What Is Human Design? A Blueprint for Your Energy

Hannah Schwoerr: Human Design is a system that is your unique blueprint, your energy, how your energy was created to flow through this world. How you were created to most easefully walk through this world. And that includes how you show up in your business, how you show up in your relationships, whether that’s an intimate partner, whether that’s your family or your friends. It includes how you show up for yourself. All of the things is wrapped up in Human Design.

Dr. Diane: And there’s different pieces of Human Design that are maybe a little bit more helpful to understand in relationships.

Hannah Schwoerr: Human Design generally pulls from different more eastern philosophies. So it pulls from the chakra system, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, astrology, quantum physics, and it is taking in all this information and kind of gives you what’s called a body graph chart and your chart. There’s a lot of different areas of Human Design. I started with astrology. So I kind of equate it to astrology plus. But if you think if you’ve if you are familiar with astrology, you’ll know that there’s more than just your sun sign. So, there’s more than just your Human Design energy type.

The Five Energy Types: Archetypes in Human Design

Hannah Schwoerr: There’s these energy types, there’s profiles in Human Design, there’s authorities, and all of these different areas show us different aspects of our self. And I really want to preface this entire conversation with we are not putting ourselves in a box with Human Design. We’re not using this as a label to shrink us. What Human Design is to me, the gift of Human Design, is that we have this opportunity to find confirmation and affirmation in what we already know about ourselves. It’s that extra bit of information. Human Design is that data that we can then process ourselves, interpret ourselves, and feel into does this feel aligned with me? Does this feel like something that is me? Like, does it fit me? For me, a lot of learning my Human Design was this huge permission slip of, oh my gosh, okay, so this is actually who I am.

Dr. Diane: And when I learned my Human Design and then my partner’s Human Design, it almost gave me that like click, oh, that’s just not how they move through their day.

Hannah Schwoerr: Learning that about your partner can be very supportive in creating this day-to-day how we relate to each other and again more ease in the bedroom too. There are five main energy types. You have a Generator, Manifestor, Manifesting Generator, Projector, and Reflector. Your Human Design energy type is how your energy is created to move through the world. And it really is this permission slip of how you’re created to be. And it’s going to be different if you’re a Projector versus a Manifesting Generator or a Generator versus a Reflector.

Human Design Relationship Dynamics: Learning Your Partner’s Blueprint

Hannah Schwoerr: And what I really love doing when I work with clients one-on-one is pulling their partner’s chart because then we can learn our partner in a different way than them telling us things about themselves. It’s kind of like learning their astrology too. It’s not to use it as oh this is definitely how they are. It’s just a different flavor of information another menu that we can look at and then we can look at how these energy types not the compatibility I’m not a compatibility person like oh Projectors and Manifesting Generators are not compatible that’s not it at all. It’s how the energy can most easily flow in the relationship. So then we’re again creating this relationship with ease and we’re living this relationship with the most ease possible.

Dr. Diane: So for our listeners, you guys have probably heard me talk about libido codes on here before, which are basically our libido love languages. So with these different energy types, when people figure out like, okay, well, you know, I’m this way and my partner’s this way, what different areas of life have you seen when we’re talking about relationships and couples have you seen more specifically this methodology be supportive with?

Energy Types in Relationships: Real-Life Examples

Hannah Schwoerr: The thing that I immediately think of is it’s kind of that day-to-day how you navigate life, how you’re walking through your days, maybe how you’re scheduling your days, how much how many things you’re planning in your days. Probably two of the more different energy types, more opposing energy types would be a Manifesting Generator and a Projector. And I’m going to give that example because I have dated Projectors before. So personal example myself as a Manifesting Generator. Manifesting Generators, we really like to do we like to have our hands in different pots. We like to spin different plates. Sometimes we like to do multiple things at once. Projectors do really well with more rest. So fitting less into their day, creating space to clear their own energy, creating space in their day to kind of digest all of what they’re going through.

Hannah Schwoerr: When I’ve dated Projectors in the past, one of the most classic examples that I can think of is my schedule is always wild. And my Projector relationships have always been like, I just can’t keep up with your schedule. And when I learned my Human Design and then my partner’s Human Design, it almost gave me that like click, oh, that’s just not how they move through their day. And learning that about your partner can be very supportive in creating this day-to-day how we relate to each other and maybe it’s just these small shifts that we make that will then create more clarity. And again more ease in the bedroom too because they might just need a little space.

Human Design and Communication: Seeing Through a New Lens

Dr. Diane: There’s so much great stuff here, Hannah. I mean, I really feel like so many people they are aware of like men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and we know some of our innate gender differences. We know type A versus type B. But what I think is so unique about Human Design is it’s giving us a lot more detailed information. So it’s really easy to say like, “Oh yeah. They’re type A. They take on a million things and go mile per minute.” But from a standpoint of what I’m hearing here, it sounds like there’s so much more capacity to understand like on a much more microscopic level.

Human Design and Intimacy: Unlocking Ease in the Bedroom

Hannah Schwoerr: Projectors need a little bit more rest. So if a Projector is living in burnout, maybe they’re not feeling so much like after a really long day getting right into the bedroom. Maybe they need a little bit of a break. Maybe not even with you. Maybe they just need 20 minutes by themselves. Manifesting Generators maybe we really like to experiment in the bedroom more than a Projector does. Like, there’s different things that we can learn about our partner in that respect too.

Dr. Diane: I just see such a huge amount of value for people on this. So, I really hope everybody will go and take a Human Design test. They can take it directly online. Google free Human Design chart. Take it, talk to your partner about it. And I hope you will all join us for part two. In part two, I’m going to be asking Hannah questions like, “How do you talk to your partner about this? Are there things that you need to be watching out for? Are there ways that you can talk in a way that would make somebody feel retracted versus open.” So we want to explore all of that. We’re going to also explore things like libido and how we can use Human Design to strengthen our libido since libido is often low. How can we use Human Design to just feel more powerful in our body and so much more.

Dr. Diane: Before we wrap it up for part one, just tell us real fast if you would. How do people get a hold of you? If people want to work with you on exploring Human Design in more detail, how do they do that?

Hannah Shore: So the place that I hang out with the most is my Instagram, which is @journeytowell, which is my business is Journey to Well. So reach out on there. I also do one-on-one Human Design chart readings. So, if you pull up your chart and you get overwhelmed, that’s totally normal. Reach out and book a call and we can walk through your Human Design chart so it feels very approachable and not overwhelming.

Dr. Diane: Perfect. And we will have all those links below this video. Hope to see you all in part two. And thank you everybody for being here on another episode of the lounge. Thanks Hannah for joining us. We’ll see you all real soon.

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