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281 - Human Design Centers: The Ajna Center · Unshakeable with Human Design - A Human Design For Business Podcast

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  Welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, the show dedicated to
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  helping entrepreneurs use human design to shift from hustle to
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  flow without sacrificing results.
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  Come here to become an unshakeable human and build an unshakeable business
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  according to your human design.
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  I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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  Hello and welcome to Unshakeable with Human Design, everybody.
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  I'm your host, Nicole Laino.
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  We're here together again for another installment in our centers series.
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  This is the eighth of the nine.
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  We only have two of these left.
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  We have this one, and then we have one more, which is the Throat Center, which
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  will be coming out next Wednesday, so make sure that you stay tuned for that.
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  If you're loving this series, please share it in your Instagram stories and tag me.
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  I'm @NicoleLainoOfficial.
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  Let us know what you thought about this.
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  I would love to hear what you're getting out of this series, because this has
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  been really fun for me to put together.
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  I love doing this where I get into this space with a particular aspect of the
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  chart because it's fun to do these where we go deep into an aspect of human design.
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  Let's explore this.
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  Let's talk about what this actually means, and I can explain
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  it my way, which I love to do.
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  So today, we are diving into the Ajna Center, which is the center of the mind.
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  Now, a lot of times I think people get confused, what's the difference between
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  the Head Center and the Ajna Center?
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  Because they are very much connected.
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  The Ajna Center is always under pressure from the Head Center.
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  The Head Center is mental pressure, and it's pushing down on the Ajna Center
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  all the time, saying, figure it out, figure it out, do something with this.
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  So, the Awareness Center that is the Ajna Center is always turning on concepts.
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  It's always kind of spinning and trying to figure things out.
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  And it does it in two different ways depending on whether you
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  have a defined ajna or whether you have an undefined ajna.
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  That's going to determine kind of your relationship to this.
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  Let's think about this from another perspective.
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  If something is defined, it is consistent, it is fixed.
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  And if we have something undefined, it is variable, it is open, it
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  is more fluid, it's receptive.
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  So different ways of approaching this whole idea of ideas, concepts, thoughts,
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  opinions, rationalization, solutions, answers, the questions, all of those
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  things are themes of the Ajna Center.
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  They're all themes.
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  So what's interesting is when we go into these from a higher level,
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  this is the center that is trying to come up with all of those things.
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  Take the inspiration from the outside world, or from the head center, and
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  trying to make it into something.
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  How can we make this into a system?
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  How can we make it into a concept?
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  How can we make it into an insight?
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  What's my opinion on this?
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  It's always doing that.
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  And we have busy minds because of that.
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  So that's what the Ajna Center's job is to do, is to make sense of things
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  and it's trying to do it all the time.
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  Even when things are not ours to make sense of, even when things don't
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  need to be laid out in a perfect process, if you have a defined Ajna,
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  it probably always wants to do that.
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  Now, there are benefits to everything.
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  There are benefits to defined stuff and there are benefits to undefined things.
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  I have a completely wide open Ajna.
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  I have a very open mind.
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  Now, the way that I always think about this stuff is, when you have
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  something that is defined, it's fixed.
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  So you have a fixed way of thinking if you have a defined mind.
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  If you have a defined Ajna, you might have a fixed way of thinking.
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  That once you think something a certain way, it can be difficult to change
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  that thought, to change that belief.
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  Now, if you're listening to this show, I'm guessing that probably you've tried
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  to rewire limiting beliefs, you understand the concept of limiting beliefs.
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  You have these great thinkers, these are concepts that they came up with to say,
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  here's how the mind works, and here's how beliefs influence our behavior.
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  It's a concept.
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  That's something that came out of an Ajna center, it came out of the mind.
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  It came out of their experience and through what they knew,
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  turning it into a concept.
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  That's what the mind does.
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  But when you have a defined Ajna, when you have a defined mind,
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  those beliefs that you have may be slightly more difficult to change.
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  Because once you think a certain way, it can become fixed.
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  Because the process that you take things through in order to make it into
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  an opinion, into an insight, into a thought, into a belief, or whatever it
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  is, is the same, or relatively the same.
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  When you make a thought, when you make an opinion, when you make a rationalization,
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  when you come up with a solution, if you have a defined Ajna, then you have sort of
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  like a step by step process of doing that.
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  Your mind says, oh, we know how to do it.
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  We take the thought and we turn it down here and we put it through step
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  two and we put it through step three and then we come out with a concept.
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  It has a process for doing that.
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  And if the process is similar every time, you might get a similar result every time.
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  So it can be more difficult, sticky, to change anything that's fixed.
