Welcome to Video By Your Design
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Your Producer Type:
A Manifesting Generator with Emotional Authority
Your producing Type is what is known as a Manifesting Generator with the nuanced depth of Emotional Authority – now, that's an intriguing mix! It means you're here to do what you love and love what you do. Anything less feels like death by a thousand cuts. Emotional Authority means you need to ride that up and down wave for a bit until you come to some degree of emotional clarity. It's not good for you to make decisions at the crest of a high or at the bottom of a crashing wave.
Things naturally come to you rather than you having to go out and "make it happen". But that means waiting until you have something to respond to. The good news is that for you, FOMO can cease to exist as a working idea in your life.
Now, video creation, with its blend of technical and creative elements, will serve you up with many decisions to make, both big and small. However, your Type and Inner Authority seem tailor-made for such a unique blend of skills and energy.
YOUR PERSONAL VIDEO PRODUCING FLIGHT PLAN
How to Make Videos That Create a Powerful Connection With Your Viewer
How to Leverage Your Personal Design
to Create Video That Connects With Your Audience
Here are some tips for a Manifesting Generator with Emotional Authority on making compelling marketing videos.
Emotionally Resonant Content
Use your Emotional Authority to create content that resonates on an emotional level with your audience. Share personal stories, empathize with your audience, and create an emotional connection.
Time Your Releases
As a Manifesting Generator with Emotional Authority, you will experience emotional waves. Consider timing the release of your videos to align with your own emotional clarity, in order to maximize impact.
Feel the Energy
Allow your emotional energy to infuse your videos. Be authentic and genuine. If you are excited about something, let that show. If something moves you, share it. Your audience will resonate with your authenticity.
Patient Decision-Making
Remember that as an Emotional Authority, you need to take your time to make decisions. Don't rush the creative process. Give yourself the time to fully process your feelings and intuition about a video before releasing it.
Authenticity Is Key
It is crucial to remain authentic and true to yourself. Your audience will be able to tell if you are being insincere. Even if it means sharing your vulnerabilities, authenticity tends to foster a deeper connection with your audience.
Experimentation
Use your energy as a Manifesting Generator to try out different types of content, shooting styles, editing techniques, etc. See what feels right and what your audience responds to.
Interactive Content: Engage your audience by making your content interactive. Ask questions, conduct polls, encourage comments. Your audience will appreciate the opportunity to interact with you.
Interactive Content
Engage your audience by making your content interactive. Ask questions, conduct polls, encourage comments. Your audience will appreciate the opportunity to interact with you.
Visual Storytelling
Manifesting Generators are great at visualizing and then manifesting their ideas. Use this talent to tell compelling stories through your videos.
Respond, Don't Initiate
As a Manifesting Generator, it's essential to wait to respond rather than initiating action. This might translate to waiting for the right moment of inspiration before filming a video, or waiting until you've received feedback or seen a need from your audience before creating specific content.
Manage Your Energy
While you have an impressive capacity for work and might get absorbed in editing a video or planning content, don't forget to take breaks and rejuvenate. The quality of your content relies on your well-being.
Use Humor and Positivity
Manifesting Generators often have a magnetic, upbeat energy. Use this to your advantage by infusing your videos with humor and positivity.
Demonstrate Your Process
People are fascinated by the work ethic and process of Manifesting Generators. Consider showing behind-the-scenes content or explaining your process as part of your videos.
Empathize with Your Audience
As someone with Emotional Authority, use your deep understanding of emotions to empathize with your audience. Speak to their challenges and aspirations directly.
Respond to Feedback
Manifesting Generators thrive on feedback. Encourage comments on your videos and engage with your audience. This interaction will not only foster community but also give you insights on how to improve.
Maximize Your Multitasking
Manifesting Generators can handle lots of things at once. Feel free to juggle multiple projects or topics in your video content, as long as they all serve your main message and brand.
Harness Your Speed
You work faster than most people. Use this to your advantage by producing content consistently. A steady stream of quality content can help build and maintain an engaged audience.
Remember, your power as a Manifesting Generator with Emotional Authority comes from your ability to connect with your audience on an emotional level while maintaining an infectious energy level. Use these traits to your advantage in your videos.
There are dozens more tips and strategies throughout this report. The deeper you go into your uniqueness, the clearer the picture of the kind of powerful producer you are on your way to becoming.
Introducing - You!
