July 4, 2023 • 23 mins
Imagine discovering the key to unlocking your true potential as an entrepreneur, all by understanding your unique energy signature and how to make decisions that align with your purpose.
In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of Human Design, focusing on the Generator type that makes up 37% of the population. Learn how to tap into your innate power and create a life of ease and flow by understanding and implementing the Generator Type, Strategy - to respond - and Authority.
If you're curious about discovering your type and diving deeper into Human Design, don't miss this episode! Be sure to visit my website for your free Human Design chart and peel back the layers of you!
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Corinne O'Flynn (00:00):
Hey there, my name is Corinne O'Flynn and
you're listening to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
I am a USA Today best-sellingauthor, non-profit executive and
organizing nerd with over 20years experience running my own
small businesses.
I teach entrepreneurs,solopreneurs and small business
owners like you how to organizeyour business, find more time
(00:21):
and deepen your alignmentpractice to experience more calm
and confidence every single day.
If you're looking for thatintersection between practical
business advice and spiritualgoodness, then you're in the
right place.
So sit back, relax and let'sdive into this week's episode of
the Calm Entrepreneur podcast.
Welcome, welcome to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
(00:44):
I'm your host, corinne O'Flynn,and this is episode 28.
Before I drop into this week'senergy type, i wanted to do a
little bit of a review abouthuman design in general, just in
case you haven't picked up anyof the prior episodes in this
series.
If you have been listening,some of this will be review, but
I encourage you to listenanyway, because repetition is a
(01:04):
huge part of learning andmastery and eventually, if you
hear things repeated, they willget locked into your knowledge
base, which is, i think, soamazing just because of how our
brains work.
But it's really, really coolfor human design understanding,
because human design.
The body of work is enormousand growing and it's evolving
(01:24):
and it's just.
It's just worth listening toagain and again.
Human design is quite possiblythe most comprehensive
self-discovery tool I have everfound.
It's a unique system built tohelp us navigate our energy,
find our way through our livesby understanding how to be our
authentic selves and makedecisions that are in alignment
(01:46):
with our purpose.
It's incredibly personal, andwhat I mean by that is that it
shows us how we are truly unique, and this couldn't be more
valuable to us as entrepreneurs,understanding that we must
follow our own path and notfollow the crowd.
We must empower ourselves,because when you peel back the
layers of your own human design,it's inevitable that you will
(02:08):
also peel yourself away from thepack.
There are five types in humandesign, and your type is your
energetic signature, it's youraura, and even though there are
only five types in the humandesign system, the rest of the
system really unpacks all thedifferent ways in which we are
truly unique.
So we have our type, ourdefinition, our strategy, our
profile, our authority, our selfand not self themes, our
(02:33):
incarnation cross, and that'sjust seven of the elements that
are present in everyone's bodygraph in human design, and each
of those seven things areinformed by the 64 gates and all
the planets and celestialbodies in the sky.
So it's an incredible andprofound system that is meant
for contemplation.
It is meant to be somethingthat you can use for the rest of
(02:56):
your life to unpack you, and Ithink that that's what draws me
so deeply to it, because in thetime that I've been learning
human design and now that I'vebecome a coach in human design,
i'm sharing it with people andI'm coaching other people and
I'm seeing the awakenings thatare in store for all of us.
So if you're curious aboutyourself and looking within and
(03:16):
really tapping into who you areand what that means and how you
can master your energy byunderstanding your conditioning,
this is something that I urgeyou to explore, and for a lot of
people it's an overload right,it's a fire hose of information
and it's one of those things.
It's like the epitome of arabbit hole, because there truly
is so much to explore.
So that's why I'm puttingtogether these simpler,
(03:39):
one-on-one kind of guideepisodes, because if you learn
just the several things that Ishare in my episodes about your
type, that's enough to keep yougoing for the rest of your life.
You don't have to dig in anyfurther to really make a shift
and a huge change.
But if you do which for more,reach out.
If you want a chart readingsession or you want to explore
(04:01):
coaching by your design, that issomething that's available to
you.
So over the next few episodesI'm going to be covering the
different aspects of humandesign, starting with type,
strategy and authority.
And if you haven't yet learnedyour type and you are curious to
know what that is, you can goto my website at Carino Flynncom
and click on the free humandesign chart in the menu.
I'll also link to this in theshow notes.
(04:23):
To make it easy, but it onlytakes a few minutes, you need
your birth information and thenyou'll have your chart, and your
chart never changes.
Your chart is your chart, isyour chart for the rest of your
life, which kind of makes iteasier, because then you can
only have so much to learn aboutin human design.
So what is human design?
Human design was channeled by aguy named Ra Uruhu in 1987.
(04:45):
It is a blend of four ancientmodalities the Kabbalah tree of
life.
The Hindu Brahman chakra system.
