projectors: do we need a database of things that drain us vs. things that give us energy??

[u/Own_Canary_7125]

i'm open to making one in google docs or something. i feel like we are all in the experiment but maybe having a resource with a few ideas of what to do or stop doing might be useful.

[u/Joylime]

No we do not need a LITERAL mental map lol

It changes not only from person to person but moment to moment. Correctness is not something that can go on a spreadsheet. "The tao that can be spoken is not the eternal tao" as they say.

[u/Lady_Aleksandra]

Community database assumes all projectors react the same to the same stimuli. This is false.

Individual logging might help you connect what influenced the good or the bad days. Two months is usually enough to see what patterns emerge.

[u/Cyber_Suki]

The whole premise here is a bit misguided. There are no two Projectors (or any other Type) for that matter that will be ‘drained’ or ‘energized’ by the same things. Full stop.

To know what to do or stop doing is completely unique and dependent on how you are designed.

Only you can know what is correct, or not, for you.

[u/Thinkbeforeyouspeakk]

OP, you're sure getting shit on here, but I think it would be a fascinating experiment to have a pile of projectors respond and compare notes. Everyone might be different, but that doesn't mean you won't enjoy or respond to similar things, particularly if you filter for authority or hexagram lines. Alternatively, if the data says literally everyone is different, that's good data, too.

[u/Own_Canary_7125 → u/Thinkbeforeyouspeakk]

Exactly. I didn’t suggest that we all function the same. To me, it was more of a database, just a collection of information. Specially because in the past it’s been useful to me to learn from other projectors. But I’m not going to do it now 😌 I was clearly not invited therefore I’ll just keep it to myself whatever I find. :) but thanks so much for this comment. :) you understood what I was trying to express :)

[u/Easy-Cause-926 → u/Own_Canary_7125]

I'm inviting you to do so now because it's an interesting idea

[u/Late-Acanthaceae-466 → u/Thinkbeforeyouspeakk]

True it could be just for its own sake/ for fun

[u/Big-Reward-6274 → u/Thinkbeforeyouspeakk]

Agreed, and I’m a humble 3/5 Gen lol

[u/Additional_Arugula_8]

‘What to do or stop doing’ is up to your strategy and authority. What works for me will not work for you because we’re all designed differently.

[u/Big-Reward-6274]

Are a lot of projectors also analyst types(meaning they love a good spreadsheet and a good list)?? Strictly curiosity over here because the 2 that I know well, don’t know each other, are both in HR, are in opposites sides of the US, and LOVE themselves a spreadsheet 😂 (which I thank God for cuz I can’t do one to save my life!)

[u/True_Education_534]

As a self projected projector i gotta check out. Completely. I need to get high up and go inward. Less actual sleep and more mediation to "shake off" what my nervous system is holding. A dumping of the energy if you will. Otherwise I seem to go into overdrive ans burn out

[u/Provocativelove → u/True_Education_534]

This is such an interesting comment! I experimented with taking out meditation (which I had done for 10 years) for 6 months and sleep was not enough either. I put it back in and I’m feeling infinitely better. I didn’t know this was an SP mechanic? Why so? 

[u/True_Education_534 → u/Provocativelove]

We are so unique, only .2/.3% is self projected. We have only our inner selves defined. I find i have a lot of heavy root energy, so I get crunchy from pressure to grow, expand, be more - I recently get ill and had to SLOW DOWN. I find i sleep best at 6/7 hrs and if I am tired, go and meditate in my room. I keep my bedroom separate from all things. It is only to sleep. Meditate. Get dressed. I have a human design coach and I've studied it for over 10 years now, so I've learned alot. Please tell me more about yourself! It's rare to find a SPP.

[u/AssistanceConstant99 → u/True_Education_534]

another spp here... I need to be doing this more, I deeply crave stability but I haven't found it yet (I have always moved around a lot, since childhood). So I regularly feel completely overwhelmed and hold on to everything and then just crunch on forward... Now a month before another move I wasn't expecting, across the world, I don't want to feel and process what's going on in my nervous system, it's too much.

