What is Human Design?

If you’ve never heard of Human Design before, you’re not alone. Most people I mention this to have never heard of it OR hilariously think it’s about designing Humans :-)

So I’ve decided to dive in today and share a bit about why I absolutely LOVE it….and also explain a little WHY and WHAT IT IS.

The best way I can describe HD for someone who has never heard of it, is that it is a bit like Astrology - each one of us has a unique map which is created from our birth time, birth place and birth date.

This map is called a Bodygraph in Human Design and like a fingerprint, everyone’s is completely different! Human Design is about the science of differentiation - which is a fancy way to say we are allllll completely different, with different ways of operating!

Your HD bodygraph is simply an illustration or blueprint - a bit like you have with a house! The blueprint ISN’T the house itself, but rather a technical image that shows the structure and design and specifications of the house. In the same way, the HD bodygraph shows the energy flow of you and offers an insight into the best strategy and way of operating so you are living - as designed!

When we look at our bodygraph, the first thing we identify is our energy type - there are 5 different types in Human Design and each energy type has something unique to bring to the table. Each type has a different aura and way of receiving energy, which means how you show up in the world is different depending on which type you are.

There is no good or bad energy type - each one brings a unique and valuable set of insights, skills and energy into the world. In fact, Human Design is a massive permission slip to BE YOU.

When you live in alignment with your energy type, you are able to just be in the flow of life and there can be a lot more ease. I will add here that this takes a bit of awareness and often, unravelling all the old stories and ideas that we’ve taken on over the years, that distract us from being who we really came here to be.

Most of us are looking for a sense of purpose in life, and the Human Design system is a beautiful and logical way to explore this and dive more deeply into connecting to what brings us satisfaction, peace and joy.

What I love about it, is Human Design doesn’t ask ‘How can I be better or how can I fix myself?’ but how can you simply BE WHO YOU ARE, and let the rest fall off your shoulders. It’s about allowing yourself to go with your natural flow and ditching all the cr*p that you’ve picked up over the years.

I’ve found it incredibly useful to incorporate into my life, it’s an experiment and something that I have found helps me to make decisions and come into more alignment, which brings more ease in my flow. Over the years, it was so easy for me to get stuck in my head about something and overthinking was chronic - once I learned to trust what was naturally coming through for me and listen to my gut vs my head, everything has been a lot easier and dare I say, a lot more magical!

I now go with the flow of the universe now instead of always pitching an uphill battle against myself - mainly because of old stories that kept me stuck.

Is Human Design woo-woo? Yes, I’d place it in the woo-woo context of things, in what is currently deemed acceptable in the ‘conventional sphere.’ It does fall into the spiritual realm, but only because that’s how we currently perceive things like that.

I like to think that we only ever know what we know, right now - once the electricity powering my computer was simply a weird idea a long, long time ago. Now it’s something we take for granted and don’t even think about. Our ‘knowing’ of this universe and all the elements in it are limited at any given time - until someone asks another question and another breakthrough occurs.

So how do I use Human Design in business?

To be honest, I don’t. And by that I mean I don’t ‘use’ human design - I have just learned about my own way of operating and I go with that. It’s not really a quick-fix, slap it on, good to go, make you $$$$ type of thing. I mean, it could be but it generally isn’t!

It’s a bit like you don’t ‘use’ your car manual to drive - but you have learned how to drive it. And being able to drive your car takes you places, opens up opportunities and allows you to bring abundance into your life.

The insights and awareness Human Design provides to me allow me to ‘drive myself’ in a way that causes less accidents (haha!) and allows me to get from A to B with a lot more ease.

Human Design is a system that allows you to connect with your own energy and way of being, and it’s by tapping into this - YOUR UNIQUE ESSENCE - that brings the magic in! It’s essentially a system that is explaining what was previously inexplicable!

In a world where we’re consistently told that being who we are isn’t enough, this is HUGE for throwing all that off and stepping into your own amazing and beautiful creativity and power.

When I first learned about Human Design, the bodygraph looked incredibly sterile to me and my imaginative, creative soul didn’t want a ‘system’ - that was my first perception.

But I was curious and I realised over time the incredible value of becoming aware of how my energy flows. This made a MASSIVE difference to my life and work.

Human Design is now one of my favourite things, and I can see in both my own bodygraph, and that of my family and friends, the correlations between their design and what is showing up in how they live / love / work.

There’s so much to dive into but I don’t want to overwhelm you, so I will go into a bit about energy types in another post!

Megan x