The Chinese Yi Qing, which isalso known as the book of
changes, and Western astrology,and these are combined with
genetics and quantum mechanics,and that's really important.
The quantum piece, because theneutrino stream, which is made
(05:07):
up of dark matter.
It's the field of subatomicparticles which is created by
cosmic rays, and that is howenergy travels through the
universe.
It's also called Prana, it'salso called Chi, and I don't
want to get too far into theweeds here on all of that.
So I'm going to dive into thenext of the types that I'm
discussing in this series And,as I said earlier, there are
(05:29):
five types in human design.
They are the manifestor, thegenerator, the manifesting
generator, the projector and thereflector.
And if you missed the priorepisode, episode 27 is where I
go over the manifestor.
The thing that differentiatesthe types is the way that each
type exchanges energy with otherpeople, as well as the way that
(05:50):
we use our energy to move aboutour everyday.
Each of the five types has arole to play.
Each one has their gifts togive and each one has strengths
and each one has their role toplay in the world, and we all
have all of the chart, and Iwant to make that super duper
clear, because there is no type,no human design type that is
(06:11):
more desirable or better thananother type.
Each of them has their ownthings that make them special
and unique, and understandingyour type is really what this is
all about.
And the more we dig into howthe different types interact
with each other, the clearer itwill be that we pick up on the
energy of other people.
It's the people we spend timewith, the people we live with,
(06:35):
the people we work with, andthat means that we have access
to all of the chart in humandesign, and that is something
that Karen Curry Parker, who ismy Quantum Human Design Coach,
she makes sure to stress all thetime, because people speak
about this incorrectly.
Curry has all the chart.
The differences come from theplaces where we have definition
versus openness.
(06:55):
So there are 64 gates in thebody graph and all of us has
every one of them either definedor open.
So when you look at your chartand you see the places where you
have definition, you're goingto know that they're defined,
because they're colored in, andI should have an aside here
Depending on where you dodownload your chart, the colors
of the chart are going to bedifferent from each other.
(07:17):
Some charts are red and black,some are.
The one on my website right nowis gold and burgundy.
There are some that are likepastels.
There are some that are red andblue.
The colors don't matter.
The fact that it's colored inis what matters.
So definition is colored,openness is not colored in, and
it is not correct to say thatyou don't have an aspect in the
(07:39):
chart because it isn't coloredin.
Okay, it's just a matter of howyou access that energy, and
that's actually something elsethat I think is important to
discuss.
There's language used in quantumhuman design and traditional
human design that it's theregular language that we all use
in English, and often there aredefinitions that we assign,
(08:03):
meanings that we assign tocertain words that we associate,
that make us jump toconclusions and make judgments
about certain things in thechart, and I want you to resist
that, because there are thingsin the chart that are said, that
are described in a certain waythat might feel negative or
might feel positive, and withoutthe context of what it means in
human design, you don't havethe whole picture.
(08:24):
So I would urge you to makesure that you do the reading and
listen clearly so that youunderstand that when it says
that you know, for example, themanifestor has a closed aura,
that doesn't mean that they'reclosed off and they're, you know
, shut off from the world.
It means that they'reprotective.
That's a positive thing.
But on to generators.
(08:45):
This episode is all aboutgenerators.
Generators comprise about 37%of the population And their
energy is described as open andenveloping, and receptivity is a
key note for generators, inthat you are designed to take in
everything in your environmentand then decide what you want to
(09:06):
commit your energy to, becausea generator is meant to spend
all of their energy doing thething that they love the most.
The thing that makes agenerator a generator is the
fact that on their body graphchart, their sacral center is
defined, and the sacral centeris a motor center, and it's the
(09:29):
only motor center in the entirebody graph that can provide
sustained, consistent energy,and that's important.
Generators need to do thingsrepeatedly, and the reason they
do things over and over again isbecause they are actually
working toward perfection.
The challenge for generators isthat they get frustrated and
(09:50):
they quit too soon, andsomething that is unique to
generator types is that theyhave this stair step learning
curve.
I guess it shouldn't be calleda learning curve at all.
They have a stair, steplearning curve that they
experience, and this means thatthey have a growth cycle, this
big surge of energy, and they'redoing and learning, and doing
(10:10):
and learning, and, right, whenthey're about to have a
breakthrough and they're aboutto level up, they plateau, and
that plateau feels likefrustration, but what that is is
the signal that you'regathering up your energy and
you're about to level up, you'reabout to take the next step.
So if this was going to becharted out on a piece of like
(10:31):
graph paper, it would look likea staircase going up and flat,
up and flat, up and flat.
And so the lesson, thechallenge for the generator, is
to hang on through that lull andnot quit too soon, because the
energy that you build up duringthe plateau is what you need to
get that next growth phase tocome in.
