Understanding the Open G Center

The G Center is the diamond in the middle of your Human Design Chart. It is the Center for love and direction. People who have this Center defined (colored yellow) absolutely know who they are and where they are going. They may not know exactly how to get there but they do know. My friend, Karen, says she has known her direction/purpose ever since she was 4 years old. Every day she wakes up and is absolutely driven by her mission. She can’t not do it.

I have an Open G Center. I am here to be wise about love and direction through experiencing others. With my Open G Center I can step into somebody’s aura and have a deep understanding of who they are and where they are going and also, an understanding of the pain and the pleasure of where they have been. It is almost like stepping into someone else’s shoes.

There is a beauty and an honor of experiencing people in this way and my love for myself and for humanity deepens and widens as a result. I feel a richness and texture of love that floats in the air, mingling and dancing until someone breaths it in. I feel the expansion of it as they breathe it out. “Love is in the air…” as the song goes.

If you have an Open G Center, the way in which you experience love and direction is unlimited! You have the potential to experience the love energy of each individual person on this planet and amplified. Wow! Think about that for a minute.

Someone with a defined G Center has a fixed way in which they experience love. Their love is consistent and reliable and predictable. Their direction is also fixed and reliable and consistent.

It may sound pretty extraordinary to have the experience of understanding love and direction so fully and yet there are those people who feel the Open G Center is more like a curse. Before I started living my Human Design Strategy I used to be one of them. Every morning I woke up with a sense of urgency. I knew there was something I was supposed to be doing but I didn’t know what. (I also have the Gate 1 activated.) I felt frustrated and angry and very envious of those people that did have direction. I wanted a purpose and because I didn’t have one (or so I thought) I felt as though there was no purpose or reason for me. I also felt lazy and like a quitter because I kept going from thing to thing looking for what it was that I was “supposed” to be doing.
To top it all off I discovered that the thing I got inspired by was dependent on who I was with. I gave up. I hid in my house afraid to even get a job because it might not be the “right” job. I had all these great ideas but felt paralyzed to take action.

So how did I go from this frustration, anger and envy to such deep appreciation? I learned to live my Human Design Strategy! By living my Strategy, I eliminated those possible “things” that were not correct for me. I started to focus on what I did want in my life – joy and love – instead of what I didn’t want – lack of direction and lack of love. I am living who I am instead of worrying about who I am not. In Human Design we refer to it as living the Self vs. living the not Self.

Have you been denying yourself the beauty and honor of experiencing the greatness of your Open G Center? Perhaps you have been a victim to your Design and the Open G Center, “I don’t need it. I don’t want it. I’ll never have it so I am not going to think about it. I am not going to worry about it.”

Before I started living my Human Design Strategy I thought my Open G Center was a curse too and that I was victim to the whims of it. How come everybody else had a purpose but me? I felt unlovable. And there was nothing I could do about it. I had no love or direction so I wasn’t going to think about it either. And that is the perfect example of living the “not” self.

The truth: It is not that I don’t have love or direction. It is that I am here to be wise about it. When I stand next to my friend Karen, I experience her love energy and amplify it. For example, I can feel the depth to which she loves her children. Sometimes I am sitting in the next room as she is tucking them into bed and I start to cry because I am washed in this huge sea of love. I can feel my own heart expanding with the waves, cells vibrating, just as the sand on the shoreline vibrates with the ebb and flow of the water.

There is a beauty and magnificence in understanding and experiencing people from who they are at the soul level and having a sense of how they love and experience love. What I have discovered is that I have the potential to love and be loved just as much as the next guy – including the guy with the defined G Center! It was never a question of whether I was loveable or not. The question came from the inconsistent way in which I experienced it. Remember, the Open G Center takes in love and amplifies it.

Think back to when you were a child. You were playing happily with the paints, unmindful of the splotches of water color that dotted the table. Your dad walked in from work and looked at your art and immediately a big smile splashed across his face. He kissed your head and told you he liked your painting. You excitedly gave him the picture, beaming. He reverently set it beside his lunch box so the following day he would remember to bring it to work where he would display it. You felt so warm and cozy inside and so excited about your daddy’s reaction. You felt the love.

The very next day you were sitting at the table painting another masterpiece and in walks daddy from work. This day he has a scowl on is face and when you show him what you have been working on he doesn’t even look at it. Instead he barks because there is paint on the table. You don’t understand. You weren’t doing anything different than yesterday. Somehow the rules changed in the middle and you didn’t get them. You felt unlovable – like you did something wrong. And what did you have to do to regain your daddy’s love again? Pretty soon you question your lovability and might even change your behavior so that you will be loveable. “If I just do this…then he will love me.”

Do you feel lovable? Do you struggle with saying no and keep doing and doing for others so they will just love you? Have you put your own dreams and desires on the shelf, perhaps even forgotten them because you have been so busy trying to be lovable?

Do you want to remember what it was like to sit at the table and create your picture and love it no matter what someone else says or does?

Do you want to fall madly in love with yourself?

Start living your STRATEGY! You will find it listed on your free Human Design Chart.

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To develop a deeper understanding about your G Center and how it weaves together with your entire chart to tell the extraordinary and magical story of you, please contact me via email teach@humandesignteacher.com or phone at 701-740-7496.

Renae Osowski