The Role of Manifestors in Human Design - The Self Wellness Project

Manifestors are the initiators of the world.

Manifestors are the pioneers, innovators, and initiators of new ideas, projects, and concepts in the world. You have the capacity to materialize your big ideas and inspirations into reality. You tap into your potential when you take action on your creative urges. Your particular influence and character attract others to help you initiate and build your visions.

You thrive when you are free to follow your creative urges. You love to think up big ideas and get the ball rolling to initiate your project with others.

You get a surge of energy when you have a new idea and feel urged to start it right away. You are happiest when you are free to follow, initiate, and create any new idea or avenue that inspires you. You tend to have a natural intensity, bigness, or impactful persona that people feel. You sometimes feel ‘too much’ and that people don’t like you.

Famous Manifestors in Human Design

Frank Lloyd Wright, George W. Bush, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, Frida Kahlo, Adele,

Manifestor Energy Type: Strengths & Gifts

Manifestors are here to be innovative trailblazers and leaders of ideas. They thrive when they are free to follow, create and initiate anything that inspires and pulls them. They feel anger rise up whenever they feel that someone is interrupting their flow or trying to stop them.
You are here to initiate new ideas and get the ball rolling; you are not designed to carry out your ideas but rather inspire others to follow you and delegate tasks. As such, you may identify with the feeling of always wanting to start new ideas but not having the energy or desire to finish them.
Manifestors tend to have a natural intensity, bigness, or impactful persona that people can feel when they walk into a room. Manifestors are often leaders.
Freedom and independence are vital so you can develop your most innovative and powerful ideas; as such, you tend to despise being micromanaged, restricted, or stopped in your flow. This sparks jolts of anger. Feeling free to create is vital to your peace and happiness.
You are the only energy type that doesn’t need external collaboration or approval to make the first move. You are meant to go for it and make things happen any time you feel drawn to.

Manifestor Characteristics

You have streams of new ideas; you don’t often have the patience or energy to finish them alone but you love when people get excited about your concepts and join you.
You feel happiest and most energetic when you can follow the things that pull you. Your best innovative ideas come when you are left alone to explore them. You inherently sense that you are meant to be a trailblazer or leader of something big.
You have a natural intensity, bigness, or particular persona that can fill a room. You may sometimes feel that people find you ‘too much’ and don’t like you. Some Manifestors hide or shrink their big personalities to be more likeable.
You may feels bursts of energy that suddenly disappear to the point of exhaustion. Your energy works in spurts, so it’s important to rest when it’s not there.

Manifestor Challenges & Conditioning

You are sensitive to rejection and may waste energy trying to get people to like you. However, you are designed to only attract people who will initiate your great ideas, so it’s important to get comfortable with your big personality that sometimes repels people.
Manifestors only attract like-minded people and repel others; this rejection or disapproval hurts, but it is designed to save Manifestors’ time because they move fast and need dedicated people to support their urges to create and put their ideas into motion.
Manifestors may shrink their greatness, ignore their urges, try to please others, or seek approval when people don’t accept or approve of their impulsive nature or big character; but this stops them from stepping into their full power, which they inherently sense. You are meant to be authentically and fully yourself; you will not initiate great change or innovation if you seek approval from others or ignore your urges to please others.
Manifestors may ignore their whims to please others, or seek approval for their ideas but this stops them from stepping into their own power and authentic ideas.
Manifestors are rare (9% of the population) and may feel different or misunderstood. They can be sensitive to rejection and waste energy getting people to like them and their ideas.
Although rejection is disheartening, your particular character is meant to attract only those who believe in you. It saves Manifestors’ time because they move fast and need dedicated people to support them and help bring their ideas to life.

Decision-Making for Manifestors

> Strategy: Follow Urges and Inform

Your ‘strategy’ guides you to make better decisions and know when to commit.

You feel happiest when you get to follow your internal impulses, which come out of nowhere and create an energy surge to do something right away. Just make sure to inform those around you, so they can support you.
You don’t like to be slowed down or stopped, and often forget (or avoid) to tell others about what you’re up to. But informing others reduces friction because people feel included.

