What NOW?

“Just be yourself”, they say.

How many times have we heard that?

It's often said to help ease a nervous first date, a daunting social invita­tion, or the first day on a new job.

There is always someone armed with that well-intentioned advice: "Don't worry… just be yourself and every­thing will be fine!"

The problem is this: how many of us know what being ourselves actu­ally means?

Who is this "true self' the private inner being that hides behind the mask it wears for most public interactions, that real person we are when stripped of our ego and acts of social graces aimed at win­ning respect, approval, or popularity?

Psychologists the world over would say that millions of people pass through life without ever realizing what constitutes their true self.

It's as though we have forgotten our unique individuality in the collective rush to be all things to all people, to fit the picture-perfect portrayals in magazines, television dramas, and movies.

It's as though the naturalness and authenticity with which we were all born and which we unleashed with unaffected abandon as children have been crushed, repressed, or even disallowed.

Instead, conformity and responsibility in adulthood have combined to distort or shrink our true natures.

Millions of us parade as someone other than our true selves without even realizing it, adopting an "acting personality" shaped by the conditioning of our pasts and the judgments, expectations, and rules of others.

Along the way, we've picked up and collected traits and acceptable responses that are deemed the "norm," so there's always a tendency to act as we believe we should act, or how we've been trained to act, all the time keeping our inner beings bound and gagged.

In that regard, I am reminded of a woman who sought me out to help rediscover a lost connection to the real person who, she said, had mys­teriously disappeared during her marriage.

Jayne told me: “All I want is to be myself again, act like myself again, feel like ~ myself again.

I don't want to be this person I've created and be­come.

I know the real me is different, waiting to get out and be braver, less afraid of being hurt, less worried about the judgments of others, less afraid of taking on the world, desperate to laugh and dance again.

She's in there. I know she is.

But I've no idea where to look anymore.

I need to be reminded of the me that has become lost.”

Like Jayne, most of us adopt a persona a word that originates from the Greek for "mask."

But what really matters is the authentic person behind the mask, that we are "seen" and recognized for who we truly are.

In writing this book I hope to bring you back home to the essence and safe harbor of your inner being, reuniting you with the person you were born to be and the life you were meant to live.

That's why this is not a self­ help book but a self reminder, directing you to rediscover the essence and uniqueness of the real you.

What I'm introducing is a one of its kind system and self awareness tool called Human Design, a system where science meets spirituality, a system that intends you to be loved, accepted, and understood for WHO you are.

Which is why it asks one question at the outset: "Are you living your Human Design?"

This system is built on the wisdom that the acceptance and embrac­ing of your true nature are the essence of finding personal happiness, fulfillment, and freedom, which, in turn, can lead to finding and creat­ing healthier relationships.

This book is the culmination of fifteen years in the field of Human Design.

I have immersed myself in its truths, giving one on one readings and holding group seminars, and it has been a long held wish of mine to share its prescient insights with a much wider audience because of the quiet revolutions it kick starts.

I have lost count of the people who have walked through the front door of this system and emerged through the back exit renewed and invigorated.

Once its truths become apparent, it induces an awakening that is both empowering and transformative.

It provides concrete infor­mation for you to act on by altering the way you view yourself and approach interactions with others.

In the words of educator Stedman Graham: "When you have a sense of who you are and a vision of where you're going in life, you then have the basis of reaching out to the world, and going after your dreams for a better life."

Once you apply this system's knowledge to your life, the possibilities are endless.

But knowledge is not the only qualification I bring to the table.

Experience has also been my teacher, and I personally have Human Design to thank for bringing me back "home" and changing my life a life that was seemingly going nowhere back in 1975.

I was sure the perfect storm was going to consume our hundred foot motor yacht.

There almost seemed a surreal lull between the heaving rolls of the forty foot swell as we were driven across the Atlantic Ocean, a lull between life and death.

I remember the chill, the pitch darkness, and the freezing spray of Atlantic water as this hurricane storm suddenly struck two days out of Bermuda.

I was at the wheel, between Nassau and Malta, when the mother of all waves hit and the boat was knocked sideways. I gripped the wheel for dear life, convinced we were capsizing and that death was imminent.

Then, with agonizing slowness, the boat righted herself.

