When The Mind Steps Back: Living By Self-Projected Authority
Introduction
Most of us grow up making decisions from the mind, weighing pros and cons, seeking approval, and trying to prove ourselves. The result is often exhaustion and misalignment.
In Human Design, decision-making doesn’t belong to the mind. It belongs to your Authority, the compass within your Design.
Most of us grow up making decisions from the mind. It feels logical, weighing pros and cons, seeking advice, trying to get it right. But for me, as a Self-Projected Projector, I had to learn that my mind is not where my truth lives.
The Noise of the Mind
My Design carries Definition from the Head to the Ajna. That means my mind is busy. It talks, it questions, it fills the air with concepts. For a long time, I struggled to discern the difference between what my mind was saying and what my G Centre was quietly expressing.
Split Definition and the Delay of Wholeness
Because I have a Split Definition, my experience of decision-making is not immediate. The words may come out of my mouth, my Self already knows, but I don’t feel the decision as true yet.
Wholeness comes later. Sometimes it happens after discussing it again with my husband or someone I trust. Sometimes it takes walking around the grocery store, being around people, or even simply letting time and planetary transits bridge the split.
When Clarity Arrives
The moment of clarity comes when the chatter finally settles. What I said before, perhaps many times, suddenly lands with a feeling of excitement and alignment. It isn’t new. I’ve spoken about it before. But now, I feel whole in it.
This is the dance of my Split Definition and my Inner Authority: the G speaks early, the Ajna takes time to come along. When both are aligned, I feel the clarity of a true decision.
The Texture of Satisfaction
For me, satisfaction is not the Sacral kind, not the Generator’s hum of energy well-spent. It is the Self-Projected kind: the quiet relief of having voiced my truth, heard it, processed it, and finally felt whole in it.
The decision is correct when it carries that sense of happiness, not borrowed, not forced, but a resonance in my direction and identity.
Reflections for You
Can I hear the difference between my mind’s chatter and my inner truth?
Do I give myself safe spaces to speak and hear my voice reflected? If your inner Authority is connected to the Throat Centre.
Am I patient enough to let clarity arrive in its own timing?
Closing Invitation
This is how my Authority speaks, through my voice, through time, and through the gradual settling of my mind into the clarity of the Self.
Authority is lived, not memorised. And when you live it, life begins to align without force or resistance.
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