To ensure that you enter situations or environments that will help you thrive, it helps to take a moment to think about who will be affected by your idea or action and inform them of what you are going to do or not do. Then you make sure everyone is on board with your plan.

You are meant to go for it any time you feel an urge to. But it is important to consider people who might be affected. Sometimes you might not tell people about what you’re doing because you fear they might slow you down or stop you. But if you inform others of your plans, it is more likely they will understand and support you.

Manifestors thrive when they are free to initiate their own creative ideas, whims, or urges. But you may feel fluctuating energy, which disappears after a creative flurry. To ensure you don’t waste energy on the wrong choices, only follow things that make you feel impulsive to create or try a new idea. But before running off, it is still good to think about who will be affected and inform them of what you are doing.

> Inner Authority for Manifestors

Your complete decision-making process is defined by your Strategy + Inner Authority (read more here). You will have an additional decision-making center that creates different types of Manifestors:

Emotional Manifestors: They need to take time to make decisions and see if it still feels right after various emotional moods.
Spleenic Manifestors: Your intuition confirms whether something is right or wrong for you in the moment that you first encounter something or someone.
Ego Manifestors: You need to believe in it and feel convicted to do it. Your heart must be in it.

– Not-Self (Negative Reaction): Anger

The ‘not-self’ is how your body reacts when something is wrong for you. Anger is your body’s signal that you are not in the right situation, or that you don’t feel free to be yourself or to follow your interests.

Sometimes anger bubbles up when you feel hindered to chase an idea. You might accidentally snap when others interrupt your flow or ask you about it, even though you don’t mean it.
That niggling annoyance or irritation can rise up whenever you feel micromanaged, suppressed, interrupted, or obstructed. You usually dislike being restricted or controlled in any form.
As you follow your ideas and begin to create, you may feel that anger rise up again. Use your anger as a sign that something needs tweaking or changing in your current environment. When you address it, it goes away.

Anger is a cue that you are in an environment, situation, or commitment that restricts your freedom to innovate and create. You may feel prevented from doing or saying the things you want. Your anger bubbles up when you feel restricted from being able to do what you want.

You hate to be micromanaged, restricted, or stopped when you really want to do something. This sparks a jolt of anger and you may snap at people or exclude them from your future plans so they can’t slow you down.

If you don’t follow your urges or constantly seek permission from others, you might prevent yourself from doing and saying things the way you want, or trying not upset or hurt others. This can make you feel exhausted, without the strength to go on or without emotion. A Manifestor needs to follow their interests to avoid this.

+ Signature (Positive Reaction): Peace

Your ‘signature’ is what you feel when something is right for you. Your happiest state is when you feel a great sense of peace and freedom within yourself and with others.

You feel a sense of peace and space to breathe when you are free to: follow your urges; create what you envision; have dedicated supporters; and are making an impact.
There is no better feeling than when you feel supported to be your biggest and fullest self and that people trust where your ideas take you. This freedom and independence help you reach your optimal peace and happiness.
You don’t like to feel friction or tension in your life, and may even avoid situations that could lead to roadblocks. You love when everything falls into place and everyone is on board. Your version of peace is complete freedom to chase your whims and ideas, and be fully supported to be your true self. This is your happy place.

Your ideal world is when everything flows smoothly, you are supported as your true self, and nobody stops you or says no. You feel free to be, do, and say what you want without causing misunderstandings, resistance, or tension.

This is how you feel when you are in alignment. When you are free to follow your urges, are creating what you envision, have dedicated supporters, are accepted for your biggest self, and are making an impact, this gives you peace and space to breathe.

You know you are in the right environments and with the right people when you feel supported, not fighting with anyone, and freedom to be, do, and say what you feel. This peace comes when everything flows smoothly and without friction, and when your ideas and insights are appreciated.

Manifestors & Relationships

You are meant to be authentically and fully yourself; you will not step into your power if you seek approval from others or deviate from your life path.
You are sensitive to rejection and may waste energy trying to get people to like you. However, you are designed to only attract people who will initiate your great ideas, so it’s important to get comfortable with your big personality that sometimes repels people.
You may snap in anger if someone is interrupting your flow or trying to stop you. Freedom and independence are vital to feeling peace and happiness.