Experimenting with my human design has given me more than money can buy.
Inner peace and living my purpose.
There’s a special kind of contentment that can only be experienced when you truly know who you are.
It’s the kind of inner knowing that happens when you can answer 3 questions without pause or hesitation - and then take action on them:
What do I want?
What do I need?
What do I value?
Today, whilst spending the day at the beach with my little family of 4, I felt that contentment in my soul. The toddler was drifting into a late afternoon nap in his stroller, my husband chasing our 6 year old through the waves. I could hear her screams and laughs of joy a mile off whilst I read a few sample chapters of a new book I’m trialing on my kindle.
The sound of the waves, the very people I love the most enjoying themselves, and the calm in my mind were like the holy trinity of inner peace; all because the very things I want, need and value were all ticked off in that moment.
I’ve been experimenting with my human design for over 6 years now. I say experimenting instead of studying, because self discovery tools such as HD and astrology aren’t meant to be read about and then put to the side. We can never expect to learn about who we are on such a soul level just by reading about it. Knowledge is power, but wisdom is direction. Without the latter we’re just driving ourselves in circles with no aim or purpose.
In my experiments I’ve played around with:
My strategy for making decisions
For feeling my intuition speak to me on a daily basis
Understanding my gifts and how they impact the world and people around me
How I experience myself vs how the world (my family, friends and clients through my business) experience my energy
Better sleep routines
Daily work and personal routines
How I can ensure my POV gets across to people in the way I intend it to - and feel valued in doing so
The parts of my design that tells me what my core values are, what I need most in this lifetime and how to zone in on what I need most
Healing my sense of integrity and self worth
Processing my emotions, my trauma and regulating my nervous system
What leads me to burnout and how to notice when it happens in the future
The list is honestly endless! I’ve even used human design to improve my marriage and how I parent my two babies - it’s wild how different their charts, and indeed their needs, are.
It’s a tool that I will be using until my very last day on this earth.
Before I discovered human design via a podcast one day (I don’t even listen to podcasts, so this was truly fated, let me tell you), I didn’t really understand what it meant to ‘know yourself’. I thought it meant knowing what your favourite colour was, or what your likes and dislikes are. And it’s not that those things don’t come into play, it’s just that they’re the tip of the iceberg. It’s a very surface level part of who we are.
What we really have to focus on if we want to know ourselves on a deeper level, ARE those 3 questions I mentioned earlier. But I’ve found that I can only now answer those questions because of the wider journey that I’ve been on - and will be on for the rest of my life.
The biggest things that have stood out for me from my design are this:
I’m meant to trigger people. That very thing that I hated myself for all my life because I seemed to just always be in arguments or pissing people off, IS my very purpose. When I communicate those intuitive ideas and thoughts that I have in regards to the world and people around me, in the way that is right for me to do so (i.e invited instead of pushing it on people), then it changes everything. My clients literally tell me that our time together changed their life in a way they just never expected it could - which is bloody amazing!
I’ve learned that the thing I value most is being able to express myself. I value my authentic self expression - and the space to do so - more than anything in this world. I value prioritising myself and my needs, excitement and satisfaction; as well as healthy relationships and boundaries with people to support that. I’m a very sensitive person to other people’s needs, emotions and their energy. So much so that I pick it up and amplify it, taking it on as my own and it can be very difficult separating myself from that.
But awareness is everything, right? The knowledge is one thing, to read it on some social media post and nod your head like ‘oh wow, yeah, I can relate’. But the wisdom I have now comes from asking myself how I can protect myself from those situations. To identify the people, places and things that drain me, put the boundaries in place, and save my own peace. That wisdom is now what I share with my own clients.
What I need and value is space to be myself, in my fullest expression and feel accepted and valued for it. What I want is time with the people I love most, but to also have pockets of time for myself and a certain level of adventure as well. In today’s situation that adventure came from a day trip to the beach, as well as losing myself in a few book chapters.
I’ve realised that if I can create my life to enable me to tick off those boxes the majority of the time (say, over 85% of the time), then I’ll forever feel that level of contentment and find the glimmers that make life worth living.
If you are reading this and you feel like you’re not quite there yet with understanding your own answers to these questions, and want to really discover the you that maybe YOU haven’t found yet, I’d love to help you.
I can do this through a few different ways (to suit where you’re at in your journey vs your budget, too):
The Brand Edit - I look through your HD chart and help you put that information into a daily practice. Think human design reading, but one you actually use for the rest of your life (in all areas from your personal relationships to your online business should you want/have one).
Private mentorship - You get The Brand Edit + monthly 1:1 sessions and weekly telegram voice support for 12 weeks to help you make the changes you need to more easily create those daily glimmers.
Reinvent group program - This is a live, 8 week program, where I take you and 4 others maximum through the entire 3 step process that I call The Maria Effect. You get my support through live session + telegram support and resources to put your own brand edit together and give your whole life and business the overhaul it needs.
My paid Substack subs get a 20% discount on all of these options, so let me know that when you get in touch. But for my free subs (ilysm) I’m gonna give you 10%, so just quote STACK10 when you drop me a message.
Maria x