Your Human Design Chart isn’t easily deciphered. If you took the next step and had a Human Design Reading or attended a workshop on understanding your Human Design, great. But there is much more information you can use to make a big difference in your life.
A reading or workshop on understanding your chart, although often comprehensive, just scratches the surface. Don’t just have the reading and revel in the information for a few days or a week. Use the information to take your newfound awareness and the validation you received to the next level.
It is what you do with that information to deepen your understanding and how you use it as the basis for changes you wish to make that makes the difference. There are many areas where an understanding of your Human Design can help you enhance your life.
- Clarifying your life purpose and life direction
- Identifying your special talents and skills to enhance your business life and career
- Increasing your self-worth
- Developing the confidence to listen to your inner wisdom and make better decisions
- Improving your relationships
- Learning to manage your energy and understand what drives you and motivates you to realize your dreams
- Unleashing your creativity
- Understanding your fears or blocks that stop you from realizing your desires
- Preparing for the natural life cycles in your chart and the life’s challenges they bring
- Identifying the life lessons, you are here to learn and navigating them with grace
So, if you have had a reading or even if you haven’t, there is a process you can model to use your Human Design to enhance your experience of life.
It starts with a new awareness, a realization around some area of your life that you are dissatisfied with or have desires unfulfilled. It could be your relationships, career, purpose, direction, even fears or blocks that keep you from achieving your desires or living out the full expression of who you are.
Once you have an awareness, the next step is to deepen your understanding of how you are expressing this part of your energy. Are you expressing your highest potential or are you living out a low expression of your potential? You may not be living in the highest expression of your energy for many reasons. Perhaps you experienced some trauma or have an emotional wound in this area. There may be family or ancestral traditions that get in the way. And certainly, we experience societal pressure to conform to fit in and be accepted. We are all subjected to this ‘conditioning’, and it can move us far afield from the highest potential of who we truly are.
This is nobody’s fault. All the conditioning you receive from your parents and in school is well-meaning. Some societal conditioning is well-meaning too. There are reasons to conform. We need laws to keep order. We need rules of the road to prevent accidents. Even something as simple as learning to turn off the lights when you leave a room is conditioning. Conditioning is not bad unless it forces us to hide who we really are or feel devalued because our special gifts and talents are not the ones most valued at work or in society.
So how do you know what is right for you? You check in with your inner wisdom and your decision-making authority. Simply, you ask yourself. You know what feels right for you. You may have been taught to ignore it, but you know it.
So, it’s about getting back in touch with yourself and identifying the changes you would like to make. What have you settled for? What do you desire instead? Getting clarity here is key but sometimes it is hard to separate what you think you should want from what you actually want. It takes courage to step out of the status quo.
The conditioning we receive all throughout our life and our need to feel accepted is so strong that we do not always have access to what we really want. Our fears keep us from allowing it to bubble up to the surface. It takes deep inner work to get at what you want to change and often people seek the help of an experienced coach to guide them.
Once you have identified the change you want to make, you can begin planning how you will make it. Your plan should be detailed and be grounded in why you want to make this change. Knowing why you want to make this change, why it is important to you, will help you stay motivated when the road gets rough. And it will. Change is always challenging, even desired change.
You can set yourself up to succeed by outlining detailed steps, remembering that changing habits takes a minimum of 90 days and you plan should give you the time and enough reinforcement steps to keep you going until you can incorporate the new way of doing things into your life.
Next it is time to act. Implement each of the steps in your plan. It is helpful to have a task list so you can check steps off as you complete them. This process can be very affirming, can keep you motivated, and keep you on track.
Finally, as you make changes, assess how you feel along the way. Does the outcome measure up to the feelings you thought you would have? Are your desires being met? Whether they are or are not, you now have a new awareness with which you can continue the process of enhancing your life by using this model again and again.
