4 questions to flip envy into inspiration
Welcome to your Wednesday Museletter 💌
First, here's whats happening this month in the Britta GreenViolet ecosystem...
🌹 🗡️ Rose & Sword: Doors are OPEN!
This new group mentorship has channeled through me in the past month at breakneck speed. It was time! For busy creators with full schedules who are tired of the hustle treadmill and refuse to give their body, mind and well being to the grind culture. Ancient mysticism meets plant medicine meets strategic planning. Earlybird discount available until July 16th. Read the details and enroll here!
✍️ Substack: 'Envy is an invitation'
Today's museletter contains an excerpt from my newest Substack article. Read the full transmission here.
Now, onwards!
Envy.
I recently had a potent experience that helped me clarify a simple process for working through the complexity that feelings of envy bring up.
Short story: I met a new teacher and was hurled into a soup of uncomfortable feelings, which ultimately led to GOLD.
Have you had an envy attack lately? If so, try these questions out as a framework to transmute that envy into clarity.
Question 1: What exactly am I envious of?
Focus on the what, not the who, behind the envy. In other words, what is it that I desire that I see so clearly manifested in this person or group?
Question 2: What is this person mirroring back to me?
What is the lesson or direct invitation this feeling of non-hostile envy is offering me?
Question 3: If I could frame this envy instead as inspiration, what action am I inspired to take?
In the face of whatever quality, characteristic or material aspect I desire, what if I could easily flip my envy into inspiration? What might transpire and what steps do I need to take next to walk toward that desired outcome?
Question 4: What is this person or group showing me is possible?
This is what Lacy Phillips of TBM would call “expansion” which is when you see that something is actually possible through the actions, lifestyle or presence of someone else. Seeing is believing, and while we may in theory believe that we can have that thing or quality that we desire, seeing someone else with it is incredibly powerful for our unconscious mind. It can make all the difference between our ability to manifest it, and our lack of true knowing that this reality is possible for us.
Britta, I'd love to hear how this lands, and if you actually put it into practice.
I promise, there is gold to be mined from clarifying our desires and identifying the gap.
In your corner,
PS. This past Sunday felt like the most perfectly idilic first day of summer. Ben and I walked our property with our cats and cups of coffee (mine was decaf), went plant shopping at a local nursery, had some pool time with my parents, and got a second swim in the Salish Sea at a friend's bday party! So epic. I hope your summer is off to a dreamy start.
PPS. Here's my Sexy Sultry Summer playlist, which I'm already obsessed with all over again.