Intuitive Business Guidance: Peeling the Layers of Motivation & Redefining ‘Success’

We create something in the world when our inspiration, intention and motivation meets our expectations, our preparation and our actions are in accord with our intentions and motivations. When these are all in alignment with one another we make things happen, which we might then decide or judge as either ‘successful’ or ‘unsuccessful’.

‘Success’ itself is very subjective. It will often be defined for you by the motivation that underlies it and what you value. For example, if your version of success is to do fulfilling work that you love and to be of service, you may quickly feel fulfilled and successful in line with your values, long before someone whose intention is simply to make money or to be seen as successful.

Getting clear on your definition of success, your true intention and motivation is essential in any venture, as it will directly reveal your expectations and your personal vision of what success means and feels like to you.

Often, when we scratch the surface, our motivation can actually or also point us towards a core wound, which will also present our biggest obstacle and biggest opportunity for growth and healing.

For instance, if your intention is to start a business/work for yourself, but your deeper motivation stems from unhappiness or low self-worth, your motivation and drive might likely be about appearing to be successful based on what others value and deem successful. This will usually mean you can only feel better about yourself and valued when you feel externally validated and have ‘proved yourself’ under someone else’s gaze.

These days many people still judge their success on their social media interactions or more often these days, the lack of, and that’s a recipe for feeling low and feeding low self worth!

So peeling back the layers of our motivation can reveal unhealed wounds around self-esteem and often a lack of self-love and self acceptance.

Other possible underlying wounds might show up as fearing to be seen or fearing to make mistakes or fearing either or both success and/or failure! Underlying all these fears is often a core wound of being judged negatively in some way and can stem from childhood school days.

Until these wounds are recognised as feeding our motivations, our expectations, preparation, and actions can all unconsciously grow from them. Our experience will then likely mirror that wound back to us again and again. This isn’t to be seen as a ‘punishment’ or further evidence to chastise ourselves, but as an invitation to get curious enough to see the shadow, to heal/grow and realign with our highest vision, inspiration and motivation, that stems from a place of wholeness and confidence rather than lack.

When our actions align with our highest motivation, an open expectation and a clear vision for success rooted in qualities, understanding our needs, feelings and ways being, ‘success’ will come much easier. We will likely feel and experience a much more peaceful sense of flow and ease around our business or other endeavours. The energy of this flow will be mirrored and the ‘like attracts like’ universal rule will reflect and mirror back our alignment rather than our shadow.

My Intuitive Business sessions are designed to help gently peel back the layers to look at your underlying motivations and blocks, and how to realign and reframe ‘success’ for yourself and your business and how to create a path forward aligned to the energy you wish to attract.

A shamanic Reiki drum session with me, in person in Worcester, or online, can also be a lovely way to bring a healing element to working with our core wound once it’s been recognised. The soft, repetitive drumming used in Reiki Drum sessions can help soothe the mind and nervous system, and gently accesses the deeper layers of consciousness through the alpha and theta brainwave states, where those old patterns and beliefs can be intentionally released. We can also clear the way and create space for insights and wisdom to arise through drum journeying too. These are all the tools and techniques I found hugely helpful when navigating my own blocks and obstacles!

When we combine this with Reiki, the session works with the intention of deep relaxation and rebalancing for our nervous system, that’s usually been holding onto our old fears and habits of thinking that can be blocking the flow of ‘success’.

We can work with simple but deeply resonate affirmations and practice feeling and experiencing these in the body, creating a sense of worthiness, wholeness, and peace that can be carried forward into our lives.