If traditional financial advice has only gotten you so far… this was made for you.
Financial freedom is on everyone’s wish list. Who wouldn’t want to experience life without the stress and limitations that often come with money troubles? But here’s the catch: most financial advice out there only skims the surface. This Somatic Practice takes you deeper, to uncover what truly holds you back or propels you forward on your path to financial freedom.
I recorded this podcast episode so you can discover the one practice that can make a remarkable difference in your quest for financial freedom. By listening in, you’ll gain:
Clarity: Learn how to decipher your body’s unique story about money, and gain clarity about your financial journey.
Neutrality: Understand how to achieve money neutrality, which can be a game-changer in making wise financial decisions.
Embodiment Practices: Get a sneak peek into embodiment practices that will reveal your unique path to financial success with ease.
This practice is the one practice I never miss when I want to increase my income. It’ll reveal more in 90 seconds than therapy does for 3 years.
Recommended episode 17: The Money-Mind Connection: Exploring the Impact of the Nervous System on Financial Well-being
To create an empowered relationship with money means to recognise it’s about more than “having enough to not think about it”. It’s to lean into the energetic, subconscious and nervous system relationship with money – and use it to create a new money story. One that allows you to receive, circulate and hold more. This podcast goes into HOW to actually create capacity, and much more.
TRANSCRIPT:
[00:00:00] Sheridan: This practice is the one practice that I never miss when I want to increase my income. It will reveal in 90 seconds, more than therapy does in numerous years. By the end of this episode, you’re going to learn the one question you need to ask yourself to find out what is necessary for your financial freedom.
[00:00:33] What you absolutely have to know if you’re going to create financial freedom with ease instead of struggle. And the only embodiment practice that you need for this ease and financial freedom, no matter what other people say. So you can put the books down, put the podcast out, except for this one, and make money.
[00:00:51] So a couple of years ago. I like kind of some context for my story. I have had very [00:01:00] ups and downs and different experiences with money. You know, I’ve been working since I was 13. I’ve been in entrepreneurship in different capacities. Um since I was about probably 18 or 19, I’ve supported different entrepreneurs in different ways.
[00:01:13] And I kind of fluttered around in this whole entrepreneurship journey until. Um, after I did my, , trauma therapy training and discovered these tools. And after I did my yoga therapy training and discovered these tools, I just kind of like, you know, it was successful, but it wasn’t anything amazing. And this all that I’m about to share with you today is one of the things that I started implementing almost.
[00:01:46] I was almost unaware of the fact that I was implementing it. I just started doing it very intuitively. And also because I didn’t really know what else to do. To be completely honest with you, I felt really lost. [00:02:00] And I, I knew that I needed to increase my income. I knew that I wanted to, but I didn’t really know what else to do.
[00:02:05] So I just kind of used the tools that I had to do what I wanted. This comes from the tool that I’m sharing with you. I’ve been using it in different ways and really refining it and perfecting it since I was a yoga teacher. Now, for context, when I was teaching yoga, I. I was doing a lot of it by, uh, word of mouth, and most of my clients were private clients and I was really tired because I wasn’t charging a lot, um, I was really nervous to charge things, my income was extremely low compared to What it could have been and what it should have been.
[00:02:43] I felt guilty receiving money. Now, a lot has changed since then. Most importantly, I, my whole entire relationship with money and service has changed. And the way that I see entrepreneurship. I’ve been exposed a lot to the coaching industry, as well as the therapeutic industry, as well as [00:03:00] the spiritual industry.
[00:03:01] And I think that all of these different industries and like the norms within them have little gems of truth. But, And it’s kind of up to us to decide where we fit within them, what we believe to be true within them. And so I’m kind of pulling from all of these different places.
[00:03:18] There exists a very deep truth in that we have all of these different bodies in that we have a mental body, an energetic body, an emotional body, a physical body. And if you’re going for the yoga philosophy, a bliss body, and then we have our soul and What is important for us when we’re here, we’re talking about embodied entrepreneurship and we’re looking at it through the system of the nervous system.
[00:03:45] What’s important for us to understand is that our body has a relationship with the world. It understands that through something called neuroception. And this is like deeper, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep down [00:04:00] below the unconscious, below the subconscious. It’s, it’s the deep way of the way our primal body relates with the world.
[00:04:06] It’s also a relationship that our emotion, like that is the underlying thing that influences how our emotions relate to things, how our physical body relates to things, how our mind relates to things that shapes our entire experience, right? And so. Everyone’s primal body or we’ll just say nervous system.
[00:04:26] Everyone’s nervous system has a different relationship with the world. You and I can look at the tree outside of me and have different feelings and thoughts related to that tree. We have a different relationship to it. I could buy you an ice cream and it will be different experience for you than it will be for me.
