Awareness As Currency: The Profit Potential of the Awareness Functions Part 2
Conceptualization
by Sean Michael
The three awareness functions help us learn, understand, and interact with the world through our instinctual or intuitive intelligence, mind, and feeling. They shape how we see and experience our environment, and are also where we experience fear, anxiety, worry, and nervousness. Our Conceptualization Function is the central domain of our pressure-based mental anxieties, and is the second of a three-part self-study analysis of how awareness can be our most precious currency.
Conceptualization (Mental Awareness)
Profit Potential: Being Certain About How and Whom You Are Serving
[Undefined: Serving Others in How to Be Certain]
Mind (Cognitive Awareness)
Moving to the mind, we enter two new areas—Inspiration and Conceptualization—both of which are defined in my self-study, so the approach will be different. Now we are only looking at the marketing agency, and not the points of service. In other words, focusing on Conceptualization as the awareness function here, if this were undefined, we would be examining Traits 47 and 43, the fears they represent, how to overcome them, and how they act as receptors toward what services can be offered to others. Here, however, they are part of the actual transmission mechanism associated with the definition in the design. These fears are therefore transcended through following the correct mechanics that allow for the Strengths of Experience (64/47) and Efficiency (43/23) to come forth through recognition and invitation.
Remember, the one thing the mind is not, under any circumstance, defined or undefined, is a decision-making tool. It is a basic binary, through the brain/body system, between storage and calculation—a data gathering and relative measuring device that also serves as the seat of our self-reflective consciousness. This is why our humanity is so tied up with our conceptualization process, because we have access to this in a way other life forms do not. But it also offers us greater potential.
Inspiration can actually be regarded as the storage system that gives rise to our Personality, as this is where its crystal is housed. Under constant pressure to think and stay alive, it provides the “fuel” for the mental process, pushing thoughts toward expression through communication. Although over 90% of mental processes take place deep within the grey areas of the brain, outside of or underneath conscious awareness, everything is still processed by the brain in this design through filtering accumulated past experiences, creating a pressure to know and realize what they are attempting to impart. Why did they happen? What did they really mean? What do they point to historically and existentially?
How this consciousness field is processed is a key to health, prosperity, and well-being.
Since the mind inherited the fear of survival in its evolution out of the Survival Instinct, from somatic to mental awareness, it still attempts to function as if it has the authority of the original, intrinsic bodily intelligence. It then translates these fears into anxieties as a contrived mental approach to developing strategies to prevent destruction and enhance survivability. And these have become the driving forces in determining direction in our lives, because the mind is louder than the body, and attracts more attention to itself than the quiet intuitive whisper or sensation our innate intelligence may offer. It also operates over all time, so it accesses information as a permanently held collection, resulting in remorse, regret, and other negative or even deconstructive internalizations of experience; which it then utilizes to convince us of its decision-making process—explaining, justifying, rationalizing, and “reasoning” us into submission.
And when it fails, it simply does the same thing again in another way, over and over again, never actually getting it right, while always trying to convince us that it has. It has simply become the most accessible and easily utilized “authority” from 90,000 years of cognitive conditioning, and unfortunately the most unreliable, because this is not the role it is designed to play. It is meant to enhance and augment somatic intelligence through increased self-reflection and cognitive awareness, magnifying the body’s communication of innate intelligence by providing an additional perceptual lens through which it can experience the world. Instead, it has usurped this innate intelligence, developed strategies around “protecting” it for itself, and become the authority of life in form. And this is now the primary problem and chief dilemma for humanity.
The irony here is that anxiety, instead of displacing fear from the body’s instinctual self-preservation process, is actually designed to be utilized to evaluate the expression of authentic outer authority for others through the aware implementation of mind as a resource.
Anxiety in its normal state is a healthy pressure to drive the mind as a resource for others—using the collection, processing, and storage of information to provide a historical basis leading to concepts that can expand our collective database. Otherwise, these fears appropriated from our Survival Instinct separate us, create unnecessary tension and suffering, and drive us into action that ultimately results in even more fear and mishap. They also create a deep homogenization that doesn’t allow for a self-reflective perspective regarding individual differentiation—and in this way, the beauty and value of each individual life is lost.
The subsequent unaware “not-self” identification resulting from this mental usurpation always has a hidden, destructive agenda that expresses itself through an energetic misalignment between thought, word, and deed. It hides and misrepresents the truth, psychologically projects in defense when cornered, and can easily become dangerous and even violent when confronted. And all of this usually happens at least somewhat outside of normal awareness, which makes challenging it highly problematic. Allowing the mind to create an anxiety-driven agenda forces us to abandon our true nature, and removes us immediately from the experience of our true life. Even worse, it impacts everyone around us with the results. We never communicate honestly when operating incorrectly. It’s simply not possible.
