
My words resonated with my client because, in this instance, I primarily used the same words she used. She
heard only her own words describe her inner space. The Clean Language method facilitated internal awareness.
Thus, my client arrived at a place of knowing by using her own metaphors, her own words, and her own
perceptions. She, like Jim, agreed that Clean Language is a powerful and effective technique.

Its not just for therapists.

As a therapist and coach since 1973, I have observed tremendous change in the mental health and personal
growth field. Currently, many coaching practices engage the coach in therapy-like practices. While this is not a
trend the coaching profession advocates the coaching professional standards and ethics maintain that mental
health issues need to be addressed by mental health professionals the Clean Language approach enables
coaches (trainers, managers, spouses, and parents) to improve the quality and clarity of their communication
and understanding in a respectful and insightful way without the risk of potentially hurtful judgments or
interpretations.
Clean Language is a tool that anyone can safely use.
Because I think it can be especially helpful for couples, I teach couples with whom I work to use it with each
other. By learning to use Clean Language, these couples actually hear and feel heard by one another. Reactivity
is reduced because the listener isnt forming his or her own opinions as a response. Instead, listening for key
words used in asking a series of Clean Language questions, the listener helps their partner drill down into the

heart of what their partner feels. Partners can take a 10-minute turn, assuring that both their needs are
effectively communicated.
Clean Language can be used in a business context. Managers who have learned this technique can achieve
crystalline clarity with their team members. Research demonstrates that the clearer the communication, the
better the results and performance. And, it improves employee satisfaction and morale. Achieving perfect
understanding eliminates doubt and ambiguity two key factors that cause employees to leave.
And, of course, coaches who use Clean Language facilitate a depth of understanding for their clients in terms of
how clients perceive themselves and how they see the world and their futures. Having these deep insights
enables both coach and client to optimize and effectively hone their communication in unique client-driven
metaphors. Because Clean Language tools significantly improve the speed at which answers come, business
clients find it extremely attractive. In my experience, executives and other people serious about their business
like to cut to the chase as quickly as possible. As the client begins to see results more quickly, the more
relevant they perceive the process to be.

Clean Language clarifies and adds depth to ones experience.

One of the most impactful aspects of Clean Language is that it serves as a tool that can be used by individuals
at any time. By learning how to use this tool, one can immediately use Clean Language to clarify and gain
perspective in their present circumstances.
How you think the stories youve created that define your life and the world around you are significant.
They drive your actions, flavor your responses, and have tremendous effect on the people around you.
Through Clean Language, you gain empowering understanding of your metaphors. When you understand your
metaphors especially when something isnt going the way youd like you then have control over your story
and can make conscious choices about how to reframe or retell it. When you control your story, self-awareness,
mindfulness, i.e., clarity is achieved this is an essential step in making conscious decisions that lead to a life
of greater fulfillment and happiness.
Thats the power of Clean Language.

References
Grove, D. & Panzer, B.I. (1991). Resolving traumatic memories: Metaphors and symbols in psychotherapy. New
York, NY: Irvington Publishers, Inc.
Harland, P. (2009). The power of six: A six-part guide to self-knowledge. London, England: Wayfinder Press.
Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Lawley, J. & Tompkins, P. (2000). Metaphors in mind: Transformations through symbolic modelling. UK: The
Developing Company Press.
Ray, M. ((2004, 2005) The highest goal: The secret that sustains you in every moment. San Francisco, CA:
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Sullivan, W. & Rees, J. (2008). Clean language: Revealing metaphors and opening minds. Carmarthen, Wales:
Crown House Publishing Ltd.

