5 Somatic Hacks For Making More Money To Use Today – Profitable Business With Nervous System Regulation

By the end of this episode you’ll know:

The ONE question to ask yourself for making more money daily

The inconvenient truth around somatic trauma healing

What most people ignore that harms then when it comes to taking financial advice

5 innovative strategies for nervous system regulation to make money – stay till teh end because that’s the one you wont’ find anywhere else.

Recommended episodes:

60: The Non Negotiable Trauma Work of Making More Money

38: How Your Nervous System Affects Your Business

55: How to create money to invest in support – Nervous System Training For Profitable Business, Anxiety-free

TRANSCRIPT:

[00:00:00] There’s no need to wait until tomorrow to build a somatic practice that supports you in making more money. Today, we’re going to go over five somatic hacks for making money that you can start using today. By the end of the episode, you will know the one question to ask yourself so that you can make more money daily.

[00:00:32] The inconvenient truth around somatic trauma healing, what most people ignore that cause them a lot of harm when it comes to taking financial advice and five innovative strategies. In sum, five innovative strategies for nervous system regulation to stay money. Stay to the end because there is one that I’m going to be sharing that you have never heard on any other podcast before or any book or anything else.

[00:00:58] So I was in the pool the other day and I [00:01:00] was talking to a friend and, uh, they were asking me actually about what I was doing today and I was supposed to be recording this podcast, right? And, uh, I said, Oh, I’m going to record a podcast on five somatic hats for making more money. And they asked me about the first one.

[00:01:16] I, I share with them a couple of one, a couple of them, but for them, this is the one that made the most sense. So I’m going to start with it for you. My question first is like, have you ever signed a client or had a job or done anything where you have felt like that work was a little bit of a burden? Like it felt like it took away time or it took away freedom or it made you kind of be some version of yourself that you don’t really want to be or made you speak with a boss that you don’t want to speak to or engage in activities that you don’t want to engage in.

[00:01:53] , if you are in the practice of service providing or you’re a coach like me, this can even be as [00:02:00] simple as you get a message from your clients and you’re like, Oh, well they’re asking that same question again, or, Oh, they might have to answer that now kind of feeling on call or any, any type of situation where work feels stressful.

[00:02:15] It feels maybe like you have to solve all these problems or you have all these people responsible for you. Now, the truth is our body, our nervous system is made to keep us in situations that it perceives as safe. Now, this is an extremely complex thing that I’m going to try and dissolve into 90 seconds on a podcast, but essentially when things cause some type of stress or a perceived sense of burden or a perceived sense of lack of safety or any type of should the, it sends to the body that.

[00:02:50] You’re in an environment that isn’t totally 100 percent safe. So this means that if I feel stressed when I sign new clients because now I have [00:03:00] more deadlines and more things to do and I feel on call or I don’t like the way that they speak to me or something like that, then my body is actually wired, is going to wire me to avoid that situation of stress.

[00:03:15] Now it doesn’t mean that you’re never, ever going to sign clients are obviously going to be some things that, The body will decide, Oh, it is worth signing a client, even though it makes me the stress because not doing so would make me more stressed. And it’s able to perceive that and then make a decision based on that.

[00:03:31] But for a lot of you who are probably doing like you’re doing a little bit, okay, you would like to be making more money, but you know, you’re, you’re surviving enough to be able to have a phone and listen to this. A lot of the time, what’s going to happen is that if your clients or your work is causing you stress or your day to day job is causing you stress and you put your head on the pillow at night and your mind goes into

[00:04:00] overthinking or you have tension in your neck, you’re not really sure where it comes from or you just cannot wait for the weekend, then What happens is your body is going to try and help you avoid stress by not giving you the sensations, emotions, or thoughts that would bring you to actually sign more clients.

[00:04:18] Instead, it’s going to give you sensations, emotions, and thoughts that make you not sign clients, that make you do something else, even though you might perceive that to be as really, really frustrating, really annoying, really inconvenient, and even really unsafe. Your body’s job is to keep you away from stressful situations.

[00:04:39] And it does that by giving you a perceived experience of the world. So the one question that you can ask yourself to help you make more money daily is that when you are doing any task that leads to making money, so this might be any type of admin work, any type of connecting with future clients, any type of content creation, any type of speaking with your employees, any type of [00:05:00] anything.

[00:05:00] Even just like getting ready for work, want you to ask yourself, how can I make this moment feel 5 percent safer, more pleasurable and more normal. And what we’re doing is we’re bringing in three aspects that help the body feel like, Oh, this action is safe. Meaning I can repeat it again. Pleasurable meaning one pleasure is inherently regulating to the nervous system.

