Judith Manriquez

Intuitive business mentor for spiritual women

Business the New Way

Here’s why you’re really feeling confused and uncertain

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Whether you see this time as the post-pandemic-new-normal or the great awakening, the stage has been set. The next 6 months of 2020 marks the end of dress rehearsals for every single one of us who works with intuition, energy and Source toward individual and collective upliftment.

We have some amazing energy supporting us to take our work into the world to help others.

Even though you may already sense or know this, you may still feel confused, uncertain and blocked by fear, self-doubt or self-destructive impulses.

You know you have unique gifts to help, and sense this is your perfect time, and yet you feel it might pass you by because the inner work you normally turn to isn’t helping much at all.

Take a breath. It’s okay. You’re on the right track.

Here’s what’s going on:

First off, Earth herself has fully aligned into 5D energy.

What does that have to do with you? It’s a super high frequency that you do not have experience holding. You have years of experience holding 3D energy and will, by habit and conditioning, naturally try to live from that place.

But here’s the deal, 3D energy is all about duality, scarcity and separation and that reality has played out. Every time you revert to behaviors and thoughts that are founded on scarcity or duality, you’re going to feel confused, anxious, doubting, and like you’ve lost your sense of worth.

So realize, none of us knows how to fully stay in the 5D energy of compassion and love all the time. We are learning. Give yourself a break.

What you can do to help yourself is to get better at listening to your intuition and following it. Review what you do on a daily basis that pulls you out of connection to your inner wisdom, or where you revert to old thinking. Then re-arrange your life so that doesn’t happen. Just this one thing will help immensely.

Next, the pandemic was our gift. Here’s how:

It takes 21 days to create a new habit. Most of us have had over 2 months of broken habits due to the global response to the virus. Just about everything in our days was adjusted in some way by the self-isolation and wide-spread shutdown – from grocery shopping to travel to eating out.

As a result, every single person has fundamentally altered their core beliefs. 

Core beliefs are the beliefs you have constructed that directly relate to your perceived survival – and I mean survival at a physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual level.

And no one has been aware that they were re-wiring their core beliefs.

(If you want to understand core beliefs, I wrote about it here )

When core beliefs are altered you create transformational change. Period.

You have, while you were in lockdown, quite literally been re-writing your core beliefs and didn’t know it. Everything that you believed about survival has changed. And it’s changed globally, so the collective energy has changed too.

What you’re feeling right now is what it feels like to figure out who you are now. You mentally think you are the same person you were before March 15th, but at your very core you are not. It’s not possible, your subconscious has changed.

Give yourself some judgement-free time to figure out who you are now. 

The lunar eclipse at the beginning of the month was on the theme of endings. That energy is affecting all of us for the next 6 months.

So just imagine, here we are globally opening the doors for people to go out and get back to their life, and the energy is about endings. Can you sense how confusing that feels?

If you are doing your own inner work, and since you are reading this I know you are, then you have all the tools to work through the endings that are relevant for you.

My sense is that all of us who are feeling the pull to share our gifts to help others are actually working on endings related to old 3D beliefs. Things like ‘I have to work hard to be successful’ or ‘This is how it was in the past, so that’s what I’ll get in the future.’

Remember, thoughts and beliefs related to scarcity, separation and duality have served their purpose and are complete. Do your best to notice your thoughts and make sure they are supporting ease, positivity and expanded possibilities.

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This is A LOT. A lot of energy, a lot of change and a lot of possibilities. 

And what’s so beautiful about it is that it is ALL supporting us to attain and accomplish what we want. 

It might feel murky, foggy and uncomfortable but now that you can see what’s playing out, you can use it to reach your clarity, move through your changes and create with greater ease than you have before.

What will you create with this boundless potential that is available for you now?

Spiritual teacher, guide, mentor, lightworker, way shower – do you know this?

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This week I’ve been exploring the idea of leadership. And what I’ve found stuns me. Not in a bad way. It’s more like seeing something I’d not seen this way.

The truth is that I see you as a leader.

You’ve chosen to follow the inner urgings of your heart and build a life and business in alignment with that.

Doing so isn’t easy. There’s no step-by-step. In the past, there have been precious few people to speak with about this so there was a lot of making our way through the shifting shadows. And now that there are more of us, it’s pretty clear that my path and your path are uniquely our own. There’s no copying, or emulating, or ‘following.’

Instead, day to day you chose yourself and your alignment – to Soul, to joy, to ease, to freedom.

In doing so, some days you dance and fly. Other days you gripe and wallow.

