'We who Widen the Channel' - Expand Your Earning (+ Imagination)

This is for you. This is for us. 

By being in this space, you are a part of the 'we' I want to speak to...

We who widen the channel - the channel of what we allow into our life (money, time, joy...)
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We who expand our capacity to hold more - goodness, pleasure, joy, fulfillment
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We who resist the forces of unnatural contraction - from unquestioned habit, from modeling, from protecting someone else
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We who dance with the glorious permission - that perhaps it can be done with more ease than we were taught
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We who are creating more of this kind of space - not just for ourselves, but for others

My own personal journey with money has spiraled in and around under-earning - so I am particularly fascinated by the clients I have worked with over the past decade who have no trouble at all earning a lot of money.

***Before we go further in this exploration, I want to be clear that I am not negating the very real, seismic, systemic and external barriers - and privileges - to earning, or high earning. I am sharing one small sliver that I have observed that is worth including in any and all conversations we hold.

The common thread between these individuals is that there was someone - a direct relative (parent, aunt, grandmother), a mentor, a close friend - who widened the channel before them. Who by their very existence made that high earning feel possible - plausible - imaginable.

The unconscious permission for high earning is particularly true if there wasn't any financial conflict with that individual - the means by which they earned their money was ethical, they enjoyed their wealth, they shared their wealth...

I want you to recogize that you may be one of the ones widening the channel for all who look to you - your children, your grandchildren, your students, your clients. 

You may be actively pushing against the norm of your family's legacy. You may be paving a new pathway. You may be the one working through the beliefs that "it can't be done. It isn't for you, only struggle is."

You may be doing the hard internal work of standing up to the imagined (or very real) fear of out-earning a parent, a sibling, a partner, a friend, or colleague. You may be working against a great unconscious force that is trying to protect them.

This unspoken transgression can run counter to our need to belong - which often reads in our unconscious mind as being the same as, not different from.

In E X P A N D, a part of our work is to touch, explore, and then stretch these edges. It isn't to expand beyond what we decide is right for right now, it is simply to challenge what we have likely outgrown - what was always someone else's limit, but not our own. 

And this expansion of inner capacity - it isn't just about earning more. 

Yes, income is essential to a healthy and life sustaining business, but it isn't everything.

What I adore about this course - and the people who are drawn to it - is that a space is cultivated, and nurtured, where there is permission to let go of anything that we have outgrown.

In this past round, 1 individual decided to close his business entirely, and got a full time job before the course ended that will allow expansive TIME to do exactly what he loved - both in work and out of work.

"This course helped me understand that money, although important, is not the only thing. Happiness comes from within and allowing yourself to be yourself. It has allowed me to unlock my "cage". It helped me realize who I am and what I want. I now know I want to be myself. I do not want to be what I think I have to be. It has been freeing."

Another participant let go in their business in a profound way... and kept letting go of what they had done for years... until they felt free to open to uncertainty and all the possibility that lay just beyond it. To me, there is no better definition of expansion I can think of - even if in the short term it looks on paper like financial contraction.

(perhaps this course needs a warning label attached...because it seems to be a particularly clarifying experience!)

Perhaps in this very moment you too are pushing the edges of what has always been expected of you, perhaps you are exploring new terrain - be that is how much you earn, how much time you take off, how much fulfillment you welcome.

You are stretching your own capacity as well as the imagination of everyone who is watching you. That is such a beautiful thing - I honor you doing this deep work.

You stretching your edge is a gift to yourself - and it is important to remember that it isn't urgent. It can happen at your pace, in your own way. In fact, to expand healthfully, we must remember there is a natural ebb and flow, a stretching then a relaxing...it doesn't look anything like a straight line.

I am so glad you are here as a part of the 'We' - I believe in the power of this work for our collective liberation from a dying (contracted) paradigm.