When you’re looking at your Design, what you're looking at is differentiation imprinting. Remember that; it’s very important. Every cell in your body can replicate you, cloning. Every cell in your body has all the information of all of you. The thing that makes a muscle different from a blood cell is that it's imprinted to do one function, even though it carries all the other information.

So, when you're looking at your BodyGraph, you're looking at your differentiated imprinting out of the matrix of all the chemistry of life. It is your specific imprinting. It’s what makes you different and unique. However, you have to recognize that every single open Center, open Gate, and open Channel is rooted in receptors within you to that. In other words, what I call the shadow or the not-self. In other words, we as an entity are made up of two things. We’re made up of a specific imprinting, and that specific imprinting is imprinted out of a very complex matrix in which we have receptors to everything else.

When you live the true differentiated self, everything is there; there is nothing to look for. It's very different. It’s not about being attracted to it; it simply happens to be in the environment. And unless you’re awake you don't appreciate that. We do not live in an awake world; we live in a world of the not-self. What needs to make money is the not-self. What needs to demonstrate that it is superior to its inadequacies is the not-self. What is important in order to demonstrate that one is of value is the not-self. Everything about the material life as we live it, that is, the material life in which 500 beings earn as much money in one year as 2 billion on this planet, is the dysfunction of the not-self.

The first thing I want you to understand is something very simple: You make money out of the not-self. You make money through the not-self; that is, the not-self brings material benefit to you. Material anxiety in this life is rooted on the fact that it's all based on the not-self. It's all illusion. There is so much suffering on the material plane; but, it's only a simple mirror of the pain of what life is itself.

So, we have nine profit Centers. We’re only going to see them as profit Centers because we’re going to look at nine open Centers. Let’s have some fun with numbers. Think about it this way, you're running the company and you're looking at the figures, and you're looking at the various departments that you have that are your nine profit Centers. You really want to see which one is really holding the company together, which one is really doing well, what's it all about.

You really have to see it's very simple the way that it works. It’s not contrived. This is the natural way in which we operate. If you're being conditioned by your not-self, you will never ever get to make the money that's possible in the not-self realm. It's only when you're wise about the not-self and you're following your own clear Authority that in your wisdom you can recognize how to make money out of that.

One of the most important things about an Open Center is that the moment you get past it controlling your decision making, which means that you don't let your mind make decisions for you anymore, is the moment that these Open Centers become a place of wisdom. That wisdom translates into many things. It’s not simply about being able to understand what an emotional wave is as it comes into your body, recognizing it's not yours, and becoming more subtle in recognizing the different kinds of emotions that you take in, but eventually recognizing what emotional people need.

The work I've done with emotional beings with the wave, with that whole process of trying to bring clarity in understanding into the emotional being’s life so they recognize what clarity is, that they recognize how their awareness works, is a great selling point. It comes out of the wisdom; it comes out of the open Center.

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.