It was a terri­fying experience.

This journey through the hurricane lasted for nine days and nights.

I remember tying myself onto a bunk with ropes, wedged between two wooden drawers, and disappearing into a place beyond prayer.

Two days after nearly capsizing, as the storm still raged, it was my birthday always a time of review and reflection.

I took a break in the gray light of day and hunkered down in one of the speedboats tied to the top deck to smoke a rare cigarette by way of meager celebration.

As I did so, everything inside me went quiet, the storm around me seemed to mute, and I had a sudden realization of how miraculous our escape had been.

I thought to myself, "Surely there's more to my life than this!"

I had dropped out of school in England, traveled the world for two years, and then completed an apprenticeship before earning a mechan­ical engineering degree at university.

After taking one or two small jobs in Europe, I'd ended up repairing and delivering luxury motor yachts around the world.

But after we'd arrived in Malta and I'd thanked the gods for my survival, I packed it all in and retreated to the Shetland Islands, to the north of Scotland, to take stock of my life.

All I knew was that I needed to get away. I started asking that "Who am I?" question, and don't mind admitting that such introspection led to a pretty dark time.

The remoteness of my croft house on a hilltop in the middle of nowhere was almost a perfect analogy for the personal wilderness in which I'd lost my sense of self.

During those eighteen months in the Shetlands, my dad, Roderick Parkyn, passed away.

Another rope tethering my stability started to fray.

Then, one night, sitting in the candlelit gloom of the croft, a week after scattering his ashes on his favorite sea shore in Scotland, I felt this unmis­takable spirit enter the room.

Those who have known grief and have felt another's spirit will know what I'm talking about.

It was a powerful expe­rience and one that released me from my isolation.

In a quiet but reas­suring voice within I heard him telling me, "It's all right. You can go now."

A couple of days later, I was sitting on the front doorstep, flipping through Exchange &Mart, when with some synchronicity, this ad jumped out and called to me: "Free Trip to Nepal for Diesel Mechanic.

" Propelled by Dad's reassurance, I applied and successfully landed the job-as both mechanic and driver for the trip to Nepal.

This was the start of an exhil­arating journey of self-discovery.

I soon found myself driving a Magic Bus on the hippie trail to India, a place that ultimately became my home for five of the next eleven years.

In 1979 I was introduced to the ashram of Osho, an enlightened master who at the time was known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

Being in his company is another story for another time. For now, let me just say that he continues to touch my heart very deeply.

One guidance that Osho offered was that if people had really personal questions about themselves, they should visita "shadow reader" in Bom­bay (now Mumbai).

Of course, I had to do it. This remarkable man met me, smiling, at the door of his apartment.

He was clean shaven, in his late thirties, wearing a billowing shirt and trousers, and there was a bright twinkle in his eye.

In a parking area below his apartment, his son pro­ceeded to measure the length of my shadow, cast onto the ground by the sun.

Back upstairs, the shadow reader did some calculations, rolled his chair along a huge bookshelf, pulled out one of many identical looking volumes, turned to a page, and started reading in Sanskrit, a classical language of India.

Among many things, he predicted that my personal awakening would happen later in life.

I would be introduced to a system, would master it and then teach it.

"System? What system? What is he talking about?" I thought.

His advice was that I should experiment with reading for people to learn the skills of interaction while imparting personal and important information relevant to their lives.

One week later… I meta psychic palmist who gave me a fast track intro­duction on how to read hands and faces.

And so it was that after some practice-makes perfect I began to read palms.

It came naturally to me and I loved it.

My travels took me to America, Switzerland, Brazil, Hol­land, Germany, and Japan before I settled in Hawaii for the next nine years, reading the stories contained within people's hands.

Then, in 1993, I heard that a woman friend was organizing classes for a man called Ra Uru Hu, who was introducing a system to America called Human Design.

I was sent a curious looking chart that was supposed to represent my life's design, and it dawned on me that this was the very system the shadow reader had talked about.

Its origins were intriguing. Ra, a Canadian previously known as Alan Krakower, had been a born cynic who had worked as a newspaper advertising salesman and filmmaker but had gone through a series of major disappointments, which had led to his flying to Europe and catching a bus to Spain.

A casual remark by a fellow passenger had directed him to the island of Ibiza.

