What is Human Design?

Human Design is an experiment you can easily incorporate into your everyday life. It unveils the unique mechanics of your inherent nature. Becoming aware of these mechanics can help you move more fluidly through life. It also reveals the ways that you may have tried to be somebody or something else (that was not of your true nature) in order to perhaps, "just get by", avoid trouble with others, or as a way of gaining attention and praise.

In our formative years, we are all innocent and being molded by our surroundings and hence, easily influenced by others. We pick up behaviors, beliefs, energies and thought patterns that are from others; oftentimes, they are from the ones who we were closest to at the time. This process is called conditioning and it continues on into adulthood. You can be conditioned by anyone and it doesn't have to be a negative thing. You know feeling you get after you have a really positive interaction with someone else? Perhaps you leave feeling uplifted, boosted in energy or even inspired. These may all be direct effects of conditioning you may have received from one another.

However, what we more often experience in the world is the effects of our negative conditioning we picked up from others along the way. Human Design gives us a sometimes harrowingly accurate view of the energetics at play in these social interactions we have with others. It shows us just how connected we all truly are in the sense that we can't help but affecting others in one way or the other. If we look at each one of ourselves as a differentiated fragment of this greater consciousness system (some may call it God), Human Design uncovers the unique blueprint that each of us was born with. We each have our own gifts and nuances— each of us being a one-of-a-kind expression of the greater whole.

Humanity has always suffered. What that suffering has looked like has changed over the hundreds and thousands of years of our existence. For most of us, we no longer worry about being warm enough at night. We don't need to go out in the wild and hunt down our food. Today, across the globe, the suffering we face the most is a deep psychological one that actually stems from our very advancement.

The more advanced and sophisticated we become, the more advanced and sophisticated our suffering becomes. Depression sinks its teeth into the minds and hearts of people all over the world. There are those who seem to have it all— a golden income flow, friends, beautiful house, a family— but they are nonetheless miserable inside. There are those who struggle to leave their beds in the morning, already drained just thinking about the one-ton rock they have to push uphill in a job they hate. There's a lot of anger and resentment out there too, with more and more strangers butting heads, and don't get me started on the social polarization...

When a psychological suffering becomes so epidemic, eventually there will come a breaking point. Although humanity is a system, like any other, that needs to work together in order to survive, we have never been more out of harmony. The problem stems from isolation. Although we have virtual communication at our fingertips anywhere we go, it in no way replaces the significance of communion through face-to-face interaction.

We each have an energetic aura field. When we're in the house all day and don't leave it, save for going to the store, say, it doesn't matter how many business meetings or phone calls we have made that day: we need to share physical space with other human beings. If we don't get enough experiences being in others' auric fields, our health declines.

There are a lot of single folks out there who live alone. And there are a lot of families who live together but do not commune with one another— rather, each buried in their own technological affairs. Then you can go out to a bar and see people sitting around indulging on their phones, which interferes with the natural occurrence of meeting new people and striking up conversation. This one's funny because I can remember a time when we used to go to bars to keep our heads up enough to at least make eye contact with others should they be a potential catch for the night or a new acquaintance.

But who needs that when you can meet someone on a dating app, right? It's not like it helps to feel someone's aura out first...

I have a theory as to why so many of us are digressing the present moment with others to instead hook up with our electronics: conditioning. We are hitting the breaking point of disharmony not just with each other— but first and foremost, within ourselves. We have picked up so much conditioning from the outer world, from our relationships, our Moms, our Dads, that we have lost sight of ourselves. Why are people truly fed up? It's not really that they're fed up with the outer world. They are the most fed up with themselves. Human evolution is now demanding this process of self-reckoning. In Human Design, the process of deconditioning is a major process of self-reckoning. And if you don't like that word, let's just call it self-reflection; self-awareness.

Think of conditioning as layer upon layer around a beautiful gem. Not to sound cheesy, but yeah, that gem is you and if you can't see the unique ways you were born here to refract light back out to the world, then you're lost.

And so you've got all of these layers to work through and how the hell do you figure out what is you and what isn't you? A lot of people meditate to figure it out. Or they do inner child healing. The modalities are endless and I'm not knocking any of them. I have, however, found Human Design to be the most streamlined approach to figuring out at least what I am not. No longer do I have to force myself to try and uphold these identities that were fake, or invest my time and energy in things that were not in line with my true nature.

The more I have learned about this unique design I was born with, the more unlimited I have become. I have let go of so many false perceptions of myself, so many old belief patterns that did not serve me. I am questioning every belief I still seem to have on a daily basis, in fact. It has not been easy. And let me tell you, this path is not easy. No lasting transformation comes without pain, without struggle. That is just what it means to be human.

So what do you say? Are you ready to jump off the plane? Don't worry. You'll have your parachute— that's your design. All you need is your date of birth, birth time and birth place. I would be happy to help you understand the complexity of your bodygraph (your design). In the meantime, you can get a quick lowdown of it at mybodygraph.com.