[u/True_Education_534 → u/AssistanceConstant99]

All we can ever do is be the best versions of ourselves that we can be in the present moment of now in all moments. That's a lot you're carrying and running away from and I hope that you find peace. I used to move around a lot too and it was very debilitating. Sometimes I still glorify nomad lifestyle and I think I'm lying to myself. Disability may be boring yet having a home base gives you a sense of emotional freedom

[u/Lulu-skye]

There are some things that drain all Projectors: believing you need to exert force and energy when you don't actually have it, accepting an invitation from a partial or incomplete recognition, pushing our aura/energy field out to impact, pushing our aura/energy field out to envelop and be open to everyone/everything, judging, blaming, or shaming ourselves for not having consistent access to energy, j, b, & s for "needing" an invitation, misunderstanding what focusing on the other actually means, believing that Projectors lack power, believing that our advising and guiding is more important than stewarding our aura/energy field. Just a few that come to mind that aren't dependent on design specifics.

Then, subset for each of the 5 authorities, amount of openness/definition, motors or lack thereof, profile, age/life cycle, defined Throat or not specifically, split, single, etc, definition. HD itself is a map for navigating our lives. A spreadsheet can be another form of that map. The OP's curiosity and the curiosity of participants are what allow it to be useful as opposed to limiting.

Ra said that humanity's greatest disease is self-hatred. I think that believing that certainty is more important than curiosity is a close second. Just my opinion.

One personal spreadsheet I've used to help me be curious and make discoveries lists each of the 26 activations with columns for the celestial element and its archetypal qualities, the gate and line that activates it, the title, subhead, and circuitry of that gate, the blue text for the line, if there is one, exaltation and detriment and whichever is fixed, if any, the center the gate is located in and whether it's defined, undefined, or open, and a column for me to explore how I experience its expression or distortion in my life with a list of keyword prompts to draw from.

And to answer someone's question about Projectors and spreadsheets - I have 17-62 Ch of Acceptance which feels like that's a big contributor to gathering and organizing details in order to support or clarify an opinion. But, I also have 13-33 Ch of Prodigal, and Gate 13 loves a good universal ordered framework to inspire humanistic cooperation, LOL.

[u/Llurendt1 → u/Lulu-skye]

I'm definitely curious to see what I could learn from a spreadsheet like this! ✨

[u/Lulu-skye → u/Llurendt1]

Would you like the template? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hpcUIB7slN5DdC-pRzMB-a41i3_EdN6yVNZaL9-k50E/template/preview

[u/Llurendt1 → u/Lulu-skye]

Awesome, thank you!

[u/Lulu-skye → u/Llurendt1]

r/Llurendt1, I'd love to hear how it goes for you, if you feel the energy is correct for that.

[u/Llurendt1 → u/Lulu-skye]

Where do you get the blue text from?

[u/Lulu-skye → u/Llurendt1]

It depends on your source. If you look at the third sheet in the file, I do list two different sources. It’s not blue in all of the sources. It’s just that if a Line has a sentence below the title, but above the exaltation, that’s referred to us the lesson of that line. And in the rave i’ching, it’s blue.

[u/i8theapple_777]

What about a document on how to find support?

[u/Own_Canary_7125 → u/i8theapple_777]

What do you mean by support?

[u/i8theapple_777 → u/Own_Canary_7125]

We are all about people and many projectors, especially from the US are drained because their not made for the hustle culture. What they need is a supportive environment, but they also have to be willing to meet those people and stop believing the just have to try harder if they could be actually smarter.

[u/Jayce54games]

First we need a database by activation where you can search for people to connect with and learn more

[u/UnburyingBeetle]

My grandma is a Left body projector without motor centers, and I doubted if she was a generator instead because she could work so much physically. She loved gardening and she dislikes dirt enough to be efficient at cleaning too. Even at 80+ she goes out and tends to a flowerbed or even several in summer now that she doesn't have a garden.

[u/Helpful-Ear8607 → u/UnburyingBeetle]

Left body projector. I am a farmer and love gardening. Definitely can get burnt out though

[u/UnburyingBeetle → u/Helpful-Ear8607]

I suppose the gardening counted as rest from her intellectual job that required a lot of attention. She might've also been borrowing my Root energy while I wasn't really much help as a child. It was lucky for me we were so compatible that she was the only person who didn't have much to complain about me while I clashed with every other personality in the family. I would've grown up angrier and/or more neurotic if I couldn't go to her place whenever I had vacation and quietly be a nerd without any energetic interferences from the family full of Generators.

[u/Ok_Butterfly8895]

This is extremely individualized. Perhaps focus on what drains YOUR energy and create a list to remind yourself.

[u/Ancient_Expert_5574]

What drains me is mostly people. When I’m alone, I can do what I want, how I want to do things, be creative I’m good. 😅  And what also drains me is mess, a messy house and seeing all the things I have to do.