117: Making Aligned Decisions: An Introduction to the Human Design Authorities

The Uncommon Couch

117: Making Aligned Decisions: An Introduction to the Human Design Authorities

Listen to your gut. Sleep on it. Trust your intuition. Talk to a friend. We’ve all heard these and more ways to go about making decisions, both big and small. But what if each of us has a specific approach that we are meant to take when it comes to decision making?

In today’s episode, I’m sharing a high-level overview of the seven authorities in human design, which inform how we make decisions. Everyone has a different authority, which means that listening to your gut works great for one person (or authority), and sleeping on it works great for another. 

Learning about your authority and making use of it in your own life is important to being fully aligned in your decisions.

What you’ll find in this episode:

  • [01:50] Understanding the human design authorities, and how they drive how we are meant to make decisions (it’s different for everyone)

  • [04:36] Understanding emotional authority, and some examples of how to approach it

  • [06:55] How the sacral authority shows up, and how yes/no questions can help this authority make decisions

  • [09:54] Learning to listen to the quiet voice of intuition associated with splenic authority

  • [12:05] Speaking in an uncensored way with the ego authority 

  • [14:12] How the self-projected authority means speaking out loud in order to make decisions

  • [16:10] How those with environmental authority (like me) need to be in the right environment to make aligned decisions

  • [18:37] Understanding the lunar authority and how reflectors use it to sample all the other authorities to make a decisions of their own

  • [20:36] An invitation to come back and listen to the podcast when I interview different people with each of these authorities, and the importance of cultivating a relationship with your own decision-making authority

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HUMAN DESIGNAlyssa Adams