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How to Deal with Pressure in Your Business | Root Centre Human Design | Listener Question

Feeling overwhelmed by stress and pressure in your business? You’re not alone. In this episode, Vickie dives into the Human Design chart's root center, where pressure and adrenaline live. Discover how understanding whether your root is defined or undefined can completely change how you handle deadlines, stress, and creative blocks. By the end of this episode, you’ll learn how to leverage your energy patterns to stay productive and balanced, even when life feels like quicksand.

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In this episode, you will hear:

• The difference between having a defined and undefined root center and how it impacts your stress and productivity.
• How to recognize when your "root pulse" is off and what to do about it.
• Practical tips for managing your energy and avoiding burnout in business.
• Why it's crucial to adjust your expectations when it comes to exercise, depending on your Human Design type.
• How aligning with your natural energy flow can lead to massive bursts of creativity and productivity.

At the heart of this episode is a powerful takeaway: by honoring your unique energy configuration, you can transform the way you work and live. Whether you have a defined or undefined root, trusting your natural rhythms allows you to avoid burnout, amplify creativity, and feel more satisfied in both business and life. Ready to dig deeper into your design? Book a personal reading with Vickie and unlock the full potential of your Human Design.

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Episode Transcript

Welcome to Unjaded. You are going to want to have your human design chart as you listen to this episode. So if you don't have that yet, I'd love to invite you to pause this episode and head on over to the website. It's vickiedickson.com. It's linked in the show notes for you so that you can download your Human design chart. We are going to be focusing on the bottom center in the Human design chart, so you're going to want to know what that looks like for you as we go through this show.

Welcome to Unjaded. This is your straight talk shoot from the hip, wrapped in a little bit of love. Human Design for Business podcast we talk a lot here about clarifying your message so that you can bring in paying clients with ease. And ease is different from easy. Stick around to find out how we roll here. I'm your host Vickie Dickson. I am a two four emotional manifesting generator, light on the motional and I'm a quadrite in human design in realspeak. I am an entrepreneur of 30 plus years. I've had every kind of business there is, and I always say that business is my love language. I can't wait to dive in with you here on the podcast.

Okay, so in human design, there are two pressure centers. One is the head center and one is the root center. If you're familiar with the chakra system, when you look at your human design chart, these centers will be in exactly the places you'd expect them to be. So your head center is the triangle at the very top and your root center is the square at the very bottom. The head center is the center for inspiration and information. The root center is the center for pressure, stress, adrenaline. If both of these centers are undefined or white, not colored in, then your design is highly pressurized. Anxiousness and overwhelm may be regular occurrences for you.

So it doesn't have to be that way though. In this episode, we're going to unpack the root center, adrenaline, stress and pressure, and how to use it to get done what you need to get done. So remember, if you don't yet have your chart, head on over to the website and grab it. So let's look at your own human design chart. If the square on the bottom is colored in, then you have what we call a defined root. What this means is that you have consistent way of dealing with stress and pressure. Deadlines probably energize you. When others around you are overwhelmed and acting scattered about a goal.

You're like, WTF? We recently had a big goal with one of the companies that I contract into, and there was a significant bonus on the line. We really pushed the last week of the month, and when we hit it, all of the undefined roots. So that's you. If it's not colored in, in your design, we're saying, oh, my God, never do that again. We don't want to do that again. And those of us with a defined root colored in square at the bottom of our chart, we were ready to start all over again right away. And remember that nothing in human design is good or bad. It just is.

No one is better than the other with a defined root because it's a pressure center. The energy operates in kind of a pulse. Some days the pressure is there, and some days it's nothing. Now, this isn't science. But in my own experiment and in working with hundreds of clients, what I found is that most times, the root pulse, the emotional wave, and the menstrual cycle work together, which is probably a topic for another day. But it's just kind of interesting to see how when you're off, you're really off, and when you're on, you're really, really on. So just this week, I felt like I was walking through quicksand for a few days in my business. I couldn't get anything done, which kind of leads you to feel panicky, right? Like, it can feel like, oh, my gosh, like, I've got this big to do list and, like, nothing is working.

You know, you sit down to create a blog post or to write a podcast episode or to prepare for a reading or whatever it is, and it just feels like you're walking through quicksand. So I kept trying to get into it. I kept trying to work, and then seeing how pointless it was. And having been in this exact same place a hundred times before, I knew that I needed to let the work slide, because even if I did the work, I would go back and redo it later. So what this was, what we say in human design speak, is that my root pulse was off the energy, and the pressure wasn't there for my work, and I had to let that be okay. So instead of working as an MG and manifesting generator, I'm someone who needs to keep busy. I'm someone who needs to be moving. We had just opened the cottage, and there's so much to get done.

