Helping people heal is an amazing feeling. It’s invigorating, refreshing and empowering. Why can’t you just do that, instead of all this marketing, promoting and selling yourself? Healing is your wheelhouse, not business stuff.
Well guess what, friends? If you’re a healer in a healing business, business is your wheelhouse. If it’s not, it will be.
This is just another step on your adventure. Another step of learning and putting yourself outside your comfort zone, to help you grow.
The hard part for humans is that we don’t always get to choose where growth needs to happen to fulfill our purpose. We need to trust those intuitive nudges, from the Universe and ourselves.
There are three ways to do this, which I have learned on my own journey of promoting my healing business: 1.) Know your worth, 2.) Listen to your own signals, and 3.) Take inspired action.
1.) KNOW YOUR WORTH
There are a bunch of other healers out there trying to sell their brand. What is your brand? You. You are your brand.
You have unique energy, skills, perspective, personality and experiences that no one else can exactly duplicate. Don’t you think there is someone out there with a similar mix to you, who has not yet found their way and would be thrilled to find you?
Expect this person. Expect that your energy field will draw this person in like a magnet, when you are in a space of confident clarity about your purpose.
How do you gain this confident clarity?
- Affirmations, affirmations, affirmations. Make them specific to you, and practice them. A lot. I recommend using Louise Hay’s workbook, “Love Yourself, Heal Your Life.”
- Manifest the life and/or business of your dreams. Envision what this looks like and, most importantly, allow yourself to sit in the energy of what this feels like for ten minutes per day.
- Fill your ears with constant streaming of healers who make positive moves in the world. They had to figure all of this out at one point too, so soak up their wisdom.
2.) LISTEN TO YOUR OWN SIGNALS
Listen to those intuitive nudges that come into your awareness, whether they’re physical sensations, emotional cues, external signs or symbols, dreams/visions, spiritual messages, or just a knowing.
Especially when these nudges are patterned, listen. They’re presenting for a reason, indicating the direction for you to go next or to turn from the direction you’re going.
The most common reasons to ignore these nudges, in my experience, are control (rooted in fear), denial (rooted in fear), and others’ expectations (rooted in fear). Notice a theme here?
Engage in the following practices to surrender fear and commit to trusting your Higher Self:
- Tapping/EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) – The goal of tapping is to release negative emotions and beliefs and open up the mind and body to instill healthier, more supportive belief systems. Tap on releasing fear at least once per day.
- Meditation – Getting yourself into a space of receptivity allows for Spirit’s guidance to wash over and illuminate you. It also reminds you to return to the core of who you are and what you value. This is a better way to secure your path than fixating on all the little details along the way. The details will unfold as you fully embody your own energy.
- Set limits and say no when you aren’t feelin’ it. There are a lot of people who will tell you how, when and where you should do this business of yours. Many of them will be well-intentioned but they aren’t you. If you’re not feelin’ it, move on to what makes you feel it. Don’t waste your time trying on other people’s paths for size. It won’t work.
3.) TAKE INSPIRED ACTION
Now that you’ve kicked some of the fear in the ass and gained clarity on the energy of your vision, it’s time to solidify the power behind it.
Daily, weekly, or whenever you feel like it, take one step toward your business. It can be tiny but the action itself sends a message to your brain that you are committed. Committed to your vision, purpose and joy.
View these seemingly arduous business tasks as acts of self-love. They are steps that prioritize yourself and convince your mind that success is happening (however you define success). Once your mind is convinced you are reliable in a certain area (because of your consistent action), there is less self-doubt and more security.
Finally, alongside the business steps, take at least one inspired action per day toward yourself. Just as you would guide your clients to self-care, clear an internal path for your purpose to shine brightly through you.
The ultimate act of self-love is to confidently promote your brilliance. Silence the naysayers by standing firmly in your worth. Tune into the wisdom beyond this plane and boldly step out onto your stage. The world is waiting. For you.
Laura Mazzotta, LCSW-R, is an expert therapist, Certified Akashic Records Practitioner and Reiki Healer with over 15 years of experience. She serves women ready to explore holistic, alternative methods of healing and transformation, to address their chronic or complex pain, illness and disease. Laura knows true healing occurs much more powerfully when all components (physical, mental, energetic and spiritual) of a person’s issue are addressed. She’s here to guide her clients in all steps on that journey. You can find Laura at www.theakashictherapist.com and join her free Facebook group for more tools and content: Room for Healing.
