How to Get Your Human Design to Work
When you found out your Human Design, what did you do? Did you hit the ground running toward a life that finally felt familiar?
Has knowing your Design helped you love yourself more? Do you have more self-trust and control in your life?
Is Human Design the life hack you’ve been looking for?
Hopefully you answered yes to those questions because Human Design is a tool that can help you live a life of greater ease and satisfaction.
Now, if only you could get your Human Design to work faster and be more precise.
Knowing your Design has brought you much relief, but you still have challenging relationships with your intimate partner, children, coworkers, boss, or employees. You’re still struggling to find the right job, career, and business.
How do you make your Human Design work in your life?
Short Answer:
When you learn and practice your Human Design knowledge, you will always be in the zone of making the right decisions for yourself. Applying your Human Design knowledge can help you understand your past present and future. Integrating and aligning with your Design helps you with self-acceptance, forgiveness, healing, and self-protection.
Long Answer:
Using your Human Design with precision and confidence takes time and effort. It’s beauty and value unfolds when you use a combination of:
Continuing Education
Experimentation
Awareness and Observation
Practice
Calculated Risk-taking
Patience and Gentleness
Time
Human Design is not a Silver Bullet. It is not magic!
Apologies if this is news to you, but as they say, the truth will set you free. It has to be said that becoming good at your Human Design requires initiative and work. Just knowing their Human Design type, strategy, and/or authority will not change the circumstances of your life overnight.
There will be work.
Life After Learning Your Human Design
It’s time to come to terms with what you have in your hand. Your Human Design Chart!
Your Human Design chart is the framework for your big life choices. It is the key to how you fit into our constantly evolving world. It is a foundation from which you build the house that is your life.
The house you build on that foundation will be one of a kind, and only you can build it.
You need to know how to combine and use your type, strategy, authority, and profile.
This is your most valuable LIFE HACK. This is the MAGIC you are looking for.
As an example, let’s see how the basic elements of your chart work together to fulfill your life’s purpose.
How does your Type help you achieve your purpose?
Your basic purpose in life comes from knowing the definition of your Human Design type. — When you get a free chart your Human Design type will be printed on it.
In black and white, the description of your type tells you what your purpose is.
Your type is the foundation or framework for the full expression of your purpose.
First, your type brings awareness to how your life must shift to align with your purpose.
Next, you actually have to make the shifts.
Some shifts are easier to make than others, but commitment, fearless experimentation, and patience will get it done.
If you need help strategizing your shifts, book a free call, and let’s quickly figure it out together.
For reference, here is the foundation purpose for each of the five Human Design types:
Manifestor:
• To initiate yourself and others into new and/or better innovations. To protect your limited and unsustainable energy with rest.
Pure Generator:
• To enjoy working and building things. To master your projects and use up your unlimited energy every day.
Manifesting Generator:
• To enjoy working and building quickly. To discover and share efficient ways to improve how we do things. To use up your unlimited energy every day.
Projector:
• To read the identity of others with your penetrating aura. To guide and direct them to use their gifts wisely. To protect your limited and unsustainable energy with rest.
Reflector:
• To absorb, discern, judge, and reflect the quality of the people and environment around you. To protect your limited and unsustainable energy with rest.
How does your Strategy help you achieve your purpose?
Your Human Design strategy (instructions for your type) helps you get into the zone of your purpose.
There are five Human Design strategies for success. One for each type. Here they are for reference:
Manifestor:
Inform. Take action.
Pure Generator:
Wait to Respond. Take action.
Manifesting Generator:
Wait to Respond. Inform. Take action.
Projector:
Wait for Recognition and Invitation.
Reflector:
Wait for an Invitation. Take action after waiting a full 28-day lunar cycle or more.
Your strategy saves you from aimlessly looking for purpose.
When used correctly, your strategy wades through the people, environments, and opportunities that come to you. It helps you choose the best from each category.
It attracts the best of the best and it gradually moves you onto the path of your true purpose.
You may not notice it at first, but an energetic shift occurs when you start acting like your type and using its strategy. Trust the process.
How can you know that you are crushing your strategy?
Well, take a look at your results.
Are you noticing more control over your daily life than you once had?
Are your decisions causing reactions and changes in those closest to you?
Are you shedding toxic people and attracting healthier ones?
Are people asking for your input?
Become an observer of what’s changing within you and around you.
How does your Authority help you achieve your purpose?
Your Human Design authority is your precision tool. It helps you make even better decisions.
After your strategy has attracted the right people, environment, and opportunities, your authority shines a spotlight on your decision.
If your decision by strategy and your authority agree, you are good to go.
• For example, if your chart says you have Splenic Authority, it means that your intuition or instincts are your precision tools. Your intuition speaks softly, and only once. It is your job to find out how your intuition speaks to you.
When you use it to verify your decisions, you can trust that your decision is correct for you. -- I have Splenic Authority, and this has been my experience.
• If your Human Design chart says you have Emotional Authority, your decisions and actions need to marinate. They need to go through a wave of emotions and then stabilize. Only then can you be certain of your decisions.
