Human Design Insights: Exploring the 3 Big Realities

The world and life aren’t all that neat and tidy. We just go to extreme lengths to make them appear that way in order to give us a sense of security. That sense of security is often shaken and we’re left wondering “Hey! What the heck just happened?” Let me explain a little about Human Design and the 3 big realities.

Do you know what the 3 BIG Realties are?

We all use the word reality as though it had one common meaning that we could all agree on. Sometimes maybe we agree but often we don’t. There are 3 really big and very important realities that we all have to deal with one way or another.

• Reality #1. The world out there is pretty obvious to some of us but less clear to others. This is the world of hurricanes, muggings, train wrecks, and pandemics. It’s also the world of all the unexpected good surprises. Wonders like finding a $100 bill, going to a movie, and meeting your future spouse. We have almost no control over this world at all. We can’t do anything to completely protect ourselves from a drunk driver, a suicide bomber, cancer, or whatever. Nor can we do anything to help us win the lottery.
• Reality #2. The personal world is also pretty obvious to most of us, though some of us seem oblivious. This is the everyday just doin’ your own thing reality. Right now you’re reading this article. You know you’re reading and you might even be aware of your reaction to what you’re reading. This reality is one over which you exercise considerable control. You could decide to stop reading this right now for example. Or could you?
• Reality #3. The Genetic Master is hidden, yet most of us are living out multiple genetic programs. These programs determine much of what we do, what we like, what we don’t like, what we believe, what we want, and a host of other things. When scientists initially began studying DNA, they were looking primarily at specific physical attributes as being genetic. It’s only fairly recently that science has come to recognize that not just physical characteristics but also complex behaviors are entirely genetic.

Who’s running the show?

Okay, I hear you say, “so what?” Well, an important question for all of us, whether we know it or not, is “Who’s running the show?” What you need to understand is that the genetic programs aren’t really serving you. They’re serving the species as a whole, so you (as a being in reality #2 above) don’t have much significance for them. They’re doing their own thing, and most of the time they’re dragging you along whether you like it or not.

Conflicts and Disconnects Between Realities

Now really, in many ways, that’s just fine because quite often your program of wants, needs, and desires coincides with the genetic programs. But often they don’t coincide. For example, our society insists that everyone should be very busy, working, producing, building. Busy, busy, busy. That is the World Out There Reality # 1. But our Genetic Master Reality #3 says some of us are Projectors – not here to be busy at all but to guide those busy people.

That conflict or disconnect happens whether or not we know anything at all about HD, and it has an unpleasant impact on Reality # 2, Our Personal World, simply because we can’t ever feel completely comfortable. Instead, we often feel completely exhausted from trying too hard to be busy enough to satisfy Reality#1, The World Out There.

Discover your genetic program with the Human Design System

What’s important in all of this is the knowledge that the genetic programs are part of us because they work really well for the species. They have been tested and proven to work for all of human history. The challenge for the individual is to understand your own genetic programs well enough to be able to be at peace with them. Be at peace with who you actually are – not who the world wants you to be.

Up until recently, we didn’t really have any way to discover which of the thousands of genetic programs were dominant in our own lives. The Human Design System has changed that. It is now possible to discover exactly what genetic programs are compelling you to act. This is who you are by design and that design is more than up to the challenge of doing well in Reality #1, The World Out There. Once you start doing well out in the world, Reality# 2, Your Personal World, is going to feel much better to you.

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