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

HERO SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE HEART RESERVE

• Joy • Love • Compassion • Vulnerability

OVERVIEW:

As The Hero channel, Extraverted Feeling reads the emotional tone of a room instantly, adjusting energy to maintain connection and harmony. It unites people through empathy, encouragement, and shared meaning, often placing others’ needs before its own to preserve belonging. This channel thrives on emotional reciprocity.

A replenished Heart reserve restores steady warmth and self-attunement, allowing compassion to flow without co-dependency or depletion.

Connection · Warmth · Belonging

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

PARENT SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE SPLEEN RESERVE

• Stability • Self Trust • Empathy • Ruminition

OVERVIEW:

In The Parent channel, Introverted Sensing offers structure, predictable pacing, and tangible steps drawn from lived experience. You create safety by organizing routines, sequencing information, and preventing overwhelm. Others rely on your steady presence and consistent follow-through.

A replenished Spleen reserve eases pressure, softening internal worry and tightening muscles, restoring somatic stability so you can guide through physical calm rather than anxious urgency.

Structure · Safety · Reliability

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

CHILD SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE LIVER RESERVE

• Creativity • Adaptability • Expansion • Irratibility

OVERVIEW:

As The Child channel, Extraverted Intuition becomes captivated by new ideas, leaping toward possibilities with playful enthusiasm. It enjoys scanning images, browsing for inspiration, and making lists of future adventures, yet often feels uncertain when choosing between options. This channel may fuss if its idea is not chosen but delights in unexpected creativity.

A replenished Liver reserve releases internal irritability, enabling relaxed curiosity and gentle decision-making rather than indecision or quiet resentment.

Curiosity · Options · Playfulness

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

SHADOW DOOR SOMATIC ZONE:

• THE SMALL INTESTINE RESERVE

• Clarity • Insight • Discernment • Panic/overwhelm

OVERVIEW:

As The Shadow Door channel, Introverted Thinking can spiral into nitpicking, obsessing over small flaws, or endlessly refining language and theory. Detachment may feel both necessary and morally wrong, creating guilt around impersonal analysis. This channel can feel lost in abstract detail, unsure how to conclude or defend an idea.

A replenished Small Intestine reserve sorts helpful insights from overwhelm, grounding thought and emotion into manageable clarity rather than bottomless refinement.

Nitpicking · Overthinking · Refinement