One of the most valuable lessonsa generator type can learn is
(10:53):
that when they feel frustration,it is an opportunity right,
that's the signal to pause andrecalibrate and to nurture your
energy while you're waiting forthat next thing to appear,
because the next thing is notwhere you are right now And the
next thing actually has toappear, it has to present itself
, because it does not come fromwithin you.
(11:13):
It actually has to come fromthe outside world, and it will
only come when your energy saysthat you are ready.
The openness and envelopingqualities of the generators make
them come across as warm andinviting to other people.
They connect easily with othersbecause the generators can feel
what these people need and thatthose other people can tell
(11:37):
that you're here to give themwhat they need.
And so that means that peoplecan sense your openness and they
feel like they can ask favorsof you all the time, and that
can lead you to be takenadvantage of.
And so the generators,nurturing tendencies, make them
say yes far more often than theyshould at their own expense,
(11:58):
and this leads to burnout,taking on more than you can
handle, depleting your energy,and it makes you feel resentful.
And the medicine for this is togo back to following your
strategy.
So what is the generatorstrategy?
The generator strategy is torespond, and I remember the
(12:18):
first time I learned about thisand I've shared this in earlier
episodes where I talked abouthuman design because I am one of
the generator types.
I'm not a pure generator, i'm amanifesting generator, but my
strategy is also to respond, andI was so confused when I heard
that like respond to what?
But now that I understand it,it makes a ton of sense because
(12:42):
in the time since learning this,i have been allowing myself to
live by my strategy And justabout everything in my life has
changed for the better.
And when I say that, i'mtalking about the sense of ease
and flow in my life.
Learning to wait to respond hasbeen a game changer for me,
which is one of the reasons whyI'm so passionate about sharing
(13:04):
human design with the world,because, no matter what your
human design is, your type has astrategy, and if you are able
to take nothing else away fromthese conversations about human
design, let it be learning yourtype and learning your strategy
and how to live by your strategywith the understanding of what
your type is.
I can't.
(13:25):
You guys, it's huge, huge witha capital H.
So what does it mean to respond?
For generators, like I said,they have a defined sacral
center.
This means that there is thisprimal gut response that arises
in your lower belly and itlights this spark.
It gives energy to something.
That response is to somethingexternal.
(13:49):
It's never going to besomething in your mind.
And that took a little time forme to get my head around,
because the qualifier thatresponding means I have to
respond to something externalwas still confusing to me.
So, to put it simply, when youhave a defined sacral, it means
that you will get this in themoment gut response to something
in the world And, as a sacralbeing, that response is going to
(14:10):
be a full body yes.
And if it is not a full bodyyes, burning on fire, oh my gosh
, yes then it's either a no or anot right now.
So the lack of a full body yesis not always no.
It could be yes, but not now.
It could be that the timing isnot right.
So those are.
(14:30):
That is the strategy for thegenerative types.
Human design also has themes foreach type And these are the
signs that tell you whether ornot you're acting in alignment,
and these are called the selfand the not self themes in
traditional human design and thebalanced and unbalanced
expression in quantum humandesign, and I prefer the quantum
(14:54):
definition because it feelsmore accessible to me.
It talks about being in a stateof being I am in a balanced
state or an unbalanced state,and when it's just gentler to
think about it, like if you'rein an unbalanced state, then you
can work to get back intobalance.
And you know, for me it just.
it just speaks more clearly tome.
(15:15):
So the balanced expression forgenerators is satisfaction.
This is the sign that you'reworking in alignment, that you
are feeling completely satisfiedwith whatever it is that you're
doing in your life at themoment.
It comes through as contentment.
This is when you have workedreally hard all day doing the
thing that you love and you findyourself at the end of the day,
(15:37):
satisfied that you did what youwere meant to do today and you
have no more energy left to burnAnd it's time for rest.
And that energy burn is reallyimportant for generator types to
understand.
Generators are meant to burnoff all of their energy each day
doing the things that they wantto do.
Now, this is not burning thecandle at birth, both ends and
(15:59):
then burning themselves out.
It is spending all the energythat they have stored up so that
by the end of the day, whenit's time to rest, they can go
to bed depleted of all theirenergy.
So if you are a generator type,you might need to go for a run
during the day or do somethingelse physically to actually
spend all of your energy beforethe day is done, and if you are
(16:22):
a generator type and youstruggle with insomnia.
My spouse is one of those peopleAnd when I try to explain this
to him he just kind of gives methe arched eyebrow because I'm
speaking magical things here.
But that's something to leaninto.
I really when my husband, thegenerator, works out really hard
(16:42):
and spends his energy, hesleeps so much better than on
the days that he doesn't, andyou know he, no matter what I do
, he calls it that's anecdotal.
I would have nothing to do withthis.
That is something to do withthat.
So the balanced expression forthe generator is satisfaction.
