In Human Design, you can think of Strategy as your essential blueprint for action. It’s the primary guide to follow, and the only thing you really need to do throughout your journey. While many elements within Human Design contribute to aligning with your true nature, it is Strategy that leads you back home to yourself. Each Human Design Type has its own Strategy, guiding us in making decisions and interacting with the world around us – and if followed correctly, will help to unlock the door to our true selves; releasing expectations and conditioning around who we should be. Every one of us has such a unique gift to offer in this world – and forces outside of us will never know the extent of what those gifts are. That my friend, is something that can only be uncovered from within.
Generator & Manifesting Generator Strategy: To Respond
While Generators and Manifesting Generators have their own unique qualities, they do share the same Strategy. The Generator and Manifesting Generator energy field is always available – meaning that they are here to respond to offers, opportunities, and interactions that come their way. With so much openness to the world around you, it’s incredibly important for you to live in response – carefully discerning what you say yes or no to. The concept of responding might be difficult for you to wrap your head around, since your type has so much energy to get things done – but let’s reframe this from ‘waiting around’ to noticing all of the things you’re in response to: whether that’s a favor being asked, a job offer, or even the feeling you get when you walk into a room. Response could even be a long sigh after your first sip of coffee in the morning or a deep belly laugh at a joke. This can get super granular, and it really is a beautiful thing – you are here to trust that all of those moments and opportunities will come to you.
What does this look like in real life?
Picture yourself going about your day, remaining open to the unknown, and a new opportunity presents itself to you. It’s an opportunity that you would have never imagined, and you realize that even if you tried to initiate and make it happen, it wouldn’t have fallen into place as perfectly as it does now. You realize this is because you surrendered, waited, and trusted that when the timing is right, you’re best equipped to respond. As mentioned, this doesn’t mean you need to wait around and do nothing, but when you find yourself feeling frustrated with how something is going, take that as an invitation to surrender and see what’s already presenting itself to you.
Yes! I followed my strategy
As you remain open to all that life has to offer, you will strengthen your trust that what you need will be offered to you – it is just up to you to follow your Authority (more on that below) on whether that’s a yes or no. As you release the expectations you place on yourself to manifest your ideas, and the movies in your mind of what life should look like fade away, you will find satisfaction in ways you never expected. For Generators and Manifesting Generators, satisfaction is their Signature – when you think about feeling truly satisfied, you are left needing or yearning for nothing more. And feeling this sense of satisfaction is an indicator that you are on the right path.
Strategy? Yeah, not following.
When any Human Design Type is not following their Strategy, they begin to notice a ‘Not-Self’ theme showing up in their lives. Feeling the emotion that’s tied to your Type’s ‘Not-Self’ is an incredibly helpful gauge of whether or not you are following or ignoring your Strategy. When Generators and Manifesting Generators try to initiate everything on their own, Frustration is their guidepost. This ongoing Not-Self theme is met with feeling unfulfilled and a strong attachment to outcomes they believe are best for them. These beliefs often stem from the open centers in their Human Design chart and the conditioning they’ve been exposed to throughout life.
Now what?
I believe one of the most important prerequisites to experimentation is awareness. Reflect on any areas you’re feeling resistance or frustration and ask yourself if you followed your Strategy before arriving at that point. Test out your shiny new Strategy and see if this helps to create more opportunities for satisfying moments in your life. And of course, gaining awareness and making adjustments to how you operate takes time. Be patient with yourself as you learn to integrate this enhanced way of living!
Hopefully, by this point, you have a good primer on the art of waiting to respond, and how it might help you to live more authentically and make decisions that are in line with your true nature. Naturally, the next step here is to dive into the how behind it all – how will you know what feels right to respond to? Head on over to my post on Letting Your Authority Guide You to continue with your experiment!
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