You Have a Design That Makes a Certain Kind of Video Creation Perfect For You and Your Audience
Steven Washer's Rave Bodygraph
You're looking at a blueprint of how your life works. It's derived from a system called Human Design. HD is a tool that combines various aspects of astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, the Hindu-Brahmin chakra model, and quantum physics, to give you a comprehensive map of your unique genetic makeup. It provides insights into your personality, your circuitry, and how you interact with the world.
It's completely mechanical. It doesn't require holding any particular beliefs, intoning any mantras or joining a religion. It's just a tool to help you understand how you operate.
It is remarkably suited to the world of video production and marketing. In fact, it gives us access to a quality of energy and a depth of wisdom most of us leave abandoned under a lifetime of conditioning. This energy is also safer for us and more strategic than anything our brains can dredge up.
And it just happens to solve a critical problem that exists for anyone who wants to do video really well. Most of us have no reliable means of accessing our own content creation genius.
In this report we'll show you those life-giving elements of your personal Human Design, then distill them into a practical guide for all your video efforts.
Here are your vital statistics. They'll mean much more to you by the time you finish this report.
Type:
Aura:
Strategy:
Authority:
Profile:
Not-Self:
Signature:
Incarnation Cross:
Manifesting Generator
Open and Enveloping
Wait to Respond
Emotional - Solar Plexus
5/1 Heretic Investigator
Frustration
Satisfaction
Left Angle Cross of Wishes 2
In this report we will connect the main elements of Human Design to the way in which you offer your gifts to the world via the expression and demonstration of them in video.
Here are the elements we'll be covering.
Type
Your Type is the first fundamental layer in the Human Design System. It describes your energy dynamics and life purpose. The four types are Manifestors, Generators (including Manifesting Generators), Projectors, and Reflectors. Each type has a unique strategy and way of interacting with the world.
Aura
The aura is an energy field that surrounds your physical body. It is the way we connect to and are experienced by others. The nature of your aura is determined by your Type. It is your aura that brings to you the things you want and need, without stress or strain. We won't be going into this very deeply. It's enough for now to just know you have one and that it does reach right through the lens to someone on the other side.
Strategy
Strategy is your roadmap to making correct decisions and actions that are in alignment with your Type. For Manifestors, it's about initiating; for Generators and Manifesting Generators, it's about responding; for Projectors, it's about waiting for the invitation; and for Reflectors, it's about waiting for a lunar cycle to elapse.
Authority
Authority refers to your inner decision-making process. It can be emotional, sacral, splenic, ego manifested, ego projected, self-projected, lunar, or none (for Reflectors). Following your Authority helps you make decisions that are right for you.
Profile
Your Profile provides context about your life purpose and how you're meant to interact with the world. It consists of two numbers that represent the conscious and unconscious sides of your personality, distilled from the 64 line groupings of the iChing. There are 12 profiles in total.
Signature and Not-Self Emotions
Your Signature is the consistent feeling you experience when living your design. Your "Not-Self" emotion is not truly you but is often experienced in response to conditioning from the outside world. By understanding these, you can align more with your Signature and less with the Not-Self, leading to greater satisfaction, success, peace, and surprise in life (depending on your Type).
Incarnation Cross
The Incarnation Cross refers to the specific alignment of the sun and earth at the time of your birth, represented by four Gates. It provides a 50,000 ft. insight into your life purpose and the lessons you're here to learn.
Energy and Awareness Centers
Centers are analogous to the chakras in the Hindu-Brahmin chakra model. They are energy hubs, each with a unique function and influence over specific aspects of our lives. There are nine Centers in total.
Channels
Within your channels flow the unique energies of your life. Your job here is to express them for the benefit of yourself, your tribe, your community and the world. These energies are unique to you and represent your highest calling for living on this earth. They are meant to be lived out with as little non-self behavior conditioning as possible, as they are very, very powerful and beneficial to every part of your life.
By following your Type, Strategy, and Authority, and understanding your Profile and Incarnation Cross, the Human Design System guides you in making decisions that are more aligned with who you truly are. This alignment can lead to a life that feels more authentic, fulfilling, and less resistant. By embracing your true nature, you can become the person you were always meant to be, enjoying a life of increased flow, ease, and personal satisfaction.
Let's take each of these elements in turn and see how they can help you become more of who you are and then apply that to your work in video.
How You Are Uniquely Wired
Let's explore your Type. It's the basis of all our recommendations on how you can best do video.
