Questions: Did I initiate without waiting for something or someone to cross my path? Did I start something motivated by my mind? Did I listen to my gut response? Did I wait to feel my energy move toward something and engage? Did I override my body’s own internal resistance? It can carry a sense of futility or trying to drive through a roadblock. The Not-self theme is Frustration, which can feel like gears grinding, like fighting for energy to be used in a way that we are either internally resisting or that is met with resistance from the outside world.
It refers to work in general and specifically to work as energy expended in any way. If you are a Generator, this experience probably carries a particular quality for you. This is the sense of energy well spent, of satisfying work. Generators:The signature theme is Satisfaction. When we study Signature and Not-self themes, they can be signposts that increase our awareness about the difference between our nature and our conditioning. It is important to remember that conditioning is not necessarily a problem, but lack of awareness about conditioning almost always is. The conditioning we experience daily can activate and strengthen the Not-self. It is a conglomeration of habituated thought and behavior patterns that become familiar and often painful in a way that we have become accustomed to. The Not-self refers to the compulsive persona that emerges from the interwoven characteristics of the conditioned mind.
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The Strategy for each type was developed to support the free flow of life force energy through the body and energy field of the individual. The Signature theme is experienced when the aura is able to function without resistance. The keynotes for these are simple enough, but they become significant when we recognize them as experiential qualities and signposts of living according to our nature. If there is no inner authority (Reflectors and Mental Projectors), then there is a process through which you can experiment with developing awareness of what is correct.Īnother very simple tool for self-study is to examine our own experience of the Signatures and Not-self themes that go with each Type. These are the inner authority mechanisms that root us in the body’s natural awareness or response. When we talk about navigating decision making, Strategy and Authority are the tools. And in turn, it can reveal itself to us if we are open to exploring it. Some have called it a revealed knowledge rather than a created system. We don’t need to understand it all before we try it. The best Human Design teachers advise us not to believe in it, just try it. We can each discover what these words mean to us personally in a way that verifies whether or not they hold true. Response is an experience arising from the body. They are not static, perfect laws to live by. The strategies and concepts offered by this system point to an awareness of frequency, resonance and the life force energy that animates us. Waiting helps us to interrupt the compulsive behaviors and attitudes we have adopted to cope with a world that seeks to homogenize us. It can be an active development of an inner witness that watches what is happening and the body’s inner response to it, the inner authority. Waiting in this context is not about becoming passive or overly restrictive in how we go about life. And while we can surrender to the unknown, we can also respect the pace and timing in which it reveals itself to us. It may upend our notions of propriety and safety.
This is a non-moralistic potential to awaken to receiving a life so unique we could not have dreamt it up, a life so surprising that we can be amazed at the way it unfolds.
The potential is to realize the perfection of what we naturally are, not so that we can get something better or even what we imagine would be good. However, it was offered as knowledge to be interpreted through our lived experience, along with a healthy dose of common sense. The mind will tend to take knowledge like Human Design and turn it into a literal set of rules to impose on ourselves in order to control or improve our lives.