HEAL : 7 NEW YEARS Lessons For the Crown Warrior
While my intention was to grow the business of Crown Inspired in 2022, I was directed to focus on the root details on the life of being Crown Inspired. My experience was focused on making me painfully aware of what I needed to take care for my internal self before I could elevate to my next level externally.
I started off the year with a plan... that was quickly derailed very, very early on. Because of the way I was used to responding, I couldn’t see another solution that would satisfy my ego (at the time). I couldn’t quite get back on track nor but I kept moving forward with the plan. In moving like I had in previous years, I thought that I was going to be able to just figure it out as I moved forward. This worked for a couple of months. I had new opportunities and made new connections. However, in doing as I always had, with the goal of growing, I found myself falling farther away from success.
By August, I completely shut down. I recognized that I was doing something wrong. I needed to stop and sort the mess I was now in. I would then loose close friendships each month for the rest of the year. Instead of wallowing in my feelings, I allowed myself a week to simply and intensely feel my feelings which turned into intense motivation to take in new information.
With the emotional space to feel secure within, external support and a new plan of action, I can gratefully say that this new year is going to be beautiful. Here are a few lessons I learned from last year:
Focusing on Health
Making Space
Getting Organized
Keep Learning
Process your feelings
Emotional Detachment
Trust Your Intuition
Focusing on Health
Our health is the most important aspect of how you function in life. Our bodies speak to us. Do you understand the language? Ease, clarity and release are our body’s natural function of flow. Any changes in color, size, smell or appearance are not just symptoms of age they can very much be signs of the disruption of flow. Infection, bacteria, fungus, parasites and emotional stagnation (like self-sabotage) are all forms of disease that feed off of the imbalance of our body’s flow. To heal is to honor our body and honor our natural flow.
Making Space
Most of us are in a state of shock much longer than we realize when a removal (expected or unexpected) occurs. When we are faced with making the decision to actively release 'something/someone' from our lives, the time between the realization and the consistency in a new action is our emotional attachment. The removal of something/someone from our life will be an emotional experience at first, but releasing the emotion makes space for new opportunities.
Getting Organized
Operating in a state of chaos only breeds opportunity for frustration, confusion and anger. Being able to know the exact placement of anything allows for ease, continuous flow and maintains the space needed to keep moving forward.
Keep Learning
To believe that we know all that we need to know is an emotional response that creates physical stagnation in our lives. Without new information, we cannot imagine (see) a different life or create any new possibilities for ourselves.
Processing Feelings
From identifying and acknowledging how something, someone, or an experience made us feel and the behaviors created there of, to making the necessary decision for change is to connect with our e+motion. This can be a daunting and cumbersome task as there are many layers to unpack in this process. However, to truly master oneself is to master one's response to the outter world from the peace of our inner world.
Emotional Detachment
Letting go is a feeling of release. We can attach our feelings to experiences, items and people. Because everything is in cycles, when a cycle is over and it is time for those feelings to also leave our lives, it can be harder to release them because of our emotional attachments to them. Being honest with and acknowledging our feelings allows for the process of grief to occur and for us to allow our feelings to be released.
Trusting Intuition
We have our best guide through life inside. Can you hear your guidance? Intuition is the first, soft response to anything we experience. It is easy to ignore, to dismiss and to question. However once we train our mind and emotions to not only listen to that subtle voice, but to follow it with faith, we will discover abundantly better than was expected.
These lessons aren’t for everybody at this point in time of your life. However, if something resonates with you at all, feel free to leave your thoughts to continue the discussion. What lessons will you take into the new year?