Do You Want to be “In the Flow” With Your Spiritual Energy as You Build Your Business?
Over the years as I’ve coached, I often find that people typically focus only on the outer aspects of business.
And even when they do focus on the inner aspect it’s still only about the business. What they’re not doing is actually looking at what the beliefs and patterns are that are not serving them – seeing the things that are really triggering them that may not have anything to do with the business – but that are definitely impacting the business!
I was working with someone who really seemed to be stuck on the whole idea that he needed to be more organized. It kept coming up in conversations I was having with him – he needed to take the time to get more organized – he just felt like his business wasn’t getting off the ground the way he wanted it to because he was so disorganized.
See a theme here?
It was a story that he was telling himself: I’m not organized and therefore my business isn’t flourishing the way I want it to be; If only I could be more organized… everything was sort of resting on this.
Oftentimes I find that people are telling themselves a story (or a couple of stories): If only this… If only that… then everything would be wonderful!
So I said to him, “What is it that you feel when you think about not being organized – tell me about what’s happening in your head – these stories that you are telling yourself.”
He responded that he wastes time and he procrastinates – that he’s spinning his wheels, not stepping up to the plate, etc.
At this point, before he could go any further, we really had to address the way he was beating himself up about not being organized.
So I said to him, Let’s really look at this whole aspect of being organized.” We could have taken this idea and said, OK, let’s start getting some level of organization here first. I knew he wanted to go to outer actions first, but I also knew that he wasn’t lined up energetically enough yet to follow through on those actions!
I see it over and over - people make plans and then sabotage them, or they just don’t get around to taking the actions. And when that is occurring you have to look inside, because there is some story that you are telling yourself that is preventing you from taking action.
You know why? Because when you are lined up energetically at an inner level you can’t wait to take the action!
My client had recently moved to a new home, and he had all this stuff that was still packed up in boxes and he was trying to work out of his office in boxes, - all this was contributing to his feeling of disempowerment about now being organized.
I looked at the project and said, “Why don’t you just take one little part of a project here – instead of organizing the whole house because it’s all in boxes and you don’t have any time – what if you just decide that you want to create some semblance of order in your office – just start with one room.”
I also suggested that maybe we think of a different word than “Organized”, because every time he said Organized it felt like a sledgehammer that was hitting him over the head – “I’M NOT ORGANIZED”.
I said, “This word has a lot of energy for you – it’s very judgmental – “I’m organized, I’m not, You’re so disorganized” – the word itself has a lot of baggage associated with it.”
“So what if we used a different word – how do you feel when you are organized? Organized is not a feeling! So how do you feel when you are organized?”
He said, “Well, I feel like I’m in the flow.”
I said, “OK, in the flow is good – so let’s call this your Flow Plan.”
Then he needed to activate more ways for him to actually feel In the Flow. So before he got to the project, we talked about what are the things that he does now when he feels like he’s in the flow.
Then he started to use those things in his Scripting – Today, I want to activate a sense of being in the flow. I want to take more opportunities to find things to do that are in the flow. I want to do more things that when I am doing them I will feel in the flow.
Then I said, “What’s one thing you do now that feels kind of draining?” He said, “Checking e-mail - I don’t like doing it.”
So how could he check his e-mail in a way that would make him feel more in the flow?
He thought about it and said. “Well, if I put some instrumental music on it makes me feel a little better – more in the flow.” So now when he’s doing e-mail he puts some instrumental music on. It was all about helping him to activate the essence of being in the flow.
The more he activates the essence of being in the flow, the more he is going to attract the feelings that he wants and begin to take more actions that are going to feel in the flow.
So he did that for a few weeks – he was Scripting – he was doing his Perceptual Shift Log every time he would beat himself up about not unpacking. Then he would tell me about his progress – he was shifting, he was actually setting a plan every day for things he could do to feel in the flow, and he was starting to, shock upon shock, unpack boxes!
He said, “You’re not even gonna believe this – I have half my office unpacked! And I’m not even sure how I did it! I was just feeling kind of…inspired!” Well, it was because he was in the flow!
What happened was that once he activated more of that feeling of being in the flow, he became a match to work on the Project of putting systems in place in his office in a way that was more flowing.
This is where spiritual energy management comes into play. I had him:
- Create an Energy Blueprint to help him identify the beliefs and patterns that were serving him in his current office structure
- Then looked at the beliefs that were not serving him
- Helped him create a progressive belief
- That he then utilized in his scripting – same process!
He did that first, and then he picked ONE next action. So one next action was that he was going to take one hour that day and unpack boxes. But as he was unpacking the boxes, he was going to amplify the energy that he was in the flow. What happened out of that was that he didn’t create goals that were so big that he felt he couldn’t reach them.
Well one hour turned into three hours turned into the whole day, and he ended up unpacking his whole office! And he e-mailed me to tell me that he was really feeling good about it – and it was because he wasn’t pressuring himself to take action when he wasn’t lined up to taking action.
And that’s how you get better results faster – when you take action that feels aligned – when you line your spiritual energy up before you take action – now you aren’t pushing things into place, but instead things are flowing into place!
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