With mental definition, what we are looking at in the BodyGraph here are the consistent limitations of mental expression. Remember, the mind actually has nothing to do with the life. It is simply there to observe it—to monitor the experience of it as a witness to the body unfolding organically through following the correct mechanics. It is there to surrender, observe, and learn from this entire process—not control it, and certainly not undermine it. Through this correct operation, it can then serve others in better understanding how to do this as well, and what to avoid to alleviate unnecessary complication and suffering. This then reveals the true purpose of mind as a resource and tool for sharing and empowering others as self-reflected consciousness. Otherwise, through polarized cognition, the mind becomes the spokesperson for the shadows and distortions in the design.
When the mind is utilized as an outer authority following recognition and invitation by others, its true purpose, potential, and genius are revealed. Otherwise, we can never attain the purity of what it is to be us, and express the true nature of our self-reflective consciousness. But most minds do not achieve a high level of outer authority until becoming secure in what is truly the being’s inner authority. Then communication in service to others can be delivered without an agenda.
In an unhealthy state, therefore, this particular consciousness may experience obsessive thinking with little to no relief; head-strong decision-making tendencies originating in the mind; energy misutilization or waste pondering decisions until too late; choices made from the wrong place; and mental anxieties creating unnecessary and insoluble pressure inside the conceptual system—all coercing surrender to the mind instead of the inner life. Suffering from heightened anxiety and self-doubt, there may also be attempts to resolve these pressures through impatiently taking action on hasty or inappropriate mental decisions, resulting in further complications and missed opportunities for inspiration.
In a healthy state, the appropriate mental pressure acts as a sort of fuel that provides for the thinking process. This fixed way of thinking, comprehending, knowing, and making sense of things can flourish in the recognition that confusion and clarity are natural processes with their own timing, and that thoughts can uplift, inspire, and empower others through motivating them with stimulating resources and possibilities.
In its natural state, this design is always thinking, with a conceptualization that is consistently trying to make sense of what it is thinking about. It can speak, translate, and titrate experiential information in quiet sentience, explaining its thinking to others in ways that can be useful, beneficial, and even transformative. It can process and analyze data and information researched or studied; enjoy its abstract thinking process and the realizations that emerge; find existential solace in inner revelation; and become increasingly more comfortable with the way it operates in a consistent, trustworthy way. It may even begin to notice its mental creativity and how it inspires others through sharing what is conceived and what has been learned about it. This is its potential for prosperity.
This mind is collective and individual, so the majority of what takes place here is intended to be shared from past experience in an empowering way through explaining with clarity and efficiency what has been learned. Since it is not connected to a motor function, it is not designed to take action, but to express itself verbally, through correct timing, when recognized and invited to do so. This is the only way it can truly profit, through the outer authority of mind being honestly expressed and authentically received.
This begins through the Strength of Experience, which is the pressure to make sense of confusion through the abstract experiential process of realization, leading to breakthrough insights that are assimilated into the collective through the Strength of Efficiency, individually empowering others with the wisdom of what has been revealed. The fear of futility is overcome through realizing what needs to be known and sensed as real meaning within an experiential framework to be of value not only to the design, but for the lives of others as well; and the fear of rejection is surmounted through a precise timing mechanism together with the right audience.
Otherwise, life experience can become oppressive and futile, as this mind is under constant pressure to sift through the past and make sense of it to gain a new perspective. It is therefore very active and never stops processing information. It is also filled with strings of disconnected memories and images from experiences, like film clips needing filtering and sorting before making sense of what really happened. By allowing this stream of visual data to simply flow through, and trusting it to reveal itself in its own way, the realizations and wisdom gained can be shared with others to help avoid unnecessary suffering. This becomes not only an inspiring intellectual journey, but a patient discovery process over time where new understandings will be created or revealed with innovative perspectives with which to truly empower prosperity.
This mind is also under pressure to know—to unravel the mysteries to discover inspiration in precious moments of absolute recognition, which can then move others toward deeper levels of self-acceptance through embracing what makes them unique—inspiring, uplifting, and empowering them in its own timing, in the absolute silence of the moment, revealing itself when it is ready and the time is right.
In this particular case, the individual mind complements and adds its nuance to the way the inspiring experiential conceptualization process works. Trait 61 is the pressure of individual empowered inner knowing that is designed to bring inspired mutation through conceptualizing something new from the unknown. It is unique and idiosyncratic. Though there is no true anxiety about not knowing the answer, because it always comes in its own time, there is a deep fear of rejection in the perspective not being understood or related to by others through Trait 43. The fears are still there; they are simply overcome differently in order to prosper. The challenge is to let go of control and allow the mind to share its genius in its own way and time, bubbling forth unconsciously as a potential gift for others in its detailed, dignified, influential expression.
This concludes the Profit Potential of the Awareness Functions Part 2: Conceptualization. Part 3 will complete the series with Emotional Intelligence.
Sean Michael is an IHDS Certified Human Design Analyst, as well as a Certified BG5 Consultant, Foundations Instructor, and Profit Potential Coach. If you want to work with your unique prosperity potential through following and understanding the mechanics of your Design, feel free to contact him at innerblueprintconsulting@gmail.com.
He is also a CAMFT Certified Clinical Supervisor at the Center for Psychotherapy and Integrative Health in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, where he offers training to Associates using BG5 and Human Design for personal and professional development.
