Summary

The article discusses the challenges and gifts of having an open Emotional Solar Plexus (ESP) in Human Design, emphasizing the importance of embracing emotional openness for personal peace and growth.

Abstract

The author shares insights into the experience of living with an open Emotional Solar Plexus Center (ESP), a trait in Human Design that makes individuals highly sensitive to others' emotions. Initially resistant to feeling her own emotions, the author describes a journey of learning to process and release stored emotions without over-rationalizing them. The article highlights that while open energy centers like the ESP remain open throughout life, resisting this emotional openness can lead to discomfort and a loss of one's true self. Embracing the ability to feel deeply, however, allows for a more authentic and joyful life. The author encourages those with this trait to honor their feelings and the way they perceive the world, suggesting that doing so can lead to a state of deep peace and a positive influence on both themselves and others.

Opinions

The author believes that the open Emotional Solar Plexus is both a challenge and a gift, offering the potential for profound emotional connection and understanding.
Resisting the natural emotional openness can lead to pseudo-defined centers, where individuals define themselves by the emotions they absorb from others, potentially causing more pain and confusion.
Ignoring the emotions felt through the open ESP can result in numbness, which the author describes as an energetically dense state that makes life feel more laborious.
The author suggests that allowing oneself to fully experience the emotions sensed from others can lead to a state of deep peace, which is expansive and uplifting.
The article conveys that emotional empaths should not only accept their sensitivity but also see it as a unique way of sensing the world that can bring peace and blessings to themselves and those around

The #1 Gift of Feeling Others’ Emotions

It’s the gift of peace

I just met a new client who has an open Emotional Solar Plexus like my Human Design chart. She reminded me of how I used to be resistant to feeling my feelings.

If you are curious about what your Human Design chart looks like, you can generate yours for free using this link. I wrote a quick guide to help you understand the basics of your chart here:

How to Read Your Human Design Chart

A basic handy reference.

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What it’s like having an open Emotional Solar Plexus Center (ESP)

Having an open ESP is like being an emotional empath — you tend to feel others’ emotional energies intensely in yourself. This can feel painful and inconvenient at times!

For many years, without being consciously aware of this aspect of me, I have deliberately chosen my emotions to be a happy-go-lucky person, while ignoring the more ‘problematic’ feelings that came out from nowhere. Most of the time, I would feel very numb or confused about how I’m feeling.

Gradually, I learned to ‘declutter’ my open ESP, release most of the stored emotions, and process what I’m feeling, without over-rationalizing them. I share more about my journey and tips here:

You Don’t Have to be an Emotional Sponge

One key tip to not let your empathy overwhelm you.

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Your emotional openness is a gift

Many of my clients get upset when they found out that they can’t just “close” their open energy centers.

Your open centers stay open throughout the rest of your life.

When we resist our openness and behave as if we don’t feel these energies from the people around us, these energies will stay stuck in our open centers, becoming “pseudo-defined’ centers. We define ourselves in ways that are different from our original selves.

Isn’t it even more painful to lose touch of who you truly are?

If you keep pushing away emotions you are already sensing from others, these emotions will continue to influence your life, distracting you from your fullest potential to live a healthy, joyful, and abundant life.

If you ignore the collective grief you’ve been sensing at mass funeral gatherings, this grief continues to haunt and burden you.

If you ignore the anger from your kids, you’re going to find yourself blowing up at the most surprising scenarios.

If you start to over-rationalize what you sense, you’ll waste precious mental energy fighting within yourself, trying to keep it all together.

It’s not worth it.

It’s much more straightforward, gentler, and more natural for you to open yourself to feel whatever you’re feeling, whenever you’re feeling it.

You can let go of the drama when you witness the drama gently.

You can ride the waves of joy and fiery passion from others too! That’s worth the thrill!

Witnessing this client, I remember how I used to ignore my feelings because I feel so unstable and weak at the mercy of emotions that might not come from me.

I ask myself: what would I say to someone who’s like me but is afraid of feeling others’ emotions too profoundly? It’s not exciting to feel ‘meh’ most of the time, but it feels much more comfortable not to get swayed by strange emotions!

All of a sudden, an insight came to me.

The gift of peace

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The more we allow ourselves to connect with the emotions we sense from others, the more we allow ourselves to feel the energy of deep peace.

When we ignore what we feel through our open emotional solar plexus, we would feel numb. Numbness is energetically dense. It feels like we are always trying to move through murky waters. Every little thing takes so much more effort to do.

The energy of peace is expansive and ever-flowing. It is calming and uplifting. It blesses everyone around you, including you.

If you are an emotional empath like me, and you’re struggling with this gift, I hope this short sharing inspires and encourages you.

Honor your feelings.

Honor how you sense the world.

Give yourself and others the gift of peace.