Infuse it all with playfulness 😉
Welcome to December, dear one, and your monthly alchemical attunement.
This is a process of...
✨ Using our own wisdom and evolution as a tuning fork, bringing us into vibration with our highest Self.
✨ Bridging the mystic and the mundane, the esoteric and the practical, spirit and matter, joy and grief.
✨ Transmuting our "base materials" into gold... turning pain into power, wounds into wisdom, and grief into grace.
For the month ahead, I invite you into a process of transmuting the heavy burden of seriousness into light, curiosity-driven playfulness.
I’ve just finished up a 3-month “coaching the unconscious mind” training. I already felt like a modern-day magician, but now I feel like a freaking superhero! Truly, my mind is blown by what I’ve learned about the brain in the past 90 days.
Did you know you can reprogram how you feel about (and react to) any memory?
Did you know you have the power to stop anxiety in its tracks *right now*?
Did you know that we make decisions, manifest and take action not from our conscious thoughts, but from our unconscious mind?
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Which is all to say: do not underestimate the power of your unconscious to essentially rule your waking reality.
I’m so thrilled to weave these skills into my leadership, creativity + business coaching (it’s already begun, and my clients are pretty damn thrilled with the results thus far), because this understanding is the real key to liberation.
By liberation, I mean
Having sovereignty over your mental and emotional state
Untethering yourself from old looping thoughts, memories and beliefs
Choosing to stop focusing on what’s causing suffering and focus instead on what would feel way better
One area of liberation for me has emerged this year— it was so important to me that I made it one of my main intentions for 2023 during my Luminous Life Design Challenge— which is…
PLAY + LIGHT-HEARTEDNESS
I don’t know about you, but I am prone to taking myself and this life thing WAY too seriously. I can look back and see how again and again, I lost sight of play and let seriousness have its brutish way with me.
When I launched my business.
When I was invited to move in with Ben 3 months after we met.
When I selected my brand colors and logo.
When I wrote and published my first book.
When I priced (and repriced) my offers.
When I invited potential clients to work with me.
When I made Reels for Instagram.
I don’t need to keep going, right? I think you get me.
According to my Gene Keys hologenetic profile, the shadow of seriousness stands in the way of feeling DELIGHT in both my relationships and my vocation.
Who would rather feel DELIGHT instead of seriousness?
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And what if it were that simple?
What if we knew that we could indeed choose delight, play and levity over seriousness?
Wouldn’t we choose that every single time?
Even in moments of dire straits, when the world is burning down, wars are raging, children are dying, people we love are diagnosed with cancer, and folks are fighting for their right to literally survive.
I believe there is still room for curiosity in these spaces. There has to be. Otherwise, we’re doomed. Even while we feel the grief of these times, even while we let ourselves feel rage, anger, frustration and dismay at what we see unfolding around us...
not only is there room for more curiosity, but it's actually from that place that we can do something about it and make a damn difference.
In a practice session with one of my hypnosis coaches last week, he said the phrase
“Engrain playfulness”
And it took my breath away.
What if we were able to take a good dose of seriousness out of any issue?
A migraine.
A heartache.
A broken friendship.
A fractured client relationship.
What might be possible if we allowed ourselves the space to be 10% more lighthearted, curious and playful with any and every hard situation in our lives?
Let’s find out.
✨ Alchemical Prompts ✨
List 3 situations that feel incredibly heavy for you right now.
What are 3 ideas for introducing 5-10% more levity, play and light-heartedness to how you are approaching and showing up in each situation?
✨ Alchemical Mantra ✨
I infuse everyday with the spirit of play, light-heartedness and curiosity.
✨ Alchemical Action ✨
Choose one area where you’d like to be more playful: this could be a specific relationship, an activity you loathe in your business, a physical ailment, etc.
Now brainstorm 10 ways you could show up with more playfully in this situation. Don’t edit or second guess, no ideas are bad ideas. The point of a brainstorm is to generate and innovate, and that requires a freeflow of inspiration and lots of guesswork.
Pick ONE of those ideas and DO IT TODAY!
Notice the outcome: Did you notice any difference in the situation? If not, did you notice any difference in how you felt in that situation?
May these musings inspire your heart, Kate.
And I’ll leave you with this: a smile is powerful medicine.
Once, I stopped an anxiety attack dead in its tracks, simply by intentionally forcing a grin on my face and keeping it there for several minutes. If you look at scientific research, there is evidence to the power of a smile on our psyche, and even the psyche of those around us.
Playfully and kindly in your corner,
Britta