In business, you are inventing a way. Inventing and imagining a new ethic of business that is honoring, responsible and intentional. That cares for you and others. Without compromise.

And it’s not just what is now, but also what you’ve been doing and holding.

We would not be where we are now as a collective family, shining in this newly awakened 5D consciousness if you hadn’t been holding, sharing, honoring the light in you.

We would not be here now if you hadn’t been willing to carry the weight of ancestral and collective karma to be transmuted as we left 3D energies at the ‘end of time’ in 2012.

We would not be here now if you hadn’t been re-building and reworking your life in the aftermath over the last half decade. If you weren’t right now with every passing day and month learning  how to CREATE in this brand new world of wickedly fast energy that we are living in today.

It is sweet and wild, turbulent and exciting – and totally unknown – this time of higher consciousness energy. And still you hold out a hand and a heart to lift up and show the way forward.

To do all you have done, and do, is to lead.

And I am grateful and honored to stand beside you, dear Leader.

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How to navigate the first-quarter 2020 energy for your business

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Has the entry to the 2020 year felt intense to you? It has for me.

This last weekend felt a bit like a dam broke and the current is flowing super strong, almost like there’s all this energy backed up that just needs to flood out. It can feel a bit overwhelming, like it’s hard to gain balance and control.

I was so happy to have a few days as the new year opened to feel into the energy of 2020 and I’m really liking it. (If you’d like to watch, here’s the video I made on this topic.)

Here’s what I’m feeling:

2020 is all about creating stability.
Think of the 4 legs on a chair. That kind of stability. Maybe it will look like foundations for you. Or maybe it will be about structure through rhythm or regularity.

The energy is really, really smooth.
And it has a constancy to it. Last year was a creative energy so the feeling was more about ups and downs and swirls. This year’s energy’s more like a steady stream that may have areas where it rushes hard but generally will flow steadily.

First-quarter 2020 feels like it’s game on for creating deliberately with 5D-higher consciousness energy.
If you aren’t familiar with 5D, just think of it as a time of creating with feelings as opposed to actions. Also, outcomes will happen faster – both desirable and undesirable. Of course we have to take action, but it’s going to be much more obvious to us this year the way our creations are a product of our feelings.

First-quarter 2020 is ‘waiting’ for you to set the stage before it reveals what’s in store for the rest of the year.
As I was putting plans in place for myself and my clients, I really wasn’t able to feel past April. The energy didn’t vanish so much as feel unavailable. To me, that means that setting our intent and backing it with even the smallest of actions is pivotal. Very literally, what you intend is forming the constellation of possibilities that will show up come April.

 

Even if you aren’t a gardener, think of your business as a garden. Consider its shape and what seeds you want to plant before the Spring Equinox. You have some time to reflect on what you want. You have some time to begin practicing actions that honor you and the wants you have.

Seeds in your business can be as simple as putting a date on the calendar for when you will offer a program and setting a tentative price. Or it can be sending an email to 10 past clients to invite them to some dream project you’ve been stalling on – even if you don’t have all of the details yet for the program. Or it can be committing to a schedule – like every new moon – you make a video or send a message to your list. Or it can be updating your backend systems.

The point is that what you do does not need tons of planning, or thought, or doing. It’s a simple thing that aligns with your desire and feels good.

Here’s a good question to ask yourself as you sort through which action to take: On March 19, when the equinox energies come in, what will I wish I had started on?

May you have a blessed 2020!

 

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On stepping out as a spiritual teacher in your own right

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You know how when you’re driving and you look down to switch the music, or you look over to the side of the road at something, you start drifting out of your lane?

We do that exact same thing to ourselves in business when we seek safety and validation – and proof – that what we offer – what we are – is okay.

This quality of ‘drifting out of your lane’ is especially/uniquely true for our spiritual teachers and leaders right now, in these ascension energies of awakening and expanding consciousness.

We are feeling within us how what we are offering, what we are teaching, and what we are inviting people into is so different.

Today’s spiritual teacher/leader is embodying the new earth. You are holding within you the vibration-rhythm-song of this emerging time.

And it feels so new.

It feels so very much not what has been in our lived-experience. And it feels right. Correct.

To do, be or act in another way is not an option. You feel the anxiety, stress, or overwhelm that tells you ‘this is not you’ when you somehow slide away from the ‘embodying’ that is emerging as you.

You, spiritual teacher of now, are holding within you – living and walking and breathing – something that has never been before.

So it’s only natural that you feel differing degrees of discomfort and fear. It is a normal human response to this emerging unknown.

That human response to the unknown is exactly when we begin to slip from our lane, because we are seeking some comfort and reassurance.