YOUR TYPE:
You Are a Manifesting Generator
Executive Brief
There are 4 basic Types in Human Design. Manifestors (about 8.5% of everyone), Generators (37%), Manifesting Generators (33%), Projectors (20%) and Reflectors (1.5%). As a Manifesting Projector, you're the builder, the doer, the creator, and you are here to do and build what you love and love what you do and build, moving fast and sometimes skipping steps, so you find efficient shortcuts to bring to others. Your decision-making strategy is the same as a Generator, but you also have a greater capacity to implement on your own once your decision is made.
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WHAT IS A MANIFESTING GENERATOR?
A Generator, including a Manifesting Generator, is an individual with abundant inner energy and the ability to sustain hard work over long periods. They are often seen as the "builders" in any situation due to their natural resilience and persistence. From a video marketer's perspective, this has several implications.
However, pure Generators must wait to respond to an outside stimulus before initiating a project.
A Manifesting Generator is a type of Generator with the power to initiate projects once the Sacral response has kicked in.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MANIFESTING GENERATOR
A Generator is someone in whom the Sacral Center is defined. If that person also has a connection between any of the motors to the Throat Center, they are a Manifesting Generator, since the Throat is our center of manifesting and expression.
So how does this relate to video?
As a Generator, you excel in the more labor-intensive aspects of video. You will be efficient at handling the long process of planning, filming, editing, and promoting a video campaign. Your sustainable energy allows you to persevere through demanding tasks that require high levels of patience and effort.
You respond well to things you feel a natural resonance with, so you might already have an instinctive understanding of what kind of content would resonate with an audience. You might excel in conducting market research or A/B testing due to your knack for identifying what feels "right" or "wrong."
Your enduring energy could be highly beneficial in the face of a challenging campaign or when working under tight deadlines. You're likely to remain focused and committed until the task is completed to the best of your ability.
One potential challenge for you as a Generator doing video is that you do need to learn when to stop and rest. You might push yourself all the way to burnout if you don't listen to the inner cues telling you you've done enough for the day.
Communication is also key for you as a Generator. As you wait for something external to respond to, it's important that you're kept in the loop and given the opportunity to voice your ideas and perspectives.
Above all, it's important to keep in mind why Generators, who make up 70% of the population, exist at all. Why are Generators here? They are here to understand themselves. When Aristotle said "know thyself" it appears he was speaking to Generators.
THE MAGIC OF GENERATORS
Human Design itself has one major feature you would be amply encouraged to experiment with. Your mind is meant to be a passenger on your many trips around the sun. It's here to enjoy the ride, process ideas and act as the authority for others in certain ways, but never to be your Inner Authority.
What does this mean? It means that your Inner Authority, expressed by the defined centers in your body, are where real decision-making now takes place if what you want is a peaceful, productive and prosperous life. The mind observes, processes and expresses your decisions through other centers, which then become the Outer Authority for others.
The Generator's strategy of waiting to respond is exactly what attracts the things and people into your life that you really want. In other words, there is no longer any need to chase after your desires. Simply by living your Type and Strategy, your desires are drawn to you. You even possess an open and enveloping aura, which extends into the camera and out into the world, where it is felt by your audience.
The right ones are drawn to you, and this attraction comes through easily on video, as it is simply an expression of energy, which seems to have no practical limits on its range.
TYPE-SPECIFIC INSIGHTS ON CREATING VIDEO
Here's how the your Type energy plays out in the context of video marketing...
Energy and Stamina
As a Generator subtype, a Manifesting Generator has a lot of energy for work they love. They can handle the demands of creating, editing, and promoting videos, and they may even enjoy the process if it's something they're passionate about. They have the stamina to produce consistent content over time, which can be a great advantage in video marketing.
Efficiency and Fast-Paced Action
As a Manifestor subtype, Manifesting Generators have an inherent knack for efficiency and can often find shortcuts that other types may miss. They might be able to find more effective ways to create videos or promote their content. However, this can also lead to skipping steps. It's essential for Manifesting Generators to be aware of this tendency and ensure they're not neglecting necessary stages in the video creation and marketing process.
Responding and Initiating
Unlike pure Generators who are designed to wait to respond, Manifesting Generators have the unique ability to both respond (Generator aspect) and initiate (Manifestor aspect). This can help them to be both proactive and reactive in their video marketing, able to initiate new ideas while also being responsive to feedback and opportunities that present themselves.
