Follow Your Feelings

...to recognize the opportunities to say “Yes!” to and make decisions you don't second guess.

Firstly, Who Am I?

Hey, my name is Mark Reynolds and I live on the Gold Coast, Australia.

Before I was introduced to Human Design, I initiated ideas constantly and gave up on them just as quickly. I second guessed every decision and self-sabotaged my efforts at every turn. My mind led me in circles and my aspirations went unrealized.

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It was only while experimenting with my Manifesting Generator Type, Strategy, and Authority that I discovered the power of letting my feelings be my guide!

In just 8 months, my approach to life profoundly changed. Instead of allowing my mind to seek and initiate, I now patiently wait for the right opportunities, people, and ideas to respond to.

Why Am I Sharing This?

Because I fear that some of you may give up on Human Design before you have been able to fully grasp and intentionally use your Type, Strategy, and Authority effectively. It is my hope that I'm able to make these concepts easier for you to comprehend, apply, and witness the same life-changing results in your own life.

Who Should Read This?

If you have generated your Human Design chart and discovered you are a Manifesting Generator, I have written this book specifically for you.

However, Generators will also benefit as both types share the same Strategy and Authority.

Anything that relates specifically to Manifesting Generators will be titled to clearly state this.

SECTION 1 - CONCEPTS

Surrender Your Mind, Embrace Your Feelings

Before we dive into the topics of Strategy, Authority, and the traits of our type, it is imperative to understand the vital leading role that your FEELINGS play in Human Design and why your mind needs to surrender all control.

So let's start with...

Your Mind

The mind is an excellent servant but a terrible master.

Your mind does an excellent job of communicating what it sees and experiences during this thrilling ride we call life. While it serves you well as a processor, interpreter, and translator, it is terrible at making decisions that have your best interests at heart.

Obsessed with self-preservation, your mind thinks that your "best interests" mean staying safely within your comfort zone. It won't hesitate to drop seeds of self-doubt or outright sabotage to thwart any attempt to push beyond your comfort zone and into unknown territory. Much like an abused child will cling to its abusive parents when the Child Protection department comes knocking, so will your mind cling to your less-than-desirable comfort zone when perilously close to unknown territory. The mind perceives unknown territory as scary and to be avoided at all costs.

For this reason, allowing your mind to lead the way will often produce inconsistent and frustrating results. The thing is, as you advance nearer to the edge of your comfort zone, your mind serves up feelings of doubt, anxiety, and uneasiness and conjures up new, exciting ideas to distract and derail your plans.... the same plans your mind came up with!

Each time you start over with a new idea, you restart the loop, a never ending loop, a loop I was in for 17 years! Fortunately, in mid 2021, Human Design came into my life and offered me a new way of operating so I could exit the loop.

The Higher-Self

For the entirety of my adult life, I felt I was destined for greatness despite having no concept and evidence of what I was going to achieve and how. This feeling came courtesy of my Higher-Self because it could see my whole life, not just the present moment. Thus, it gave me a feeling I could not justify.

Nowadays, I think of myself as a conscious puppet and my Higher-Self as the puppeteer. The puppeteer gives me free reign to explore my interests and make copious mistakes, but when it's time to get me back on track, the puppeteer pulls my strings, which causes me to take certain actions and have certain thoughts. This shunts me back onto my correct path.

How Your Higher-Self Communicates With You

Think of your life as being a desert, your ideas as mirages, and your dream life as an oasis.

Only your Higher-Self knows where the oasis is and how to get there. If you let your mind lead the way, you will be left feeling frustrated and exhausted as you chase one mirage after another.

The only way to find your oasis is to fully embrace the guidance of your Higher-Self, which communicates with you through your feelings.

You literally FEEL your way to your oasis.

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Your mind will often lead you to frustration. Follow your feelings to satisfaction.

That's one powerful reason to FOLLOW YOUR FEELINGS.

Now let's look at another.

Following Your Feelings Regenerates Energy

You Regenerate Energy when you Correctly Respond to your Strategy or Authority.

Understanding the bolded terms above is essential for effectively applying your Human Design, so let's define those terms now and a few more.

Aura: You are here to learn how to wield your life force and regenerate your energy. Your aura works in such a way that it does the work of pulling people, inspiration, and opportunities to you. When you respond correctly, you regenerate life force.