It looks something like this:

You look around to other teachers and leaders, for a pattern or a way or some other proof that what you feel, what you’re teaching or sharing, or the way you are teaching others, is not crazy. You seek some sign that you’re okay, that what you have to share is okay.

You may find what you are looking for – assurance that you are okay.

Or, you may find something that slips right-in to enhance your discomfort, and makes you doubt and question your path and choices.

And, there it is, the drift.

Just remember, what you are bringing in is emerging. By its very nature there aren’t ‘ways.’ It is not the norm.

Yes, the basis of your work is a universal truth like ‘love is all there is’ but it has not ever shown up on the planet in this way, with this expression or with this intensity.

You are inventing in the purest sense.

And that very newness is what you are seeking assurance and comfort for.

The truth is that no one else has done this that you are doing, bringing or teaching.

It will feel uncomfortable to sit in the unknown and make a new way. At least for a while it will feel uncomfortable to share the work you are receiving and translating into teachings/guidance.

At least for a while, it will feel uncomfortable to put your work out into the world in the ways that you are inventing; devoted to making sure they feel good and meet you in the way you want to show up.

So give yourself permission to feel uncomfortable for a little bit.

Give yourself permission to lean into the way you want to structure your business, your programs, your courses, or your pricing so that they work for you.

Just give yourself permission to create outside the norms.

And before too long you’ll come to realize that you were a part of creating a new norm that has brightened the world in unexpected and beautiful ways.

 

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Figuring things out when things aren’t working or don’t feel right

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Last night I read a post by a woman in a Facebook group where she was earnestly and open-heartedly asking what she was missing.

She was feeling frustrated and wondering ‘what else?’ when she was doing all-the-things to make her business work.

And my heart ached for her.

It ached because she was in fact doing all the ‘right’ things. She made personal offers. Was building her list. Worked with coaches and was learning what she could to market and grow her business.

But the right things don’t always work.

And the pain I feel comes from seeing women follow the steps and processes that we see promoted and taught in traditional marketing only to find they don’t work – and then they feel like they are doing something wrong and go through so much frustration and self-doubt.

For me, it’s not the things you do that get you where you want to go.

Getting where you want to go has everything to do with how aligned you are with yourself. Very specifically it has to do with how well you listen for, and follow your own innate wisdom or soul.

This belief is foundational for me. I absolutely make every effort I can to do my work and my life from a soul-aligned place.

It’s not often easy – not because it is hard work, but because it often takes me into uncharted territory. And uncharted territory is an uncertain, scary place.

For instance, let’s take a real-time experience I’ve been wrestling with.

When I make programs or offers in my business, I listen for the guidance I hear from my soul. I’ve been doing this for at least the last 8 years and I’m getting better but it’s still a sticky learning process.

What I hear when I listen is soft and holds a feeling tone.

It isn’t a clearly articulated sense of who it’s for and what the outcome is. It does not contain any of all the things that are ‘right’ to have for a sales page  – from pain points to target audience to benefits to outcomes.

It’s mostly a feeling and a knowing.

Now what exactly am I to do with that?

I can wait to hear more, to gain more clarity, certainly. But then, how does that get me closer to what I want in my business – clients and income? I could be waiting for a while.

And I can tell you from personal experience, I have waited a long while for some things to become clear.

But isn’t it so much easier to try to fill in the pieces that we are taught we need? Those audience, benefits and outcome pieces. Isn’t it easier to look to someone else’s experience when they say they have a clear path that will take me to my desired outcome?

Of course it is. But that was someone else’s path and steps.

It might give me comfort in having an action plan and to-do list. But that comfort takes me farther away from my soul’s guidance. It just feeds into my self-doubt and insecurities. Following someone else’s process limits what wants to be created into form through my soul’s guidance.

I have this exact experience going on right now.

I’ve heard my soul’s guidance on what’s next for me.

I have some core elements and the feeling tone to what’s being called into creation. But I don’t have all the neat elements of a sales page.

What I’ve decided to do is use this as an opportunity to openly share how I think about marketing and business in a soul-aligned way. The questions, the uncertainty, the wondering what to try and in what way.

And together we’ll get to see how it all turns out when I listen day to day to my soul guidance mixed in with the ebb and flow of life.

I’ll be sharing this journey through Facebook livestreams. I’d really like to tell you it’s a scheduled thing and you can find me on certain days. But I honestly can’t. That just doesn’t feel correct or clean in my energy.

You are invited to join me on Facebook if you like.

Or you can join my email list where I’ll share the journey with you on a weekly basis.

I’m so curious to see what unfolds…

 

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