Today we look at Part 3 (Day 15-21) of the Plan: From Powerful Action to Peaceful, Abundant Receiving
If you’re just joining the 21-day Freedom Plan discussion, find previous SSE News articles reprinted on my blog at www.andreaconway.com
To resume our story…Don was one of my Inner Circle members who just couldn’t break free of analyzing and re-analyzing his new business long enough to actually start it.
As we discovered in Part 1, what lay beneath Don’s analysis paralysis was his fear of making the wrong choice. Once he observed his fear and saw it was nothing more than a thought, he moved into possibility.
In Part 2, Don moved from possibility into the stillness that precedes powerful action. There he could hear his soul’s inspiration and knew what actions to take.
However – knowing what actions to take is not the same as taking them!
Sometimes the idea of taking action re-triggers the fear. Don felt a strong inspiration to create a blog and several articles. He noticed that the idea of stepping out publicly on the Internet caused fear to kick in.
I could relate! In 2002 when launching the SSE website, I felt completely vulnerable and uncomfortable. Yet these last 7 years have been the most expansive and fulfilling of my life.
Make a note: it’s totally normal to experience fear whenever we step out of our comfort zone.
Scared? OK. Then what? Like Don you can learn to notice, observe, and decide to choose stillness. You can make a habit of listening to your soul in that stillness. And you can decide to take the powerful actions your soul calls you to.
Many spiritual entrepreneurs I talk to expect fear to disappear from their lives. “Won’t life be permanent playtime when I follow my soul?” Nope…
Not until you understand that fear is always going to return when you step into being bigger than you’ve ever been before.
Not until you decide that fear is simply a signal you are about to express more of your soul potential. Wow. You might even decide to feel excited when fear shows up.
Fear is a sign that expansion possibilities are here.
The key when afraid is to consistently re-choose your connection to spirit. When you do, you find the spiritual courage to take powerful action. Then you experience peaceful, abundant receiving.
This week’s plan
1 – Continue to observe fear (or doubt, worry or other negative emotion) when it shows up. Step back and observe: notice you are separate from the fear thoughts your mind thinks. Observation is a new habit you are forming. After 21 days it becomes as second nature as brushing your teeth. If you practice!
2 – Continue to ask your soul (inner being, angels, higher self, Source energy — whatever term you use) to send you inspiration about any area of your life and business that you’d like help with.
As steps 1 and 2 become your lifelong habits, you naturally step into receiving inspiration.
3 -Commit to taking action on the inspiration you receive. Small actions count too: the main thing is to act.
Stay aware (step 1) so that you don’t act from the vibration of “feel the fear and do it anyway” — LoA will then send you more fears to overcome. That is doing it the hard way!
Instead, keep reinforcing your connection to spirit (step 2) so that you act from the vibration of trust and inspiration.
4 – Let go of your expectations around results. You’re courting frustration when you act on inspiration with a certain result in mind. You may even feel like giving up if the specific result you want doesn’t show up.
If you’re in resistance (you can tell because you feel negative emotion), manifestation slows to a crawl.
Your work is to act from trust without expectation. You will receive in abundance. Your success is guaranteed. But not necessarily how and when you expect.
In creating or expanding a business (or any other heart-inspired endeavor), the universe looks for commitment.
Success comes to those who commit from the start. Even before they are successful in the eyes of the world.
Note, please: the universe does not withhold success because it is mean or to “test” you.
Rather, the universe always gives us a loving opportunity to move past old beliefs.
The bigger our dream, the more old beliefs we may need to shed. Delays are simply indicators we have more old beliefs about success and money to clear out on our path of expansion.
Let’s choose to be at peace about the timing of success, instead of in frustration.
Guy Finley tells the story of a butterfly talking with a very wise old tree. The tree seems to completely understand the butterfly’s frustration with life – stuck and unhappy. The butterfly is amazed by the old tree’s ability to empathize. Finally the tree explains the butterfly’s problem as kindly as it can: “You aren’t yet a butterfly. You are still a caterpillar.”
Sometimes we business owners expect to fly immediately. Let’s experiment with accepting that inching toward the goal might be enough for the moment.
5. Notice the abundance of whatever the universe sends you. Be at peace with it. Believe in divine timing and do your best. There is no way a caterpillar can willfully transform into a butterfly. But in the course of living its most sincere life there will come a time of divine transformation.
Do you think your blessed human life is any less divinely led than the caterpillar’s? Trust that your desires to fly will be fulfilled.
Till next time, here’s to your successful self employment!
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Today we look at Part 3 (Day 15-21) of the Plan: From Powerful Action to Peaceful, Abundant Receiving
If you’re just joining the 21-day Freedom Plan discussion, find previous SSE News previous blog posts.
To resume our story…Don was one of my Inner Circle members who just couldn’t break free of analyzing and re-analyzing his new business long enough to actually start it.
As we discovered in Part 1, what lay beneath Don’s analysis paralysis was his fear of making the wrong choice. Once he observed his fear and saw it was nothing more than a thought, he moved into possibility.
In Part 2, Don moved from possibility into the stillness that precedes powerful action. There he could hear his soul’s inspiration and knew what actions to take.
However – knowing what actions to take is not the same as taking them!
Sometimes the idea of taking action re-triggers the fear. Don felt a strong inspiration to create a blog and several articles. He noticed that the idea of stepping out publicly on the Internet caused fear to kick in.
I could relate! In 2002 when launching the SSE website, I felt completely vulnerable and uncomfortable. Yet these last 7 years have been the most expansive and fulfilling of my life.
Make a note: it’s totally normal to experience fear whenever we step out of our comfort zone.
Scared? OK. Then what? Like Don you can learn to notice, observe, and decide to choose stillness. You can make a habit of listening to your soul in that stillness. And you can decide to take the powerful actions your soul calls you to.
Many spiritual entrepreneurs I talk to expect fear to disappear from their lives. “Won’t life be permanent playtime when I follow my soul?” Nope…
Not until you understand that fear is always going to return when you step into being bigger than you’ve ever been before.
Not until you decide that fear is simply a signal you are about to express more of your soul potential. Wow. You might even decide to feel excited when fear shows up.
Fear is a sign that expansion possibilities are here.
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