Satisfaction and Frustration
The success of Manifesting Generators is often measured by a sense of satisfaction (when they're aligned with their correct work) or frustration (when they're not). If they are creating videos about topics they love and are passionate about, this will likely lead to a sense of satisfaction which will radiate from their videos and be sensed by their viewers.
Authority and Decision Making
Like all Generators, Manifesting Generators have a defined Sacral center, which means they possess a Sacral authority. It's essential they follow their gut responses when making decisions about their video content and marketing strategies. Since you also have Emotional Authority, you need to give yourself time to ride your emotional wave before making significant decisions.
Once that decision is made, however, you have a dynamic and potentially fast-paced energy that can be harnessed in creative and productive ways in the realm of video marketing. Your success lies in maximizing your ability to respond and then initiate while ensuring you're engaged in work that brings you genuine satisfaction.
Below, we'll look at some more filtered and custom tactics just for you, though it's important to keep the above in mind. It's kind of like building an airplane from scratch. We need to bolt the wings on before we learn to fly it. So now that we know we'll be able to get airborne, let's bolt the wheels on so that when we land, it will feel like strolling through the park rather than being snapped back by that big rubber band on the aircraft carrier!
Type has all kinds of implications for your work. But the real essence of Human Design is decision-making. And for that we re-introduce another term...
YOUR INNER AUTHORITY:
THE SOLAR PLEXUS - EMOTIONAL
Executive Brief
The Solar Plexus is the center of emotions and desires, where emotional wisdom and clarity take their time to emerge. Those with this Inner Authority are intended to wait through their emotional wave - a cycle of highs, lows, and neutrals - before they arrive at a decision.
To ensure that you make the correct decisions for you, you need to go through your emotional wave and reach clarity before deciding rather than making decisions from the highs and lows of your emotional wave, that is, from euphoria, nerves or sadness.
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The Strategy of Emotional Authority
The strategy of Emotional Authority is to wait for the Sacral Response, then ride out the emotional wave over a period of time until a measure of emotional clarity is felt. At that point, one can initiate a project, test their Sacral response to insure that it's still a "go", then dive in with a kind of joyous and sustained energy of which all the other Types would find impossible to sustain.
This encourages individuals to honor their feelings and to use the wisdom gathered from their emotional journey to inform their decisions. It is a slow, evolving process that requires patience and introspection.
It is said that for those with Emotional Authority, there is no present moment. What that really means is that clarity, at least for you, is something that only emerges over time. How long a time depends on the importance of the decision being made. It could be a few minutes, or it could be months.
Key to the process, though, is understanding the emotional wave. It's really a roller coaster ride, though each part of the wave can feel like a permanent feature of your emotional landscape when it's happening to you. Like "Oh, I'm a failure. I've always been a failure and I'll always be a failure!" Needless to say, this is something that would ONLY be said on the downside of your emotional wave.
On the other hand, thinking something like "I'm a frikkin genius! I'm gonna be a millionaire next month!" is something that would only be imagined on the top side of your emotional wave.
Taking any action while at either end of that wave could be disastrous. The trick is to wait until the wave itself has subsided. There you find some calm, some depth and some assurance that this decision is going to be good for you.
Of course, it's still emotion, which means you'll never be 100% sure about anything. However, 98% is pretty good in anyone's book.
This can work to your advantage. If someone asks for your help and you aren't yet clear on your answer, asking someone to wait while you come to clarity can often make them want you even more.
Navigating your Solar Plexus Authority requires patience, emotional honesty, and a willingness to embrace the journey. But the rewards are immense.
You have the ability to bring depth, empathy, and a unique sense of timing to your work, creating marketing videos that truly resonate. Harness this emotional intelligence, and let it guide you to remarkable creative heights.
AUTHORITY-SPECIFIC INSIGHTS ON CREATING VIDEO
Here's how your Inner Authority plays out in the context of video marketing...
Stretch Your Empathy
As a producer, you can use your emotional wisdom to create videos that resonate with viewers on a deep emotional level. Your personal emotional journey can help you cultivate empathy and connection, turning your marketing videos into powerful communication tools.
Emotional Timing
Timing is crucial in video production. Your Solar Plexus Authority can guide you on when it's the right time to start a project, shoot a scene, or release a video to the public. This emotional timing can bring a unique rhythm and flow to your work.
