The Art of Receptivity: How to Do Less While Inviting in More Success

Create, Reinvent

“Life is a dance between making it happen & letting it happen.”
– Arianna Huffington

The sun is bright. The sky is pale blue and cloudless.
I’m tapping away at my laptop keys outside of a local Starbucks, completely grounded and filled to the brim with an appreciative awe.

If I look around at my life, everything I’ve been dreaming of is taking physical form.
I’ve risen it from the ground, like Queen Elsa and her magnificent castle of ice.

I feel the power in my finger tips.
And I’m leaning into this power more than I ever have before, without driving myself into the ground; without working myself to the bone.

It’s quite different from last year, when I spent the entire summer holed up in my house, creating free challenges, hosting tele-summits, and crafting perfect posts that were getting my business nowhere.

And now, I’m doing less and manifesting even bigger & better results.

There is so much space in my life. Beautiful space.
Space that allows me to feel free without guilt.
Space that allows me to follow my creative whims over a long stretch of afternoon.
Space that can be taken, without fear that what I’ve built will fall.

After all, isn’t that why we work ourselves so hard? We think that doing more will result in more? We fear that if we do less, the foundation that we’ve worked so hard to build will collapse?

This isn’t always true, though. And I’m going to say right now—if you’d like to hold steadfast to the above beliefs, then you might not want to continue reading. But, if you sought out to do what you love so that you could have MORE space and freedom and creativity and it’s not feeling that way in your life right now, then you might want to keep reading because something needs to shift. You know it. And you feel it.

So what was the shift that occurred for me that might help you too?

Simply put, the shift was one of surrender.
It was tuning into my intuition and my softer energy; in embracing receptivity and the Divine Feminine within.
It was re-aligning my focus on the activities that felt good and would help me do less, to bring in more. 

Especially in our society, masculine energy is favored when it comes to creating success. In this line of thinking, it’s up to us alone to MAKE IT HAPPEN. It’s up to us to put in the action, often until we’re ragged with exhaustion and teetering on the edge of collapse, so that we can bear the many fruits of our efforts.

And yes, it is our responsibility to take action and breathe life into new ideas and projects, but there are two parts to breathing—the actionable swell of the inhale and the release and emptying of the exhale.
The exhale is what makes room to receive a new breath.

It’s the same principle in life and business.

I see so many people taking inhales {so much action}, without taking the time to exhale. It’s chaotic and exhausting. 

What would happen though, if you cut out half of what you’re currently doing?
And only focused on what really lights you up?
What if you let your own inspiration lead the inhale?
And then you stepped back and watched what appeared in the space of the exhale?

Embracing receptivity takes work, especially if you’re a high achiever.

Trust me, when I’m trying to fill a workshop or a spot in my Coaching practice, it’s my natural tendency as a high achiever to lean towards taking MORE action.

Lately though, I’ve been pausing instead.

I’ve been tuning into the pause and somewhere in the stillness, an intuition bubbles to the surface. When I receive the guidance to craft a post or offer someone a call or invite someone to work with me, I do it.
And then I wait.

I surrender. I hand it over to the Universe.
Because I’ve done my part and that’s all I can do. The high achiever within {the masculine energy within} would have me believe that I can control the outcome if only I take more action, but in reality, I can’t. And so I switch gears from the masculine to the feminine; from the inhale, to the exhale. And what’s usually created in the exhale is pure magic because 90% of the time, my desired outcome appears sooner or later {without all of that extra work}. 

Life, just like success, is a dance between making it happen & letting happen.

Success in itself is the art of receiving. Without the ability to receive, you would not be able to usher in success. Therefore, embracing the receptive side of your nature in all that you do is an act of matching your energetic freqeuncy to that of which you desire to manifest. And as you know if you read my blogs often, you must BE before you can do or have. You must be in the energy of what you want before it appears.

So, how can you embody receptivity?
And trust that success will happen if you sit back and let it?

With light, love, & surrender,
-Kayla


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