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Centers Of Gravity:
Quick links: Instinctive Center, Moving
Center, Emotional Center, Intellectual
Center
(In process)
update: 10-27-11 at 9:32 am
update: 10-28-11 at 9:25am
update: 10-29-11 at 10:35am (moving center)
update: 11-01-11 at 8:00am (moving part of moving center update)
update: 11-01-11 at 10:15am (intellectual part of moving center update)
update: 11-12-11 at 2:00pm (emotional and intellectual centers)
update: 11-14-11 at 8:00am (added to description of emotional part of intellectual center)
update: 02-11-20 at 4:00am (re-wrote some of the descriptions)
Each person is born with the potential for four main abilities (centers), each ability is responsible for a part of that person's makup.
A few people do not develop all of them but they all are a potential at birth. Center of gravity is the center the person uses most to interact with the world.
The "centers" are Instinctive, Moving, Emotional, and Intellectual. They can be thought of as brains although when referring to our brain, we mean the intellectual center.
The Instinctive center is responsible for the body's health. It is where automatic functions originate such as breathing, heart beating, reproduction, wound healing, digestion, waste elimination and all the aspects that we know as "life, health and disease". It is the part of us that decides if food is good to eat based on its smell or taste.
The Moving center is responsible for learned movement. It learns and remembers things such as walking, running, balance, opening doors, spacial relationships, typing, riding a bicycle, driving, playing a musical instrument, and sports. The moving center uses movement to communicate. "Here. Let me show you how to do it!".
The emotional center is where "feelings" reside. The feeling of Christmas, the feeling of anticipation, disgust, non-physical pain, joy, happiness and more are in the emotional center.
The intellectual center is where words, rules, laws and idiological concepts live. All the centers have their ways of communicating but the intellectual center uses words to do it.
At the moment of birth, only the instinctive
center functions and the others develop at particular times. Walking, speech, drawing then writing are the most common progressions of center development.
Some genetic physical abnormalities or acquired illnesses prevent the normal development of the centers.
A "center of gravity" is the
center where the person "gravitates" to when alone. For some, it is things relating to the bodily functions.
For others, it may be movment learned or creative. Some are most comfortable living with emotional rules (how to
act and feel in a particular circumstance). And for others, it is words. Cultural laws that dictate what to think in all
curcumstances provides comfort for these people.
Most of us have all four centers, each with
a particular level of development and the one most developed and most frequented is the center of gravity.
Sexual attraction:
Sexual attraction is normally a multi-center
activity. Some people have an imaginary image of what an ideal mate
would look like, discounting every other factor. A male might "pine" for a popular blonde singer or movie
star never considering actual compatibility. This almost always comes from imagination and vanity.
Outside of this imaginary person, the initial
attraction comes from center of gravity.
That is because moving centered people congregate
where moving centered activity occurs. A ski resort, dancing lessons, swimming, at a gym, being involved ia a sport,
at a sporting event, etc.
The second factor of attraction is alchemy (see the alchemy section for details).
Within any large number of people, sub groups also separate by areas of interest and alchemy.
If two people meet who are the same center
of gravity, they will usually be attracted to each other even if other parameters do not mesh.
The second parameter governing sexual attraction
is chief feature. If the features are compatible then body type usually is the deciding factor. A compatible body
type is either a maximum attraction (opposite) or a one-step (one step away from one's own center).
Instinctive Center
If this is a person's center of gravity, he/she
will often be "me" oriented and have little if any real concern for others, even for their own offspring
depending on the level of development of the other centers to mitigate it.
The Instinctive center is composed of four parts:
Instinctive
The instinctive part of the instinctive center
takes care of the automatic functioning areas such as circulatory, respiratory, the immune system, the digestive
system, etc. If any of these systems malfunction, the body can cease to live.
This is the part of the body that lives on
when a person is in a coma or has suffered major injuries that otherwise might lead to death.