[00:05:27] And it also, It primes the nervous system for more of that thing. Like we always are looking for more pleasure, so it makes it, we’re asking, how can I make it more safe so that I can repeat it again? How can I bring in more pleasure so that I can feel even more regulated, even more relaxed and also repeat it again?

[00:05:45] And how can I make it even more normal? So what we’re doing here is we’re creating a new balance or set point for the nervous system. So maybe a little while ago, let’s say it was really normal for you to receive. 3,

[00:06:00] 000 a month, right? That was, that felt normal to get that amount of money. And then later on, it’s going to be more normal for you to receive 7, 000 a month.

[00:06:08] And then we’re going to normalize that and stabilize that. And then we’re going to build that up to 12 or 17. What I do with a lot of my clients is they come to me when they’re often just in their one business, but sometimes they have a job on the side or they have some type of income on the side, or maybe they don’t, but what they haven’t done is figured out how to make.

[00:06:30] Really normal and stable 5k months, for example. And so what I work with my clients in, in body based business is making 5k months feel super stable, super pleasurable, and really, really normal. And we create that set point there so that when they walk away from the container, working with me, they’re never going to go down below that 5k months.

[00:06:50] And instead they’re going to have a somatic strategy to be able to normalize, bring pleasure and activate higher and higher and higher.

[00:07:00] and they’re just going to repeat that system over and over again.

[00:07:06] Then we have the inconvenient truth about somatic trauma healing. This is something that has come up in most of the people that I’ve worked with and it’s actually part of the reason why I ended up in this specific realm. I started working with people in and OCD support. Hair loss support and confidence coaching and relationship anxiety coaching and something kept coming up at the end of our containers together.

[00:07:37] It’s like we would do all this work. We would do all this healing. We would get feeling really good. And then at the end we would start thinking about, okay, well now that we’ve created this really, base,, emotional well being, what am I going to do with all my energy? And a lot of my clients ended up saying, well, I kind of feel like I want to.

[00:07:53] Make more money. I want to do more fun things. I want to pursue a passion. I want to kind of begin to leave a little bit of a,

[00:08:00] a legacy in this world and They would say to me, nah. We would talk about like, you know, child, inner child trauma and stuff. And something that people would say to me is like, you know, I kind of have this like odd relationship with money, but I’ve never experienced like, any type of money, trauma or anything.

[00:08:18] Like, I’ve never lost heaps of money. You know, mom’s, mom and dad never went bankrupt. And, and I do work a lot of people who have had those stories, but a lot of the people that I work with or I speak with, they’re like, oh, well, nothing’s really ever happened. Yeah, I don’t really know why I have this weird relationship with money where I’m really anxious about it no matter how much I have or I like really struggled to look at my bank account.

[00:08:40] And the truth is that trauma isn’t actually an event. It’s the effect of an event on your system. So your system is made to digest events. It’s made for an event to occur either to you or you can witness an event. And what it does is it digests it. It [00:09:00] goes, okay, cool. I’m going to intake this information.

[00:09:03] From this information, I am going to take in what is going to help me navigate the world. And so those are things like beliefs or understandings or connotations and, or even an identity structure. And then I’m going to discard that, which is not supportive for me. And a lot of the times that looks like emotions that just kind of have to be felt through the body.

[00:09:27] That’s just like when you normally digest, right? You take food in, you take in the nutrients and you discard the waste. Now trauma happens when your nervous system cannot digest that specific experience in Real time. And so what it does is it kind of like stores some of the experience to process later on It just doesn’t have the resources to digest it, right?

[00:09:50] It doesn’t have the metabolism to digest it so it stores a little bit of the good the wisdom and the nutrients and a little bit of the not so good the icky stuff or the difficult coping [00:10:00] mechanisms and That goes very much Undetected until we start looking at some of the symptoms. And so some of the symptoms, particularly around money, it’s like, well, I’m not earning as much as I would like to be, or I feel really anxious when I look at my bank account.

[00:10:18] I feel like there’s never enough, or I feel like the foot’s always going to drop or, um, you know, I just, I’ve been trying to make a little bit more, but I haven’t really figured it out yet. Or I hate looking at it. I don’t like talking about it. I hate money. It’s bad. And these things, these ways of looking at money or relating to money.