The other side of that is theunbalanced expression, and that
is the experience of how itfeels when you're not in
(17:04):
alignment.
And so the Unbalancedexpression for the generator is
frustration.
And this is tricky because whenyou act against your strategy
and you feel frustration Becausethings aren't an alignment, but
you also feel frustration whenyou're about to level up.
So You have to figure out howto Understand the nuance there.
The unbalanced generator has apattern of quitting too soon, of
(17:28):
responding to frustration byquitting and not waiting for the
Next right thing to presentitself.
Right, it's this Not trustingthat they're supported by the
universe.
So if you are a generator typeand you find yourself quitting
often And this is not to saythat you're not allowed to quit
things You are allowed to quitthings but you have to use your
strategy to quit.
You have to use your strategyand your authority to quit, and
(17:50):
your authority is the last thingthat I wanted to talk about.
It's really helpful tounderstand, as you start to
explore your design, that, inaddition to a type and the
strategy, you do have anauthority, and authority is not
specific to your type or yourstrategy.
When you understand how do youuse your strategy with your
authority, you will findyourself living a life where
(18:11):
things really do fall into place.
They start to feel magical andvery, very easeful.
And there are two that areavailable to the generator types
.
The two for The generators area sacral authority and emotional
authority.
For generators with an emotionalauthority, once they are
responding to the things intheir present environment with
(18:32):
that sacral energy that lightsthem up, they have to ride their
emotional wave and come backfull circle on their emotional
wave before taking action andmaking that final decision.
And I will go into theemotional wave in a future
episode because it is really,it's.
It's just so interesting.
But it requires that You canhold the yes or the no response
(18:57):
and Sustain that yes over theduration of your emotional wave.
And for some people the wave isa few hours, for some people
It's you know, overnight.
You sleep on it.
Some people It's a week, somepeople It's a couple of days.
There is a way to track it.
But it is enough to know that ifyou are a generator type with
an emotional authority and youwould like to take action on
something That needs a yes, thatyes has to stay over the course
(19:21):
of your high and your low.
And the high and the low havenothing to do with anything
Going on in the outside world.
So if you have a fight withsomeone let's say you Have an
argument with your best friend,or you have an argument with
your partner, or you have anargument with your child, and
you get all bummed out.
That is not a low in youremotional wave.
The emotional wave Rises andfalls.
(19:42):
There's a rise and a dip.
That is completely irrelevantto anything that's actually
happening in the world.
So it's.
It's how you feel in your body.
So that is the emotionalauthority for generators, with
the sacral authority.
Once they are responding tothings in the present
environment with that sacralenergy that lights them up, they
then must learn to trust thegut response in the moment, that
(20:04):
inner knowing that this nextthing is What they should choose
.
And that sounds really simple,but it's not.
It's a skill that must belearned because it requires
Quieting, it requires reallylearning how to read your own
body and those signals that weget as generators.
It's this inner compass and weall crave that knowing, and
(20:28):
generators have it inside, andSo often we we look outside, we
ask for input and we we try toget the answer from somebody
else like what should I do?
What should I do?
the generator has to look, ithas to look within.
That's the only place wherealignment is going to come.
Okay, so to review, in thisepisode we did a deep dive into
(20:49):
the generator type and all ofthe main points that it means to
be a generator.
We talked about having an openand enveloping aura, we talked
about the generator types,strategy to respond, and we
talked about the balanced andunbalanced expressions being
satisfaction and frustration,and what that means for a
generator.
We talked about how importantit is for a generator to hold on
(21:12):
and not quit when frustrationshows up, and how they are
allowed to quit, but they mustwait for something in the
external world, using theirauthority to give them the sign
that it's actually okay to quit.
If you are a generator, thelesson for you is to learn to
wait for the next right step topresent itself from the outside
(21:32):
world.
It cannot come from you.
It must come from the externalworld, and you must learn to
trust that the inner, sacralresponse will light up that next
step for you.
You are meant to do things thatyou love.
You are meant to spend all ofyour energy doing the things
that light you up, and that'spretty exciting, i think.
(21:53):
So I hope that after listeningto this episode, you understand
a little bit more about howvaluable it is to understand
your strategy and your type andyour authority, and if you're
interested in learning moreabout yourself and your human
design, i urge you to visit mywebsite.
Get a free human design chart.
You need to know your birthdetails to do so, but once you
(22:16):
do, the chart will tell you,your type and your strategy and
your authority.
You can begin to experimentwith it and learn all the
different ways in which yourdesign can be tapped into to
make life just It's just.
It's incredible how simple itis once you see it, but it's
actually really exciting toexperiment with it and to see
(22:38):
and to realize that you have somuch more control and there's so
much power in who you are.
If only you let yourself be whoyou are.
Okay, that's all I have for you.