It is the part that keeps the body alive for
someone who drowned and was later recovered, who was frozen and later recovered, someone who had a massive injury
and was left in a vegitative state, etc.
This part digests food, extracts nutrients,
and excretes what is unused. All automatically.
Movements that occur here are this part changing
the body's position so that organs can function properly. They are completely automatic.
Moving
The moving part of the instinctive center
is what drives a newborn to grope for a breast and nurishment.
When this part first awakens, a baby starts
to roll over and later crawl, but not walk. Walking is the domain of the instinctive part of the moving center.
It is the memory storage for instinctive things.
In the beginning, everything goes into the mouth for analysis and storage of sensory memories (touch, smell, sight,
hearing, and taste). These memories are compartmentalized. Stored in cubbies by subject. They do not connect one
to another and they are only of instinctive things involving one or more senses relating to one or more circumstances,
all with an instinctive element.
It has an affinity to music with a heavy beat
(possibly emulating the mother's heart beat while being held).
The possibility of memories from the womb
or birth are remote because this part of the instinctive center develops after birth, not before.
As this part develops, it controls excretions
as pertaining to where and when they will occur (potty training).
Later, it controls the gross movements required
to keep the body alive. Things such as covering the eyes with a hand to prevent a flying object from entering or
an involuntary jump to avoid a dangerous situation.
This is the part in newborn animals that allows
them to walk and escape from danger moments after birth.
Emotional
This part of the instinctive center develops
after the moving part is functioning. A baby will crawl off the edge of a bed, or other "high" place
then learn to avoid the feeling that accompanies the event.
Some babies are caught by an adult and initially
find it exciting rather than something to be avoided.
The emotional part of the instinctive center
is the part that sends chills up the spine in response to potential bodily injury. It can cause flight or fight
reactions to any circumstance it thinks has the potential for harm.
This part produces the sensation when falling
that is often called a "thrill". It is the feeling people get, mostly involving falling but all with
the potential for bodily injury or death, who seek out dangerous activities such as sky diving, bunjee jumping,
driving fast, riding a wild animal, etc.
It comes into play for most people when there
is a "near miss", a "near fall". or a "close call" with something that could cause
death or injury.
This is the part that causes sleepieness in
an ordinary day or the inability to sleep in the perceived presence of danger.
If this part recalls memories stored by the
moving part, it usually recalls more than one memory by subject. A subject of "apple pie" may recall memories
of smell and taste as well as one or more circumstances surrounding an encounter with the subject of the memory.
If the pie was eaten say in a warm cozy kitchen with ice cream or whipped cream and was a wonderful experience,
recalling it will be pleasurable. But, if eating apple pie made one ill and that event was accompanied with instinctively
negative associations, the subject will recall repulsive memories.
Intellectual
This is the part of the instinctive center
that can smell food to determine if it is spoiled and may cause illness to occur from ingesting the substance.
On the other side, it will allow a person to eat spoiled food to stay alive. It makes "best option" decisions.
It uses the memories stored in the moving part as a reference but can overrule the emotional interpretation.
It is the part that will turn to meet the
gaze of someone staring out of sight behind a person.
This is the part that in an actual fall can
overcome the emotional thrill or fear and cause a calm intentional reaction. It can allow a climber with an arm
stuck between rocks to amputate the arm instead of perishing from lack of food or water.
This part can withhold the pain of an injury
until the body can reach help. On a less intense scale, it causes the feeling of pain when some part of the body
needs attention. During the control over pain, it gives a tingling sensation instead of pain that reminds us an
injury has occurred.
It can cause a total loss of memory of the
incident when faced with catastrophic injury.
Moving Center
If this is a person's center of gravity, he/she
will move more than any of the other centers and be attracted to movement.
Instinctive
The instinctive part of the moving center
usually augments and can be controlled by any part of the instinctive center. However, the ordinary connection
is with the moving part of the instinctive center. While the moving part of the instinctive center might crawl
to reach food, the instinctive part of the moving center would walk instead.
