What is Human Design? 3 Things I Love Most About Human Design
- Kelly Harrington, MS, RD
- May 18, 2022
- 5 min read
Updated: Nov 14
Human Design reveals how you're uniquely wired to thrive in every part of your life. I call it your energetic DNA. It’s a blend of ancient wisdom and modern science, and I have yet to meet someone who didn’t resonate with their human design. The personal accuracy is validating, liberating, and some say astonishing!
The Mystic and the Science of Human Design
Human Design is a synthesis of Western astrology, the Chinese I’Ching, the Hindu Chakra system, the Kabbalah Tree of Life, and the sciences of Quantum physics, Astronomy, Genetics, and Biochemistry.
Your human design chart is calculated using your birthdate, birth time, and birth city and state. Your exact birth time matters. Even a small time difference can change key parts of your chart.
As a practical tool, Human Design does not ask you to believe anything. It merely offers you the opportunity to explore and experiment with the mechanics of your human nature in real life. Find out for yourself what works for you. Your body gives you the proof.
Benefits of Learning and Living Your Human Design
The human design system is a lot of information, but it's also very practical. Your chart can reveal things like:
how you're meant to make day-to-day decision
how you can structure your day to have the maximum impact
how to feel the least amount of resistance and optimize your energy levels
what your natural superpowers are
how your instincts and intuition speak to you
your life purpose themes
how you process emotions
how your body handles mental and physical stress and pressure
where your energy is naturally consistent vs where you absorb from others
Human Design can also show potential fears, anxieties, and areas in your life you may be operating from a low expression opposed to a high expression. It helps with deconditioning and releasing "stuff" you have picked up throughout life that isn't actually your authentic code.
There are so many things your chart can tell you, but it always comes back to one thing – the same thing – follow your Strategy and Authority.
What Human Design is Not
Human Design is not your destiny, your identity, or your only truth. There's no such thing as "this is exactly what's going to happen." You are a sovereign being and the expression of yourself can show up along a broad spectrum from the shadow to the highest expression, and anywhere in the middle.
You get to bring your energetic design to life, and you have to learn to feel into what’s true for you. If it resonates, experiment with it. If it doesn’t, set it off to the side.
3 Things I Love About Human Design
#1: Decision Making from the Body vs the Mind (Inner Authority)
This is a game-changer! I think the most helpful thing about Human Design is learning how you’re designed to make aligned day-to-day decisions. It's called your Inner Authority and it always comes from a place in the body, and never the mind. When you honor this inner guidance system to make decisions, daily life flows with more ease and magnetism, allowing you to create a life that aligns with who you truly are.
There are seven different Authorities, and each one works differently:
some feel it in their gut
some have an emotional wave
some need to talk it out to hear their truth
some feel an intuitive hit
some feel it in their inner heart space
You can find out your Authority by looking up your human design chart here.
When I do a human design reading and talk about Authority, I think it's so important to describe what it FEELS LIKE energetically in your body. Some people feel it right away and others need to go through a process of shedding what prevents them from feeling their Authority. That conditioning can be challenging.
With a lot of practice, tuning in, and trust, the body's response is an extremely reliable guide. In fact, if you go against the body's desires for too long, it will show you you're off in many ways, such as physical pain, inflammation, depression, anxiety, fatigue, etc.
So if the body is your decision-making authority, what about your mind - the logical side that likes the pros and cons list? The mind is amazing for analyzing, forming opinions, thinking, speculating, questioning, contemplating, etc. – there’s no denying that! It’s just not where we make decisions. Rarely is this something we’re taught growing up, but allowing the mind to take over can create anxiety, stress, confusion, disconnect, paralysis, and worry. For as long as we’re listening to the mind, we’ll never feel we can completely trust ourselves to make the right decisions.
#2: Deconditioning with Human Design
One of the biggest gifts of Human Design is that it shows you what’s actually YOU and what’s just conditioning from parents, society, teachers, partners, or the world. It helps you recognize where you may be conditioned in your thoughts or behaviors.
The process of deconditioning is:
letting go of what isn't yours
releasing survival patters and who you are not
clearing old coping strategies
coming home to who you are
This starts with awareness. The more awareness you have of your true, authentic self, the more you will realize “oh, this thing I’m feeling or holding onto or doing is not my true self.” Just that awareness in your consciousness alone can create fast deconditioning.
Getting to know your human design chart and integrating the information into your life and observing how it plays out in your life is where to start. The more you know about yourself, the more easily the deconditioning and healing can happen.
Human Design can help you differentiate between the energy you create versus the energy you absorb from the world around you. This is great knowledge because often where we run into problems is when we begin to confuse what we experience from the outside world through our openness (which isn’t us) with our true self (the consistent parts).
Your chart can address places of healing that would take years of therapy!
#3: Awareness & Permission to Be Yourself
This is what hooked me from day one, for myself and my two boys.
Human Design put words to so many things I have always felt but didn't know how to articulate. Giving something words and bringing it into consciousness is extremely empowering.
Human Design isn’t about changing yourself. Rather, it’s like a new perspective so you can see the beauty and magnificence of who you truly are! It gives you the tools to understand your gifts, your wisdom, your drive, and your vulnerabilities, which feels SO GOOD! It will feel like you are set free from old, self-defeating patterns of thinking and doing.
With this fresh perspective of yourself, you can make choices about your life that are in alignment with your true nature, which brings more ease and moves you into your highest potential.
Look up Your Human Design Chart
Look up your human design chart here. When you see your chart, it will be confusing, and you will want answers. There are a ton of resources online, and if you’re interested in a reading to pull all your information together, let me know. I've given hundreds of readings and have been officially trained as an analyst. Nothing makes me happier than giving human design readings. I love it!
Human Design Appointments
Moving from where you are now to where you want to be requires dedication to learning and experimenting with your human design. I've learned so much through the process of researching, observing myself and others, experimenting, and repeating that cycle over and over.
I believe real growth takes more than one appointment, which is why I offer an initial appointment (90 minutes) with a follow-up appointment (60 minutes).
If you think a one time appointment is more ideal for you, I also offer that option.
With love,
Kelly xo
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