Introduction - The Life Transforming Experiment of Living as Yourself and Claiming your Uniqueness

(excerpt from The Definitive Book of Human Design)

The Human Design System is the Science of Differentiation. It shows each of us that we have a unique design and a specific purpose to fulfill while on Earth. Endless possibilities for individual uniqueness lie within our genetic matrix. There are millions of variations of human beings, yet each of us has a specific and unique Human Design configuration with a clear Strategy that effortlessly aligns us to our uniqueness. Human Design does not ask you to believe anything. It invites you to participate in a potentially life-transforming living experiment, and provides you with the practical tools and information needed to live life as yourself. Without this individualized – and individualizing – living experiment, Human Design is just a complex system of fascinating information to entertain the mind.

In looking at thousands of charts, one thing stands out – no two are exactly alike. Even if someone had a chart very much like yours they would not be you. But how do we determine our unique design?

A Human Design Chart or BodyGraph is a precise map and user guide that gives you access to how we are genetically designed to engage with the world, and how our unique inner guidance system operates. Never before have we been able to see all of the parts of ourselves so clearly. The conscious and unconscious parts of ourselves, the aspects of us that no one can take away from us, as well as the aspects that we have been taught or conditioned to believe are us, but are not.

As Ra Uru Hu, the Founder of Human Design, has often said, “What you can rely on you’ve never relied on in your life. What you can’t trust you’ve been trying to trust all your life. What you’ve been trusting has never been you. What you’ve been ignoring has always been you. Try to trust what’s really you and see what happens.” Each of us is meant to be different from everyone else. Now we can see and get in touch with those differences. We are here to live our lives and express our truths in our own unique ways. Understanding this can lift a great weight from our shoulders. How often have we compared ourselves to someone else? How often as children were we compared to someone else by a parent, teacher or peer? Comparing ourselves to others creates an impression deep inside of us that it is not okay to be who we are. When we add that to the conditioning of our early years, we find ourselves trying to change or adapt how we act to suit others, which further distances us from the person we were born to be. When we begin to understand and accept our own uniqueness, something inside of us opens up and relaxes. The layers and layers of conditioning slowly fall away, and the person we were meant to be, our inner essence, begins to emerge.

The First Step is Obtaining Your Human Design Chart

What Your Chart Reveals:

• Your chart shows your specific genetic design: affirming who you really are, how to be yourself, and how to navigate successfully through a constantly changing world.
• It provides you with the tools you need to live an aware and awake life – a simple Strategy you can trust that reliably connects you to your personal Authority in order to make moment-to-moment decisions that are correct for you so that your unique life purpose can unfold naturally.
• Your Strategy will help you eliminate resistance (frustration, anger, disappointment, bitterness) and fear in order to live in a relaxed, unique, creative and evolutionary/revolutionary way.
• Your chart maps out your relationship dynamics to help you understand how the attractions, resonances and conflicts between you and others play out.
• It gives you guidance on how to align yourself with people who enhance your vitality, support your life purpose, and share your true path.
• Understanding the charts of others illustrates the truly unique and individual natures of those close to you, like family and friends, and how best to respect and interact with them.
• Most importantly, a chart shows us how to create the best environment for children so that they are empowered to be their unique selves, and to learn and develop as individuated human beings.