It enhances the moving part of the instinctive
center and provides more mobility for the necessary or sometimes indulgencies of the emotional part of the instinctive
center. It can be controlled by the intellectual part of the instinctive center to move the body out of harm's
way.
Moving
This part of the moving center is the keeper,
or memory storage facility for movements. I remembers how to get an eating utensil into the mouth without smearing
food over the face, clothing and surraouding area. It remembers how to walk, run, jump, ride a bicycle, drive a
car, operate tools or machinery, etc. It remembers all learned movements.
This is the place where balance lives.
It is not until this part of the moving center
has developed that walking becomes something that no longer requires effort and attention. The same is true of
other moving activities. Until they are memorized here, they do not function automatically. This part is often
referred to as "skill" beacause it can recall stored movements and execute them repetitively with great
accuracy.
These memories ae compartmentalized. Stored
for later retrieval by individual memory. They do not connect one to another.
The memories in this part are "put there"
by the intellectual part of the moving center, the intellectual part of the instinctive center, or the intellectual
part of the emotional center. This center does not learn on its own. It requires other parts to store the memories. When the person associates
with another person who has an accent, or unusual movements, this part will sometimes mimic the other person's
unusual characteristics.
A person raised in a northern US state may
find himself acquiring a southern flavor to his/her speech when in a southern state and regularly around a person
with an accent. Interestingly, this faux accent is not stored in moving center memory. It is just a temporary imitation.
Emotional
This part of the moving center is most often
associated with the emotional parts of either the emotional center or the instinctive center but sometimes functions
on its own.
The emotional parts of all the centers are
the energetic "spark", "fire", "hot button", etc. for various functions. They are
characterized by hot, short bursts.
This part of the moving center is not capable
of sustained movement. The moving part of this center is required for that.
Sometimes it is intentionally evoked by the
intellectual part of the moving or instinctive centers.
The intellectual part of the instinctive center
might recruit it to provide explosive movement to get out of danger, to fend off an attacker or some other reason
to preserve the body.
The intellectual part of the moving center
often uses this part to provide renewed interest in storing a complex moving memory in the moving part. This abiliity
is where the fuel for long tasks comes from.
The emotional parts of all centers have a
positive and a negative half and vascillate between them in short intervals.
On the positive side, enjoyment of movement
occurs here. It gets a "high" feeling from "free" undisiplined, uncontrolled non-competitive
forms of movement. Skipping, line dancing, conga lines, aimless running, dancing freely, rolling down a gentle
slope, saucer sledding, tubing, sliding, somersaults, jumping on the bed, etc. These activities are almost always
associated with laughing and smiling.
The image of a colt running and kicking is
this part and the phrase "kicking up your heels" refers to the emotional part of the moving center.
The negative side of this part produces movements
of boredom, disgust, and pleasure derived from physically destroying something, causing pain to or dominating another
being, animal or human.
Strangely, the negative side of this part
is involved in both winning and losing a moving competition. It enjoys the conquest over another person or his
reputation.
The same is true if this person engages in
the contest and does not win. Both experiences come from the negative side of this part. The positive side derives
enjoyment from movement with no desire to compete.
This part often associates with the emotional
part of the instinctive center to combine the "thrill" of danger with the joy of movement. These activities
engage in contact sports or activities involving danger such as skydiving, bungee jumping, sleding, skiing, car
and horse racing, etc.
When the emotional movements are combined
with instinctive emotion, the laughing and smiling are not there or do not occur until after the event.
Intellectual
The intellectual part of the moving center
is the creative part and "master" of both the moving and the emotional parts. It can evoke and control
the energy of the emotional part, metering it out to produce work much as an internal combustion engine contains
the fire of burning fuel that uncontained would just produce a momentary flash.