Please tune in next week for myepisode on the Manifesting
Generator And I hope you have agreat week.
Thank you, remember, part ofbeing a calm entrepreneur is
(23:01):
developing the systems, habitsand know-how that lets you know
that you are the one in thedriver's seat.
You get to choose how you runyour business and you get to
choose how you work.
So you got this.
I hope you enjoyed listening tothis episode of the Calm
Entrepreneur Podcast.
I'm Corinne O'Flynn and if thisepisode was valuable to you,
(23:23):
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to hanging with you again.
This is Corinne signing off.
Have an excellent day.
Hey there, my name is Corinne O'Flynn and
you're listening to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
I am a USA Today best-sellingauthor, non-profit executive and
organizing nerd with over 20years experience running my own
small businesses.
I teach entrepreneurs,solopreneurs and small business
owners like you how to organizeyour business, find more time
(00:21):
and deepen your alignmentpractice to experience more calm
and confidence every single day.
If you're looking for thatintersection between practical
business advice and spiritualgoodness, then you're in the
right place.
So sit back, relax and let'sdive into this week's episode of
the Calm Entrepreneur podcast.
Welcome, welcome to the CalmEntrepreneur podcast.
(00:44):
I'm your host, corinne O'Flynn,and this is episode 28.
Before I drop into this week'senergy type, i wanted to do a
little bit of a review abouthuman design in general, just in
case you haven't picked up anyof the prior episodes in this
series.
If you have been listening,some of this will be review, but
I encourage you to listenanyway, because repetition is a
(01:04):
huge part of learning andmastery and eventually, if you
hear things repeated, they willget locked into your knowledge
base, which is, i think, soamazing just because of how our
brains work.
But it's really, really coolfor human design understanding,
because human design.
The body of work is enormousand growing and it's evolving
(01:24):
and it's just.
It's just worth listening toagain and again.
Human design is quite possiblythe most comprehensive
self-discovery tool I have everfound.
It's a unique system built tohelp us navigate our energy,
find our way through our livesby understanding how to be our
authentic selves and makedecisions that are in alignment
(01:46):
with our purpose.
It's incredibly personal, andwhat I mean by that is that it
shows us how we are truly unique, and this couldn't be more
valuable to us as entrepreneurs,understanding that we must
follow our own path and notfollow the crowd.
We must empower ourselves,because when you peel back the
layers of your own human design,it's inevitable that you will
(02:08):
also peel yourself away from thepack.
There are five types in humandesign, and your type is your
energetic signature, it's youraura, and even though there are
only five types in the humandesign system, the rest of the
system really unpacks all thedifferent ways in which we are
truly unique.
So we have our type, ourdefinition, our strategy, our
profile, our authority, our selfand not self themes, our
(02:33):
incarnation cross, and that'sjust seven of the elements that
are present in everyone's bodygraph in human design, and each
of those seven things areinformed by the 64 gates and all
the planets and celestialbodies in the sky.
So it's an incredible andprofound system that is meant
for contemplation.
It is meant to be somethingthat you can use for the rest of
(02:56):
your life to unpack you, and Ithink that that's what draws me
so deeply to it, because in thetime that I've been learning
human design and now that I'vebecome a coach in human design,
i'm sharing it with people andI'm coaching other people and
I'm seeing the awakenings thatare in store for all of us.
So if you're curious aboutyourself and looking within and
(03:16):
really tapping into who you areand what that means and how you
can master your energy byunderstanding your conditioning,
this is something that I urgeyou to explore, and for a lot of
people it's an overload right,it's a fire hose of information
and it's one of those things.
It's like the epitome of arabbit hole, because there truly
is so much to explore.
So that's why I'm puttingtogether these simpler,
(03:39):
one-on-one kind of guideepisodes, because if you learn
just the several things that Ishare in my episodes about your
type, that's enough to keep yougoing for the rest of your life.
You don't have to dig in anyfurther to really make a shift
and a huge change.
But if you do which for more,reach out.
If you want a chart readingsession or you want to explore
(04:01):
coaching by your design, that issomething that's available to
you.
So over the next few episodesI'm going to be covering the
different aspects of humandesign, starting with type,
strategy and authority.
And if you haven't yet learnedyour type and you are curious to
know what that is, you can goto my website at Carino Flynncom
and click on the free humandesign chart in the menu.
I'll also link to this in theshow notes.
(04:23):
To make it easy, but it onlytakes a few minutes, you need
your birth information and thenyou'll have your chart, and your
chart never changes.
Your chart is your chart, isyour chart for the rest of your
life, which kind of makes iteasier, because then you can
only have so much to learn aboutin human design.
So what is human design?
Human design was channeled by aguy named Ra Uruhu in 1987.
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It is a blend of four ancientmodalities the Kabbalah tree of
life.
The Hindu Brahman chakra system.
