Human Design and Health

20 July 2023

Human Design and Health

This is where it all begins

A person is holding a notebook with a drawing of a woman on it.

If you're new to Human Design, this is the place to start. The spark is where a new flame will ignite.

What is Human Design?

The Human Design System is like a blueprint for the energy in your body. Just like how we look to learn about the Nervous System, or the Digestive System, understanding this information allows us to know how our bodies operate and what we may need in order to be healthy and well.

Our human design can reveal how we can best use our energy in our lives. This refers to how we make decisions, how we relate to others, how much rest we need, and how we respond to a lot of stimulation in our environments. This impacts us when we're at work, in our romantic relationships, at home with our families, our friendships, and how we feel about ourselves.

Our focus here at Self-Trust is always on how you can best listen to your body and understand that symptoms are specific messages from our bodies in order to communicate with us. By only suppressing symptoms we may miss out on the core of what is really going on.

Imagine there is someone standing on the tail of a dog. The dog starts barking loudly - a message that something is wrong. If we focus solely on the message and use our resources to quieten down the bark, or shut the mouth of the dog in order to be quiet, we miss what is actually happening. Why is the dog barking? What is going on that could cause this to happen? How can we be curious?

How does this help me?

When we suppress and repress certain energy in our bodies it can create dis-ease and illness. Ever had a really sore throat, lost your voice and felt like you had a huge lump in your throat? It could be connected to your throat energy centre and repressing your voice. If you are someone who is designed to have a powerful voice and had an urge to speak and say something but you metaphorically bit your tongue and didn't say anything - this can have a big impact on your health.

If you sometimes feel like you have an on-going issue that keeps coming up - why would that be? Do you always have chronic sinus issues? Do you tend to get a lot of tummy discomfort? Do you have kidney issues?

Our bodies are incredibly complex and not one single system will explain everything for us as every system in our bodies are all connected to each other. If one system goes down, so to speak, it can take down other systems with it too. And just like the analogy of the dog barking - sometimes the system that is shouting the loudest, isn't where the core issue is coming from.

Trauma expert Dr Gabor Maté even takes it a step further. “To say that the mind is connected to the body is incorrect,” he says. “To say that the nervous system is connected to the immune system, and the immune system is connected to the emotional apparatus, all of which is connected to the hormone system, is incorrect. They are not connected; they are the same system.”

We can truly heal ourselves when we are no longer disconnected to our bodies, but fully able to listen and connect with all the energy, emotions, and memories that our bodies are storing. We see ourselves as whole and complete, with opportunities to listen to how our bodies are responding to external stimuli - which means our relationships, our environments, the food we're eating, the emotions we're feeling, the stressors in our life, the amount of movement, exposure to sunlight, good quality sleep, etc.

Understanding your human design can help you with understanding why you do things the way you do, and what you need to help nourish and support yourself in deeply connecting with your body.

What is The Spark?

This is your customised resource and the beginning of your Human Design journey. Once you know this information about yourself, you can never not know it. When you start experimenting with these new tools and awareness language your life will start to change.

You will start to live your life in a way that feels more authentic and aligned. You'll realise that the way you do things differently are all by divine design. You are given a permission slip to accept yourself as you are and feel fully validated.

It gives you a blueprint to understand how energy flows in your body and how it impacts your body physiologically. How can you best support your nervous system? What strategies can you use to regulate your nervous system?

You will receive a personalised guide to discover how your energy works, how to create opportunities for yourself and how best to make decisions during your time here on Earth.

I create this personalised guide in order for you to feel empowered in yourself, to build on your own self-trust, to listen to your body and see yourself in a whole new light. By understanding who you truly are you can trust yourself more, understand yourself and others, love yourself and fully accept yourself as you are, not by who you *think* you should be.

In this way you can start living your life fully connected to your authentic self, able to self-regulate your nervous system, deepen your own self-trust, and be your healthiest version.