How to make better decisions using Human Design

Do you feel angry, frustrated, bitter, disappointed after some of your decisions? According to Human Design, these emotions indicate that you have made decisions that were not right for you, or that you did not follow your natural functioning.

I often see injunctions on the internet to follow your intuition or listen to your body. However, this may not be a method that works for you. And that's okay!

In this article, I'll show you how to make aligned decisions with your unique design. We're going to talk about inner compass, natural functioning and cluttered mind.

Let's get started!

Decisions and Human Design

To live an aligned and serene life, in harmony with your desires, you need to follow your inner compass as much as possible: the one that knows what's right for you.

Your inner compass is called Authority in classical Human Design.

It tells you:

• with what you make your decisions in an aligned way: you can make your decisions with your body, with your intuition, with your heart, or all of these at once.
• In what time frame do you make your decisions: some people make their decisions in the moment, while others need to think about it for a long time before committing themselves.

The first point to remember is that no decision made with your mind is aligned! Indeed, the mind is not a decision-making centre in Human Design. It is rather seen as the executor, the one who plans and helps us to get moving... once we have made the decision to go ahead! He is our assistant but not our CEO.

The second thing to remember is that Authority -your inner compass- works in symbiosis with your Strategy -your optimal functioning.

Basically, you can have a very fast compass but a natural functioning that requires you to wait for signs from life or an invitation for example. So you will make your decisions according to a process that is unique to your design.

Now that we have clarified these points, let's look at the characteristics of your inner compass!

The 7 Authorities in Human Design

Each Authority - or compass - has a particular way of expressing itself and guiding you in your life.

• Emotional: you are subject to strong emotional waves. To make your decision, you need to work through them and wait for clarity before making your move.
• Sacred: Your gut tells you what to do! It's the energy you feel in your body, like a wave or a light that tells you if it's YES or NO.
• Plenic: you have to trust your little voice. An ancient and almost animal intuition that helps you to stay safe at all times. You feel in your gut whether it is right or wrong.
• Self-Projected: You need to express yourself verbally, to talk about your decisions to hear the advice you need... from your own mouth!
• Manifested or Heart-Projected: Your decisions are strongly linked to your deepest desires. You know that if you want to, you will find the resources to accomplish all your projects.
• Environmental: You need patience and research to measure what is useful or not in your experiences and reflections. After a while, you will have enough information to make an aligned decision.
• Lunar: You have to wait for a lunar cycle to make all your "big" decisions. You will go through all the states and see all the facets and consequences of your decision. After a while, you will reach the clarity you need to act.

So, does this speak to you? It's intriguing, isn't it? To give you an idea, more than 50% of the population is in the No-Self, that is to say in a rather negative emotional state, which indicates that you have not made a correct decision for yourself. This means that we still have a long way to go to make decisions that are right for us!

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