Transforming Challenges
Obstacles and setbacks can be emotionally taxing. But with your Solar Plexus Authority, you can transform these challenges into opportunities for growth and learning. Waiting for your emotional wave to clear can reveal creative solutions and new perspectives. The biggest challenge will always be a temptation to take action too soon, causing ruffled feathers, emotional chaos or stunted growth in your business. The way through all this is to practice your strategy of waiting out your emotional wave.
How Your Vision Builds Your World
PROFILE OF A CREATOR
Human design actually has more to say to you about how you do video. For one, there's an interesting feature in your design called a Profile.
Profiles speak to how you relate to things, ideas, work, family, and the wider world. We all have quirky ways of seeing and doing things.
The ways you see and do things are intended to have an effect on the rest of the world. That you ARE designed to have an effect is what this section is all about.
So now that you have your "Video Pilot's License", consider the following as adding an instrument rating. That means you're allowed to fly in the clouds, so when things get murky all around, you stay clear and focused on your task.
This is what the Profile helps you do. There are 12 Profiles in all.
Here's yours...
YOUR PROFILE:
6/2 - Role Model Hermit
The Profile describes the personality's behavior pattern and a life theme for an individual. Each person has a unique profile made up of two numbers. The first number represents your conscious side (Personality) or how you see yourself, and the second number represents your unconscious side (Design) or how others see you.
The 6/2 profile, known as the Role Model/Hermit, is a mesmerizing mix of wisdom, introspection, and solitude. You're among the wise hermits of the Human Design world, living a life of quiet introspection, away from the maddening crowd. Your 2nd line drives you to seek solace in solitude, finding wisdom in the silence, and nurturing your innate talents in the cocoon of your privacy.
But life isn't all about solitude for you. As you mature, you transition into you 6th line - The Role Model. Your journey from the cave of solitude to the mountaintop of wisdom is a sight to behold. You emerge from your solitude, using your unique insights and wisdom to guide others.
You're the wise guide, the enlightened hermit, sharing your wisdom with those fortunate enough to seek it.
You are embarking on a journey to create compelling video content for your business, and your specific profile, a 6/2 Role Model/Hermit, is wonderfully equipped for this venture. So, let's take a closer look at the intrinsic strengths you can capitalize on:
PROFILE-SPECIFIC INSIGHTS ON CREATING VIDEO
How to Leverage the Way Your Profile Wants to Do Video
Role Model Nature
As a 6th-line being, you have an innate capacity to become a role model, especially in the later phases of life. This ability translates well into video production where you can guide, inspire, and motivate your audience through your personal journey and wisdom.
Hermit Mode
While the term "hermit" may have a solitary connotation, it's your secret superpower. Your tendency to step back and seek solitude can fuel creativity, allowing you to conceptualize unique and compelling video content that stands out.
Inborn Wisdom
You possess a natural wisdom and a unique perspective on life. Sharing this through your video content can create a deep connection with your audience, making your content more impactful and relatable.
Trial and Triumph
The early part of your life likely involved many trials, experiments, and discoveries.
These experiences are not just valuable life lessons but also engaging stories you can weave into your video narratives.
Perseverance and Patience
Your journey to becoming a role model has taught you patience and resilience. These traits are invaluable in video creation, a process that often requires perseverance through multiple revisions and learning curves.
Teaching Through Experiences
With your 6/2 profile, you're naturally inclined to teach and guide through your own experiences. Video content provides an excellent platform to do just that. Sharing personal anecdotes and lessons learned makes for engaging and authentic content.
Influence and Inspire
As a role model, you have the potential to not just inform but influence and inspire your audience.
This makes your video content all the more powerful and engaging.
How to Wake Up Your Personal Power
ENERGY FLOWS - AUDIENCE GROWS
Are you ready to take this all to the next level? If learning about your Profile is like earning your instrument rating, gaining mastery over this next concept will be like earning your Jet Rating. If you dare, we're now going to take rather a deeper dive into the aerodynamics itself. What actually makes those wings fly?
Or in this case, what do all those pipes and colored lines, squares and triangle thingies in your Bodygraph actually represent? And how do they give you the power to fly higher, faster and farther than you ever could before?
Before we get to the specific insights about you, let's look at how some of those boxes, which we know as Energy Centers, transform into Channels, and those Channels into advanced guidance; your personal autopilot.
