Ep #36: How to Harness Spring Energy for Your Business

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The Uncommon Way Business and Life Coaching Podcast with Jenna Harrison | How to Harness Spring Energy for Your Business

Episode Summary

Jenna shows you how to ride the wave of revitalizing spring energy and harness it to create an abundant harvest in your business and life.

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Behind the scenes, all the trees and bushes have been orchestrating the arrival of leaves, flowers, and berries that are about to burst forth into your vision. That has been going on for a while, regardless of whether you can see it or not. But what would you say if I told you the exact same thing is happening in your life and business?

In the depth of February, when everything seems still and stagnant, it can be easy to see nothing but evidence of death, decay, and deceleration. But in that exact same moment, with a simple shift, you can tap into something completely different that is always there. You can see that every tree and bush around you is gestating little buds that will turn into berries, flowers, leaves, and thriving revitalization.

In this episode, I share what spring energy is, what it might look and feel like for you, and a simple exercise to help you tap into it and connect to its existence. Discover how to drop into knowingness so you can harness, amplify and play with this spring energy. I share the specific steps you can take right now to ride the wave of spring energy and reap an abundant harvest in your business and life later.

 

What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

  • The specific steps you need to take right now to take advantage of the spring energy so you can reap an abundant harvest later.

  • One of the most powerful things you can do when reaching for a new level.

  • What exactly will enable you to handle and ride this powerful spring energy.

  • A powerful realization I had about spring energy.

  • Why these transition points are beautiful opportunities to reflect and set new intentions.

  • The importance of trusting in something that you can’t see with the human eye.

  • How to move into the simplicity of remembering who you are.

 

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Behind the scenes, all the trees and bushes have been orchestrating the onslaught of leaves, flowers, and berries that are about to burst forth into your vision. That has all been going on for a while now, regardless of whether you can see it or not. The exact same thing is happening in your life and business, and I want to help you harness and amplify, and also, just play with that spring energy. So, stick around, we're going to ride that wave. I'll show you how.

You're listening to The Uncommon Way Business and Life Coaching Podcast, the only podcast that helps you unlock your next level in business and life by prioritizing your clarity and your own Uncommon Way. You will learn to maximize your mindset, mission, messaging, and strategy in order to create a true legacy. Here's your host, top-ranked business coach, and reformed over-analyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.

Hey, welcome back to The Uncommon Way. How are you? We are in March now, wow. Here in Pennsylvania, our daffodils are up and the ducks in my backyard stream are pairing up. And even though we're still at freezing most mornings, spring is definitely tantalizing us with anticipation. I don't know about you, but for me, these transition points are just beautiful times to reflect and set new intentions.

I hope that you have had a wildly successful first quarter. Maybe it feels like you're already in full harvest. Or maybe you've been experiencing more and more signs of inevitability towards whatever goal you are working on bringing forth. Personally, I have been in a planting and preparing phase. Aligning so many pieces so that my future self can thrive at an entirely new level.

I'm going to run through them for a minute, because one of the most powerful things you can do when you're reaching for a new level, and this is what I've always done working with coaches, being in rooms where people are excelling and are probably stages ahead of me.

And the most powerful things you can do is start to imagine what kinds of things you'll be thinking about and what problems you will be solving at that new level. And then, when your brain wants to spend time ruminating on things you can't control in your current life, you can direct it to think about things that you will be thinking about later. Right?

Doing so gives you access to new thoughts that you haven't thought before. So, right now, I'm thinking a lot about where I want to live. Because when you have a business that gives you location independence and money to choose your location, there are no have-tos, you just get to choose.

Ben and I are leaving tomorrow for Charleston, South Carolina. And we'll be investigating, you know whether or not we're moving there. We've got three US locations in mind, and this is the second that we visited. So, we are very close to an exciting decision.

And since there is absolutely nothing I love more than a powerful decision, it's an actual thrill in my body. And I'm very conscious of the power that gets unleashed through that. It's like I can feel those wheels in motion starting to line things up for me as soon as I say go.

For instance, the wheels are lining up for Majorca already, which I'm pretty sure will be our European home. I've been putting that out more and more to the Universe, and just with all of my actions and the way I talk and the way I think, that this will be my place.