The Chinese Yi Qing, which isalso known as the book of
changes, and Western astrology,and these are combined with
genetics and quantum mechanics,and that's really important.
The quantum piece, because theneutrino stream, which is made
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up of dark matter.
It's the field of subatomicparticles which is created by
cosmic rays, and that is howenergy travels through the
universe.
It's also called Prana, it'salso called Chi, and I don't
want to get too far into theweeds here on all of that.
So I'm going to dive into thenext of the types that I'm
discussing in this series And,as I said earlier, there are
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five types in human design.
They are the manifestor, thegenerator, the manifesting
generator, the projector and thereflector.
And if you missed the priorepisode, episode 27 is where I
go over the manifestor.
The thing that differentiatesthe types is the way that each
type exchanges energy with otherpeople, as well as the way that
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we use our energy to move aboutour everyday.
Each of the five types has arole to play.
Each one has their gifts togive and each one has strengths
and each one has their role toplay in the world, and we all
have all of the chart, and Iwant to make that super duper
clear, because there is no type,no human design type that is
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more desirable or better thananother type.
Each of them has their ownthings that make them special
and unique, and understandingyour type is really what this is
all about.
And the more we dig into howthe different types interact
with each other, the clearer itwill be that we pick up on the
energy of other people.
It's the people we spend timewith, the people we live with,
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the people we work with, andthat means that we have access
to all of the chart in humandesign, and that is something
that Karen Curry Parker, who ismy Quantum Human Design Coach,
she makes sure to stress all thetime, because people speak
about this incorrectly.
Curry has all the chart.
The differences come from theplaces where we have definition
versus openness.
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So there are 64 gates in thebody graph and all of us has
every one of them either definedor open.
So when you look at your chartand you see the places where you
have definition, you're goingto know that they're defined,
because they're colored in, andI should have an aside here
Depending on where you dodownload your chart, the colors
of the chart are going to bedifferent from each other.
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Some charts are red and black,some are.
The one on my website right nowis gold and burgundy.
There are some that are likepastels.
There are some that are red andblue.
The colors don't matter.
The fact that it's colored inis what matters.
So definition is colored,openness is not colored in, and
it is not correct to say thatyou don't have an aspect in the
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chart because it isn't coloredin.
Okay, it's just a matter of howyou access that energy, and
that's actually something elsethat I think is important to
discuss.
There's language used in quantumhuman design and traditional
human design that it's theregular language that we all use
in English, and often there aredefinitions that we assign,
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meanings that we assign tocertain words that we associate,
that make us jump toconclusions and make judgments
about certain things in thechart, and I want you to resist
that, because there are thingsin the chart that are said, that
are described in a certain waythat might feel negative or
might feel positive, and withoutthe context of what it means in
human design, you don't havethe whole picture.
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So I would urge you to makesure that you do the reading and
listen clearly so that youunderstand that when it says
that you know, for example, themanifestor has a closed aura,
that doesn't mean that they'reclosed off and they're, you know
, shut off from the world.
It means that they'reprotective.
That's a positive thing.
But on to generators.
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This episode is all aboutgenerators.
Generators comprise about 37%of the population And their
energy is described as open andenveloping, and receptivity is a
key note for generators, inthat you are designed to take in
everything in your environmentand then decide what you want to
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commit your energy to, becausea generator is meant to spend
all of their energy doing thething that they love the most.
The thing that makes agenerator a generator is the
fact that on their body graphchart, their sacral center is
defined, and the sacral centeris a motor center, and it's the
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only motor center in the entirebody graph that can provide
sustained, consistent energy,and that's important.
Generators need to do thingsrepeatedly, and the reason they
do things over and over again isbecause they are actually
working toward perfection.
The challenge for generators isthat they get frustrated and
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they quit too soon, andsomething that is unique to
generator types is that theyhave this stair step learning
curve.
I guess it shouldn't be calleda learning curve at all.
They have a stair, steplearning curve that they
experience, and this means thatthey have a growth cycle, this
big surge of energy, and they'redoing and learning, and doing
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and learning, and, right, whenthey're about to have a
breakthrough and they're aboutto level up, they plateau, and
that plateau feels likefrustration, but what that is is
the signal that you'regathering up your energy and
you're about to level up, you'reabout to take the next step.
So if this was going to becharted out on a piece of like
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graph paper, it would look likea staircase going up and flat,
up and flat, up and flat.
And so the lesson, thechallenge for the generator, is
to hang on through that lull andnot quit too soon, because the
energy that you build up duringthe plateau is what you need to
get that next growth phase tocome in.
One of the most valuable lessonsa generator type can learn is
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that when they feel frustration,it is an opportunity right,
that's the signal to pause andrecalibrate and to nurture your
energy while you're waiting forthat next thing to appear,
because the next thing is notwhere you are right now And the
next thing actually has toappear, it has to present itself
, because it does not come fromwithin you.