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  Same thing with the G Center.
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  When we talk about the G Center, changing your identity when you have
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  a defined identity center can be more difficult than the people who have an
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  open identity center, because all they have to do is go be around somebody
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  else and they start to feel different.
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  Now they have to know what's happening there, and they have to
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  know how to work with that in order to use that to their advantage.
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  That's what learning to work with your design is all about.
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  How do I work with what I have?
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  There's not good or bad, there's just yours and whether
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  you know how to use it or not.
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  Whether you know and are aware of what's happening or are you asleep
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  to it and running on autopilot.
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  If you're asleep to it and running on autopilot, then you allow the
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  same inspiration to create the same thoughts over and over and over again.
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  That saying that there's some millions of thoughts that you have every single
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  day and 90 percent of them are the same thoughts you had yesterday.
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  I think this is extra true for the people with the defined Ajna.
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  Because that process is so fixed, because it is so repetitive and the same.
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  That it can be harder for them to wake up to the idea that what
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  they think is not the only way.
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  Now the flip side of this is that they can have really strong opinions
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  and they can change the way we think because they have such belief in them.
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  They're so certain.
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  High expression of the Ajna is certainty.
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  But you got to learn to work with that.
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  You can't be closed minded.
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  And that's a challenge for a lot of people with defined minds.
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  My son, he knows everything.
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  He's got a defined head and a defined ajna, and that boy is just like, I
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  know that already, I know that already.
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  We're working on this, he and I, on softening his way of taking
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  in information, to really trust what he knows, but also to be
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  open to what other people say.
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  This is one of my constant things that I'm working on with him,
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  with compassion, with sweetness.
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  Not making him feel wrong for being the way he is, but trying
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  to open his way of thinking.
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  Why?
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  Because that will make him incredibly powerful.
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  If you can have that level of certainty, if you can have strength, if you can
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  have really strong thoughts, I mean, if you have a defined head and Ajna,
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  your thoughts are real powerful.
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  You will overcome someone who has openness there, more than likely,
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  because they're more malleable.
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  They're more open to changing their mind.
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  And people who have defined are less open to changing their minds.
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  But if they can become open to other people's ideas, to accept them, to at
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  least contemplate them and be open to the possibility that somebody else has
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  something to offer, then there can be incredible, incredible strength with that.
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  That's the beauty of knowing my son's chart.
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  I get to see these things about him.
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  And to not get upset that he always does things this way, it's right
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  for him to always do it that way.
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  That's natural for him.
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  But how can I open him up to the highest gifts of what he has?
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  And that's the same thing for you.
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  That's the difference between learning about your human design and just
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  hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth and actually embodying
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  your human design and starting to work with it and notice how it's actually
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  happening every single day in your life.
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  It can be hard to do on your own because we're very close to our process.
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  If you're asleep, sometimes it's hard to know that you're
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  asleep and you're dreaming.
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  Not until you wake up and you go, that was a dream.
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  Wow, did that feel real.
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  That's why inside my programs and inside my world, I'm always pointing out to
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  my clients, do you see how this is your defined ajna working right here?
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  What if we opened it up here, what would happen?
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  Do you see how that's your gate 29 showing up again and again and again?
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  It's in the shadow a little bit, do you see that?
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  It can be so hard for us.
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  We hear this stuff, we know the definitions, but to see it at work
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  and to catch it while we're operating in it, that's the advanced stuff.
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  You know the difference between those things.
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  page so you can learn more about it.
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  Now let's talk about the undefined Ajna.
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  Undefined Ajna, open minded.
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  Doesn't have a fixed way of processing information.
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  Doesn't have a fixed way of thinking.
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  Is open to everything.
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  But, you know what comes from that?
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  Uncertainty.
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  Because we don't have a process, so it's hard to trust something that you don't
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  have a process, that you don't really feel that you consciously operate it.
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  It's just doing its own thing.
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  It takes things in, and then sometimes it comes up with an
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  idea, and sometimes it doesn't.
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  And sometimes that idea is crazy, because it's out of the box, because
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  you're an out of the box thinker.
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  And that sometimes can feel a little bit tough to trust.
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  What if I say something nuts?
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  But this is the game, you have to learn to trust that, you have to learn
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  to trust that maybe the world needs your weird thought at that moment.
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  Maybe the world, or that group that you're in, or the person you're sitting in front
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  of, needs to hear your weird, crazy idea.
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  But like everything with thoughts and opinions, it needs to be asked for.
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  You can't go forcing them on anyone, no matter what definition you have in
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  your head center or your Ajna center.