[00:04:44] I can give you 5, I can give you 500. We’re going to have a different experience related to that money. Right? But the thing is the same. And so, You, me and Becky down the block and Jessica over there and that person on Instagram can all sit down and say, I want to [00:05:00] bring in a thousand dollars this week and we’re all going to have a different relationship with that money and the process to bring that money in.
[00:05:09] And so, and that’s really what matters. And that’s why you. You look at all of these things online and books and things, and they all like how to make money, what, how to do this, you know, how to do your sales, how to sign clients like this workshop, this masterclass, understand this and you know, it’s all good information and it’s really fun to learn, but at the end of the day.
[00:05:30] What’s going to make a difference, it’s understanding your body’s relationship with that thing because that’s what is foundational, like that’s the foundation of your entire reality. The rest is just theory. The rest is just like things to study if you feel kind of like nerding out or you want a different perspective or something.
[00:05:51] The truth is what happens inside of your bones. The truth is what happens when the way that you breathe. The truth is what happens in the sensations in your chest. The truth is what [00:06:00] happens in below your thoughts, below your emotions and all of that. And it’s that truth that actually is going to discern how you need to bring.
[00:06:09] income in or how you don’t, or how you want to serve clients or how you want to, you know, structure your business, that that’s the truth. And so really, truly the one question that you need to ask yourself when you are looking to understand what is necessary for your financial freedom, it’s not. Going and reading the barefoot investor or the four hour work week or doing another masterclass or, or picking it, like, I don’t know, it’s not another mantra or a song or even a meditation practice.
[00:06:38] All of these things might be helpful at different times. The question that you need to ask yourself and really coming from a deeply contemplative embodied space, which is what I help my clients achieve inside of body based business so that they can get the answer to this question is. What is the story my body is telling me?
[00:06:59] [00:07:00] What is the story my body is telling me about bringing in financial freedom? And when you ask that from a space of contemplation, you’re going to get many different answers or perhaps nothing. I recently hosted a workshop here in Medellín, Colombia, where we had a small amount of women, and we asked ourselves this question.
[00:07:23] And… And I do this, you know, at least once or twice or five times a week with my clients and I’ve noticed the same thing to be true for them. That is true for me, which is sometimes we get an answer and it’s super clear, but it’s a thought answer. It’s not a truth answer. And sometimes we get. Uh, when I, okay, let me elaborate on that, meaning that it’s what we, what our, what we think the body is telling us, what we think is true and the body is kind of still telling us that, but it’s not coming from a place of deep resonant truth inside of our bones, inside of the depth of our being rather, it’s [00:08:00] like, Oh, I believe this is the way this kind of makes sense.
[00:08:02] This is logical. This is what I’ve learned. And that’s good information to have. It’s not necessarily wrong. We get to decide how we use that information and we get to experiment with that. What happens over time when I work with my clients and when we practice and we use these tools, we get to the point where we can ask, what is the story my body is telling?
[00:08:27] And we are able to discern what is noise, what are shoulds, what is coming from other people, um, what is limiting. And then what is empowering and what is the truth for you because your path to financial freedom is going to be different to mine because we have different strengths. We have different circumstances.
[00:08:47] We have different desires. Our soul is here doing different things. Our traumas are different. Our limitations are different. You and I both have limitations. It’s fine. It’s actually good to have limitations. It tells us how to focus our energy, [00:09:00] but. They’re different, they’re very different. And so deep down inside you have this body based blueprint to success.
[00:09:09] And we want to still the water of noise inside of you so much that we can access that truth. We want to still the thoughts we want to learn to discern which is true and which is not access that body compass, refine the way that you listen to it, take action on it, and then you come into financial freedom and ease.
[00:09:27] And we do this through practice and we do this through action and we do this through implementation and you learn all of this in body based business. But you can, you can start now. You don’t. You can start now. So I’ve already kind of told you this, but just to recap, ’cause I’m going down my notes. The one thing that you must know if you wanna create financial freedom and ease is that your body has a relationship with money.
[00:09:52] Your body has an attachment to money in the same way that has an attachment to your parents or to your loved ones. Your body has an entire experience [00:10:00] with money. And what I really want to encourage is that your body actually becomes so neutral with money. So, we’re looking towards money neutrality, not assigning it a specific level of success or safety, even though they are related, I understand that, but we want you to find a place of neutrality because when you have neutrality, what happens is the noise inside kind of stills and we’re able to, from a very non attached place, find the keys.
[00:10:32] And I hate using that word because it sounds so coachy, right? But there are these little like keys inside that when you, you can act deep down in your body, you just, you just know, you just know, and you just, okay, yes, that’s the next step. That’s correct. You know what I’m talking about. And if you don’t keep listening, keep practicing this work, you’ll find it help.