Correctly Respond: To act on the opportunity or decision that is correct for you.

Strategy: How to recognize which opportunities are correct for you. The moment the correct opportunity comes into your awareness (touches your aura), your body instantly responds with a feeling that I describe as an "excitable, electric, buzzing sensation in my body" or a "body buzz" for short. It puts a smile on my face and literally gets me leaping into action!

Moment of Truth: This is perhaps the most challenging aspect of being a Manifesting Generator because moving forward happens in two phases.

First, there's the lit up gut response to something outside of ourselves that says "HELL YES!"

Then, we take action and begin experiencing it. At this moment, your excitable energy will either be sustained or it will completely disappear. Sometimes you'll know why and sometimes you won't. If your energy is maintained, you can take that as the green light to continue moving forward. If your energy disappears, the opportunity is no longer correct for you, so let it go! Sometimes your impulses and actions merely serve as a catalyst for others.

Manifesting Generators are not supposed to mentally initiate anything. Sacral energy is not an energy for initiating an action, it's an energy for sustaining an action. However, it is correct to say that we "initiate in response." This means that when an idea, opportunity, person, or question touches our aura, our sacral responds instantly. If the response excites us, then our sacral generates the necessary energy for us to move forward with experiencing it.

Once we meet the Moment of Truth, the energy can be sustained or it will disappear, depending on whether it is correct for us or not.

Inner Authority: This is how to know what the correct decision is for you. For Manifesting Generators, the inner authority will either be Sacral Authority or Emotional Authority. NOTE: I will be referring to Inner Authority as simply 'Authority' for the remainder of this ebook.

Sacral Authority: When making a decision, your body will instantly emit a subtle "Yes" or "No" feeling. This yes/no feeling can also be described as a sound your sacral makes, where "ah huh" is yes and "uh uh" is no. Alternatively you can perceive the yes/no as a feeling of uplifting versus heaviness, pulling towards versus repelling away from, or seeing bright color versus gloomy grey/darkness.

No doubt you've heard the saying "Your first instinct is usually right." This is because the first instinct is your authority's response! Then your mind kicks in and tries to talk you out of it.

To tune into your sacral response, have someone else ask you questions that can only be responded with a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Emotional Authority: Everyone experiences this differently. This is how Amanda Miller describes it: "I need to see the decision from many different points throughout my emotional wave. These varying viewpoints overlap each other like lenses over my eyes and give me a general picture of yes or no. I'm never 100% clear in my decision, but if I'm 70% sure, then I'm good to go!"

Signature: Following your Strategy and Authority and deploying your Sacral energy correctly will cause you to feel satisfaction.

Not-Self-Theme: By not following your Strategy and Authority, you are prone to becoming very frustrated with your life because of the situations you find yourself stuck in. You will gain no personal satisfaction from the use of your powerful Life Force energy, and you're also prone to becoming the slave of everyone else.

Regenerate Energy: Any time you have an excitable "yes" response to external stimuli, you are rewarded with more energy so that you can action it. This can be from an opportunity or a decision.

Draining Energy: Any time you take action on something that is not correct for you because you've initiated with your mind, you drain your energy instead. Until you begin responding correctly again, you will continue to drain energy from a limited supply until you run out. Running out will bring about feelings of extreme lethargy and frustration.

Waiting To Respond: Your Manifesting Generator aura is magnetic and inclusive, which means the aura will do its work to attract opportunities, people, and ideas to itself. If you patiently wait for these to come to you, you will receive everything you need at the moment you need it. If you don't wait and instead initiate ideas with your mind, you will spin your wheels, drain your energy, and very likely end in frustration!

Life Balance: As you get the knack of responding correctly, you will find you have a HUGE supply of satisfying sacral energy at your command. And because you don't know how long it will last, you feel pressure to take advantage of it while you can. As a result, other areas of your life are often neglected while you are experiencing these high bursts of energy.

There will come a time when the correct response will be to do something other than work, such as to relax, have fun, and embrace the less serious and perhaps mundane aspects of life (house chores, tax etc.).

No matter what you are being called to do, the correct response is to obey the correct response! Obeying the correct response is the only way to begin regenerating energy. If you want to get back to your exciting projects sooner, simply do whatever it is that your sacral is currently responding to. Doing that will bring about life balance. Fighting against it will only drain your energy further, hold back "aha" moments, and cause you more frustration.

