Leverage the power of cocooning in business and life.

How are YOU? How has your soul journey evolved over the last few months?

Have you been cocooning? So many of my incredible clients have. I have too.

MY COCOONING(TM)

Let me be transparent here. I spontaneously, very unexpectedly found myself in a cocooning phase a few months ago. It came suddenly. A strong pull from within to stop the trajectory in which I was heading. Although my work with clients continued to thrive, my writing, my blog posting, my inspiration, came to a sudden stop.

The trajectory in which I was heading in my business was by no means a bad one. It was simply a trajectory that my mind concocted. It was somewhat connected to my soul… but not really. It was influenced by well meaning business colleagues and even my very own business coach. It was a trajectory that sounded great on paper but was not resonating on the inside. It would not make the highest use of the way I was designed to show up in the world or share my gifts. It was making great business sense yet feeling so not aligned on the inside. My soul was screaming “no” while my mind tried to control the reigns of the direction we were heading.

My business is the vehicle through which I share my gifts. This is personal. It effects everything.

My younger self, my inner child, the wounded one, wanted me to do business as usual, just like all my other mastermind buddies. This would satiate her need to belong. It would at least temporarily numb the anxiety triggered by years of feeling like an observer, an outsider, of feeling inadequate for sensing, seeing and identifying patterns others seemed to be oblivious to.

WITH SOUL AS MY GOAL, EVERYTHING NOT ALIGNED WITH SOUL, WAS ABOUT TO BE CLEARED.

My soul rebelled, throwing my business-as-usual mode into a flurry and standstill. My mind rationalized, trying to compartmentalize this pull away from what “I should be doing“ as the usual movement away from ‘my comfort zone’.

You’re “d****” right I was moving away from my comfort zone. Cocooning felt extremely uncomfortable to those parts of my consciousness that wanted to “get on with things”.

There was no getting on with things now. Nope! Not possible. I was blank, resistant. Not happening.

Soul was having it’s way. I could fight or surrender.

I could honor and allow the state of cocooning in the face of my ego’s fear that everything would dry up. I would dry up. Irrational thoughts bombarded my inner home for a while. You get the drill. My high achiever part kicked in and wanted to take control of the reigns again. Soul is so much larger, more powerful than that.

And yet….

WHEN OUR OWN WAY IS INTERCEPTED BY OUR SOUL’S WAY, IT IS BEST WE UNDERSTAND THE LANGUAGE OF SOUL.

Understanding the language of soul IS my greatest skill set and gift to myself and the world.

My soul, as it speaks to me through my body, knew better. It would not participate in my ego’s attempts to do things “my way”. My mind fought, judged, argued with what is…. while my body continued to guide me towards my deeper truth. It did this by spontaneously immersing me in a cocooning phase.

I’m talking about a phase of incubation during which a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly.

The cocoon reveals nothing. But when a butterfly emerges. Well! It’s unrecognizable from the caterpillar it once was. It emerges with wings where before there were none. It is finally destined for flight!

This is what we might call a quantum leap, for a butterfly cannot revert to it’s former state of caterpillar-hood. Not possible.

THAT IS THE POWER OF COCOONING.

What really happens during the cocooning phase and how does this apply to your business and life?

Well, let’s face it, in the coaching industry there is often a big focus on plowing through to your goal no matter what. “Suck it up!”, “Get on with it”, “Just do it”, “Change your belief system!”, “Feel the fear and do it anyway!” are common motivational slogans.

Although these may at times function as a kick-in-the-pants, they can actually hinder our momentum and create damage to our process-of-emergence at others.

There are seasons in the growth of our business and life that are not nourished or supported by action, planning, strategy, motivation or shifting yet another belief system?

In fact, what if I invited you to consider that there is a season during which every transformational process requires a stance of inner stillness, a being-ness of allowing and of creative non-doing.

In fact, this stillness is the most conducive state for the flow of higher intelligence to work it’s miracle. Can you imagine what would happen to a baby if it’s pregnant mother ran a daily marathon? What would become of a seed if we regularly dug up the soil in which it was sown?

A STILL, SAFE NOURISHING WOMB, LIKE A COCOON, HOUSES A  PROLIFIC STATE OF PULSATING LIFE FORCE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF CREATION. 

I invite you to take this in. Breathe in the enormity of this truth.

And if this truth lands for you right now, contemplate how powerful it would be for you to CONSCIOUSLY HARNESS this pulsating field of miracle-making- life force for success in your business, harmony in your relationships and vibrant joy in all aspects of your life.

THAT IS HOW I USED MY COCOONING PHASE.

I dove deep. I took my own medicine, I listened to soul in the face of all my fears. I leaned on the wisdom and power of my soul to part my personal ‘Red-Sea’.  Yep! We each have our own personal red sea to part. What that is for you and how it can transpire is between you and your source, between you and soul.

I have emerged with my stake firmly in the ground for a body-of-work that has been consciously emerging through me for over a decade now (and supported by an entire lifetime).

This body-of-work is called THE SOUL MOVEMENT METHOD(R).

It is a deep, profound, gentle way of helping you (myself included) shed the layers of skin that no longer support the butterfly you (we) are becoming.

It is a body-of-work that harnesses higher intelligence to work through you and for you.

It is a somatic-based psycho-spiritual modality that helps higher intelligence LAND IN YOUR BODY AS YOUR LIFE.

That is why it is so effective for activating substantial, wondrous, magical results in business, relationships – everything really.

It allows for big results because it leans on a higher source.

Your mind alone does not babies create. Your mind alone does not a thriving business allow. Your mind alone does not a loving relationship cultivate.

I have emerged with a stake in the ground for this profound body of work I feel humbled to facilitate. In actual fact, it is a body-of-work that creates the structures for soul to filter through and do the work.

It is about the power of soul to quantum leap your desires to heights you cannot fathom from your current state of caterpillar-hood.

It is about shifting ourselves and our businesses and our lives in ways that are joyful, sustainable and truly aligned with our unique template to serve and show up in the world.

THAT IS THE POWER OF COCOONING.

I will be sharing more about THE SOUL MOVEMENT METHOD(R) and how it can support you and your business in the weeks, months and hopefully years to come. But for now.

MY INVITATION TO YOU.

Reflect on how COCOONING may apply to the growth and success of YOUR business and life.

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS, WISDOM, EPIPHANIES IN THE COMMENT BOX BELOW.

Soul has your back. I do too.

From my soul to yours,

JOIN MY FRIENDS CARL STUDNA AND CYNTHIA JAMES FOR THEIR CONSCIOUS COUPLING TELESERIES (TIME SENSITIVE!)

In honor of twenty years together, my friends, Carl Studna and Cynthia James will be facilitating a four-week online class titled Conscious Coupling. I have known Carl and Cynthia for many years. They were one of the few conscious couples I interviewed 15 years+ ago (gulp!) as part of my process of exploring how intimate relationship with self, source and others reflect on each other.  Cynthia was also one of the first practitioners to use the cards with her clients…which is one of the reasons I was so deeply called to offer the Intuition Heart Cards(TM) as a GIFT from my heart when you join their 4 week teleseries. In my experience, by simply being in the presence of a couple who so LIVE what they teach, transformation is inevitable! If you are in a devoted partnership and wish to explore deeper levels of communication and intimacy I highly recommend immersing yourself in their presence and teachings.