Ready to Embody your power?
I hear a lot of talk lately about “stepping into your power,” but are you ready to embody your power?
I was having a conversation with a 1/4 (Investigator Opportunist) Emotional Manifesting Generator with three defined motors (Sacral, Emotional and Root), 6 channels and the only pure manifesting generator channel (34/20); the theme of which was wanting to express her power out into the world.
This was fascinating to me. With such a powerful design, there is no choice but to express this outwards. When I asked what “powerful” meant to her, she said being able to authentically express all of her energy without having to hold back. So what’s the problem?
The mind can come into all of these places in the Human Design BodyGraph that are open and think that something is missing or there is some lack it needs to compensate for. This is perfectly understandable given the conditioning of all of our homogenized systems and upbringings.
The mind comes up with clever ways to cope with the discomfort of amplifying all of this openness while thinking it needs to act upon it. And so, most of us feel the need to prove ourselves; avoid confrontation and truth; search for identity, love and direction; hold on to what isn’t good for us; try to convince everyone we are certain; answer everybody else’s questions, be in a hurry; not know when enough is enough or speak just to receive attention or validation along with each of the themes that can come through gates and channels that are open.
There is nothing wrong here, it’s perfectly normal. With Human Design, we have super practical signposts of frustration, bitterness, anger and disappointment that can help us notice when the mind is stuck in trying to make decisions and which story it’s stuck in.
Do you notice how often times that the way we want to be is how we already are? This woman who is incredibly powerful by nature was taught that that very energy she possesses is something she needs to quiet down because it’s “too much.”
And so, the mind starts learning how to suppress the energy only to have it come out in ways that are similar to a gasket blowing. It is not possible to suppress someones’ nature and when we try, what needs to be expressed ends up coming out just like that, a gasket blown, which is not healthy for the person expressing it or the one(s) receiving it.
And then the mind says, there is something wrong with me because the way I express myself is making people upset so I need to make myself smaller or whatever the story happens to be. Is this supportive?
Please hear me, you do not need to stop being you, you get to REMEMBER how to be you! Instead of the mind saying, “I just wish I could express my power” and then trying to figure out a way to do that; What happens in the Human Design Experiment is we remember how to allow our Inner Authority to make the decisions.
Then, the mind has the opportunity to WATCH as this inherent life-force is expressed out into the world while it forms its unique perspective by being AWARE of the way the BODY is broadcasting and taking in or not.
The inherent life force within you is not something the mind controls or directs; the mind is simply the passenger. This inherent life force that is your definition, everything that is colored in in your Human Design BodyGraph, is expressed simply by following your Strategy and Authority and allowing the life to unfold.
“Step into your power,” this super sexy buzz phrase, is not something we do through the mind. We step into ourselves and express our inherent life force simply by allowing our bodies to tell us what is correct for us or not while the mind watches with fascination as the movie unfolds. We embody our power, we observe it, we allow it.
