Energy Leaks in Your Business by Open Center
In Human Design, your open centers are not flaws to fix — they are doorways to wisdom. But they are also where you most easily leak energy, especially as an entrepreneur. Every time you try to compete with someone whose center is defined, you borrow a strategy that was never yours. The result is a quiet depletion: shape-shifting, over-giving, second-guessing, hustling past your own design. Below is a center-by-center map of how the leaks happen in business — and what to do instead.
Open Head: The Idea Avalanche
An open Head Center takes in every concept, every "next big strategy," every podcast promising a shortcut. The leak: starting new funnels, switching frameworks, chasing tactics. The wisdom: you are a sampler of ideas, here to play with possibility, not to master it. Strategy: Hold each idea for 48 hours before acting. If it still has legs, move. If not, let it pass through.
Open Ajna: The Certainty Trap
The open Ajna carries a deep pressure to know — to be sure the offer is right, the copy is right, the launch is right. The leak: over-researching, never launching, perpetual second-guessing. The wisdom: you are here to think out loud, not to be certain. Strategy: Build a "good enough" threshold. Ship at 70%. Let the market teach you what the analysis never could.
Open Throat: The Visibility Hustle
The open Throat craves to be heard and constantly checks whether the message is landing. The leak: saying yes to podcasts, partnerships, and visibility spots that are off-brand just to feel seen. Over-talking your offer before it is ready. The wisdom: your voice is meant to be a witness, not a megaphone. Strategy: Wait for the body's signal. Speak when it is time, not when you fear missing out.
Open G Center: The Identity Search
The open G Center is the classic "I don't know my niche" wound. The leak: changing offers every quarter, rebranding monthly, trying to be what each new audience wants. The wisdom: you are designed to flow through identities like a river, not to anchor in one. Strategy: Stop trying to be one thing. Let the business reflect who you are this season — and trust the next version of you will arrive on its own.
Open Heart: The Worth Wound
The open Heart (Will Center) carries a chronic pressure to prove its value. The leak: undercharging, over-delivering, making promises to keep clients from leaving, burning out on extras you never agreed to. The wisdom: your worth is not a number on a price tag — it is a quality of presence. Strategy: Set your prices once and hold them. Stop discounting out of guilt. The right clients do not need you to shrink.
Open Sacral: The Hustle Hangover
The open Sacral in a non-Generator business owner often shows up as forcing a workload the body was never designed to carry. The leak: grinding through tasks with no life force, hiring out of "should," working past depletion. The wisdom: you are here to be moved by the work, not to drive it. Strategy: Audit your week. Anything you do not respond to, delegate or delete. Honor your "no" as a sacred boundary.
Open Solar Plexus: The Emotional Amplifier
The open Solar Plexus is the most common source of business drama for solopreneurs. You literally feel your clients' fears, your partner's stress, your audience's mood swings. The leak: making business decisions from other people's emotional weather. The wisdom: you are an emotional surfboard, not the wave. Strategy: Wait 24 hours before responding to any emotionally charged message or request. Clarity returns when the wave passes.
Open Spleen: The Fear Loop
The open Spleen runs on borrowed survival instincts. The leak: constant anxiety about money, magnifying every slow week into a collapse, making reactive decisions from fear. The wisdom: you are here to hold space for deep intuition, not to be a smoke detector. Strategy: Notice the body's quiet signals. If there is no real, somatic alarm, the threat is not yours — it is someone else's story you absorbed.
Open Root: The Manufactured Urgency
The open Root feels pressure to do, do, do — but has no built-in adrenalin to sustain it. The leak: artificial deadlines, flash sales because "the month is ending," launches driven by someone else's timeline. The wisdom: not every pressure is yours. Strategy: Question every deadline. If the urgency did not arise from your body, it is not yours to carry.
The Open Center as Compass
Your open centers are the places where you are most sensitive — and most easily swayed. They are also your greatest teachers, because they show you exactly where you are giving your power away. The work of an aligned business is not to close them. It is to stop operating as if they were defined. When you stop competing with the founder who has a defined Sacral, a defined Will, a defined Throat — and start honoring the unique way you are built — the leaks slow, the energy returns, and the business starts to feel, at last, like yours.