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  Your thoughts need to be asked for, but we offer something different.
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  And that's the beauty of human design.
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  When you can start to see how your uncertainty is holding you back, but
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  uncertainty is a low frequency of an open Ajna center, which you have, then you
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  can start to find your own productivity.
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  You know where you have to push through.
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  You know where you need to say, I can't be certain.
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  Cause I'm never gonna be certain.
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  That's my not self keeping me stuck.
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  That's the tail wagging the dog.
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  And when the tail wags the dog, we don't get the results that we want.
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  And people don't trust us.
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  People trust people who are being really grounded in who they are.
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  When you're being truly who you are, when you're saying what you mean, and
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  you are showing up in alignment with your own energy, people feel that.
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  Alignment has a frequency.
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  And that's a frequency that people respond to.
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  And that's what magnetism is.
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  You'll start pulling the right people, the right opportunities, the right
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  ideas, to you when you're in alignment.
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  When you're not in alignment, you're actually not even
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  paying attention to that stuff.
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  You're so fixated on what you're trying to get done, or how uncomfortable you are, or
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  how frustrated you are that you miss all the opportunities that are coming to you.
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  Or you're attracting lessons rather than the results and the
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  opportunities that you want.
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  Because the universe needs to course correct you.
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  You're drawing things to you that are going to bump you back
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  onto your path of alignment.
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  Which can be really uncomfortable.
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  If you feel like you've been learning lessons for a long time.
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  and you haven't been walking in a path toward anything because you've
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  just been getting bumped around, then that's a sign that you've been
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  out of alignment for a long time.
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  I hear from people all the time telling me that they've been learning about
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  human design, they've been listening to this podcast, they've read all the
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  books, they've taken all the courses, some of them have even gotten certified
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  to be human design teachers, to be instructors, to do readings, and they
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  still feel like they are not in alignment.
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  That they are not on their path, that they don't feel like
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  they are really tuned into it.
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  But when I ask them questions, they say, well I know that,
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  I know that, I know that.
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  I don't care what you know.
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  It's what have you embodied.
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  And embodiment comes with actually doing the work.
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  We don't manifest with our thoughts.
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  We manifest through this body.
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  I don't want the thought or the idea of money.
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  I want to hold it in my hand or see it in my bank account.
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  I want it to be a real thing.
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  We do that through the body.
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  We don't do that purely through our thoughts.
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  The thoughts are what we start drawing things to us with.
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  But we bring it into reality through our reality.
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  Through our physical body.
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  Embodiment is necessary.
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  And if you haven't embodied, then you're missing the boat and that's
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  why you're sitting in this state of maybe things are kind of working, but
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  you don't feel great about yourself.
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  That's not a fun place to be.
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  I know, because I've been there.
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  I did a lot of thinking.
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  Remember there was a movie with Ben Stiller, the Walter Mitty movie
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  where he basically lived his life in his head and not out in the world.
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  You don't want to be that.
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  Human design is not something to be learned.
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  It's a system that is used to show you who you truly are.
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  But you've got to walk the walk.
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  You have to start noticing these energies, these tendencies, these ways.
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  What's your way?
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  Can't do it your way if you don't know what your way is.
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  You're doing it somebody else's way.
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  And that probably isn't gonna work for you unless they're just like you.
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  And if you haven't found that yet, then maybe it's time you find your way.
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  And that's what the Unshakeable Human program is all about.
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  Six weeks together.
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  It is lifetime access to the program.
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  So you can buy this program at any time and get massive results from it.
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  It will change who you are, or it'll bring you back to who you really are.
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  It'll change your relationship to yourself.
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  When you change your relationship to yourself, you change your
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  relationship to other people.
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  People see you differently, people react to you differently.
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  You do get more of what you want in life when you are being
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  more of who you're meant to be.
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  I think I'm gonna leave that there.
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  That was something that came out of my open ajna, out of nowhere, and I'm going
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  to leave it there, I'm not going to go further because I might screw it up.
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  That was kind of eloquent, so I'm going to leave it there.
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  So thank you so much for being here.
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  If you'd like to learn more about the Unshakeable Human program, DM me the
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  words, Unshakeable Human on Instagram.
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  We also have the link in the show notes for you, if you would like to look at it
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  there, just hop on over to the show notes and we'll take you over to the website.
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  Thank you so much for being here.
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  I appreciate you.
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  I appreciate you listening to this series.
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  This has been super fun.
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  Thank you so much.
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  And remember, in order to have an unshakeable business, you must
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  first become an unshakeable human.
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  So thanks for letting us help you become unshakeable with human design, everybody.
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