3 Ways Your Nervous System Impacts Your Business (and what to do about it)
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As your business grows, you will need to be able to expand your ability to process & hold energy.
You need to be receptive to life. To be in receiving.
All of this depends on your nervous system.
It’s about calming and centering yourself so that you can allow new energy to flow through you and out of you.
caIt’s about being open to new opportunities, taking leaps of faith, and being present for discomfort in your body when it comes up. And obviously not choosing not to do something because you anticipate it’ll make you feel uncomfortable emotions.
It’s about showing up fully. When you show up in your business and you’re able to spend 80% (or more) of your time just expressing your unique gifts... you give yourself, your brain, your soul, the space to fully process and perform.
You show up in the world better able to serve and give value and come up with reality-altering ideas.
And your business is better for it.
So let’s talk about 3 ways how your nervous system impacts your business:
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1: Your ability to grow your audience
As your business grows… you will need to hold a lot more space for your clients, audience, and team.
If your nervous system isn’t ready to hold all this energy… there will always be a reason to run and hide. To not show up as the visionary CEO you want to be.
Because showing up fully, and doing the things that are in your sphere of genius, IS what grows your business.
If you aren’t able to make time to process this influx of energy, you won’t allow your business to grow. You will shut down, or sabotage yourself because you’re hitting an upper limit of what you have allowed yourself to feel before, to HAVE before. You haven’t felt or held this much before and for our primitive brain… that is DANGER.
You need to prime your nervous system to receive all of this.
2: Your ability to make money
A fuck ton of money is a lot of energy to hold, so that alone requires your nervous system to be soothed & to have capacity.
Money is more complex than just “neutral energy” (as spiritual gurus love to espouse).
For many of us, money is an exchange between you and another person. For those of us who are service providers someone is paying us money in exchange for a service.
They are paying for our time. Our life force.
If your nervous system isn’t primed to handle this giving and receiving of energy… It can be challenging to make money in your business. At least MORE money.
Many highly sensitive people will push away money & opportunity because this feels too intense. They don’t want to give up their freedom. They aren’t willing to take the risk of a big investment.
Not looking at this will prevent you from making more money.
Nature is in a constant state of consumption. One organism lives and eats and dies and another organism eats it and composts it and puts it back into the cycle.
Nature is connection. And as we work in the world we are consuming others. Their life force. Their time.
This consumption nourishes us. Feeds us. And as we consume and be consumed... we’re giving and receiving value.
Can you hold this beautiful, disgusting dynamic within you? The more that you can, the more you will grow.
3: Your ability to be in community
Women have evolved to be IN COMMUNITY. And our brains are wired to care about what those around us think.
So you need to be very intentional with who you surround yourself with. You need to be very intentional with who you’re WITNESSED by.
You’ve probably heard “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” attributed most often to motivational speaker Jim Rohn.
But studies show it’s actually way bigger than that. You’re the average of all the people who surround you. How much your friends weigh, whether they smoke cigarettes or not, whether they’re happy or not, have a significant impact on how much you weigh, if you smoke, if you’re happy.
And the friends of your friends do too. AKA people you’re not even friend’s with.
At least according to 30 decades worth of data in the work of scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler in their studies on social influence.
So sure - you could just lurk around successful people who have lives you want - it’ll rub off on you.
But without forming actual relationships with these people then you aren’t giving your nervous system the pleasure of relaxing & digesting it.
I have met quite a few female entrepreneurs that have had a sisterhood wound.
They were burned by a woman, a friend, a mother, and the unprocessed trauma prevented them from feeling safe around other women.
But humans evolved to live in community & women even more so since we weren’t developing
Community is an essential part of our happiness.
If you have a sisterhood wound & you have an interesting habit of never feeling like you belong - no matter what room you’re in, that’s going to hold you back.
Because your nervous system won’t allow you to have these powerful relationships. Where you grow. Where you get life-changing feedback from women who have been there before.
Sure, you can claw and fight your way to a sustainable business, but you’ll still be the person who got there that way.
The compulsion to compete & separate will still be there. You used it as a tool so you’ll maybe even feel dependent on it.
Imagine what can happen if you’re forming deep connections with other women who are building businesses that are highly profitable. Celebrating hit income goals. Where you’re encouraged to work LESS & only in your zone of genius. Where we know that our internal work massively impacts our external reality & our businesses are a work of art.
All of this expands your ability to lead your business to its next-level from a place of empowerment.
But obviously, it also requires working on your nervous system so you can first handle that community and build those relationships,
Having this support system can actually EXPAND the ability of your nervous system to be supported in all ways.
But.
Your nervous system is yours. You can shift it. You can start to expand it so you’re able to take in new energy in these different areas.
And if you want to grow your business… you have to take care of your nervous system.
Because it’s not the algorithm or the size of your following that’s preventing or postponing your next level of success...
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