Our mind is never a reliable inner authority in our lives, and yet most of us are conditioned to make decisions based on so-called ‘rational’ choices. Most (if not all) of the decision making models being used in business and government rely on purely mind-based decision making. We live in a soup of rationality so it's no wonder we assume a rational choice is a good choice.

In your BodyGraph you can easily see whether you are designed to make decisions from emotional clarity, from your gut feeling, from intuition. There are many combinations and permutations that make up your unique Inner Authority, and they are revealed simply in your BodyGraph.

If you are making decisions incorrectly, you are going around in circles. And you will never develop the full maturity, abundance and wisdom that is your birthright.

One of my clients, Susan, grew up with parents who were designed to make decisions from their gut feeling. They both had defined Spleen Centres and always knew in the moment what was right or wrong for them. When they were asked ‘tea or coffee’ they knew the answer immediately and could answer with no stress or indecision.

Susan’s parents were both designed to live life by making one decision after another – IN THE MOMENT.

Susan, however, had an undefined Spleen Centre and a defined Solar Plexus Centre. She was designed to make her decisions from a place of inner emotional clarity and this would only happen over time. Trying to make a decision in the moment was stressful for her. She simply didn’t know. For Susan there was no truth in the moment. She was designed to wait and gradually the truth would crystalise.

Of course, Susan’s parents expected her to be just like them – able to give immediate answers to all their questions They were impatient with her confusion because they didn’t understand it. Susan learnt to cover up her confusion and indecision by making decisions without knowing if they were right for her or not.

In other words, Susan adapted by completely losing touch with her own life path.

One thing has become very clear to me as I've worked with people to discover their designs. We all assume everyone else is just like us. Manifestors can't understand why others don't just get on with things. Generators can't understand why Projectors don't get off the couch and go for a run. Mentally defined parents get frustrated with their children who can't voice their thoughts with ease. I love watching the look in people's eyes when they get it - that everyone is different. And as we look at the charts of their family members they just get it.

I’ve also had a lot of clients who had defined Spleen Centres but were taught by their parents not to trust their natural intuitive responses to life. This is heartbreaking! Over the period of their childhood these people had gradually come to rely on making (usually bad) decisions from their head. What other choice did they have after being cut off from their natural awareness? By the time they are adults some of these people don't even remember they have intuition happening somewhere in there.

Human Design reveals our personal awareness systems.

Because this information hasn't been available until now, most of us have lived like this, making decision after decision without having any real idea of whether those choices are truly right for us or not. We've had no choice but to rely on the trial of error of generic systems and philosophies that have sometimes left us feeling as if we are failures, when in fact it was the system or philosophy that failed.

We create our lives through our daily choices. What life are we creating if we are not connecting with our true inner authority?

When Susan found out her Inner Authority came from having emotional clarity, she was able to start making some changes to how she lived her life. She began telling people she needed time before she said yes or no to something. She started telling people she’d think about it and ring back. She stopped feeling guilty when she couldn’t give a clear answer immediately. She made space in her life for emotional clarity to come in and inform her.

Susan started living in alignment with her Human Design – she began to live the life she was designed for.

Simple shifts in perception can profoundly change our lives. Human Design is simple. It WILL shift your perception of who you are. And it has the potential to profoundly change your life.

© Kim Gould - June 2004

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