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You haven’t heard from me for a few weeks and that’s because, as the world is dealing with the chaos of change, I’ve been going through my own transformation, and I’d like to share something with you because I think some of you can relate.
I don’t know about you, but I’m finding that I’m feeling a bit disoriented by the cloud of uncertainty that hovers over everything now. Since I believe that opportunity can be found within every situation, I asked how I could benefit from the evolutionary change that our financial and political systems are going through.
I realized that this is the perfect time to latch onto the energy of transformation and allow myself to be more honest about who I am and what matters to me. You see, I’ve been hiding a part of myself–it’s sort of my secret. And I finally woke up to the fact that if I’m not willing to be totally honest about who I am, then I’m abandoning a part of myself, which can only affect me in a negative way.
And I bet more than one of you out there feels like you’re hiding too.
Although I focus my work on money and emotions, it’s really the spiritual part of my life that matters to me. When I was “homeless,” I perceived it as a spiritual journey that allowed me to get in touch with the inner guidance that I know we all have. Because I owned nothing and was attached to nothing, I could let my mind and spirit roam into uncharted territory, which I did.
On my journey, I had inter-dimensional experiences that, if someone else were to tell me the story, I’d probably think they were delusional. I wasn’t, and the experiences were real yet totally unexplainable through logical means. I came away from that period of my life with a deep, deep knowing that we are not alone, and my personal journey now is about how to enhance my relationship with that Force that guides us.
I often have synchronistic experiences that validate for me how we are all connected through an invisible communication grid that we can learn to use at will. It takes practice and patience, but it is there for anyone who is willing to suspend their disbelief and open themselves to alternate realities.
My purpose for writing today is just to connect and let you know that I’m contemplating how I want to present the knowledge that I have gained over the last 30 years. My broadened point of view allows me to be in the world but not of it so I can experience what’s going from a detached point of view. This allows for being in a peaceful place in the midst of the chaos.
As the Build Your Money Muscles for Financial Strength & Security Program is evolving, starting in the fourth month, I’m introducing this new material. I haven’t mentioned it yet in the description of the program, but will by the middle of next month.
In the meantime, on Decemeber 26th at noon EST, 9 am Pacific, on my BlogTalkRadio.com show, I’m going to tell some of my story. I’ve been told by those who have heard parts of it that the story is inspiring and certainly interesting. If you’d like, you can listen live or download later at http://BlogTalkRadio.com/JoanSotkin
I hope you all have a peaceful holiday and look forward to communicating with you next year.
I am SO glad to hear this, Joan, and to celebrate with you. I had to “come out” spiritually as well some years ago. And I’ve talked to a number of big business guru types, and many of them hide their spirituality, fearing their clients can’t handle it- when their spirituality is the reason for how they handle what they do!
So, definitely celebrating with you! Woo-hoo! We all need it so desperately from each other.
Joan,
Thank you so much for sharing this. It makes me appreciate you even that much more. A noticed this quote in a friend of mine’s email signature the other day, “Stay true and your heart will lead you truly”. And, I know that to be true.
Dear Joan,
I have been a fan of your podcasts and have followed your blogs and always believed that you connected finances with the Infinite. You can’t have one without the other. At no time did I feel that you made money more important than working with and in the Divine. Sometimes we are so focused on what we do that we don’t realize that we ourselves are on the path we are trying to get others on. Thank you for always sharing what you know.
Hi Joan,
I ran across your website when I was doing research for tele-classes that I’ll be offering. I am not familiar with your work.
I just wanted to commend you for being vulnerable and allowing the “Infinite Energy” that “Force” that you know guides you to be credited for others to see.
I help people manifest their heart’s desires (desired outcomes – including relationships). I clearly see the difference between my clients who allow “God” or “Infinite Energy” (however they acknowledge it)to co-create their lives. The ones who acknowledge that energy can reach any of their dreams.
The big thing is allowing each person’s spirituality to be their own and not mandate who or what their God needs to be (which unfortunately is not yet common practice). Although, it sounds you are able to do this.
Victoria
Dear Joan,
via an E-Newsletter from Asara I came to look to your website, and I stumbled about “shame”. Whenever I asked me in all this years shame? this has nothing to do with me. But when I listened to these two examples you offer for free, I suddenly had to recognize, IT HAS something to do with me. I could recognize the feeling with my early childhood – it never came up in primal therapy, it never came up in any of these hundreds of groups and sessions I made in Poona. The missing links were money poorness. This is a really opening. – And now I step “just by accident” (!), attracted by your confession, into my main-theme since years: Do I have to/can I be frankly with my spirituality, when it goes about business, professional expectations and the “world as usual”? As after all these years I still use my Sannyas Name I at least give a signal about the real thing. But in the last years I was often asking if it is hindering my business success. And just three days ago I for the first time met a new client to talk with her about her new website. And after all she said in these two hours I asked her: You are meditating? And she confessed. And she also told me, that she keeps this as her secret.
You see, your thoughts create a big rumbeling, and it seems, something has to be cleared out. Why should Spirituality not be just a normal “thing”? Spirituality is everybodies source and background, why bother so much? I will look for the answers to these questions.
Thank you for your frankly and loving input.
Suresh