[00:10:43] actually come from your relationship to money, your relationship, which is built just like your relationship to men or women or pets or horses or your mom or your dad or your sister or your brother or your aunt or your uncle or your boyfriend or your girlfriend or any type of partner, right? And

[00:11:00] the inconvenient truth is that you might be walking through life thinking, I’ve got everything under control.

[00:11:06] Everything is perfect. And there is still going to be some deep experience that is affecting the way that you relate to your money. I’ve been doing this work for many years and I can confidently say that there are traumas that I’ve found after thinking that everything was wonderful and fine and I found that and I was like, Oh, I didn’t realize how much that had affected me.

[00:11:29] I didn’t have to go down a big dark night of the soul with it, but I said, Oh, okay. Yeah. I can see how that’s affecting me. Interesting. Let’s see if we, what, what I want to keep from that, what I want to change. And I can also confidently say that you guys are going to witness over the next few years. I’m probably going to find some other stuff that I wasn’t aware of as I continue to do this work with you.

[00:11:47] It’s an ongoing process, but there’s always going to be something simply because humans are extremely, extremely complex. We go through a lot of things, we experience a lot of things, and the

[00:12:00] schemes and the webs inside of our mind and our body are extremely complex, um, and we can only see so much at a time.

[00:12:09] Now that you’re here doing this work, my invitation is for you to take notice and begin just seeing where your relationship with money isn’t exactly what you would like, where your bank account doesn’t look exactly how you would like, and just perhaps open yourself up to the idea that there might be something that has happened either to you or you have witnessed happened to another person that would be secondhand trauma that is affecting your beliefs.

[00:12:32] Now, this can be as simple as like, It’s very traumatic to be, to be constantly exposed to the idea that the world is going to fall apart, that you’re not going to have enough resources, and that there is scarcity. Chronic exposure to scarcity becomes a traumatic event. I don’t know about you, but if you watch the news or talk to a lot of people, especially lately, there is a lot of fear in the media and fear around

[00:13:00] what’s going to happen, um, with, there’s like depression and then there’s a great war and then there’s like, we’re going to be overcome by robots and AI is going to take our jobs and all of that.

[00:13:09] And that’s been true forever. There’s always been a lot of fear forever and us being chronically consistently exposed to that actually becomes a traumatic experience because it’s chronic stress on the system. So even just that, even just living, won’t you just stop thinking about how. deeply that is affecting your nervous system and putting it into a fear response and creating stress hormones that actually stop you from being able to see the bigger picture of your options available and help and stop you from feeling, um, empowered around money and capable and open to receive money.

[00:13:46] I did a wonderful, wonderful episode on like feeling like I can’t afford this and I’m going to link it below because that talks about how that stress response and being chronically exposed to the story of I can’t

[00:14:00] afford this actually makes it really difficult for you to then able to be money. I’ll send some information.

[00:14:07] Um, I’ll guide you to the episode at the end of this episode. And I’ll also have the link below in the show notes. So there’s that. Now let’s talk about what most people ignore that harms you when it comes to taking financial advice. There’s a lot of financial advice out there and I think education and awareness around your finances is.

[00:14:33] So necessary, so deeply necessary. There are some great, really, really good books and podcasts and all of this stuff. And I love them and I consume them. And I recommend you to do so as well. However,

[00:14:47] what sometimes happens is we take these sources of education and we begin to apply their advice and techniques. Awesome. Good. I’m all here for

[00:15:00] experimenting, but unless you know, Your body’s attachment to money and the fact that your body, your nervous system actually has an attachment to money then You could be employing advice that is going to increase anxiety in your system, increase fear in your system and actually pull you away from being in that space of a regulated nervous system of receivership of joy of lack of stress of trust and These are, you know, I don’t, I know there’s maybe a kind of skeptical parts of our mind that are like, Oh, well, it thinks that if I stress and plan about something that it means that I’m going to make more money.

[00:15:44] No, not necessarily. That’s actually not how it works. Most of the time, as long as you put a plan in place and you are intelligent, you can look at things from a neutral point of view or aka a regulated nervous system. , Then you’re actually going to make more money for some

[00:16:00] of you. That’s going to sound a little bit like woo woo, even though I don’t like that word, but at the end of the day, it’s just true.

[00:16:05] It’s been true for me. It’s been true for my clients where there are so many, so many people out out in the world who are living proof of this. Um, it’s been spoken about, it’s been written about, it’s been studied. I want you to experiment by yourself and decide what you decide, what you think basically.

[00:16:21] But. You are going to bring more money in when you can look at money with neutrality from a regulated nervous system and not in an insecure attached way. What does that mean? Our attachment to money represents our attachment to belonging in our tribe, our safety and resources, and Essentially like our connection to the earth, who we are, what we’re doing here, our right to be here, our right to survive and our ability to survive means it’s inherently activating.

