Show Notes
Pleasure, power, and presence all work together and rely on each other to bring about change, impact, structure, and support in the world. What would it look like to deeply acknowledge the role of pleasure in your work -- to reconstruct your relationship with work and stop feeling like it has to be hard and painful in order to be successful? What would it look like to start authoring your relationship with work through the lens of pleasure?.
In this episode of the Regenerative Mystic Podcast, I talk about pleasure, power, and presence in work and our being. I describe how work to me meant creating more struggle, disease in my body, sickness, and more dissatisfaction in the past, and how I broke that cycle in 2020 after listening to what my body was asking for.
“When you slow down and you allow yourself to come into present time, you will notice that the earth and the cells are birthing themselves.” [18:26]
We must learn how to become present so we can tap into our power. Work doesn’t have to be driving in the fast lane, it is in slowing down and being present that we experience change. Listening to what wants to happen allows us to become resourced with new information that propels us forward into the future.
“When energy moves, work is accomplished.” [20:03]
When you’re in the presence and pleasure is the standard for work, the power that’s cultivated from the information that you’re resourcing is moving the work towards more pleasure. You have to allow yourself to learn new information to avoid the same past traumas from repeating themselves. This new information comes through listening to what is available to channel power.
Do you believe you’re worthy of a relationship with work and your beingness that is full of pleasure?
“It doesn’t matter what you do, the way that you’re being in your body with pleasure is going to impact the world.” [35:25]
In This Episode You Will Learn:
[2:20] What pleasure, power, and presence mean to me.
[3:31] Deconstruct what you were taught about work and start authoring your new relationship with it.
[8:48] How I redefined my definition of work and tapped into my power by being present.
[16:15] How to slow down and come into the present time to experience power.
[19:58] Why pleasure is the new standard for how we design our work, world, and wholeness.
[26:08] How to listen through pleasure and learn new information that channels power.
[29:06] The power of pleasure in the design and our wholeness.
[32:20] How to tune into pleasure and change your world to be in your true power.
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