We'll be there in July. And so, like I said, the wheels are already in motion, there are all sorts of synchronicities. Like, I have had this thing on my vision board for years, and it's a picture of a long wooden table underneath trees. And there are people there that are breaking bread, sharing a meal, and they're laughing and talking. I'm just imagining really kind of deep, but fun conversations. I've always imagined this with a group of my closest friends. And I’ve imagined it somewhere in the Mediterranean.

And lately, so many people right now, all these old friends are saying they want to come to Majorca, right when I'm there. And so, I randomly reconnected with an old client. I met a new business bestie at my mastermind retreat, and she said she wants to bring her daughters.

Y’all, I have been going to Europe for years, but this has never happened before. Usually, it's just a small family thing. And I believe it's because I have locked into my fully aligned place. Right? Which is a lot like business alignment. So, just saying, right?

I'm planning an entire rebrand with the photographer that I just found, she's just perfect. I've even hired a stylist. And speaking of hiring support and hiring on people in my business, I've been hiring on support. My very trusted VA, Angad, is stepping up to take on more responsibility. I've hired a new business coach. I've hired a pleasure and sex coach, so things are going to get a little spicy.

I've hired more support to help with my son Dylan and his mental health. Mental and physical health is something that our family dedicates serious focus to. And we want him to be able to participate in that, as well. And, yeah, there's a lot of movement that you wouldn't necessarily see from the outside. But all of these things are happening.

I'm watching myself, and really recognizing that I have some growth room here to really lean on support. And perhaps embrace kind of the B+ or B- in my life, when you're bringing new people on and they're contributing, and their ideas aren't your ideas. But it will all be so worth it.

And all of this really helped set me up to create more powerfully for you, because I'm leaning into that pulse and alignment, right? I'm allowing myself to rest and be supported more and more. And that's when you get to tap into the best, most creative, most strategic parts of yourself. So, I have been quietly revamping the trainings and delivery methods within the Clarity Accelerator.

I want to simplify it. I want to make it even easier for you to implement. And also, to create more like inclusivity and relatability for the influx of six- and seven-figure business owners that have been coming in. Because it turns out, all sorts of women want to get clear on the next evolution of their business.

Everyone wants a space to call forth that new, audacious idea. Or that little nudge that they've been getting that's been bumping around inside them, and really hatch through these ideas. And then, finally commit and step into that really powerful decision or decisions that need to be made, in order to propel a scary but necessary transformation. Right?

This is still the place for you if you're figuring this all out for the first time. But it's also the place for you if you're figuring this out for your next time. Or if you know that there are a few pieces that aren't quite dialed in, in your business. You know that’s showing up in kind of wishy-washy messaging, and maybe I'm talking to you one day, I'm talking to you the next day, a different person.

I want to help you move from tentative and uncertain, and from, maybe “I'm doing this wrong” to the conviction and simplicity of “This is so right. I know who I am. I know where I'm going.” And that is, that no turning back, forward momentum energy that I want to help you tap into today, very similar to that spring energy.

But before we go into it, I want to give a shout out to Sherry. Sherry was kind enough to comment on a post of mine in a Facebook group and say, “Hey, I've really been enjoying your podcast.” Now, I had no idea Sherry was listening, and it was so nice of her to just take that extra little minute and make a personal connection.

And as I'm creating this episode, I'm thinking of you, Sherry. I don't know if this will be helpful, or if it's even your jam at all, but I hope that it serves you. And to the rest of you that I either don't personally know or I just don't know that you're one of my listeners, I just wanted to say, “Hi, and to thank you for your support.”

Okay, here is spring energy, in a nutshell: The inevitability of revitalization. There's also an inevitability of decay, death, and deceleration. That is good and necessary. But a lot of us spend way too much of our consciousness in that inevitability and its shadow side, rather than in this other inevitability, right?

We stay in the heaviness of ‘it's not working’, the reactivity to the cold, the cold response of an email list, maybe. The closing in your body to protect your vital organs. And by the way, asked me how I know. I've spent ample time in that shadow, and I still visit it sometimes.

