MJ - A Study in Conditioning - Part 4 - Ji center
This center is associated with identity, love and direction. It's how you see yourself in relation to others. When you point to the middle of your chest to refer to yourself, you’re using a universal gesture to indicate this is you, your identity. The general meanings include the higher guide within, God, Love, Beauty, the Totality, sense of place, direction, and awe.
Like all the centers, it can either be defined in your chart or undefined. Having this center undefined can bring up insecurity or even issues of paranoia around identity and an unease when in large groups of people. Not knowing who you are can feel like there’s something wrong. However, it can also allow for an enhanced opportunity to magnify the beauty, love or magnificence of the conditioning field or through connecting to the greater Whole.
 Michael Jackson (chart) loved being loved by the huge audiences who flocked to see him perform. Being undefined in the Ji meant that he could magnify the conditioning field of love. No wonder he was so attached to performing. This image certainly evokes a beauty of divine bliss when reflecting his audience's love. Being undefined though meant he couldn’t hold onto those feelings of glory. Indeed, he also reflected back that the world didn't love him, that he was strange, a pariah.
Reflecting and magnifying beauty is the exalted side of the undefined Ji center, while feeling unsure whether your lover still loves you, or feeling weird at a party or socially inept in public situations can cause suffering when there's no small identity built into your nature. It's easy to suggest and maybe harder to practice, but in tough moments, go into nature. Breathe. Expand into something bigger rather than feeling bad about yourself. When you have the Ji center defined, do your best to condition the world with love. That makes your world a more loving place.
A note on the spelling: When I was first introduced to this center for identity, love and direction, I was told it was not a visual clue but a sound “G” so that was how it was written.  People would ask, “what’s the G stand for?” Some creative good answers arose around the Masonic symbol of the compass and G, and the mystical concept of Geometry. One undefined Ji center HD friend suggested Gravity worked for her. Other people use God as the closest meaning to this center.
However, what inspired me was a class presented to the HDP symposium in 2005 when Arnold Tayam, a Qigong medical doctor and an I Ching scholar presented a class on the I Ching. It was a thrilling class for many. Some reported a sense of healing from the initial use of the I Ching as specific for HD.
When Dr. Tayam began talking about the attitude someone needs to access this ancient oracle, he presented the concept of Source as the Wu-Ji. He explained that to access the oracle, one must be sincere and quiet to ask a question through a gateway to Source that is the Wu-Ji. This inspired the change from G to Ji to convey insightful spiritual meanings for this center as the portal to one's inner guide and the totality.
From another perspective on how we universally identify the soul, spirit, love or God of this center, I share with you this link from John Otis of the Sacred Wind Foundation. He takes notes from instructions he gets in his daily morning meditations.
This one is On Being Centered. What he writes about is one of the expressions of the Ji center that you have to think of as your Hallelujah center. This is the I AM.
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