63. What is Not Self Theme in Human Design? Listener Question

What Is Not Self Theme in Human Design?

In this episode I am answering a listener's question about the ‘Not-Self Theme’ in Human Design. What IS the Not-Self Theme in Human Design…and what does it mean for me? Make sure to have your own Human Design chart handy to follow along with this one!

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In this episode, you will hear:

• What is the ‘Not-Self’ Theme in Human Design?
• Does every type have a Not-Self Theme?
• What is a ‘Signature’ Theme in Human Design?
• What are the Not-Self Theme for each Human Design type?
• Generators and Manifesting Generators: What does frustration show up like?
• Projectors: What does bitterness show up like?
• Manifestors: What does anger show up like?
• Reflectors: What does disappointment show up like?
• How to move from the Not-Self Theme to the Signature Theme for each Human Design type.

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Episode Transcript:

On this episode of unjaded, I am answering a listener question that came in about the not self theme in human design. What is the not self theme in human design? And what does it mean for me?

So you're gonna want to have your human design chart handy as you listen into this episode, or at least understand or know your human design type. So if you don't have your human design chart, you can head on over to the website, just pause this episode and head on over to the website, Vickie dickson.com. And grab your chart. You can do that there for free, and then come back and listen in because you do want to know your human design type for this episode. 

Welcome to unjaded. I'm your host,Vickie Dickson. This is a podcast with a human design spin on building the life, the relationships and the business that you were made for. Let's dive in.

Okay, so what is the not self theme? So in human design, each of the types has a not self theme, and a signature theme. So the not self is an emotion that comes up and we it will play out for you over and over and over again in your life when you're off track. And it's not necessarily something to say, oh my gosh, I'm doing everything wrong. I think of it as you know, those old GPS is that used to say recalculating, recalculating, recalculating. That's what the not self theme is, it's just a signpost in your human design that tells you that something is off track, and you need to course correct. And the way that you course correct is by leaning really hard into your strategy. And the way that you lean really hard into your strategy is different for each type. So we're going to be unpacking that on this episode. So let's start with generators, because they make up the largest part of the population generators and manifesting generators. You're not self theme is frustration. Now, I'm a manifesting generator. And I can tell you, that frustration is absolutely the theme that comes up for me over and over and over and over again. And I mean, if you listen to a lot of people speak, they are probably generators. And the thing that they say is, oh, my gosh, I'm so frustrated. Oh, that's so frustrating. If you're someone who says that all the time, then chances are you're a generator, or a manifesting generator, because you know, what frustration feels like? That's the emotion that's going to come up over and over and over again, when you're off track. And what gets us off track is that we don't start things from the right place. So we don't start things from our ability our need to respond, maybe we try to initiate something maybe we try to get something started without leaning into our sacral authority. So if you are a generator or a manifesting generator, you have a defined sacral. And that sacral is creative, lifeforce workforce energy. And it is like a magnet to the things that are right for you. It will absolutely magnetize the right people, places and experiences to you if you allow it to. But the thing is, we override it by doing our own thing by getting things started by just making things happen, you know, Nike, go out, just do it, all of those things. So when you are feeling frustrated and off track, it's oftentimes because you haven't honored that sacral response. So the thing that is going to bring you to your signature theme, which is actually satisfaction is going to be to lean hard into your sacral response is going to be to set aside those things that are frustrating you for a little while, even though you've got a whole bunch of conditioning around quitting things too early, you're going to give yourself a pass. And you're going to set aside those things for now that are frustrating you because you know that perhaps you didn't start them from the right place, you didn't have that sacral pull towards them. You just thought it was something that you had to get done. You just committed to something, and somebody's got a deadline for you and you feel like you would be out of integrity if you didn't hit that deadline. But there is no energy in it for you at all. So how can you set that aside and instead, lean into your sacral and let your sacral guide you to the next step. And as a generator type, so a generator or a manifesting generator? We have to trust that the universe will give us things to respond to, because it always does. The universe wants to conspire with us. Absolutely. All the time. I always like to think of my sacral it's like there's this this magnet with this big, big big chain on it that is just like literally going to the experiences that are absolutely right for me. I'm having a sacred pull to the things that are right for me. And I'm not having a sacred pose of the things that are wrong for me. So how can you lean into what lights up your sacred because when you are completely lit up for an experience when you love the work that you do, you're lit up in your life and you will light up the other people in your life you magnetize other people to you because you have this big beautiful aura and when you're satisfied you know how that feels in your body. You know how you can work on something that you're so excited about? It is a part passion project and you just love every minute of the work you're doing and you could forget to eat. You could forget to sleep, you could forget to do anything for the whole day, you're so lit up about this thing, and you feel completely satisfied. And then you get into bed at night and your head hits the pillow and you're out like a light. And when you get up the next morning, you're not drained. Because you've worked late on something that you love, you will have a whole new load of energy, you're energized again for the thing. That's how we should be feeling as generators and manifesting generators, we should be feeling completely and totally satisfied. Because it's contagious. It's really important as a generator tight, that you feel good as you go throughout your day, and you can't feel good if you're feeling frustrated, and burnt out and tired. So how can you allow yourself to surrender to things to respond to? If you are stuck in that not self theme of frustration? How can you instead step into allowing yourself to respond to something in the the universe sends your way so that you can have that feeling of satisfaction projectors, so projectors make up about 20% of the population. And you're not self theme is bitterness. Now some of the projectors that I work with, they hear this word bitter, and then oh, I don't really like that word, but then I say resentful, and they're like, ooh, that lands for me. So if you're a projector and you're feeling bitter or resentful of the people in your life, the work you have to do anything that's coming up for you, then that's a clue for you that you're off track. So again, your GPS is saying recalculating, recalculating, recalculating. And what you are being asked to do is to rest. So for you, it's not about doing something that lights you up, it's not about getting into a project that you feel really passionate about for you it is getting into restorative rest. If you