[00:10:52] It helps to get to a place of neutrality because. When we are in a place of anxiously attached, oh my God, I have to have money. If I [00:11:00] don’t have it, what if it goes away? I’m not gonna be okay or avoidant. If I have money, I’m bad. I’m guilty. Um, I’m gonna get hurt. Or kind of more disorganized where you move in between the two.
[00:11:11] Then we have all of these feelings, thoughts, sensations and emotions that come up into the body that are, are not, they’re just not. That’s supportive. They, we have to move through them. We have to understand them. We have to sort them out. And what I would rather is that when you come from place of body, body, neutrality, money, neutrality, what you can do instead is understand that what that deep, deep, deep truth is inside of your, inside of you, you know, your path to financial free freedom and ease.
[00:11:50] I do have , a podcast episode on understanding your attachment to money. Number 17, the money mind connection, [00:12:00] exploring the impact of nervous system of the nervous system on financial wellbeing in this space, you’re going to, in this episode, you’re going to learn how to create an empowered relationship with money. The energetic subconscious and nervous system relationship that you have, and then begin to write this new money story.
[00:12:17] This is going to help you tap into the truth that you need inside of your body to access that financial freedom and ease. I’m going to share that link below in the show notes. But, before you go ahead and jump into that, my next… The next thing that I really want to share with you is the actual embodiment practice that you need for financial freedom and ease.
[00:12:40] It’s important to note here that this is a practice that is for you, for you, not anyone else. We’re not here trying to, you know, figure out what somebody else needs, um, to get it. We’re here to figure out what it is that you need to get it. No one else. And [00:13:00] so this is a practice that I’m going to outline.
[00:13:03] It is going to be absolutely impossible for me to guide you through it in the way that I would guide a client through it all in the way that I would guide myself through it just because of the context of this space. But I’m going to give you a basic idea so that you can begin to envision and understand what it might be like to begin to.
[00:13:21] Implement these embodiment practices in your life. And if when you ever enjoy me inside of body based business, or if in the future I ever have anything else, you will know a little bit more about what this looks like. Does that make sense? Okay, good. So let’s all take a couple of deep breaths,
[00:13:53] breathing into your body, breathing into your [00:14:00] belly,
[00:14:03] breathing into your, the back of your belly, the back of your neck.
[00:14:17] Beautiful. And in this embodiment practice, I want you to take a few really intentional moments to tap into the body. To notice what your feelings are, what your thoughts are.
[00:14:34] And we’re getting into the practice of being curious. We are here to be curious.
[00:14:49] We are here to learn.
[00:14:54] We are here to inquire. We are not necessarily here to understand. Not in [00:15:00] this practice, on this podcast.
[00:15:06] But once you have a feeling of an inventory of what is alive inside of your body at the moment, what emotions and what thoughts are here, take a few deep breaths and see if you can come more still. Become more neutral.
[00:15:25] Then from this place of neutrality, I want you to bring into mind the amount of money that you would like to bring in this month. The income that you would like to bring in this month.
[00:15:39] Getting very contemplative, getting very still, getting very curious.
[00:15:50] As you receive this number or this image or this thought or this feeling, we’re going to return back to that original question. You’re going to simply [00:16:00] ask, what is the story my body is telling me about achieving this?
[00:16:08] And some days there’s going to be a moment where it’s very clear. It’s telling me I need XYZ. That might be true. It makes sense to. Like to move forward on that and truth is probably going to feel expansive. There are going to be other moments where it says, I need X, Y, Z and it’s not true and it probably feels constrictive.
[00:16:36] There are going to be days where it says I’m not worthy or I would be bad or it’s not possible for me. And that tells us that we need to go down a path of healing around that. There are going to be other days where it says, I need to do this thing. You need to go and do it.
[00:16:55] There are going to be days when it feels numb and you don’t get anything. [00:17:00] And it’s also a sign that we need to go down and get inquisitive and curious about that. Possibly working with another person to help you do that, such as a coach, such as me. But as you practice over time and as you refine your ability to read this comfort, to read this compass, to read this blueprint.
[00:17:19] You are going to find financial freedom and ease. In the meantime, keep supporting yourself with these practices. Keep supporting yourself with the podcast. Once again, you will find a really supportive episode called the money mind connection, exploring the impact of the nervous system on financial wellbeing with the in the link will be in the show notes, setting you lots of financial freedom, lots of ease, less stress, less anxiety.
[00:17:47] And I’m here for, for you, your expansion and, and all of it. Thank you for listening.
Embodied Entrepreneur: Anxiety-Free & Profitable Business By Healing Trauma With The Nervous System By Sheridan Ruth Nov 06, 2023