Head/Crown Center (Pineal) - This non-motor Center is about inspiration, mental pressure, and doubts. When defined, you have a consistent way of dealing with inspiration and mental pressure. When undefined, you might feel overwhelmed by trying to answer all the questions or figure everything out. Openness here can make you incredibly open-minded, able to entertain a wide array of ideas and concepts. This flexibility can lead to creative and innovative thinking.
Ajna Center (Pituitary) - This non-motor Center is about mind, mental awareness, and thinking. When defined, you have a consistent way of processing thoughts. When undefined, you might try to be certain or mentally consistent. However, you naturally possess a fluid and adaptable way of processing information, understanding others, and making sense of the world. You're not stuck with one fixed way of thinking, which allows you to understand various perspectives.
Throat Center (Thyroid) - This non-motor Center is about communication and manifestation. When defined, you have a consistent way of communicating and manifesting. When undefined, you might feel pressure to attract attention and to talk or be heard. You can be versatile in your communication styles, able to adapt your language and expressions according to your environment and the people with whom you interact.
G Center (Liver) - This non-motor Center is about identity, direction, and love. When defined, you have a fixed sense of self and direction. When undefined, you might continually search for purpose and direction and adapt easily to different environments. You can also be chameleon-like, able to adapt easily to different environments and identities. You have the potential for a wide-ranging understanding of people's identities and loves.
Heart/Will Center (Heart/Thymus) - This motor Center relates to willpower, ego, and value. When defined, you have consistent access to willpower and the ability to make promises. When undefined, you might struggle with self-worth and have a tendency to overpromise. However, you're also not under constant pressure to prove yourself, which can lead to a more peaceful and contented life. You can understand and gauge what truly matters.
Spleen Center (Spleen) - This non-motor Center deals with intuition, instinct, health, and well-being. When defined, you have a reliable intuition. When undefined, you might struggle with health fears and hold onto things that aren't good for you. You can also discover an ability to tune into the health and wellbeing of others, recognizing what is healthy and unhealthy in your environment.
Sacral Center (Reproductive Organs) - This is one of the four motors, governing life force energy, fertility, and work capacity. When defined, you have consistent access to this energy. When undefined, you might struggle with knowing when to rest. You could also have a deep understanding of what energizes and drains others, acting as an energy barometer.
Solar Plexus Center (Pancreas) - This motor Center is associated with emotions, desires, and moods. When defined, you have a consistent emotional wave. When undefined, you can take in and amplify the emotions of others, which can be overwhelming. Openness here also allows you to sample a wide range of emotional states and moods. You may become deeply empathic and understanding of the emotional experiences of others.
Root Center (Adrenal Glands) - This is a pressure Center and one of the four motors, responsible for our drive, adrenaline, and stress response. When defined, you have a reliable and consistent way of handling pressure and stress. When undefined, you may take in and amplify the stress and pressure from others. Over time, you learn to better understand and handle stress, and can become a calm presence in the face of external pressures.
Each of these Centers has a critical role in how we perceive and navigate the world. Recognizing whether they are defined or undefined in your chart can provide a deeper understanding of yourself and your interactions with others.
With that overview under our belts, let's look at what happens when a couple of these energy centers happen to meet. That's when they transform themselves into Channels.
Once that happens, you have a reliable source of energy; a certain kind of energy that can be harnessed to create video with the power to change lives.
Let's learn a little more about Channels now...
Channels - Your Life Force at Work
When two Energy Centers connect, they form a Channel. Your channels contain the flow of life within you that establishes a connection between you, your tribe and the collective.
Your channels give you access to a certain kind of energy that is uniquely yours and always available to you. It defines your gifts and establishes patterns of how you will operate in the world for the rest of your life. It is called a life force because it also carries the potential for growth and evolution.
Your life force is distinguishable from all others in the world. It represents your reason for having been brought here at this time. It is meant to be expressed fully and without reservation, and without the distortion that comes to us through conditioning.
Channels are formed when two defined energy centers are connected at two numbered Gates, either by a red line (unconscious), black line (conscious) or both (conscious and unconscious tendencies).
The following channels are yours to leverage and learn from over time.
The Channel of Openness: 22 - 12
The Design of a Social Being
The Channel of Openness (22 - 12) connects the Throat Center to the Solar Plexus, forming a bridge between communication and emotional energy. This channel is characterized by its fluid expression of emotion and a talent for bringing personal experiences into shared reality. It carries a capacity for emotional clarity, and the ability to voice and share deep feelings, often with a creative flair.
