There’s a different skill set required to create abundance in your life from the wisdom of your body vs. your mind.
As you commit to your Human Design journey, you commit to living in alignment with the wisdom of your body and letting that guide you through life. You commit to listening to your inner authority, not anyone outside of you.
As you transition from making money from the strategies of the mind to allowing money to arrive from wisdom of the body, you may find yourself thinking, “Oh, my God! Where’s the money going to come from?! I should just _____. I know that works. It doesn’t feel right but at least I won’t be anxious! “
Yet, feeling that anxiety is part of the process.
The key skillset to allowing abundance to arrive from the wisdom of your body is to build the capacity of your nervous system to be in the unknown. To allow space for something new to happen. To not react and try to make it happen. But to stay true to what you know deep down within.
This takes unwinding the patterns in your nervous system that you learned throughout your life to keep you safe by ignoring that wisdom and following the logic people told you was “correct”. This takes courage, gentleness, and patience. It takes letting go of the forcing from your mind and emotions.
It takes feeling the uncomfortable emotions that come when you start to go against the well-worn unconscious patterns that you used to build the comfort zone around you to keep you feeling safe. It takes creating your own safety by regulating your nervous system instead of controlling your circumstances.
It takes a consistent choice to follow your Inner Strategy and Authority and not go to familiar strategies.
You have to create the space for something new to happen. And, as long as you’re following your Strategy and Authority, you’ll be guided correctly and out of the comfort zone your mind created.
That’s why it’s important to build your capacity to be in the unknown. To keep bringing your awareness out of your mind and into your body. So you can access the wisdom that will guide you to the action that will allow you to align to your new reality.
This is about removing resistance, creating space, and aligning to your desires – so what you desire can reach you and stay with you. Instead of trying to force against all that resistance. You may be able to make it happen by forcing but it will be exhausting and unsustainable, a hamster wheel.
So how do you do this? Let’s dive in.
Abundance Through Your Design
Over the years, society has taught you and conditioned you to learn how to “make money”, to follow the logical path, to choose a college, decide on your career, or set yourself up for retirement. You may have been encouraged to ignore your passion, intuition, and knowing to go after the consistent paycheck in the hottest field.
And, that’s okay! That doesn’t make you weak. There’s nothing to regret. You didn’t do anything wrong. And it’s not too late.
Your parents, teachers, and guidance counselors gave the advice they thought would best keep you safe and have you thrive in a society not built to reward following your intuition. It’s not their fault and nothing is wrong. Those strategies served you well until now. Now, you feel the call of your heart, the call of your Fire, the call of your Truth.
And so you can break this generational pattern.
And this is what takes patience, gentleness, and courage. To surrender to where your Inner Authority is leading you.
Your Strategy and Authority will guide you away from all the “outer strategies” you learned that are not in alignment with our body’s wisdom.
The good news is, your body will always do it at a pace that you can handle.
Trusting the Wisdom of Your Body Again
If all of this is resonating, the key questions to ask yourself are:
- How can you trust the wisdom of your body, again?
- How can you let it guide you to aligned action, even when your mind is freaking out?
- How can you let it guide you to aligned action, even when your mind says: “but where is the money going to come for these bills? What’s going to happen?!”
There is a transition period and, during that time, things will clear out of your life that aren’t aligned.
This may sometimes look like less money in your accounts. But that is because you were making that money in misaligned ways. And the temptation will be there to use familiar strategies and Plan B’s to make sure you have the money you need. The practice, in those moments, is to stay connected to your body, to breath through the anxiety and emotions, and to come to a centered place within your body before acting. To not act from any emotional waves.
Space is being created for new opportunities to fill. And for money to flow in a new way. Yet, for that flow to reach you, you need to be tuned into the wisdom of your body, which you can’t do from emotional waves.
Allow your Strategy and Authority to guide you to one small step at a time. To the next conversation, to the correct coffee shop where you’ll meet the right person, to the next email to send, to the
Because while your mind is making plans, your body is trying to tell you where to go right now.
The wisdom of your body emerges. And so do the correct plans. If you’re trying to make plans, you won’t hear your wisdom. But if you first let your wisdom guide you to the correct path, then your mind can support you on that path.
If you want to practice feeling the wisdom of your body, I encourage you to check out this meditation on our Youtube channel. It’s designed to help you connect even deeper with your body and hear what it is saying, underneath the mind’s noise.
My Journey with this Process
For years I had been studying Human Design, giving readings and coaching part time on the side, from 2015 to 2019. And since 2013, I had been coaching part time and wanting to switch to full time. But, I kept choosing”Plan B’s” because I didn’t yet have the nervous system capacity to go all in on my coaching career.
It was too scary. I kept thinking: “but I need to know where my money is coming from…”. I would start other businesses and take these other roles in other companies until 2019.