NOTES FROM THE FIELD A LESSON IN SENSITIVITY AND

VISUALIZING:
LOS ANGELES TO SAN ANTONIO, AUGUST 23, 2008
Date: August 26, 2008
Author: Cindy Smith
As some of you know, I spent the week of August 16-23 with Eleanor and Marvin. This trip, my daughter Ariel
accompanied me on the visit. For me, the hardest part of visiting someone is always the inevitable goodbye
that marks the end of the journey. It is always difficult and emotional for me to leave people I love and care for
so deeply.
As Marvin and Eleanor do every morning, on the day we left, we all sat down to breakfast together and read the
Daily Report aloud. It was very timely for me that day. To quote:
You might find yourself a bit more emotional today than you were yesterday. However, the reason you feel
emotional may make more sense to you, i.e., you may be able to put some pieces of its origins and purpose
together internally. Avoid pressures that push you to act in ways that may not be exactly what you want to do.
Remember that you are very open to the needs and feelings of other people and today part of the cosmic
pressure activates clarity in the way you take in emotional needs of others.
I took this reference to being a bit more emotional today as a given. Naturally, I anticipated a more emotional
day for myself than usual because goodbyes are always so hard for me. At the time, I forgot about my
tendency to pick up on and internalize the emotions of others.
Being in crowded places among many agitated people can be the very worst kind of place for me. I found
myself in just such a place several hours later at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). You could say it was
not a good day to be traveling. LAX was chaos. One woman I encountered had been shuffled from line to line
for six hours. Weather delays in other parts of the country caused flight cancellations. There were numerous
unhappy, aggressive people all around me.
Earlier in the week, Ariel had two wisdom teeth extracted. During her procedure, it was apparent that as soon
as she was sedated, I had trouble thinking and felt very drugged. In all honesty, at the time, I did not even
recognize this was happening to me. Fortunately, Eleanor recognized and pointed out to me how I took Ariels
experience and feelings into my body. What brought this point home even more strongly was that just as Ariel
started to awake, I felt difficulty swallowing something she would have been feeling also. Simply recognizing
who owns the problem helped me enormously to gain perspective.
While at the airport in the midst now of so many distressed people, I recalled my experience earlier in the week
and was able to recognize similar feelings in my body. I began with new perceptiveness to identify what
feelings belonged to me and what feelings were ones related to my deep empathic sensitivity. In addition, I
knew from the Daily Report and Daily Wisdom Practices how vulnerable the day made me.
Thus, I kept in mind the daily report and my tendency to take on emotions of others as my own. I knew I had
to take great care to avoid totally loosing my patience and temper. I faced challenges after challenge in this
area for several hours. Loosing my cool became a definite possibility when my daughter and I missed our
original flight and had to create a new flight plan.
Our new flight plan had us spending the night in the Dallas airport and continuing our return flight home the
following day. The following day, Monday, was scheduled to be Ariels first day back to school. Neither she nor I
wanted her to miss her first day of school.
In the end, this really turned into a lesson on how to manifest what you need. I needed to be home in time for
Ariel to get some sleep and be ready for her first day of high school. The only chance for this to happen was to
catch the last plane out of Dallas for San Antonio. This flight was two terminals away from our gate and
scheduled to begin boarding before we were scheduled to even land. The airline personnel could not issue a
ticket for us on this flight because there was no way we could technically make the connecting flight within
airport guidelines. Such a connection was an illegal booking.
I called Eleanor to inform her of what was happing and I told her I needed to manifest the flight in Dallas
leaving late so we would have time to get to the gate and get a ticket to board the aircraft.
Eleanors answer at first kind of stunned me until I realized the beauty and simplicity of what she was saying.
Eleanor said, You do not want to visualize the flight leaving late. When you project manifesting what you need,

and you dictate HOW you want something to take place, you LIMIT the manner in which the universe can
respond to your need.
She explained to me that a better way to attain what I needed was to simply visualize getting on a connecting
flight. It did not matter HOW it came about. The HOW was actually unimportant. The real need was to be on a
flight that got us home safely. She told me to visualize being home safely that night.
We all went to work visualizing being home that night. I did have a small tinge of doubt as we boarded the
flight to Dallas; we ended up at the very back row of a large Jet that was completely full with passengers.
Anyone who travels understands how long it takes to get off an aircraft when you are as far back as you can
get without being in the restroom.
As it happened, our flight landed 15 minutes early. I had already mentioned our plight to the flight attendants
and they arranged for Ariel and me to be first people off the jet. They gave us permission to walk to the door of
the plane before anyone else was even allowed to unfasten their seat belts. One of the attendants even used
her personal cell phone to call ahead when we landed so we would have the correct gate information; she even
arranged to hold the flight for us. We got the last two seats on the last plane out of Dallas headed to San
Antonio. We arrived in San Antonio, arrived safely home, and Ariel was ready for her first day of school. In fact,
she even had a wonderful lesson about balancing emotions and the way visualization and manifestation actually
works.
The lesson on manifestation and visualization was extremely important. Equally important, however, was
reading the daily report that morning. It helped me be aware of potential RED FLAGS I would face on this
journey. Had I allowed myself to slip into the negative emotions of anger, frustration and discouragement, my
attitude would have blocked my ability to visualize. Such feelings would have negated any potential desire on
the part of other people to help Ariel and me accomplish what we needed.