There, an event took place that changed his world.

On the evening of January 4,1987, he was returning home on foot with his dog, Barley Baker, when he saw a light shining from inside his remote cottage.

He knew perfectly well that the lamp had no oil in it, so he won­dered what was going on.

As man and dog entered the property, Barley started to growl, then fell prone to the floor.

Ra himself described feeling some kind of internal explosion.

Within moments, he was standing in a pool of his own per­spiration.

He then heard a male "voice" insisting he get to work. He was receiving something profound from the Universe.

Call it channeling. Call it inspiration. Call it what you will.

But he started writing and sketching and continued for eight days and nights.

From those writings, Human Design came into being.

As surreal as that story may sound, its inescapable truth can be wit­nessed in this book, for these are the teachings that Ra brought into the world, a gift from the Universe.

It is a system that simply works.

For the next seven years I traveled regularly from Maui to attend classes with Ra…

… and in the same way that I had learned to read palms, I taught myself to read Human Design life charts.

I started giving readings to friends and clients and began to see that the information was both mean­ingful and empowering.

After four years, it was time to articulate all I had learned to a wider audience and I started teaching classes about the system.

One of the people who came to these classes had a profound impact on me, and it felt as if she was opening a whole new magical doorway.

Carola was a spiritual astrologer and counselor, and she could see in her own way how clearly we were connected.

Ultimately, she invited me to move to be with her in California and we married.

She started using Human Design in her counseling practice and also noticed how it as­sisted clients to move through certain issues and find clarity about who they were as individuals.

I, too, was well aware of the empowering impact the system could have on people.

For many people, it truly was the difference between being lost and then feeling found, granting them permission to be themselves once more.

Human Design isn't a guarantee for happiness, nor will it remove the challenges and pain of normal life.

But I've seen how it can change lives. It changed mine. Now I intend it to change yours.

Most of us, at some point, have become frustrated with our lot and whis­pered self searching questions such as "Who am I?"

"What am I doing with my life?"

"What is my purpose?"

It seems more and more people are engaged in an endless search these days searching for the perfect career, perfect partner, and per­fect life.

The very word searching means looking for something that is lost, lacking, or missing and we fall into the trap of believing that all the answers lie outside ourselves.

Yet the answers already lie on the inside.

Those answers are detailed in a design of which the Universe is the architect, a design of the person you were programmed to be, your Human Design.

It is a document that represents your blue print for life a blueprint of your personality.

Once you've become acquainted with this information, you will know whether the life you're living fits with your design.

This is not some New Age concept; its accuracy is inescapable and timeless.

It is not a philosophy or a belief; it is an actuality rooted in science that speaks its own power.

Nor does it require the attraction or manifestation of wishes or desires.

There is no asking, visualizing, or positive thinking required, because its truth already exists within us.

When I assert that truth, I'm not making some fashionable statement of rhetoric…

I quite literally mean the truth is within like a set of tools within a boxed set, waiting to be picked up and used to carve out a niche and purpose in life.

Once reacquainted with your "design for life," you will start to feel the ripples across all areas of your existence:

In relationships and friendships, it determines the dynamics between peo­ple, allowing you to see where there is synergy, conflict, or nothing in common.

In the family and at home, it explains differences between siblings and highlights the practical and emotional interactions between parent and child, husband and wife.

In the workplace, it illustrates to employers or clients the different nat­ural abilities within each person a vital tool for improving collec­tive productivity.

In the classroom, it shows teachers the capabilities of each pupil and how to bring out the best in each child.

On the social scene, it makes you aware of the magnetisms at play and why you are drawn to certain people and repelled by others.

Relationships with yourself, your partner, friends, parents, siblings, col­leagues, and bosses are all impacted by the power of this system.

And through it we can learn to understand one another on a much deeper level, thus becoming more effective and empathetic parents, friends, lovers, and colleagues.

It is the most logical, freshest, and clearest insight into the self that there could ever be.

I can confidently say that you won't have seen anything like it before, so prepare for an intimate odyssey whose final destination is a true understanding of the person you were designed to be.

Prepare to meet yourself.

Prepare to meet the real you.

Chetan Parkyn San Marcos, CA May 2010

Samuel Zink

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