One of my concerns, and a concern that has been with me for a very long time, is the wellbeing of children. When I was given the knowledge, it was clear to me that one of the great bounties of this knowledge was that it was going to change the way in which children were going to be raised and it began with the surface, because everything does. It began with a recognition that without blame or fault, ignorance does not produce great parents. The Not-Self isn’t capable of making cognitive decisions in relationship to their children. We can feel the genetic bond to them and the deep concern for them. It is certainly normal for any parent to wish only for the best for their child.

And it was clear to me that in being able to understand the dynamics of the child and the dynamics of the parents themselves to be able to bring a level of awareness into the relationship and at the same time recognize what they have a responsibility for, how different the Projector child from the Generator child, from the Reflector to the Manifestor child, how different the split definitions from the single definitions and it goes on and on and on. How different the Left Angle is from the Right Angle, how different this kind of Personality is from that kind of Personality, what it means to be aware of another human being, and particularly one that you will have so much invested in and will continue to invest in literally for the rest of your life.

As I went deeper and deeper into my own process as a teacher of this knowledge and particularly the last several years, that is the opportunity to be able to teach in this virtual environment, to be able to expand the depth and coverage of the material, I don't think that there is anything more exciting in the world of Human Design than the emergence of Primary Health System (PHS) and what it means to us, what it means to the infant, what it means in terms of the awareness of the parent.

It's all about food. This is the most important thing to grasp about what PHS is really about. PHS is about digestion. Digestion. When you're looking at this graph, what you're looking at along the side here going up is that you are looking at the six Colors, that is, these are the six Design colors. Remember that under every line is a possibility of six different Colors. When we look at it at the Personality, we call them Motivation. When we look at them here in the Design, we call them Determination. In essence, it is physical methodology, the way to achieve uniqueness or the fulfillment of the predisposition to be unique. When we are looking at these six Colors, what we're actually looking at is the history of digestion, literally. What we're getting to see is that there are six different types of digestive systems. Each and every one of us has our own particular digestive system. Now, think about what we're talking about. What does your digestive system do? It takes the food, the sustenance that you put into your body each day and it takes that food and it is required to break it down and to retrieve from it the nutrition that your vehicle needs. That is the key. It means that if you are not eating correctly, if you are not eating according to what is correct for you, if you are not operating correctly, then your digestive system isn't working properly and you are not able to take from the sustenance you take in, you are not able to take in what is uniquely for you. You take in a homogenized process, you take in a homogenized group that simply maintains your viability as a form, but in no way enhances or in no way protects you from losing your potential, your unique identity.

It's very hard to imagine what is possible for a human being when it's raised correctly, when it doesn't have to go through 20, 30, 40, 50 years in order to get to a point where it suddenly realizes, oh, this isn't working. How do I get there? So I want to give you some basic insights, things to look for, and there's a magic to the BodyGraph. It tells us many things, and I am going to be taking a look at each of the Types, but I'm going to be looking at them in a different way. I'm not talking about the Strategy and Authority of the baby because that's not the point, is it? It's not like we're going to teach the baby that. It's about understanding the human being that you've been fractally given responsibility for, and in terms of looking at that being, you get to understand certain things about them and certain things about what is in essence the positive of their Type.

We always speak of Type in terms of the dilemmas, the problems associated with trying to live out the experiment of being this Type and that Type and whatever the case may be. And so we end up seeing the negatives of Type, the anger of the Manifestor and the frustration of the Generator and the bitterness of the Projector and the disappointment of the Reflector—these are the themes that we think about when we think about Type. And yet the infant coming into the world has yet to be conditioned to that, has yet to discover the Manifestor’s anger in denial, the Generator's frustration in not being correctly motivated and on and on. It hasn't learned that yet. Happens quickly, but not that quickly.

You see every Type has a generic positive that is a balance against its generic negative—that is the generic negative of the Not-Self themes of the Types. That positive is the Signature. Each Type has a Signature and it is this Signature that is a key to the way in which generally speaking, that one can provide for an essential ingredient in that infant's life.

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.