Are You Searching for Spiritual Balance as an Entrepreneur?

As someone that is a Spiritualpreneur, you may be tempted to measure your spirituality by how often you are in a peaceful, balanced state of Being as an entrepreneur.

However, balance is not a static condition.

Balance is dynamic and ever-changing – allowing for periods of both growth and rest. At each stage of your development, your spiritual task involves integrating your ever-expanding sense of Self with your society and culture.

With each experiential, emotional and intellectual connection that you make, you are building new patterns of neural connections and new patterns of Being.

So what about the times that you feel disconnected, in flux, ungrounded, or unsure of yourself?

Well, truly dynamic balance actually requires these periods of discontent, insecurity, anxiety and states of contrast in order to move you to a new state of balance – a state that transforms and transcends your earlier sense of Self and Spirit.

It is during these times of flux and crisis that you integrate all of the connections you’ve been making.

When these integrations move into your conscious awareness, you will often experience them as an “aha!” moment – an epiphany, or a moment of grace. Each integration brings you one step further along your path to Spiritual Enlightenment.

• You become more of who you are
• Seeing your Self, your world and Spirit in a new, more expanded light
• Moving forward with greater depth of understanding

Many of you were brought up and taught to resist, ignore or stoically move through periods of discontent, crisis or anxiety.

The social conditioning to repress negative emotions begins at a very early age — “big boys don’t cry;” “girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice” — and continues throughout life.

Transcending this type of social conditioning requires developing new patterns that allow you to hold on to your sense of Self in the face of adverse confrontations.

The opportunity for integrating the new patterns can come from short-term discomfort — the awkwardness of learning a new dance step; the confusion that you experience when beginning a new class, etc. — or through periods of crisis — a broken marriage, a recession economy, a death in the family, a major illness.

But opportunities for integrating new patterns aren’t always unpleasant.

For example, how many of you still listen to the same music you liked at twelve years of age? Or have the same hobbies? Or hang out with the same people?

No matter what type of new patterns emerge, you are not the same person you were before the process of integration.

You intuitively know that you will be forever changed, and it is this sense of loss and your fear of the unknown that brings up your feelings of resistance–a normal reaction to new situations and risk-taking.

Resistance can save your life by stopping you from entering dangerous situations. But, resistance can also become a pattern of Being, physically, emotionally and intellectually; a pattern that prevents you from making new neural connections and letting new information into your awareness as an entrepreneur.

Learning to trust when to listen to your resistance and when to move through the resistance is an important skill in your spiritual development.

Developing this trust allows you to move from a societal-based morality to a spiritually-based morality that marks the heroes in our cultures–Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and Abraham Lincoln–and the spiritual leaders who have emerged throughout history–Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed.

If you want to learn more about finding spiritual balance as an entrepreneur, or even how to teach others in this way, listen to the recording of a teleclass I did recently on The Missing Element to Your Spiritual Coaching Success.

I was joined on this call by Spiritualpreneurs Ken Johnston of the Healing Codes, Intuitive Life Coach & Big Dream Guru Tal Shai, and EnergyRICH Coach Heather Dominick.  I think you will really enjoy hearing what everyone had to say!