But here's the thing, in that same exact moment, in the depth of February, when everything seems still and stagnant, the birds have flown away, in that same moment when you might be looking around and saying, “Ah-ha, this is evidence of the death and deceleration. Here it is. No leaves, cold toes. What went wrong?”

At that same moment, every tree and bush around you is gestating little buds that will turn into berries, flowers, and leaves. So, right now, same exact moment, which is a simple shift of the dial on your energy attunement, you tap into something completely different that's always there.

This realization came to my life very powerfully one day. This was years ago, and I was hiking in the hills behind my parents’ house near Seattle. I want you to imagine the Twilight movies if you've seen them, or maybe the movie Arrival. When it's winter in Seattle, it is a gray, foggy, drizzly, cold place, right?

So, imagine hiking in the rain forest with these towering trees and big oversized ferns. I was in a very dark place. I had been trying to conceive for years. My husband was deployed, and I was taking weekly or bi-weekly visits to the fertility clinic. It was just failure after failure after failure.

Actually, you know what? It wasn't. It was like, failure, and then hopeful expectation. And then failure, and then some new method or technology we were going to try. And hope and maybe, and then failure. I cried a lot; lots of hormones coursing through my bloodstream.

I clearly remember wanting to get away and clear my head and taking that hike on that cold day. The exact moment that I slowed down to look at some raindrops that were hanging from the spindly branches of this tall bush, in that very second, my focus shifted away from the rain drop, and oh my god, a bud was forming. It felt so early in winter to see this bud, right?

But it honestly felt like a moment of pure grace. Like a direct message targeted specifically to me by something showing me this: That even when I couldn't see evidence of the life that was coming, that didn't mean it wasn't in the works.

And right now, two inches underneath your cold toes, is a bulb that's been buried there in the ground all winter, invisible to you. They're there regardless of whether they've materialized into your human plain vision or not.

We tend to be very egocentric, right? It's like if I don't see it, it doesn't exist. I got called in principal's office at my son's school the other day, because there were these certain behavior issues that had stopped taking place out in the open, but apparently had gone underground.

Apparently, my son is thinking that if the teacher can't see him, she can't hear him, either. Even though he's right around the corner in the hallway. It's like ‘if I can't see the teacher, she's not there.’ Right? And that's how we get, too.

And with that shadow, winter energy… And by the way, energies have gift sides and shadow sides. Winter brings beautiful gifts that we can also harness. But right now, I'm talking about the shadow side. And when that is the dominant energy within us, we're doing one of two things. We’re either, keeping our foot pressed right there on the soil so that the poor daffodil sprout can't come up. It won't get the space and the sunlight it needs.

Or you're like, where's my daffodil? Where's my daffodil? Maybe it needs more water? Until you’ve drowned the poor thing. Or maybe, we're pouring orchid food onto the spot. Now, we're setting up a heat lamp. We're doing all the things to create an orchid because we think we should have an orchid.

Either that's what was successful before or somebody said that's what you should have or it seems like the safest bet. So, of course, nothing's happening, orchid or daffodil, because the bulb needs daffodil conditions to flourish.

Okay, let me move away from the abstract metaphor and say that the first condition your bulb needs, is your belief that it has already been planted and will flourish. Very soon the trees will have these, whether or not you can see the buds, the buds are forming. Right?

And before we dive into the steps that I'm recommending for you and the practice or meditation that I want to invite you into, I just want to mention that everything I'm saying here will be easily accessible in the season of spring.

But if you're on the other side of the equator, or you're listening to this at a later date, or you listen to this when it came out, but several months later you realize you've been in that heavier shadow winter energy and you just want some revitalized spring, you can just decide it is springtime in your life for business.

Yeah, you can do that. Nobody can tell you, you can't, right? Just call on this energy at any time, and this mindset at any time. Because consciousness and energy are so entwined, and that spring energy is always present in our universe.

And believe me, I know it feels uncomfortable when we're kind of in this space of not knowing what is next. We know that we've kind of maybe outgrown where we've been, or that something is no longer fully us and there's something else, but we can't put our finger on it.

So, definitely not wanting to minimize, not wanting to say, “Hey, the buds are coming, be happy!” But also, this energy is here for you. It is here for you.

