When Stillness Speaks (Gene Key 52)
Harmonie Session 2:
When Stillness Speaks (Gene Key 52)
Welcome to the Harmonie Sessions. Join in discussions around Human Design, Gene keys, brand strategy, brand archetypes, basically all things connected to creating harmony in our lives and brands.
Join me this season as I move through the Gene Keys Golden Path.
This Harmonie Session is a stream of conscious contemplation of the I Ching Hexagram 52, also known as Gene Key 52 and gate 52 in human design. Listen, watch or read along.
Richard Rudd, the founder of The Gene Keys, describes the 52nd Gene Key as the path from the shadow of stress to stillness, through the gift of restraint. The 52nd Gene Key is my evolution in the Gene Keys Golden Path.
There's so much beauty in this specific gene key. There's so much that was and continues to be unlocked within myself. There's so much that I intrinsically already felt that I knew, but also so much that I am learning currently about stillness, and about stress.
In 2017, my need to say yes, and take responsibility for everybody else's needs led me to say yes to too many things… to never say yes to my own need for stillness, which resulted in illness and hospitalization.
So if I were thinking of a story arc of my hero's journey, I would say that this gene key is related to my dark night of the soul.
I say it in a beautiful way because it really has to do with asking the bigger questions.
In this case, understanding how important it is to make the time to process things, to be with my thoughts.
It’s about taking the time to focus on the things that I need to focus on…whether it be an inner vision of a future place I'd like to be, or thinking about the past as well as how I've gotten to the place I am.
It’s about understanding how those two things are intrinsically connected to the present moment and the choices I'm making.
But if I don't take the time to sit with myself, with my thoughts, I'll never really see that right.
There's so much in the shadow of stress, the shallow breathing and even the lack of awareness of whether or not I am breathing - the pounding heartbeat and all the things that come with stress and anxiety.
Also, just believing it to be solely true when it's happening, right? I believe I can take on more and more and more and more because I can, but listen, just because we can doesn't mean we have to.
The deeper questions for any person that finds themselves deep in stress are:
What am I trying to control?
Why do I feel out of control?
What am I avoiding?
Which is really underneath it all, at least it is for me.
We've all been given our own experiences in life that really do serve as a blessing but until we actually look them in the face, and actually move through them, they really can have an unconscious effect on what we choose to do, how we choose to do it, who we choose to do it for and all the things that happen as a result.
Until we make the time to truly be present and silent, and still with our thoughts, can we even properly evaluate that. I've known so many friends and colleagues that have said that they don’t have the time to be still or they say things like, the thoughts won't stop when I stop.
That's the beauty of it, right? When we actually sit with our thoughts, what are they telling us? There is so much to be found in the present moment.
There's something so beautiful about the fact that even the pain, the dissatisfaction. or the difficulty, brings us closer to the beauty in life.