After my shower this morning I put on my nightgown and summer robe, made an iced coffee and took it to bed.
I sat crossed legged on my bed and started meditating.
Not with my headphones on and journal beside me, not the alchemy meditations that I teach like usual but just… sitting with myself.
Even though I just had a low energy kind of weekend and had been feeling sorry for myself… I noticed how much I love my life, how incredibly lucky I have been, how I love the freedom I have created for myself with the way I built my business.
I thought about how first thing in the morning is my most productive and “sharp” time and I felt a wave of delight move through me at the thought of using this time to just… sit.
I thought of how DEEPLY PRODUCTIVE this actually is.
And yes of course I am meditating through all of this. I am noticing thoughts and letting them go. But at the same time I was just loving the thoughts that were coming.
Almost every time when I want to make changes in my business, and I really sit with myself and the soul of the Creative Dream Incubator, the answer that comes is… go deeper. Expand that morning meditation + journaling + creative time.
The answer has never been to follow some online business guru’s 6 step system to make 6 figures in the next 6 days, you know?
If you have creative or spiritual gifts that you want to share, a part of having those gifts IS knowing your unique way of putting yourself out there. It’s all connected.
We can degrade our connection to our inner knowing about how to do that when we give too much authority to the “online business experts”. Some of their ideas and ways of doing things have become so pervasive, it really takes an effort to distance yourself from it to hear your own inner wisdom, and the wisdom of the soul of your work.
Your work didn’t grow and evolve to the point of wanting to help other people or move out into the world in some way, without also knowing HOW TO DO THAT. How to reach the people that it's here to help.
But usually, listening to the soul of your work is so deeply counter-cultural and counter to everything those gurus tell you - and there is this idea that we inherited that if we do things “the right way” then we will be rewarded, so we go looking (outside of us) for that “right way” to succeed.
I still remember something that was said at once of the first Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice sessions I did a few years ago.
“It’s just so painful and difficult to put my precious work out there into such a toxic world”
And yet… putting our precious work out there is one of the things that help heal the world.
And no… we don’t have to compromise on our values, adopt a “abundance as defined by capitalism” mindset, and do a bunch of things that are scary and inauthentic in order to succeed.
And I am not saying it’s going to be easy.
Nothing about the work of being your true self and sharing your gifts with the world is easy, exactly. But it is fulfilling and healing and soul-restoring in ways that nothing else can really touch.
Our next Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice session is happening tomorrow, July 28.
This is in the membership: get the call details here. (Or join us here to do this with us!)
This is a 45 minute alchemy meditation for going deep into the work of connecting with the soul of your work, exploring how your work wants to go out into the world and be seen by the people it’s for, and looking at what you can do to support that to happen.
This is usually a very small group, and we go deep in our sharing about where we’re at with all of this and figuring out what to do next. The calls last 90-120 minutes and yes there is a replay.
Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:
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