The Rewards of Correctly Responding

I've found that when I correctly respond to life, better ideas and solutions are often my reward. These "aha" moments level up whatever it is I am working on.

Let's say that my correct response is to take a walk in the sun. The following could be my reward:

I regenerate energy.

The exercise burns some energy to help me sleep that night.

I witness a sign or synchronicity that answers a question or causes thoughts that change my perception.

Movement of my physical body shifts stuck energy which causes a change of thinking.

As I walk and take my mind off my challenge, my Higher-Self has an opportunity to drop in a new idea or solution.

Sleep

You should fully exhaust your energy prior to sleep to ensure full regeneration overnight. Your sacral centre is designed to “regenerate” fully after a single night's sleep. But this only works correctly if it can regenerate from an exhausted state.

I personally find that working hard at a desk all day only exhausts me mentally. I still need to get up and do some physical exercise to sufficiently exhaust my sacral energy to get the best sleep. The more days I string together without exercise, the more lethargic I feel and the more unfocused my work efforts become.

Also, when you throw yourself into your exciting projects and you have tons of energy to burn, you might find that your sleep begins to suffer because you are working too late and not giving your mind sufficient time to switch off before bed. In this case, commit to finishing your work by a certain time each night, say 6 p.m.

Rest for Manifesting Generators

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When MGs are on their game, they’re basically humans with superpowers. Like Generators, MGs have a *lot* of energy, but instead of having the consistent, steady, grounded energy of generators, MG energy comes in waves. At the onset or peak of that wave, the energy is like being charged by rocket fuel. It is intense and unstoppable. Because the energy is so intense, at a point it tapers off and the need for rest is very, very real.

Because you’re used to (and probably somewhat addicted to) these intense energy waves, you might feel resistant to switching off at the bottom of the wave, but at that point, rest is the single most productive thing you can do.

Actionable Steps:

Create an evening slow down ritual or routine. When you feel your energy level dropping, do your very best to honor it, even if you’re sitting still with your eyes closed for five minutes or taking a few deep breaths.

Timing

Generators move fast and Manifesting Generators move even faster! But the one thing we have in common with all the other types is that our progression still happens at a rate that is much slower than what our minds would like!

So you're going to have to learn some patience because things don't happen on your time, they happen on universal time.

If you try to find things to respond to, you are going to fall into the trap of initiating and spinning your wheels, depleting your energy and feeling frustrated because your efforts aren't amounting to satisfying feelings or results.

Please note that if you respond correctly all day long, your day will be full; It just won't necessarily be full of work or the work that you planned to do! Allow yourself to move with and where the inspiration takes you.

The PAUSE

Progression in each of your specific interests is like a never ending tunnel of locked doors. Each time you unlock a door, you move freely and swiftly until you reach the next door. The key to unlocking each door is to provide the correct response. The pause lasts for as long as it takes you to recognize what the correct response is and actually do it!

If the correct response is to go and do something completely different from the work you were doing, then the sooner you do that, the sooner you'll regenerate the energy and excitement to continue the work from before.

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How to feel the correct response:

Check-in with your feelings about what you feel like doing at that moment.

Look around you and take note of what captures your attention. Are you tired and need a break? Feel like taking a walk, reading a book, having a nap, a snack, a moment of mindless entertainment, or all of the above?

What other projects, tasks, or activities are calling you but you have been ignoring them because your mind is fixated on completing the current one?

Have someone else ask you Yes/No questions so you can feel your sacral response.

When you master mindful awareness of what you feel like doing in every moment, then you will:

Generate a LOT of energy.

Feel satisfied and have a well balanced life.

Achieve an incredible amount of progression towards your goals.

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Running Your Energy Reserves Dry

Have you ever exhausted all of your energy? It can take days to recover from this state. There have been times when I couldn't even THINK of something fun to do! Every idea... even watching TV... just felt "meh". I literally ended up horizontal and staring at the ceiling.

I learned this the hard way many times, and as much as I could warn you, some things you just have to experience for yourself to truly learn the lessons.

Your Aura

Your aura is open, enveloping, and it's meant to pull life to you so that you can respond accordingly.

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