If you aren’t sure how to use the Authority written on your Human Design chart, book a free call with me and I will help you.
How does your Profile help you achieve your purpose?
Your Human Design Profile is how you approach your life. It is the flavor of your life.
Specifically, it is how you contribute to the body of knowledge needed to continue the evolution and survival of the human race. That sounds important, doesn’t it? It is.
For example, I have a 3/5 profile.
I know this because it is written on my free Human Design Chart.
My 3/5 profile is spicy! It volunteers to dive into the challenging and unknown. I am interested in finding out what works, what doesn’t, and whether it’s worth the time and effort.
My profile is a daredevil with a cause. It’s like the kid that says, “What happens if I press this button?”
I have always been this way. Learning by trial-and-error has always been a theme in my life. I just needed to learn that it was a feature and not a bug.
What is the value of my 3/5 profile?
The trial-and-error lessons I’ve learned are stored away until someone asks me to share them. If I accept the invitation, I get to speak about my wisdom to the right person at the right time.
After sharing my wisdom, who knows what happens next. The information is out there and it will have influence, or not. The information may or may not be added to the body of knowledge needed to ensure the survival of humanity.
The point is, I have carried out my function or purpose and now there is new information and experience that might help one person or many.
Powerful stuff, right?
Your Human Design type, strategy, authority, and profile equals fire.
Using it guarantees that you will be fulfilling your purpose.
Here is how I pull it all together:
First, I get my chart and collect the information. I find my type, strategy, authority, and profile.
Then I use the information above to find out what my Types basic purpose is and what my strategy is.
I am a Projector Type. My basic purpose is to guide and direct others. My Strategy is to wait for recognition and invitation. I have Splenic Authority and a 3/5 Profile.
Next, I use the information I’ve collected to create a sentence or process that increasingly makes sense the more I use it.
• My 3/5 Profile defines how I approach my Projector Purpose which is to guide and direct others.
• I use my Projector Strategy to wait for recognition and invitation to decide which decisions, relationships, and projects are correct for me.
• I use my Splenic Authority to double check my decisions.
Now it’s your turn.
Are you able to articulate your Human Design in this way? If you can, do you fully understand what it means? Can you pull it all together and make it work?
If you find this challenging to do on your own, please book a free call and I will walk you through it.
Human Design is about you AND… it’s also bigger than you
When you understand that your role or purpose contributes to the continuation of humanity, you will want to understand how you fit in. You will want to do your part. You will view it as an amazing and exciting privilege and responsibility.
When you start practicing your Human Design skills, you will automatically be living a purposeful life that contributes to the evolution and survival of the human race.
You will not only make accurate decisions for yourself, but you will have influence in ways that you cannot imagine.
However, be resolved that living your Design with precision and confidence takes time and effort.
It will take a combination of:
Continuing Education
Experimentation
Awareness and Observation
Practice
Calculated Risk
Time
Patience and Gentleness
suggestions to get you started
As I did, you can DIY your Human Design and fall into unnecessary and painful experiences. But, that’s the hard way.
I suggest you do it the easy way.
Take courses from established sources. Make sure that what you are learning is user friendly. I learned from Karen Curry Parker and I wholeheartedly recommend her training programs.
If you prefer the personal touch, the least you should do is get yourself a Human Design Reading or begin a coaching relationship.
They will save you time and frustration.
They will get you specific answers about your situation rather than the general internet answers.
• Human Design Specialists are certified experts.
They are skilled at reading your chart and sharing what makes you an awesome gift to the world.
Your reading should be simple, straightforward, and user-friendly. Expect to get basic tips to help you move closer to your Design.
• Human Design Coaches and Mentors are uniquely qualified Human Design specialists.
They have lived their Design for a while and have used it in their lives. They have had time to observe the relationships among the five types.
Like me, they may have additional training in coaching, psychotherapy, nursing, and healing arts.
Coaches and mentors love to help you craft your Human Design knowledge into experiments that you can try in real life. They expertly point out your successes and help you tweak your new skills.
It is a collaborative relationship that facilitates faster use of your Design. The relationship helps you grow your confidence to go out into the world and practice what you have learned.
Time, practice, teachers, coaches, and mentors are your Human Design training wheels.
Conclusion
Now that you have learned how your type strategy, authority, and profile come together to achieve your life purpose, you too can write a process sentence like the personal one I shared.
With your basic process sentence, you can begin independently practicing and experimenting with your Design.
If you prefer, Human Design Specialists are available to do foundation Human Design readings for you.
Coaches and Mentors with lived experience and additional credentials can help craft your Design around your personal challenges and goals.
All three are Human Design experts. Their goal is to help you use your Design to improve your relationship with yourself and others in your home and at work.
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Brigitte Knight is a Human Design educator and mentor as well as a Human Design informed counselor. She loves teaching people to use their Designs to improve their relationships.
She helps former Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others manage religious trauma, anxiety, guilt, loneliness, and depression.
Her life’s experience as a Registered Nurse, therapist, ex-Jehovah’s Witness, and Human Design practitioner since 2006 can help you start living your best life.