[00:16:54] Now what we want to create is a secure attachment where we believe that money will come and go. [00:17:00] And a come and go, just like we create a secure attachment to a parent or caregiver where we can trust that we are going to have all of the resources and love that we need. And that caretaker will be there for you.

[00:17:13] And then if they’re absent, well, they’re going to come back and you’re going to be okay. In attachment theory, we have different types of insecure attachment. We have ones that are more.

[00:17:32] Um, and then we have more avoidant where it’s like being close and having that attention and intimacy is actually very scary. So we like to maintain a very specific amount of distance. So if you have a more. Insecure attachment, then you’re worrying about money. Is it going to come back to me? If I spend it, am I going to get more back?

[00:17:53] Do I have enough? If you have a more avoidant attachment, it’s difficult for you to look at your bank accounts.

[00:18:00] You kind of like, Oh yeah, like it’s fine. Like you’ll have a person who’s like, I don’t want to make money because sorry, I just want to have enough money so I don’t have to think about it.

[00:18:07] That’s an avoidant way of relating to money because you’re trying to have money so that you don’t have to think about it. Instead of that’s like saying, I just want to have a lover so that I don’t have to think about. Having a lover, like I want to have a man so that I just don’t have to like have them there.

[00:18:22] No, we want money to be there for us so that we can feel empowered and we can enjoy it and also not feel worried about it. Right? Like enjoy it. Trust that it’s going to be there. Trust that it’s not going to be there sometimes and just be in the dance with money in the same way that you would dance in a relationship.

[00:18:40] So I’m going to do another podcast and that’s going to be the next one up in a couple of days. So you can check that out as well. But I want you to begin to understand that any advice that you take from a book or a podcast or anything, it needs to be filtered through what is going to be the most empowering for your nervous system.

[00:18:58] So if I tend more towards

[00:19:00] anxious, I’m going to need different strategies, tools than somebody who tends towards. And as I begin to heal that attachment with money by showing up for myself and showing up for my money, my needs are also going to change. And then I can relook at kind of the advice and the tools that I’m using to manage my money and to make sales in my business and to bring in more income.

[00:19:24] Okay, a little bit more. Beautiful. There. Is to, there are two more, these are three innovative strategies that I’ve shared with you. And please DM me on Instagram if you would like to go deeper into them. My Instagram is at SheridanRuth underscore, but there are two more that I want to share with you. The last one is going to be kind of the mind blowing one, but the first one, the second last one is really, really, really important.

[00:19:55] And I want you to begin to do it right now. As I mentioned in the beginning.

[00:20:00] Um, you, your body is going to always prioritize keeping you in spaces that it believes are safe. Aka known your body, your nervous system always wants to avoid the unknown because it thinks the unknown is unsafe because it doesn’t know that it can hold that and be in that and solve problems at that level.

[00:20:22] It’s unsafe. So in order for your body. to give you the thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and actions, and kind of that desire, and the insight, and the creativity to move to a new income bracket or to make more money today. It needs to know that it’s going to be safe at that point. And I can logically think, Oh yeah, like it’s going to be fat.

[00:20:45] Obviously it’s going to be safe, like obviously, but what you and I think in our brain is different to what our body perceives because our body has a different relationship with feelings and emotions and the world and relationships and all those things. So

[00:21:00] your body might actually think, Oh, if I make too much money, I am going to be judged by my friends and I’m not going to get along with my friends anymore.

[00:21:07] They’re going to not want to hang out with me. It’s going to be really awkward or it’s going to like change the dynamics in my marriage or I’m going to lose all of it. Just like I saw my friends lose all of it. I’m going to have to pay more taxes and that’s really sticky for me because I have, you know, a difficult relationship with the government.

[00:21:25] I don’t want to do that. And so what we want to do is begin to prime your nervous system for more money. And we do that using different somatic practices, like ones might include kind of holding the energy of the money in, in the body. It might include priming for the best case scenario or the worst case scenario.

[00:21:49] If you were to bring more money in, there’s always a worst case scenario. There’s always challenges that come with change. , what we’re doing is we’re just kind of giving the body an embodied

[00:22:00] sense of safety. Now your body’s really intelligent and one of the things that’s really cool about it is that when you’re visualizing something, it doesn’t actually know the difference between A visualized reality versus a 3d reality that I can touch right now.

