Episode Summary
Who is doing the manifesting? The soul or the ego?
There's a common thread in chit-chat around the law of attraction and manifestation - that we have a divine right to every whim and impulse, but who is doing the asking? Is it our soul? Or is it our ego that wants these things?
In this episode, I take a close look at manifestation and the importance of getting clear about who is doing the asking - the soul or the ego.
Today we're talking about:
- What happens if you let your ego do the manifesting.
- Why the ego doesn't understand the concept of enough.
- Why you need to know your "why" when manifesting.
- How our divine creatorship speaks to us.
- The importance of knowing what "enough" looks like and asking questions like "what does my soul want for my business?"
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Episode Transcript
Julian Crosson-Hill 0:11
This is the answer your unique calling podcast. This is a podcast for change catalysts. Those that believe we can change the world and that the way things are isn't the way they have to be. Through this podcast, I share tools, tips and inspiring stories for breaking through limitations, creating meaningful change, and embracing and trusting your deepest truth. I'm Julian Crosson-Hill, certified spiritual life coach, Human Design Specialist and founder of Priest of Inanna. I help spiritually minded professionals discover and embrace a life of possibility, freedom, meaning and impact. Welcome, and thanks for listening.
And welcome to this week's episode. A couple of weekends ago, my husband and I spent some time out kind of running some errands. Just really having a leisurely day. We had decided to go to our favorite mall, which is Kenwood down in Cincinnati. And we liked that mall because it has Williams Sonoma. And along the way, we drove by a place that Neal had seen online and had mentioned several times before, that we've been wanting to go. The place is Aglamesis Brothers Ice Cream, I have trouble with that with that name. This ice cream shop we've been wanting to go. So, we decided that we would stop and have ice cream on our adventure for the day. And the ice cream was amazing. It was so incredible, small, locally owned business, they had chocolates and other candies. And we just had a really great experience there.
And after ice cream, we continued on towards the mall. And as we were pulling into the mall parking lot, we were talking about the shop that we had just visited, Aglamesis Brothers. And Neal said, that's the problem with the schooling that I received when I was growing up. And we talk about this frequently, that for our generation, everything in school was about going to college and becoming a CEO. Everyone was going to go be a CEO, no one was being trained to work on cars or to, to do a craft or have a skill. They were all going to go to college and become CEOs, which obviously is silly. We can't all be CEOs. Someone has to do the actual work.
And what Neal said was, when I went to school, everyone was going to be a CEO. And there was never, no one was content to just own a small family business that made them a decent living and supported them. And that really got me to thinking about business, spiritual business, and also about some of the ideas around manifestation in the law of attraction. So, I want to kind of share some of my thoughts that came up after this discussion with Neal.
So as a spirit, spiritual business owner, sometimes I can get a little focused on growing my business. I spent a little time daydreaming and fantasizing about my company, growing, maybe getting into other things and having employees and being a CEO, really. So, this conversation really made me think about what I want for my business. And what I want is to support the life that I want to live, which really is one of more freedom and more time. And a lot of CEOs don't experience that. I was once Chief Technology Officer, CTO, and I had zero free time when I did it.
What I think this conversation really brought up for me is this idea of enoughness. And I've talked a lot about sufficiency, about being enough and doing enough and knowing enough and having enough. And I think we need to think more about what enough means for us.
There's a common thread in the law of attraction and manifestation that we have some sort of divine spiritual right to every whim that comes our way. Every desire that we have. We just need to manifest it and we can have it And, while I believe that we are definitely divine creators, and we can create the lives and the things that we desire in this lifetime. The idea that there is no limit to that, or that every whim that comes our way, we just snap our fingers and manifest, it feels a little funny to me. And one of the obvious reasons is we have a planet of limited resources with so many people. If everyone had everything that they wanted, what would be left of our planet? What would be left for the other life forms that we share this world with?
But more importantly, it really brought up for me the idea of who wants it? Is it our soul? Or is it our ego that wants these things. And I think that that becomes important when we start to talk about law of attraction and manifestation. There's a lot of ideas have just go, go manifest it and everything that you desire, every little whim is going to come your way because you deserve it. But when we think about our divine creatorship, or our divinity, or divine creatorship really comes through our soul being and not through our ego being. And so, I think it's important that as we really start to work in manifestation, and working and creating the life that we desire that we get really clear about who is desiring it, which life are we creating, are we creating the life that our ego desires, are we creating the life that our soul desires, because they probably look very differently.