First thing really, is in order to harness that spring energy, you first need to connect to its existence. To that inevitability of revitalization. You need to trust in something you can't see with your human eyes. You need to drop into knowingness and openness instead, which is very vulnerable, not going to lie.

All sorts of disappointments and unmet expectations might come flooding back to you as I say these words, that's okay. They don't stop spring from coming. It's your job to ground into where you do believe and start looking for the signs and evidence of spring’s inevitable coming, and then feel into it. If you get still and you consciously call it up, you will be able to feel the pulse of that energy, because it is everywhere, especially this time of year.

We'll do this together in a second, but you might start by going outside watching the ducks. But truthfully, you can feel it. You can feel it from your office chair, you don't really have to do or go or have anything special happen. You can just tune into it. I've been hanging out in some Facebook groups, and this might be a projection, but I don't think so, I can feel it there. Step one, lean into belief.

But now step two, consciously call up that energy and feel into it. Get curious about how it feels qualitatively. Now, some of you are very sensitive. And as you do this, you might tap into a whoosh of energy. It feels like next level excitement and inspiration. You just want to pay attention to where is that manageable and where is it in excess? Because as we've said, every energy has its shadow and gift.

And so, if you feel it going into this very spun up frenetic almost, energy, then I recommend some conscious grounding so you don't spin out here, Especially if you're like me, and you secretly have this kind of love-hate thing with adrenaline.

Even when I was young, I grew conscious of this pattern of mine of loving an all-nighter; procrastinating and then riding that adrenaline rush as I typed away furiously throughout the evening. I liked that level of activation. And we live in a hyper stimulated world where it's very easy for us to fall into the trap of seeking the next big rush and the next big rush, which we know is unsustainable and usually counterproductive.

When you find that energy imagine grounding it. We'll do an exercise for that in a minute, but yes, go sit under a tree, do some floor yoga, drink a cup of herbal tea, eat some warm, nutrient dense foods, right? This is what will allow you to handle and really manage and ride this particular energy.

And then, amidst all of these energies, I want you to now feel into, what is your energy? Like, what is the ocean floor beneath all the waves? What is you? What is coming to you from the material world or from some other person versus what is generated from your field? And once you're there, watching the interplay and the kissing of these energies, allow your inspired knowing and wisdom to come from your energy.

This is the same one that we spend so much time running and hiding from, it's that very powerful knowingness within ourselves. Which seeds do you want to plant right now? What is the timing of that? Which tree, of all the trees, is about to burst forth? This is a metaphor for your business, right? But you could also, actually practice it with real trees.

Let your knowingness guide you and let your Higher Self advise you, too. You have a board of advisors, most likely underutilized. Call on those resources, right? And once you've opened up that channel, or just made space within you, however you think of it, listen.

Maybe you're being told that your audience, which is made up of humans who are also feeling this spring energy, maybe you're being told to lighten up a bit in your messaging to more powerfully connect with where they are right now. Maybe that wave is carrying you straight into concrete actions like really showing your clients or your audience the vision of their future. Or creating content that can't help but get them inspired and excited.

Maybe you're called to put on a certain color today. Who knows? Don't judge. Don't be like, “Ick, this daffodil sprout isn't what I expected. I wanted an orchid, so I must not be getting this.” No. Sometimes you'll get really illogical sounding guidance. Just play, it's springtime after all.

Okay, last thing. This is really, really important. If you listen to my episode on intuition, you know this. But the last thing is, you've got to take action. Timing is not something to be trifled with. And you've been given a gift through this information download. So, trust it and move on it. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten a hit and moved on something, and later that timing has been key for connecting with a new client or something.

And you’ve got to listen to my episode with Ale Garnica on creating exponential change. You will see that it is not only me; this happens everywhere.

So, let me run through those again, for you. First, lean into belief. Even if you've only got a shred of it, that's what you're working on. Second, consciously call up that energy, that spring energy, and feel into it. But make sure to ground yourself, if needed. Third, now feel into your energy as something separate. Fourth, allow your inspired wisdom or knowing. And fifth, take action, not tomorrow, unless that was part of your guidance, but right now.