However, it is dependent on the ebb and flow of the emotional wave. The emotional content of the communication will reflect the moodiness, melancholy, passion or drama of the wave itself. The key for those with this channel is to wait until they feel like interacting socially. The restraining quality of the 12th gate makes communication more effective with those who seem to have the most mutative potential.
With regard to how this channel impacts your videos, consider the following:
Learn More About Your Vocal Range
Your Channel of Openness encourages you to infuse your videos with emotional expression and creative communication. Use your natural talent for vocalizing emotions in so many subtle and varied ways to create content that not only conveys information but also stirs feelings within your viewers. This could be achieved through storytelling, sharing personal experiences, or discussing emotionally charged topics.
Your Gut Leads the Way on Content
Trust your instincts when deciding on video content, style, or delivery. You might have an intuitive grasp of what will engage your audience or convey your message more powerfully. Trusting this intuition can lead to more engaging videos.
Leverage and Improve Your Video Craft
The creative flair associated with this channel can be used to enhance your videos' aesthetic and narrative elements. Consider exploring unique video formats, incorporating artistic visuals, or using creative storytelling techniques. This could result in visually engaging and emotionally rich content that stands out.
Keep Your Distance
As much as you share, it's also vital to maintain some boundaries to ensure your content remains accessible and comfortable for your audience. Balance your openness with consideration for your viewers' experiences. Consider sending your more intense videos to those less likely to provide a lot of pushback.
By combining emotional expression, intuition, and creativity, with the right timing, you can create videos that deeply resonate with your viewers and leave a lasting emotional impact.
What Your Most Impactful Videos Will Be About
The Incarnation Cross
Each person's human design includes a feature that is best thought of as the 50,000 foot view of your life. It's known as the Incarnation Cross. It's why you were brought into existence at this time in history. It is the highest version of your destiny. This is important to keep in mind when choosing how you will use video in your business, let alone what business you choose to be in and how you wish to conduct your marketing.
You Have the Left Angle Cross of Wishes 2
You have a utopian orientation that transcends traditional values, and challenges both cultural and religious standards by projecting what the system might be.
How You're Designed to Learn Video
If you don't already know how to make the best videos for you and your audience, you'll need to either learn how to make them yourself or work with someone who already has that skillset, and you simply guide their technical abilities. You'll be far more likely to succeed in either case, though, if you learn the right things in the first place. Turns out you have a rather unique ability to do that correctly.
Learning will present you with many decisions to make.
So, let's look a little closer at how to make that journey for you a pleasant and productive one.
Listen to your emotional wave
Your decision-making process is linked to your emotional wave, and this applies to your learning journey as well. It's not only about immediate gut responses, but also about the emotional clarity that emerges over time. Don't rush your decisions, whether it's about choosing a mentor or an editing course. Give it time, feel it out, and let your emotional wave guide you.
Channel your multitasking energy mindfully
As a Manifesting Generator, you have a knack for juggling various tasks. However, Emotional Authority asks you to be mindful of your emotional energy. Instead of jumping from one task to another, try focusing on one aspect of video creation at a time. This strategy will not only benefit your learning process but also help maintain your emotional equilibrium.
Find a supportive mentor who respects your pace
The right mentor for you will be someone who understands your emotional wave and can provide support when you're navigating your highs and lows. They can help you harness your emotional energy and use it to fuel your creativity, rather than letting it become an obstacle. Your learning speed is unique—you might leap ahead in one area while taking more time to digest others. The right teacher will understand and respect this. They should offer flexibility, allowing you to follow your internal rhythm.
Embrace the emotional aspects of video creation
Video is an emotional medium, and as someone with Emotional Authority, you're uniquely equipped to tap into this. As you learn, pay attention to the emotional aspects of video production – storytelling, tone, pacing. These are areas where you can truly shine.
Use Your Emotional Authority in practicing on-camera skills
As with all aspects of your learning journey, allow your Emotional Authority to guide you as you practice on-camera presence. If you feel uncomfortable or unprepared, give it some time. Your emotional wave will bring clarity, and with practice and patience, you'll find your on-screen persona.
Patience with the editing process
Editing is a technical task that requires patience and meticulousness – attributes that can sometimes be challenging during emotional lows. Recognize this and give yourself permission to step away from editing tasks when needed. Come back to them when your wave has leveled out. Too high on your wave is also not necessarily a good thing, because the crash can be demotivating. It's usually better to be on a more even keel when practicing editing techniques.