[00:22:16] So a lot of the ways that we prime this is we create embodiment practices and embodiment experiences where you’re visualizing and solving the problems the body thinks it’s going to have when it increases the income before increasing the income so that you can increase the income. I hope that makes sense.

[00:22:38] Good. Good. That. The last innovative strategy, which is super cool. And I really, really, really, really, really, really like it. And it’s very unique to my approach. I come from an Ayurvedic and a tantric background, and this is the one thing that I’ve seen a lot of nervous system work really missing. , it is.

[00:22:58] the elemental

[00:23:00] imbalance. Now, a lot of nervous system work really focuses on here is your nervous system state, and here is a practice that you can use to change that state. Cool. Love that. Really awesome. I do it too. My clients get a toolbox full of somatic practices to change that state. Here’s what my clients also get.

[00:23:16] They get education on how to change that state based on what it means, the elements. So fire, water, ether. Earth are doing in their body.

[00:23:31] Guys, this is Freya. You might know her already. She’s my cohost and she asked questions that you might be thinking of as you guys build your business together with nervous system regulation and trauma healing. Good question. So in essence, the entire universe is built on the way that The five elements, either you like kind of come together to build things, right?

[00:23:57] So a tree has

[00:24:00] elements inside of it and That like everything that you can touch or you can perceive, including yourself is built on a specific combination of different elements and different combinations of the five elements that we live with. We have seen this in numerous different Eastern traditions.

[00:24:19] And you can actually, if you go down to the cellular makeup of things, you can also see it. Not to get too science y at the moment, I want you to just begin to think about the different elements in the nervous system states. Now, I do have another podcast on this, their podcast number 37 to 40, where we talk more about it.

[00:24:36] You guys have, you guys have so many fun things to binge. I’m excited for you. But essentially, your nervous system, when it is regulated, it has a beautiful combination of all of these elements in a very, um, Like it’s, they’re all the same amount, right? So it’s a balanced understanding.

[00:24:54] Neither is imbalanced or more than the other or less than the other. When you go into a stress

[00:25:00] response, we might get more of ether and air. We might get more fire. We might get more earth, which makes you feel heavy and like hard and like depressed and shameless, right? Shameful. , what we want to do when we start using somatic heights, nervous system regulation in order to prime the body to make more money is coming back to number one.

[00:25:21] We want things to start feeling more safe and in order for things to start feeling more safe or pleasurable or normal, we want to have the nervous system in that regulated space where there’s no. Element that’s out of balanced. So when you understand and you start looking at, Oh, I’m in, I’m in an anxious state, which means that the element of ether and air is out of balance in my system.

[00:25:45] I know that in order to bring myself back into balance, I need to balance the ether and air in my system. I don’t, now I’m like, okay, well I’m not going to go and do some breath work or Kundalini yoga because

[00:26:00] that’s going to make me feel more flighty. I’m going to go put my feet on the earth because what’s the opposite of ether and air?

[00:26:06] It’s earth. Right? Ether and air is like out there or flying around and earth is dense and on the ground. And so when you can understand the different nervous system states and you can understand the different elemental imbalances, you don’t need to rely on what somebody else told you is good from that nervous system state.

[00:26:28] You can start listening to your body and you can say, okay, I can feel that I’m anxious. I can feel that I need a stabilizing presence in that’s like earthy. In my life right now, what is that going to be? Cause there’s going to be times where it’s actually going to be a really good piece of dark chocolate.

[00:26:43] And then there are going to be other times where you’re like, I’m just going to put my feet in the earth. And then there are going to be other times you’re going to say, I need more stability in my schedule because earth is stable and grounding and dense and a little bit sweet. Right? And I want you to feel empowered and understand

[00:27:00] these nervous system states so that you don’t need to rely on a PDF or a specific practice and you can actually start listening to your body and actually start learning your body compass because that is the most important tool that you can use.

[00:27:12] As you begin to make a profitable business that will give, that will be made without burnout, without anxiety, that’s going to scale with ease. And that’s going to give you the energy and vitality to live your life as an embodied individual, as an embodied entrepreneur, because that’s why we are here.

[00:27:30] , I’m going to recommend to you a specific episode around, uh. The, I can’t afford it type thing, trauma that we experience. And so that specific episode is number 55. It’s called how to create money to invest in support. And what you’re going to learn when you listen to that episode is the truth about the full body.

[00:27:48] Yes. What you are really saying when you say I can’t afford it. This is the part that I want you to listen to the most and how to cultivate an open receptive nervous system that can receive more income

[00:28:00] connection and pleasure. .