Determination is how your body is built to take life in: how you receive nourishment, and underneath that, how you absorb information and experience. It is the first of the four deep transformations in your design, and it works from the body upward. It is carried by the unconscious side of your chart, the part that runs your physical vehicle without ever asking your opinion. When you take things in the way your system is actually built to receive them, physical resistance drops, your energy steadies, and everything downstream, from mood to mental clarity, gets easier. Ra framed it as an experiment rather than a commandment, and it only works on top of living by your Strategy and Authority: if your Authority says no to a change, do not make it.
Your colour is Touch, and it sits in the upper half of the six. That changes what it is pointing at. The lower three colours are about the food itself. The upper three are not. Yours is about the situation around you while you eat, and specifically about the atmosphere around you while nourishment is going in. Your body is not asking what is on the plate. It is asking what is happening in the room.
Your arrow points left, the focused, strategic side, although in Touch the left side is the quieter one of the pair. Arrange the calm on purpose rather than hoping it turns up. Choose where and with whom you eat, eat alone when that is what it takes, and let the room settle before the food arrives.
The same shape governs how you take in everything else. Ideas reach you in settled conditions and bounce off you in agitated ones. You have almost certainly blamed yourself for not concentrating when what was really wrong was the state you were in while you tried. How your body digests is the same shape as how your mind decides. Bring your nervous system down first, and then let the thing come in.