THE CHANNEL ENERGY: THE HERO

• Your leading most dominant channel

• Moves with confidence and effortless energy

• Forms a large part of your ego

• Can become inflated when challenged

The Hero channel is where you instinctively lead from, carrying a familiar sense of strength, direction, and capability. It gives you confidence to engage and persevere through whatever life brings. Because it feels flawless, you may turn to it automatically and defend it strongly.

When it feels challenged, you might rush to protect its value or seek recognition for what it contributes. When overidentified with, the Hero can create a superiority complex, pushing you to assume you are always correct. Growth comes from recognizing its limits and allowing other channels to contribute.

HERO COGNITIVE FUNCTION:

EXTROVERTED INTUITION: Explores external patterns and emerging ideas to reimagine what could be improved, evolved, or created next.

HERO SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE LIVER RESERVE

• Creativity • Adaptability • Expansion • Irratibility

OVERVIEW:

As The Hero channel, Extraverted Intuition perceives emerging possibilities in every direction, free associating ideas and drawing connections across topics, people, and patterns. It thrives on novelty, external input, and conceptual play, shifting direction as options appear. This channel initiates ideation, energizes groups, and enables potential by opening pathways for ideas to take form.

A replenished Liver reserve releases stagnation, allowing creative expansion to flow into tangible opportunity.

Possibility · Creativity · Enabling

THE CHANNEL ENERGY: THE PARENT

• Guides, supports, and contributes

• Motivated by service, growth, and care

• Forms part of your ego

• Can become overprotective or intrusive

The Parent channel offers wisdom, guidance, and nurturing energy. It shows up when you feel responsible for helping others grow or when you sense someone needs support. This channel doesn’t seek admiration; it wants to know it made a meaningful difference. As the co-pilot to your Hero, it steadies your dominant energy and brings balance to how you engage the world.

If the Hero moves outward, the Parent grounds you inward; if the Hero turns inward, the Parent helps you connect and express outwardly. When overidentified with, it can become patronizing or limiting to others independence.

PARENT COGNITIVE FUNCTION

INTROVERTED THINKING: Builds internal frameworks that bring precision, clarity, and logical coherence to how things work.

PARENT SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE SMALL INTESTINE RESERVE

• Clarity • Insight • Discernment • Panic/overwhelm

OVERVIEW:

As The Parent channel, Introverted Thinking supports others by breaking problems down and asking clarifying questions that reveal how things work. It models independent thought, stays calm in crisis, and offers precise analysis without pushing an agenda. This can inspire confidence, yet sometimes feel distant or overly detailed.

A replenished Small Intestine reserve sorts helpful insights from excess complexity, creating steady clarity rather than cold detachment or overrefinement.

Analysis · Clarity · Independence

THE CHANNEL ENERGY: THE CHILD

• Seeks reassurance and attention

• Wants to please but is unreliable

• Forms part of your ego

• Can throw tantrums under stress

The Child channel holds innocence, imagination, and a desire to be seen. It brings fun, curiosity, and creative ideas into your system, often in unexpected ways. Because it feels tender, you may overestimate its maturity or promise more than you can deliver. When this channel feels unseen or dismissed, disappointment or emotional reactions can surface quickly. 

This channel works opposite your Parent Channel to maintain internal balance. If your Parent moves outward, the Child draws energy inward to rest and replenish. If your Parent turns inward, the Child directs energy outward to re-engage with life.

CHILD COGNITIVE FUNCTION:

EXTROVERTED FEELING: Creates emotional understanding and shared harmony to foster connection and collective wellbeing.

CHILD SOMATIC ZONE:

THE HEART RESERVE

• Joy • Love • Compassion • Vulnerability

OVERVIEW:

As The Child channel, Extraverted Feeling connects through playfulness, hmour, and warmth, often charming others with its light, inclusive energy. It loves to make people feel seen yet can retreat when emotions become too intense or when efforts go unappreciated.

A replenished Heart reserve restores ease and sincerity, helping this channel give joyfully without overextending or needing constant approval.

Playfulness · Warmth · Approval

THE CHANNEL ENERGY: SHADOW DOOR

• Sits on border of your conscious awareness

• Acts as a bridge into the unconscious

• Activates under stress and feels difficult to control

• Is your most potent channel for transformation

Your Shadow Door Channel sits at the edge of consciousness. It is your weakest channel while simultaneously holding the most transformative potential. Under extreme stress, this channel can mute your Hero Channel and take over your code, allowing shadow complexes to surface and creating “was that really me?” moments.

You may find yourself drawn toward people who are strong in this channel, or experiences that require its use. However, this pull can swing between over-idealisation of those who excel here and judgment toward them, creating tension until balance is restored. At times, its influence can feel alluring, leading you to overestimate your skill with it.

SHADOW DOOR COGNITIVE FUNCTION

INTROVERTED SENSING: Applies lived experience to the present moment to create accuracy, reliability, and inner stability.

SHADOW DOOR SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE SPLEEN RESERVE

• Stability • Self Trust • Empathy • Ruminition

OVERVIEW:

In the Shadow Door Channel, the past can grip the body tightly, replaying errors and magnifying discomfort. Rigid routines, hypersensitivity, compulsive checking, appetite shifts, or disrupted sleep may follow. Shame can surface as you measure yourself against old standards, tightening the nervous system.

A replenished Spleen reserve helps worry move somatically, reducing looping fixation and reestablishing internal trust so your body stops bracing against what already happened.

Fixation · Tension · Release