Honor your Sacral response in editing
When learning editing, you'll likely have to try different software and techniques. Here, allow your sacral response to guide you, but also pay attention to your emotional clarity. If something doesn't feel right, give it time—you might find that with a fresh emotional perspective, it starts to make more sense.
Collaborate with technical experts
Don't hesitate to seek help from experts, especially in highly technical areas. This not only ensures quality production but should certain technical tasks be delegated to experts, you can focus on the areas where you can have the most emotional impact.
The emotional journey of learning
Remember, your learning journey is just that – a journey, full of emotional ups and downs. Don't let the downs discourage you or let the ups rush you. Enjoy the process, celebrate your progress, and stay true to your emotional wave. This means always waiting to achieve some kind of even keel; not too high or low...just enough energy to feel calm and settled with the decisions you've made. The decisions you make now will have tremendous implications for the videos you make later.
Engage multiple interests
As a Manifesting Generator, you're known for your multi-passionate nature. Embrace it! Look for comprehensive courses that cover everything from pre-production planning, to shooting, to post-production editing. The more variety, the better for your dynamic energy.
Embrace the "Non-linear" learning
As a Manifesting Generator, the 'non-linear' way is your natural way of learning. This means you may want to explore multiple areas simultaneously, going back and forth between them. You might even find that while learning editing, something else, like sound design, sparks your interest. Embrace these urges, they are leading you to a holistic understanding of the video-making process.
Trust the emotional timing
Your Emotional Authority gives you a unique sense of timing. When you feel the urge to create, edit or learn, trust it and go with the flow. Conversely, if you're not feeling it, don't force it. Your productivity and creativity will bloom when you're in emotional alignment.
Collaborate with others
The energetic nature of a Manifesting Generator thrives when interacting with others. Consider finding a learning partner or joining a learning group. This gives you a chance to bounce ideas around, learn from others' experiences, and it might even help clarify your own understanding.
Nurture patience
Remember that learning is a process, and your Emotional Authority requires you to be patient with that process. Whether it's mastering the technical aspects of video editing, getting comfortable in front of the camera, or learning to trust your creative instincts, give yourself the grace of time.
Make it fun
Inject your learning process with elements of joy and fun. Watch a movie and try to break down its editing rhythm, enroll in an improv class to get better on camera, play around with different camera angles and lighting setups. If it's fun, it doesn't feel like work.
Practice active rest
In between your bouts of creative learning, don't forget to take breaks and let the new skills integrate. This rest is not passive; consider it as an active part of your learning process.
Embrace the process
Remember, as a Manifesting Generator, your path isn't a straight line—it's more of a scenic route! Embrace the twists and turns, the trials and errors, the learning and unlearning. It's all part of your unique process, and it's exactly what will make you stand out.
Note From Steve
A Note From Steve...
You're now armed with more information about yourself than most mortals ever learn in a lifetime. Put this into practice and your life, certainly your videos and all your marketing for that matter, will never be the same. There will just be something...different about you that people won't be able to put their finger on, but they will want it.
Living your design means you no longer feel the slightest need to pretend to be someone you're really not to get something you don't really want to impress someone you don't really like.
It's kind of magical how quickly it can happen when your energy lines up with what the universe wants for you.
Having said that, this report is just the tip of a very, very large iceberg. There's plenty here for you to chew on, but for those who want a plan to put all this into practice now, the question may be "what should I do next?"
In other words, you have decisions to make; something which Human Design was created to help you do.
I would look for the shortest distance between here (non-mastery) and there (full mastery). And that means sifting through and double-distilling these many tips, hints, suggestions and cautions into a clear and focused plan that fits your Type and Authority.
To help you do that, there will be more guidance headed your way.
Till then....
Blue Skies and Tailwinds,
Steve
References
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References:
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The Human Design System. Author Ra Uru Hu. ©1991
Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be. Author Chetan Parkyn. ©2009
The Book of Lines: Author Chetan Parkyn. ©2012
The Book of Destinies: Discover The Life You were Born to Live. Authors Chetan Parkyn and Carola Eastwood ©2016
Human Design Circuitry: The Complete Guide to Circuits, Channels and Gates. Author Richard Rudd ©2021
The Human Design Institute at humandesigncollege.com
Bodygraph design software under license from bodygraphchart.com