And when we allow our ego to run away with us, then we become very whim driven, we start to want things because of the status that's attached to them, or because other people desire it. We want the power. We want the status. We want the attention. And those really aren't the pure motives that our soul is going to have in what it desires. I think, too, it's important that our ego pushes us for more and more, our ego really doesn't have an idea of enough.
The idea of enough comes from our soul, our soul says this is enough, you are enough, you're doing enough, you have enough. Our ego is always wanting more, more experience more things more. And that constant drive for more can often lead us to having less freedom. Our ego pushes us into captivity. And it does that because this pursuit for more: more things, more, more status, more power, more recognition, more money, drives us to work harder to rack up debt to where we don't even really have control over our own finances. It leads us to not creating the space and the time to experience life, which is really what our soul came here to do is to experience life, the ego doesn't have a firm grasp on enough. And the ego will drive us always towards more and leading us into captivity and a loss of freedom.
There's also the aspect of soul of social conditioning that comes in with the ego. Why do you want it? Is it because other people will look up to you or admire it? Is it because it's acceptable and expected and social conditioning? Or is it because you, truly the authentic you, wants it? Because I think those are very different things. And when we are going to set about to manifest something we need to get really clear on why do we want it not just who wants that? Is it the ego and the soul? But why? There's a lot of debate about certain brands that are desirable luxury brands and whether they're more quality or not. And I've had some people on social media tell me that I have this wrong that a Mercedes is a much higher quality car. But I question that. I've driven Asian made cars for a long time in my life, and they've always been extremely high quality. They've lasted very well. And for me, that's enough. Is it really about the quality that you want the Mercedes? Or is it about what other people attach to the meaning of you driving a Mercedes? Is it because other people will see you as being more or better or more worthy if you're driving a Mercedes? So social conditioning really comes into some of that, and we have to really question why is it that I want this thing?
The other aspect of this enoughness, this idea of having enough is when we don't have an idea of enough when we're constantly pursuing more, we become really attached to things. And we start to accumulate things, we start to accumulate. And we're living and working and doing all of these things for things rather than for experiences. And I think that among the spiritual business owners and spiritual entrepreneurs that I know most of them value freedom much more. They want to have freedom. They want to have the time to go and experience life. They want to have the time to spend with their loved ones. And that, to me feels like a more wholesome approach to life to be emphasizing experiences over things.
And it really comes down to legacy. What is it that you're leaving behind, when you pass beyond the veil? When you're done living in this plane, in this time, in this incarnation, is it going to be a bunch of things that people are likely going to just fight over? Or you're going to leave a legacy of the knowledge that you shared, the wisdom that you shared, the good feelings that you gave to people, the experiences that people shared with you and the memories that you created? Because those are going to be a much more lasting legacy than the things. The things get broken. People forget where they came from. They lose their value. Whereas the memories get handed down as stories and are remembered. Neo pagans and Wiccans have a saying when someone passes beyond. One of the things they'll often say is, "what's remembered lives". And I think that that's such a powerful idea to think about when we start thinking about enoughness, and legacy.
So, the bottom line of what I want to get across today is what is enough. Sufficiency is a state of consciousness of enoughness, of being enough, having enough, doing enough, knowing enough. So, what is enough for you? And when you're going about manifesting, rather than getting wrapped up in this idea that's often promoted in law of attraction circles that you can have anything and every whim you desire, that you deserve it, start thinking about what is enough. Where can I create enough in my life.
And I think this is really important for spiritual business owners, because we constantly get marketed about six and seven figure businesses about five figure launches, and it's this constant busyness. And doing that happens because we're pursuing bigger and bigger dollar amounts in our business. And I think, as a spiritual business owner, it's really a helpful practice to take a step back, and really get out of ego for a minute, and ask what does my soul want for my business? What is enough for my business? What do I need to make to feel secure, and to have that space and that freedom to experience more of life in a very comfortable and supported way? Because that's ultimately what's going to be successful for you.
As a spiritual business owner, most of us have started our business to be of service. That's what our soul wants. So how can we find and embrace the idea of enough in our business so that we can make a comfortable enough living that feels fair for the work that we're doing? And that supports the space and the freedom to have the experiences that we want to have in our lives?
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