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It actually has to come fromthe outside world, and it will
only come when your energy saysthat you are ready.
The openness and envelopingqualities of the generators make
them come across as warm andinviting to other people.
They connect easily with othersbecause the generators can feel
what these people need and thatthose other people can tell
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that you're here to give themwhat they need.
And so that means that peoplecan sense your openness and they
feel like they can ask favorsof you all the time, and that
can lead you to be takenadvantage of.
And so the generators,nurturing tendencies, make them
say yes far more often than theyshould at their own expense,
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and this leads to burnout,taking on more than you can
handle, depleting your energy,and it makes you feel resentful.
And the medicine for this is togo back to following your
strategy.
So what is the generatorstrategy?
The generator strategy is torespond, and I remember the
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first time I learned about thisand I've shared this in earlier
episodes where I talked abouthuman design because I am one of
the generator types.
I'm not a pure generator, i'm amanifesting generator, but my
strategy is also to respond, andI was so confused when I heard
that like respond to what?
But now that I understand it,it makes a ton of sense because
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in the time since learning this,i have been allowing myself to
live by my strategy And justabout everything in my life has
changed for the better.
And when I say that, i'mtalking about the sense of ease
and flow in my life.
Learning to wait to respond hasbeen a game changer for me,
which is one of the reasons whyI'm so passionate about sharing
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human design with the world,because, no matter what your
human design is, your type has astrategy, and if you are able
to take nothing else away fromthese conversations about human
design, let it be learning yourtype and learning your strategy
and how to live by your strategywith the understanding of what
your type is.
I can't.
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You guys, it's huge, huge witha capital H.
So what does it mean to respond?
For generators, like I said,they have a defined sacral
center.
This means that there is thisprimal gut response that arises
in your lower belly and itlights this spark.
It gives energy to something.
That response is to somethingexternal.
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It's never going to besomething in your mind.
And that took a little time forme to get my head around,
because the qualifier thatresponding means I have to
respond to something externalwas still confusing to me.
So, to put it simply, when youhave a defined sacral, it means
that you will get this in themoment gut response to something
in the world And, as a sacralbeing, that response is going to
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be a full body yes.
And if it is not a full bodyyes, burning on fire, oh my gosh
, yes then it's either a no or anot right now.
So the lack of a full body yesis not always no.
It could be yes, but not now.
It could be that the timing isnot right.
So those are.
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That is the strategy for thegenerative types.
Human design also has themes foreach type And these are the
signs that tell you whether ornot you're acting in alignment,
and these are called the selfand the not self themes in
traditional human design and thebalanced and unbalanced
expression in quantum humandesign, and I prefer the quantum
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definition because it feelsmore accessible to me.
It talks about being in a stateof being I am in a balanced
state or an unbalanced state,and when it's just gentler to
think about it, like if you'rein an unbalanced state, then you
can work to get back intobalance.
And you know, for me it just.
it just speaks more clearly tome.
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So the balanced expression forgenerators is satisfaction.
This is the sign that you'reworking in alignment, that you
are feeling completely satisfiedwith whatever it is that you're
doing in your life at themoment.
It comes through as contentment.
This is when you have workedreally hard all day doing the
thing that you love and you findyourself at the end of the day,
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satisfied that you did what youwere meant to do today and you
have no more energy left to burnAnd it's time for rest.
And that energy burn is reallyimportant for generator types to
understand.
Generators are meant to burnoff all of their energy each day
doing the things that they wantto do.
Now, this is not burning thecandle at birth, both ends and
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then burning themselves out.
It is spending all the energythat they have stored up so that
by the end of the day, whenit's time to rest, they can go
to bed depleted of all theirenergy.
So if you are a generator type,you might need to go for a run
during the day or do somethingelse physically to actually
spend all of your energy beforethe day is done, and if you are
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a generator type and youstruggle with insomnia.
My spouse is one of those peopleAnd when I try to explain this
to him he just kind of gives methe arched eyebrow because I'm
speaking magical things here.
But that's something to leaninto.
I really when my husband, thegenerator, works out really hard
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and spends his energy, hesleeps so much better than on
the days that he doesn't, andyou know he, no matter what I do
, he calls it that's anecdotal.
I would have nothing to do withthis.
That is something to do withthat.
So the balanced expression forthe generator is satisfaction.
The other side of that is theunbalanced expression, and that
is the experience of how itfeels when you're not in
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alignment.
And so the Unbalancedexpression for the generator is
frustration.
And this is tricky because whenyou act against your strategy
and you feel frustration Becausethings aren't an alignment, but
you also feel frustration whenyou're about to level up.
So You have to figure out howto Understand the nuance there.
