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Your natural state, when alone, is to be relaxed and unbothered, going through life at your own pace. The problems begin when you’re sucked into the vortex of the outside world and start experiencing stress which your centre is not designed to handle.

You can probably associate with the expression ‘getting into a spin’. This is because a conditioning influence, either in your past or present – day environment, feeds stresses into your system from those with a defined Root.

You can achieve all sorts of goals in your lifetime, but it has to be done on your own terms. Whenever you feel stressed, you’ve committed to something outside your own integrity. Other people’s needs and pressures can send you off – balance and leave you out of sorts if you yield to them. If you’ve ever been challenged by a statement such as ‘Get out there and make something of yourself!’ that outside pressure alone can lead to you stressing out. You don’t have consistent access to the adrenaline needed to carry you through. In fact, you might well be known as a serial procrastinator or someone who does things at the last minute because, to achieve anything, you need time for the pressure to build within. You might be one of those people who pack their suitcase two minutes before the taxi arrives. I would almost bet that you write ‘to do’ lists just to be seen to be doing something! You can start millions of things but finish very little.

One likely characteristic people will notice about you is that you’ll be hopelessly early or terribly late when running on someone else’s timings. Take the story of a friend of mine who has the Root undefined. She’d promised to take her son, who has the centre defined, to an appointment at a designated hour. She was upstairs. He was downstairs, clock – watching. When it was time to leave, he was at the bottom of the stairs, tapping his wrist – watch and screaming about being late. With that transmitted surge of adrenaline, she was sent into a spin, dashed from what she was doing, rushed to the stairs, tripped … and fell, landing at the bottom, thankfully unharmed, but in a stressed – out flood of tears. That was a conditioning influence in action.

To turn this into impassive wisdom, you need to recognize when pressure is coming at you but note it’s not your pressure, so remain calm and stay centred and true to yourself. If you constantly get wrapped up in the stress of others, you’ll end up exhausting your adrenal glands. So learn to be watchful, find tranquillity and practise meditation, in line with your nature.

That completes our look at the nine centres. You now have a handle on your inner workings and an overview of the person you were designed to be. But right now we are only at the ‘getting to know you’ stage. What follows is another fascinating truth spawned by the centres – and that’s what ‘type’ of person you actually are.