Understanding Multiple Sclerosis Through the Lens of Human Design
In this month’s series, we interview Karen Curry regarding multiple sclerosis and human design. Karen is an international speaker and bestselling author of “Understanding Human Design The New Science of Astrology: Discover Who You Really Are.” Her personal development firm uses Human Design to help her clients discover their unique gifts and best strategies to create a healthier, wealthier, and most fulfilling life. Karen, a former nurse, has also developed a program, “Healing by Human Design” to help people get to the heart of their pain: physical, emotional, mental or spiritual.
What is Human Design
Human Design is a personality assessment tool based on our birth date, time and place. It incorporates Eastern and Western Astrology synthesizing it with the I’Ching, the Kabbalah, the Hindu Chakra System and Quantum Physics. The result is an amazing tool that allows us to understand our unique blueprint and way of being in the world.
Human Design helps us understand how each of us is meant to use our energy in the world, how each of us best takes decisions, what our gifts and talents are, where we might lose sight of ourselves and become ill, and our potential for healing.
Human Design and Chronic Disease
Through the lens of Human Design and Karen’s experience, one of the possible root causes of chronic disease is that we spend too much energy being who we are not. Society, our family’s genetic code, our experiences, and our collective beliefs about who we ‘should be’ mold our behaviors and ways of being. When these behaviors and ways of being don’t fit our energy blueprints, they end up requiring our bodies to spend excessive energy trying to hold up an allusion or mask that isn’t us. If one holds this mask for too long, the body burns out. Human Design helps us discover what is our unique energy blueprint so that we can live more in accord with who we are meant to be.
One of the things that Human Design teaches us is that there is no one size fits all formula – for living well, for health, for ways to get burned out, or for getting particular diseases.
Multiple Sclerosis and Human Design
In the case of human design and multiple sclerosis, there might be tendencies in common yet each chart is individual. Each person’s chart can show us where that particular person might spend energy being someone they are not that might eventually lead to disease and burnout. The chart can also show us a person’s individual formula for what their bodies require (time to rest, joy, time alone, etc.) to work optimally.
Here are a few examples:
Gate 49 the Body Barometer
In the chart example below of someone diagnosed with MS, this person has gate 29 defined (see the black vertical line coming out of the red box in the lower-center of the chart). A person with this gate has an extreme body barometer. This means that their bodies will tell them very clearly, “Hey, I’m done. This is too much.” (while someone without this gate defined might not have such an immediate body response when they’ve done too much).
The Defined Will Center
This same chart also has a defined (small triangle on the right) Will Center. Interestingly enough people with defined Will Centers absolutely need consistent cycles of rest. If they save their vacation time for later and stop taking breaks trying to prove their value by overworking; they will become extremely depleted. This center is the center of vital aspects of the immune system. When those with this center defined don’t give themselves consistent cycles of rest (rest meaning play and deep rest not working on your computer in the backyard or lay on the coach but worry about work), they can burn out. This kind of burn out is not just mental (I hate my job), but physical (I have no energy to keep doing this).
In Human Design, areas in our chart that are white or “undefined,” are areas where we can absorb other people’s identity and loose connection to who we are. We can live other people’s stories rather than our own.
The Undefined Sacral Center
The next example charts below, and the majority of charts of those diagnosed with MS that Eva M Clark sent to Karen for this interview, all had an undefined Sacral Centers (box second from the bottom). 30% of the general population have an undefined sacral. This is the center for workforce and life force energy. Because it is white in so many of the charts of people diagnosed with MS, the majority of those with MS “borrow” or absorb other people’s energy. Borrowing energy feels awesome, yet it’s unsustainable as it is not one’s own. If you have an undefined sacral and try to work like you see so many people around you, working from 9 to 5 and trying to prove yourself through your hard work and sacrifice, you will burn yourself out midway through life (35 to 40 years of age sometimes earlier). Those that try to be workhorses when they do not have a defined Sacral Center will eventually find themselves struggling to get out of bed because their bodies will not collaborate. They are wiped out (this kind of fatigue could be what many describe as the “MS sleeps”). As Karen points out in the interview, a 2-week vacation is not enough if you have run yourself into the ground in this way. This might result in long-term need of rest and restoration. It often times take as long to get unburned out after getting burned out in this way. Not just resting the body, while your mind is a mile a minute, for you burn just as much energy, but a total rest of body, mind, and spirit.
One of our struggles in this society is that we’ve related self-worth with work. Society has erroneously said those with Sacral Centers defined have worth (70% of society) and those that don’t have it defined don’t. What is beautiful about Human Design is that it teaches us how to get off the treadmill of societal expectations and definitions of worth and understand our unique value and to share that as our contribution to the world.
There is No Formula to Why We get Illness
Just as Human Design teaches us how unique we are, in our energy, in how we decide, and in our values and gifts, it also lets us understand that there isn’t one reason or formula for why we get sick. According to Karen and her experience:
- Some people have thrown into the adventure of some kind of illness into their life path as part of their soul’s journey.
- Sometimes people get illness because its the marker that they are out of sync and not being our true selves.
- Sometimes it something they’ve agreed to live out to clear their family system from this energy
- Sometimes its literally the toxins in their environment and it has nothing to do with theirmindset or behaviors but just an unfortunate series of events.
The No-Formula Model for Healing
“There is no one formula for healing as there is no-one else like you” says Karen Curry. She advises us to listen to different modalities and if we don’t resonate with it, don’t use it!
Know you are not an accident. We all have a unique place in the cosmos. That occupation that you fill IS your contribution. There is not something you have to do as your life purpose and then burn yourself out trying to find that thing to do. According to Human Design, your being and maximizing the full expression of yourself is the purpose.
Your Unique Formula for Healing Multiple Sclerosis and Human Design
To find your unique formula for healing MS:
- Start following the things that you do that make you feel better. We are so conditioned to think that it has to be hard work and that we will need to sacrifice. In Karen’s practice, she constantly asks her clients “Does that feel good?”. If the answer is “yes” at that moment, then she asks them to do more of it and if its “no” then to stop. Sometimes the body just needs a couch day and if being on the couch feels really good and we are open to experience a couch day, then we can benefit from that experience.
- Explore the beliefs behind the guilt, resistance and should’s that are keeping you from following what feels good. If we are in resistance, feel guilty because it feels so good or decide we ‘should’ be doing something else because we’ve bought into a formula of some kind of what is appropriate, then we won’t benefit from the experience.
- Study your Human Design chart and understand your unique blueprint, especially how you are meant to use your energy, your decision strategy, and what areas to address that might be affecting your multiple sclerosis.
- Work with some kind of energy psychology techniques such as EFT, NLP, and hypnotherapy to unprogram and reprogram your beliefs.
- Support the process with subtle body therapies such as acupuncture or energy healing to stabilize the energy as you continue to make cognitive and emotional shifts.
- Give yourself time. It’s not hard, but it does take time.
Resources Multiple Sclerosis and Human Design
To get your free Human Design chart and material to begin to understand your blueprint, visit Karen Curry’s site, Human Design for Everyone.
Visit Eva M Clark’s Healing Multiple Sclerosis Program to unprogram and reprogram your beliefs. To learn more about the beliefs and patterns behind multiple sclerosis, visit the post The Mental Patterns of MS.
Read and watch our Creating Health presentation on how Chinese medicine and acupuncture addresses multiple sclerosis.
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