The unbalanced generator has apattern of quitting too soon, of
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responding to frustration byquitting and not waiting for the
Next right thing to presentitself.
Right, it's this Not trustingthat they're supported by the
universe.
So if you are a generator typeand you find yourself quitting
often And this is not to saythat you're not allowed to quit
things You are allowed to quitthings but you have to use your
strategy to quit.
You have to use your strategyand your authority to quit, and
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your authority is the last thingthat I wanted to talk about.
It's really helpful tounderstand, as you start to
explore your design, that, inaddition to a type and the
strategy, you do have anauthority, and authority is not
specific to your type or yourstrategy.
When you understand how do youuse your strategy with your
authority, you will findyourself living a life where
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things really do fall into place.
They start to feel magical andvery, very easeful.
And there are two that areavailable to the generator types
.
The two for The generators area sacral authority and emotional
authority.
For generators with an emotionalauthority, once they are
responding to the things intheir present environment with
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that sacral energy that lightsthem up, they have to ride their
emotional wave and come backfull circle on their emotional
wave before taking action andmaking that final decision.
And I will go into theemotional wave in a future
episode because it is really,it's.
It's just so interesting.
But it requires that You canhold the yes or the no response
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and Sustain that yes over theduration of your emotional wave.
And for some people the wave isa few hours, for some people
It's you know, overnight.
You sleep on it.
Some people It's a week, somepeople It's a couple of days.
There is a way to track it.
But it is enough to know that ifyou are a generator type with
an emotional authority and youwould like to take action on
something That needs a yes, thatyes has to stay over the course
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of your high and your low.
And the high and the low havenothing to do with anything
Going on in the outside world.
So if you have a fight withsomeone let's say you Have an
argument with your best friend,or you have an argument with
your partner, or you have anargument with your child, and
you get all bummed out.
That is not a low in youremotional wave.
The emotional wave Rises andfalls.
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There's a rise and a dip.
That is completely irrelevantto anything that's actually
happening in the world.
So it's.
It's how you feel in your body.
So that is the emotionalauthority for generators, with
the sacral authority.
Once they are responding tothings in the present
environment with that sacralenergy that lights them up, they
then must learn to trust thegut response in the moment, that
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inner knowing that this nextthing is What they should choose
.
And that sounds really simple,but it's not.
It's a skill that must belearned because it requires
Quieting, it requires reallylearning how to read your own
body and those signals that weget as generators.
It's this inner compass and weall crave that knowing, and
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generators have it inside, andSo often we we look outside, we
ask for input and we we try toget the answer from somebody
else like what should I do?
What should I do?
the generator has to look, ithas to look within.
That's the only place wherealignment is going to come.
Okay, so to review, in thisepisode we did a deep dive into
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the generator type and all ofthe main points that it means to
be a generator.
We talked about having an openand enveloping aura, we talked
about the generator types,strategy to respond, and we
talked about the balanced andunbalanced expressions being
satisfaction and frustration,and what that means for a
generator.
We talked about how importantit is for a generator to hold on
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and not quit when frustrationshows up, and how they are
allowed to quit, but they mustwait for something in the
external world, using theirauthority to give them the sign
that it's actually okay to quit.
If you are a generator, thelesson for you is to learn to
wait for the next right step topresent itself from the outside
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world.
It cannot come from you.
It must come from the externalworld, and you must learn to
trust that the inner, sacralresponse will light up that next
step for you.
You are meant to do things thatyou love.
You are meant to spend all ofyour energy doing the things
that light you up, and that'spretty exciting, i think.
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So I hope that after listeningto this episode, you understand
a little bit more about howvaluable it is to understand
your strategy and your type andyour authority, and if you're
interested in learning moreabout yourself and your human
design, i urge you to visit mywebsite.
Get a free human design chart.
You need to know your birthdetails to do so, but once you
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do, the chart will tell you,your type and your strategy and
your authority.
You can begin to experimentwith it and learn all the
different ways in which yourdesign can be tapped into to
make life just It's just.
It's incredible how simple itis once you see it, but it's
actually really exciting toexperiment with it and to see
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and to realize that you have somuch more control and there's so
much power in who you are.
If only you let yourself be whoyou are.
Okay, that's all I have for you.
Please tune in next week for myepisode on the Manifesting
Generator And I hope you have agreat week.
Thank you, remember, part ofbeing a calm entrepreneur is
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developing the systems, habitsand know-how that lets you know
that you are the one in thedriver's seat.
You get to choose how you runyour business and you get to
choose how you work.
So you got this.
I hope you enjoyed listening tothis episode of the Calm
Entrepreneur Podcast.
I'm Corinne O'Flynn and if thisepisode was valuable to you,
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please head on over and rate andreview wherever you consume
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New episodes go out each weekon Tuesdays and I look forward
to hanging with you again.
This is Corinne signing off.
Have an excellent day.
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