The following was posted on the Human Design Facebook Group page recently and boy, did it hit home. I have spent the majority of my time in the last couple of years on refining my awareness--so easy to see how the mind can jump in and take control. Human Design is all about decision-making without the mind.
Offered for your contemplation:
“An important difficulty occurs if we mentally decide to dedicate
ourselves to our self-development. Without our noticing it, the ego
has intervened to find ways to regain control. Its first and most
important tactic is to say to us that since we are determined to develop
ourselves, it will join the effort. When we first hear this, we think
that is a good idea. It would, after all, get rid of all that resistance.
We do not recognize, however, that this cannot be, since the whole
purpose and end of self-development is to defeat the ego. This ploy
is only a flattery the ego puts to the true self to regain control. Or,
one might say, the true self has not truly recognized that the ego is
an enemy of the true self. The ego, we soon find, does not seek
merely to join self-development, but to lead it. Once back in charge,
it thinks only of pushing in a straight line to the goal, of forcing its
way by effort and leverage, and substituting a guise of virtuous trying
for a true sincerity. It looks about for comprehensive solutions that
will shortcut the work that needs to be done, or will hide in pre-
structured religions and cults where it will appear to be spiritual
merely by being attached to a group that regards itself as spiritual. If
the true self allows such ego-inspired ambitions, the ego will remain
in control, and the self-development that leads to a true inner
independence will be defeated. The idea that the ego can help in
self-development is a contradiction in terms. The goal cannot be
won by spiritual show, elaborate rituals, or visible sacrifices. Only
through a true modesty can inner strength and a true inner
independence be acquired.”
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