So what I did was I kind of switched gears, and I went into home gear, and I dove full on in on that stuff, which left me feeling satisfied it gave me a feeling of satisfaction, and it allowed me to fall into bed completely exhausted and sleep well. Because the next day, I'm getting another load of sacral energy on board. Right? I spent time with my grandkids. I had fun. I took my dog in the lake, I went for extra walks. And now, today, as I'm writing this, my root pulse is back on. In the span of about 3 hours, I've been able to create a landing page, a webinar series, four podcast episodes, and a mini training on Instagram in just 3 hours. So that's worth waiting for.

But it's not natural. It doesn't feel great when your root pulse is off and you feel that energy of that. Like, it's like you're locked in place somehow. I'm speaking with my hands, and I always forget that you can't see me when you're on a podcast, but it's like I'm locked in place and I have no movement, no stamina, no drive in me to get something done in my business specifically. And we are so very conditioned to keep pushing through. But. But if you have this kind of configuration in your design, I'm going to challenge you to trust the universe. When your energy is off.

And I don't mean like energetically off. I mean when the switch is off in your body, I want to invite you to trust the universe that it will come back on. Do something fun so that when it does come back on, you can go right into beast mode again. A couple of other things about this pressure center in your human design. This root center specifically, is that it's what we call a motor in human design. So motors give energy. So this defined root center adds energy or energizes your design no matter what else is there. With this energy defined in your design, you need to exercise daily.

Sorry, not sorry, you need to sweat every single day. And I get asked over and over and over again what exercise is the best exercise for me, Vicki? The one that you will do. Don't set yourself up for failure, but do set yourself up to get some exercise done every day, because you need somewhere for this pressure, this adrenaline, this drive, this ambition, this motor revving. You need somewhere for that energy to go. So don't give me all the excuses about the things that you cannot do. I would love for you to do something, some way of moving your body. And then I'm going to unpack another little piece of this. It's just going to be a little bonus.

Okay? So if you look to the left on your design, and there's a triangle on the bottom left. If that also is colored in for you, and you have some lines that are red and black between that root center and that's the spleen center on the left, then you really, really, really need to exercise daily. Okay. You gotta sweat it out. Your body, that is one place in the body graft, and there may be others where exercise lives. And again, I'm gonna go right back to I don't care what else is in your design. I don't care if you're a projector, I don't care if you're a quad, right? I don't care if you're. I care.

I shouldn't say I don't care, but I'm not gonna be part of this movement that says, oh, you don't need to exercise then, because you're a projector, you don't need to exercise, or you're a reflector. We all need movement in our day some way, and somehow. Okay, sermon over. I'll get down off my soapbox. So we're going to switch over to the undefined root. So if that bottom square for you is not colored in, you're exactly the opposite of everything that I just said. The energy will be there sometimes for exercise, and sometimes it won't be, and that's okay. So by understanding your body, you get to play in the type of exercise that you do every day.

So it might be HIIT training today, tomorrow, maybe yoga the next day, it might be going for a walk, the next day, it might be, you know, laying in Shavasana. You still need exercise. We all need exercise. But it doesn't have to be so driven for you. It doesn't have to be where you have to be sweating, so where the defined root pulses on and off. You have this thing that I think would maybe be a little bit harder to deal with. But again, it's not my lived experience. So I don't know.

You can tell me, connect with me, and let me know. But your root pressure is always there. There's no freedom from that list of things you need to get done. So that's where the overwhelm can come in. Remember in the beginning of the episode, I said, lots of times people with this energy in their design will feel overwhelmed. So you, in your head, it's like, when I get that done, I can rest. When I get that done, I can rest. When I get that done, I can rest.

But you're never done. So you never let yourself rest. You just keep going and going and going and going, burning through energy that's not consistently there for you, right? You're amplifying the energy of others in that place. So speaking of amplification, what will happen for you is that you'll amplify the stress of the people with defined roots around you. So when someone with a defined root is in your energy field and they're loving pushing for a deadline, or they're stressed about getting something done, you're going to be the one who experiences the overwhelm in your body because you're not used to that feeling in your body of that defined root. So your mantra is, not mine, not mine, not mine. Or things get done when they get done. Things get done when they get done.

Things get done when they get done. So no matter how you're defined or undefined, you have to work, or you get to work with the energy that you do have. If you want my eyes on your design, that was just one little piece of design. And I mean, look at, there are hundreds of pieces of every single design. If you want my eyes on your design and your life or your business, you can go ahead and book your reading. I put a link in the show notes for you so that you can get on my calendar and we'll spend about 90 minutes together going over all of the intricacies of you, going over things like how is your energy meant to work to get that list of things done that you need to do, how is your creativity meant to flow? What environment do you need to be in to spark your creativity? How do you best show up in relationships? How does your messaging land the best with your people? All of these things live within your human design. And I would love to get to know you through the lens of your highest self, which is shown to us in your human design.