Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?
I work with high performers - people who are brave enough to dream an impossible dream and then dare to make it real.
On the surface, it might appear to be a straight-forward algorithm: work hard over a long period of time, maybe add a little talent, maybe some mental stuff. These things are certainly foundational. But the secret sauce is less solid and more watery.
If you’ve tuned in to any of the Olympic trials going on recently, you can look to these people as examples of what I’m talking about. Olympians have a high capacity to feel, that is to deeply experience the entire range of emotions that come with a meaningful journey. They don’t just stride across the finish line with bland satisfaction for a job well done. They scream, they cry, they collapse, they do victory dances. Their capacity to feel the devastating lows is directly correlated to their ability to experience full, burst-your-heart-open ecstatic fulfillment.
If you can’t feel it, you can’t achieve it. And crucially, the feeling comes before the achievement. It’s not the end, it’s the way.
Don’t believe me? That’s only because you haven’t felt it yet. Don’t allow fear to masquerade as indifference. That’s its favorite hiding place.
book of the lunar cycle: Infinite Receiving, by Suzy Ashworth
Suzy Ashworth provides us with a framework for connecting to what you truly want to receive, not just what you say you want to receive when you’re operating under the false (and often subconscious) assumption that abundance is greedy or unnecessary.
She highlights the importance of connecting to the feelings that coincide with what the next level is for you, whether it’s in the realm of money, impact, joy, health, etc. Receiving is a muscle that must be exercised and feelings are magnets for magic.
Instead of doing what most people do, which is trying to fill up with their manifestations and wondering why, even when they’re successful, they still feel hungry, this work happens from the inside out and leads to more abundance than you thought was possible.
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poem of the lunar cycle: Self Portrait, by David Whyte
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others. I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand. I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing. I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.
Flow:
Flow states have been studied for decades, pioneered by the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and carried on by researchers like Steven Kotler (author of “Mapping Cloud Nine” and “The Art of Impossible”). The statistics on performance of any kind, whether its athletic, creative, or productivity based are sort of unbelievable, i.e. a 500% boost in productivity while in a flow state. A simpler way to explain this phenomenon is that flow is present whenever you see the impossible become possible.
But this isn’t just about achievement. One of the key characteristics of a flow state is that it’s not a means to an end, but rather an an optimal state of consciousness; an experience that’s worth having for its own sake. It’s not the end, it’s the way.
Such an experience is characterized by ultimate allowance, importantly allowing all obstacles and frustrations as they are the ultimate triggers of flow. The extent to which you can allow all feelings to flow freely and consciously within the present moment determines what you get to experience, at the highest level you can dream of; that is, it determines the quality of your life.
Emotions are energy in motion (e-motion). The new moon in watery Cancer ♋️ invites you to feel it all without blocking or damming your own energy. You can’t stop the ebbs and flows of the tides. But you can ride them, even the sucky ones, all the way to your most fulfilling abundant life.
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Coach Laura
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