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:

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

HERO SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE SMALL INTESTINE RESERVE

• Clarity • Insight • Discernment • Panic/overwhelm

OVERVIEW:

As The Hero channel, Introverted Thinking builds clear mental frameworks to understand how things work. It analyzes, troubleshoots, and improves ideas one piece at a time, checking logic against personal understanding rather than external rules. This channel spots flaws quickly and speaks truth directly.

A replenished Small Intestine reserve sorts the pure from the impure, clarifying mind - body signals so discernment stays focused, decisive, and unconstrained by scattered emotion.

Clarity · Logic · Discernment

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

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

PARENT SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE LIVER RESERVE

• Creativity • Adaptability • Expansion • Irratibility

OVERVIEW:

As The Parent channel, Extraverted Intuition supports others by expanding their perspective, generating multiple pathways forward, and helping them notice subtle patterns or emerging potential. It listens openly and encourages self-directed choice, offering new angles when obstacles appear. Yet it can refine options endlessly or over teach.

A replenished Liver reserve releases mental stagnation, enabling ideas to flow smoothly into tangible opportunity rather than spiralling into procrastination or overwhelm.

Perspective · Options · Flow

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:

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

CHILD SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE SPLEEN RESERVE

• Stability • Self Trust • Empathy • Ruminition

OVERVIEW:

In the Child Channel, Introverted Sensing seeks comfort through familiarity - old songs, known places, and soft sensory rituals create emotional belonging. Decisions may pause while comparing memories, and letting go can feel tender in the body.

A replenished Spleen reserve lets nostalgic emotion metabolize, reducing tightness in the tummy and heart space, restoring somatic clarity, and helping you return to ease rather than cling for safety.

Comfort · Belonging · Ease

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

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

SHADOW DOOR SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE HEART RESERVE

• Joy • Love • Compassion • Vulnerability

OVERVIEW:

As the Shadow Door channel, Extraverted Feeling retreats when emotional exchange feels too heavy or uncertain. It may withdraw, numb warmth, or overanalyze tone and intent, fearing rejection or missteps. In this state, it can respond in an overly emotional-logical manner. Connection begins to feel performative, creating quiet shame or isolation even while longing to belong.

A replenished Heart reserve restores steady warmth and self-trust, soothing social tension and reopening ease in genuine human contact.

Disconnection · Self-consciousness · Re-opening