Then in seven days, I lost everything.
In seven days, I lost the COO position at a company I was working with, I lost my partner who broke up with me, I lost my car, and moved into a huge house that was three times the rent I’d ever paid with my newly-minted ex, due to a financial commitment I made.
During the weeks to come, I got clear. The pain finally got big enough. In my grief, I stilled myself and heard the Truth: that job, that partner, that car – were all Plan B’s. And I was ready for Plan A. All the healing I’d done had prepared me and it was time.
And so I committed to following my Sacral 100% of the time. (I’m a 2/4 Sacral Manifesting Generator)
It was scary for my mind. My mind wanted to get a part-time job again. It knew how to make money in many different ways but every time I thought about doing that, my Sacral clearly said “NO”.
And so I stayed the course. I only acted from my Sacral Yes. When I couldn’t feel my Sacral because of intense emotions, my focus became on feeling them with gentleness and spaciousness.
This took me to the brink every month, when I’d be thousands of dollars short for my bills with only a few days left to the month.
Yet, I trusted, I listened, and I took aligned action.
And the money always came, sometimes directly from the aligned action I was taking, sometimes from somewhere completely unexpected. But it always came. I started to build trust in this process. My mind started to get on board. It started to realize that money would always come as long as I followed my Sacral Yes. And it started to relax into realizing it didn’t need to work so hard to create plans. My mind started to support my Sacral.
The first 5 months went like this. But then, after that, I had more and more money earlier and earlier in the month. And in the first 12 months, I ended up with a six-figure year as an entrepreneur and have been growing consistently ever sine.
The Heart and Body Guide the Path
There are 100 million neurons in the Gut and 40000 neurons in the Heart. These neural networks are your compass, designed to guide the way. The 500 billion neurons in your brain are used for problem solving along the path that your heart and body guide you to.
- The first step is knowing that your mind is going to be deeply uncomfortable and it’s going to want to do anything to get rid of the discomfort in your nervous system.
Not only is your mind going to be uncomfortable, but it will probably bring up anxieties and fears and all of the things over the years that have been ingrained in your nervous system. Your mind may bring up what you learned from society, from parents, teachers, guidance counselors, or whoever, that said” it’s not safe to be in the unknown“, and that you have to have it all figured out.
- Secondly, it’s important to accept that there’s going to be an adjustment period.
The biggest practice when you’re transitioning from making money from the mind to making money from your heart and body is to have patience with your nervous system. Learn to slow down your breath in those moments, to notice when there’s urgency and to shift from urgent to emergent. Learn to not act from urgency, and also to not act from emotional fear or even excitement. And be gentle with yourself in the moments you give into the urgency. It’s okay. One step at a time.
- Thirdly, make sure that you’re acting from clarity and trust that the money will come.
I know that could be scary depending on your circumstances, especially if you have kids or if you just have big bills.
In those moments, let your body guide you to the small steps that are manageable for your nervous system.
- Fourth, practice!
Even if you can’t completely follow your Authority, practice slowing the process down so you can notice the anxiety, sensations, or discomfort in your body that keep you from following your Authority and spend even a few more moments there.
Awareness is Step 1.
The key here is to build the capacity of your nervous system to be in that experience and to remind yourself, slowly, that you’re safe in the unknown, one step at a time.
It’s All Practice! Don’t Forget to USE the Map!
It’s important to remember that as a human, you’re designed to be in the unknown. You’re designed to allow life to emerge through you and around you in the most beautiful ways.
And your Human Design chart is your map to how energy and Life is meant to move through you. But a map is only good if you actually follow it.
Just reading a map and understanding it theoretically doesn’t do anything. You have to drive the roads.
To practice tuning into the wisdom that your Human Design chart is reminding you are always there. Notice where your Authority wants to take you and see if you can take those aligned actions. See if you can regulate the anxiety of the nervous system to take that action, sometimes you may be able to and sometimes you might not be able to and that’s okay. But, the important thing is to keep practicing, and start to build your capacity to be with the uncomfortable experiences of the unknown.
Simply doing that expands your ability to be in any experience for long enough to allow something new to happen.
And that’s the key. This applies to relationships, this applies for money, this applies for friendships, communities, intimate partnerships, and basically applies for abundance in every aspect of life.
This is foundational. As long as you are committed to the transition, this is the skill set to build.
The leaders that will thrive in the constant and rapid change of the Age of AI are those that can navigate the unknown with confidence, by following your inner compass, and help their teams do the same.
This report gives you a map to how to listen to the wisdom of your body, to the 100,000,000 neurons of your gut and 40,000 neurons of your heart.
The Phoenix System is designed to help you bring awareness to unconscious leadership patterns left over from the Industrial and Information Ages. They block true innovation and creativity that can emerge when staying poised instead of reacting to fears and the whims of your mind.