Okay, you want to practice all this. I recommend going outside or listen now but then revisit this later when you can go outside. Bring a journal or you can take notes on your phone or into a voice recorder. But don't actually take the notes during the practice, do so afterwards. You can write down whatever you noticed or anything that was revealed to you.

Okay, my friend, sit down on the ground. Maybe find a spot under a tree somewhere in front of a beautiful view, something that feels comfy. Now, if sitting is uncomfortable for you just lay down on the ground. What we want is for your body to be in contact with the earth. And now, just take a few deep breaths and longer exhales. Feel your body sinking into the earth. I'm being supported by the earth.

Now, tune into the energy of the earth itself. There is a vibration there that is very grounded, steady, and also nurturing, and feel that moving up through your body. And now, imagine that within you, you had a little seed or bulb or bud, however you want to imagine it, right in the center of your chest.

Imagine a little sprout coming from there, a little tendril, and it was moving down through your body and into the earth, forming roots. Feel those roots going deeper and deeper, grounding you into the earth. Then just scan your body.

Notice if there are any qualities that are maybe anxious or heavy. And with each exhale, release all of this anxious energy into the Earth. Imagine yourself as just a tiny speck on this great, green and blue ball, in this moment in time. And when your nervous energy is delivered, it's just so inconsequential compared to the Earth, relative to the Earth, that it's just absorbed. It dissipates and disappears into this really rich, fertile soil or rock.

And as you're inhaling, especially if you feel a heavier or a lethargic energy, imagine inhaling that nourishment of that vitality that is our planet. Just notice this for a few rounds, of your inhales and exhales, and feel yourself stabilize. And then, I want you to attune to this springtime energy that we've talked about.

What is actually happening in the trees and the bushes underneath our feet, between the bunnies and the ducks? That momentum, tune in to the quality of that energy. What does that feel like? Maybe it feels like a wave, or a tingling on the outside of your limbs. Maybe it feels like momentum swelling underneath you and carrying you forward. Just get curious about how you perceive that.

And next, I want you to ask your energy to turn on, so that you can feel it. You felt the earth energy, you felt the spring energy, what is yours? What does your energy feel like, your Highest Self? How are you feeling that in your body in this moment? Is there a place for it? A color for it? A movement, a sensation? What does that feel like when it is turned on, when the volume is increased?

Now, from the interplay of these very powerful energies, you can kind of imagine them maybe swirling around and playing with each other. These three powerful energies of the earth, the spring, and you, my friend. From there, I want you to ask for guidance, from maybe your Higher Self, your inner visionary, God, the Universe, your board of directors. However you think of it, wherever you glean your wisdom from, just ask. What do you need to plant, to nourish, to wait for, or to envision, at this moment?

Right now, with this spring energy, that will facilitate the most potent use of this time, of this energy, to deliver your future harvest. There is no right or wrong here. And there's no linear time here. This guidance may come to you now, it may come to you later; just opening. This is one of the few moments in our modern world where we can let our energy and our intuition lead instead of our mind. Just to help balance out all of our powers.

All right, my friends. If this has been helpful for you, to tap into this energy, to receive guidance, or even just ground yourself and give your nervous system a reset, you have just experienced a small part of what happens inside the Clarity Collective that accelerates the process of you becoming your future you.

To experience that acceleration yourself, you can join us in the Clarity Accelerator, or you can join me for private coaching. Either avenue brings you into the larger Clarity Collective. Consider this your invite.

Okay, I am cheering you on as you ride this wave of spring energy into tremendous revitalization and the resulting abundant harvest in your business and life. Remember, deep down, you know who you are. And each day, you're stepping further into what you're here to create.

Hey, if you're a coach who wants true clarity about your secret sauce, your people, your best way of doing business, and how you talk about your offer, then I invite you to join us in the Clarity Accelerator. I'll teach you to connect all the dots, the dots that have always been there for you so that you can show up like you were born for exactly this.

Come join us and supercharge every other tool or tactic you'll ever learn, from Facebook ads to manifestation. Just go to TheUncommonWay.com/schedule and set up a time to talk. I can't wait to be your coach.

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