I have been putting pedal to the metal in the home stretch of my Master Life Coaching program. (Picture a horse running toward the barn.)
There have been speeches to make, articles to write and programs and products to create. Writing, writing, writing!
In the months to come I will be unveiling some of these new and exciting creations, but for now, while I am still in the midst of it, I just wanted to pause and share.
The course is, in part, designed to bring up your “shit”. It pushes you into a corner and holds you there until you do your own version of wriggling and squirming. And as stuff comes up… things like inadequacy and thinking I need to do things “right”… it is a perfectly safe place to work through it and come out on the other side.
Imagine that. A coaching program designed to coach you to your right life.
So things in my life have been shaking and rocking and rolling.
I picture it like a space capsule returning to earth with the scorching heat burning so hot that even the tiles are rattling to stay in place. That blazing heat burns away any foreign matter trying to cling to it. (Like shit. Or a ham sandwich.)
I have already burned away a couple good chunks of debris, and I am sure that more shit will pop up as I crash and tumble my way through the ring of fire.
As Chuck Yeager says, “Just before you break the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.” How wise, Chucky-san.
So bring on the shaking.
Oh – and on another note, I just watched a really good movie on HBO called “About Time”. I recommend it. I think you can get it on Netflix too. Or maybe the movie store in your neighborhood.
I don’t want to say too much and spoil it for you, but let’s just say that the formula he uses (at the end) to find happiness is spot-on. I just have to try to do it without using time travel. (For obvious reasons.)
Much love,
Ellen
I keep hearing that… money is energy.
Originally, I thought they meant that money was some mystical, spiritual, ghost thingy floating around deciding who to go to based on who had meditated the best or who’s energy aligned with the energy of what they want.
And for some people, that might be.
But, I think what is confusing is the word energy itself. We buy it from the power company. We run out of it when we run 10 miles. When an exciting speaker gives a talk, we might say she has a lot of energy.
Lots of meanings for the same word.
But in this case, it’s easier to think of it first as how much it takes out of us when we work hard.
It used to be, long ago, that we would trade a chicken for sugar. We would trade one thing we made or grew for something someone else had. Or we would all use our energy to build someone else’s barn so they would come help us build our barn. We were trading energy.
Chickens are more difficult to carry around than dollar bills, and electronic transfers are even easier to carry (or not carry at all). So now the relationship to trading energy is not as apparent. But it’s still the same. We are trading energy.
Energy is our currency.
Most people talk about money being energy when they are trying to attract money into their lives. Some people think if they want it hard enough in just the right way, that piles of cash will arrive on their front doorstep.
So here’s what I think:
I think that it takes two kinds of energy to attract money.
- The kind of physical energy it takes to produce action. Like physically talking to people, so when they ask you what you do, you tell them. It takes energy to type on a keyboard to introduce your offer to cyberspace.
- The level of confidence you have in what you are exchanging. What are you sure of? If you know, for sure, with no doubts whatsoever that your new pill will save people’s lives, then money will come to you. (If you also do the #1 action energy.)
And I think it takes both types of energy together to make much money. For example, when I am trying to promote a new coaching program, I first have to let people in some way know I am offering it (energy #1) and when my people get the information, they have to feel that genuine confidence of what I know for sure (energy #2).
People know when it’s not the real deal.
One other component: You have to play with the dial as to how much energy you use.
You can have too much action energy. You have all met a pushy salesperson, who is expending a lot of energy trying to sell you something, and that energy propels you away in the equal and opposite direction.
That’s what they mean by matching someone’s energy to make something happen.
Sometimes you don’t need to use much energy to make things happen. Like when you get really good at something. When I first started ice skating, it took a lot of energy to skate around a skating rink. Picture walking in small choppy steps on skates. Now that I have some experience, one little push and I glide a long way.
So, go forth my friends and attract money. Play with the energy and see how much or how little energy it takes to bring money to you.
And let me know how it goes.
Feel your way.
The world is moving so fast these days, and there are so many choices, the path to take… the choices to make… aren’t always clear.
And the more things speed up and go electronic, the more we have to go back to our animal selves and get still and listen to those primal feelings.
Go back to your animal self. It will never lie.
It takes a bit of learning, this reading your body. We have ignored the messages our body is sending for so long.
But that’s how we are built. We have many of the same signals as animals in the wild… to stay or go, to work harder or easier, what role we have in our tribe. We don’t have to use words to figure these out. Physical feeling is the language of our inner animal. Tension. Tingling. Tightness. Knots. Lightness.
When making choices, words can get in the way.
If your body says yes, take the leap. And if your body says no, take a look at other choices until your body says yes.
You know what to do. You just have to let your mind get out of the way.
So, listen to those whispers from your animal self, and feel your way. It’s the only way to find your truth.