It causes memories to be stored in the moving
part to "play back" as needed. This part does the actual learning of movements but does not have either
the inclination or ability to repeat these movements in precisely the same way at a later time. The moving part
does this.
This part likes new challenges and non-repetitive
moving puzzles and activities like checkers, chess, karate, archery, etc. Things that might seem repetitive, are
actually being changed and refined over time.
When learning a moving activity, this is the
part that will test the limits, taking the movement past the point of failure to learn what that point is so as
not to exceed the limits in the future.
This part requires focused attention and if
a person is not "centered" here, will find it uncomfortable and exhausting to gather up that much concentration.
This part of the moving center analyzes how
mechanical things work and can "invent" new devices based on existing principles. It does not create
something out of nothing even if it might seem that way.
If this is a person's center of gravity, the
movements stored in the moving part will be more precise than if a person is not centered here. The reson for this
is because the refining of movement happens after more than one attempt. If a person is centered in the moving
part, he/she will accept the first memory and leave it at that.
To get a moving part person to improve requires
many repetitions of exactly the same movement to bring about even a small change.
If a person is centered in the emotional part,
the high energy will amplify the stored movements and cause them to be exaggerated in their performance. The storeed
memory, however does not change its robotic nature.
A person centered in the intellectual part
repeats the movements, refining them with every replay.
This part evaluates almost everything in terms
of spacial relarionships and the interactions within the current spacial parameters.
Emotional Center
If this is a person's center of gravity, he/she
will relate to the world through feelings and items of symbolic sugnificance or concept.
Instinctive
The instinctive part of the emotional center
is the location of the bonding or lack of bonding between parent and child.
Moving
This part of the emotional center is the keeper,
or memory storage facility for emotions or concepts such as civilized societal interactions.
This is the part where "appropriate"
emotional responses are stored, such as feelings about religion, birth, death, war, marriage, divorce, people of
other body types, etc.
Judgements about another persons character
are stored here. A person in any society is expected to show particular emotions in almost every circumstance.
If a parent's child has been kidnapped, society will assume parental involvement if the appropriate emotional response
is not present or visible.
All moving parts of centers are the stimuls/response
mechanisms of the body, but the moving part of the emotional center is more random than the other centers because
emotions are not taught directly as a subject in our American society. I don't know about other societies.
Rather, emotions are learned from observing
others, reading about them, or acquired by watching movies or plays. Religion plays a large part in training one
to store particular emotional responses.
Emotional
This part of the emotional center is most
often associated with quickly changing and strong emotional reactions to circumstances. This part, more than the
emotional parts of the other centers is a pendulum. High emotions give way to negative ones with the regularity
of ocean waves in a storm. The only consistent factor is that whatever the emotion of the moment, it will become
its opposite in short time.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) characterized
this part of the emotional center as the Queen of Hearts.
Intellectual
The intellectual part of the emotional center
is the part that understands relational concepts, such as those between people, a person's relationship to life,
loyalties, love, hate, friendships, and higher entities.
It is the part that appreciates beauty and
the cycles of life. It arranges things harmonically according to the relationships of each element.
This part questions why we are here, what
happens when we die and ones destiny. It understands the concept of angels and universal consciousness.
This part painted the Mona Lisa, designed
machines of war and observed life's proportions. This part devised democracy. This wrote the 9th symphony. This
part is Nietzsche's lion.
If this is one's center of gravity, life and
its surroundings will be harmonically arranged. Also, people of other centers of gravity will usually be unable
to relate well to you unless you bring your compatible centers to the front. This part usually has that ability.
It relates to a moving centered person through its own moving center, an intellectually centered person through
its intellectual center and an instinctively centered person through its instinctive center.
Intellectual
Center
If this is a person's center of gravity, he/she
will relate to the world through words and abstract symbols such as mathematics.
Instinctive
The instinctive part of the intellectual center
is the location of speech.
Moving
This part of the intellectual center is the
keeper, or memory storage facility for words and laws.
This part places no value judgements on words
but simply plays them back when stimulated to do so. The stimulations can be quite random. Hearing a song in the
morning can cause this part to replay it over and over throughout the day.
It is this part, usually in combination with other centers moving parts, that dreams during sleep. The running,
falling, playing a slight over and over, etc. and other moving part memories and contortions are evoked by this
part.
In extreme circumstances, it might memorize
an entire dictionary or encyclopedia. This part is what is most often mistaken for intelligence. It knows how to
spell words and correctly punctuate sentences but lacks the creativity to write them.
Laws, totally unrelated to each other are
stored and replayed without end. A person centered here wants a law for everything because laws can be brought
to bear on almost any circumstance. If a circumstance is encountered that there is no law, it wants a new one made
irregardless a possibly contradictory effect on existing laws.
This part automatically plays back associated
memories. Roses are red, Violets are .... Salt and ...... Wheaties, breakfast of ....... Break the law, go to ........
Emotional
This part of the intellectual center is most
often associated with the love of words and the learning of them. They can be complete nonsense such as The Cat
in The Hat or Jabberwoky but can be equally excited by "great works" whether it understands them or not.
This part indescriminately stores words in
the moving part but it likes "black and white" thinking. Either this or that. "You love me or you
don't". "Love your country or leave it". "Are you with me or against me?".
This part can impose harsh penalties for infractions
of law. Even death to the violator. This part is most often the impetus for wars, especially religious and other
idilogically motivated wars. This part likes to refer to a book or other written document as the ultimate decider
if there is any question about a law. "If it is written, it is true" thinking.
It also likes combinations of things the other
centers would not make. Curried applesauce, honey on a hamburger, etc. It also likes the sound of words. Arugula
must have special properties because it sounds better than saying leaf lettuce or just plain lettuce. To this part,
if the word for something sounds good, the thing the word refers to must be good.
Intellectual
The intellectual part of the intellectual
center is the part that can create abstract laws and rules then create an entire branch of humanity to teach and
espouse its properties. Calculus, for example, is something unique to this part of the intellectual center. It
creates symbols to represent mathematical concepts then manipulates them to create or prove other concepts.
This part often teams with the Intellectual
part of the Emotional center to create writings of great intellectual and emotional consequence such as America's
Constitution. America's free library system was created by this combination of centers. As was the postal service.
This part can think outside the parameters,
laws and rules of the emotional and moving parts of this center. It can create the laws and rules with consideration
of multiple influences. It can consider many shades of gray and devise rules for them.
This part tries to bring order to chaos. It
creates classifications and names for animals, plants and other phenomenon, physical or not. This part wants a
name for everything.
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Overview of centers and their parts:
Intellectual Center
Intellectual - Understands shades of gray.
Creates laws. Creates conceptual tools just for itself.
Emotional - Likes the sound of words. Thinks
in black and white. Can impose harsh penalties for infractions of law.
Moving - Storage center for words and laws.
Stimulus/Response. Plays words and phrases automatically and repeatedly in the head.
Instinctive - Speech
Emotional Center
Intellectual - Creative overview of relationships.
Emotional - Emotional likes and dislikes.
Moving - Emotional memory.
Instinctive - The bond (or lack of) between
parent and child.
Moving Center
Intellectual - Intentional movement. Trains
the moving part to repeat precise, complex movements with little variation.
Emotional- Positive side: enjoyment of undisciplined
movement. Negative side: Competition - both winning and not winning. Destructive movement.
Moving - Storage of moving memories. Allows
automatic and repetitive movements.
Instinctive - Walking and balance
Instinctive Center
Intellectual - Makes "best option"
decisions to keep the body alive.
Emotional - Automatic flight or fight to protect
the body.
Moving - Involuntary protective movements
or acquisition of food. Storage of sensory data.
Instinctive - Automatic things that keep a
body alive.
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