Today I am meeting with the soul of my business, using the meditation from the Creative Business Incubator course. I want to ask it about this new project idea I have for 2025.
This did NOT go AT ALL how I thought it would!
I ask it about my project idea and I just feel like it says… You have already decided to do this on your own.
That feels uncomfortable. But... OK I see that. AND. I do want to collaborate with you. I feel I have been, but in ways I don’t see or understand.
Yes, I have been collaborating with you. I have different needs and preferences than you do.
Does this idea take your needs and preferences into account?
It’s more important right now to take YOUR needs and preferences into account. You’ve had a difficult time, and you need what you need to feel like you’re back on solid ground.
Oh. What I am looking for from you is a guarantee that this will give me the outer results I want.
Yeah, that’s not what I am here for.
I sit with this.
It’s not like I don’t care about your needs, as I said. It’s just that… this isn’t what I am here for.
What are you here for?
To BE the Creative Dream Incubator. To be a force for midwifing dreams into existence on this plane.
OK but… and I understanding right… you are not from this plane?
No, I am from the plane that the dreams come from.
Oh, you are helping from that side, too.
Yes, you don’t understand all that I do.
Is what I am doing getting in the way of what you are doing?
Sometimes, yes. But that’s due to the differences in our planes.
Oh, it’s like I couldn’t always do what you need because that would not take my needs into account in a way that would be destructive to me.
Yes, exactly. We work well together. Me on this plane, you on that plane. Everyone’s dreams in this plane. Everyone in that plane.
OK but what about the external outcomes I want? Where do I go for support on that, if not to you?
To get the external results you want you need to use your resources. I am one of them.
Am I using you properly as a resource?
I think you should be more honest about why you are doing this meditation and what you want from me.
Hmmmm. Shit.
You can do this.
Well I appreciate that I don’t feel like you are shaming me, you are just stating that I am maybe a little conflicted inside about what my goal is here….
I am doing this because I want your blessing for this new idea.
You don’t need it. You are an independent, free and creative person. Follow your ideas.
I am doing this because I want you to tell me HOW to do this in a way that guarantees that I get what I want from it.
Yeah, I’m not a genie or a magic wand.
Right.
What you want to get from this is 100% valid though. I support this. It’s just - you’re looking for validation and guarantees from me, I can’t give either of those.
Ok I can validate this idea. I do like that I checked with you to see if it seems like a terrible idea to you.
(And then I remember a meeting I had with my business about some classes I was teaching that paid really well but my business was like “I won’t stop you but no I don’t like it” and I see how those classes didn’t do anything FOR MY BUSINESS but I enjoyed doing them and they did make me good money that I needed - so it was right for me to do them AND it was right for the soul of my business to not be into them. We have different needs, we don’t have to agree on everything)
This isn’t like those classes, right?
Right, I’m happy you are happy about this. It’s not like I think we need this particular thing. There are lots of ways for me to shine my purpose into the world. You are the one doing the creative and practical work, so those parts need to be interesting to you. This idea seems like it fits the bill.
I am still a little perturbed by how the soul of my business is not being more reassuring. And recognizing that this is coming from the part of me who seeks external validation, who wants something/someone outside of me to make me feel safe, secure, like everything will be ok. These things are all my job.
Is there a way that you, the soul of the creative dream incubator, would change this idea if it was all up to you?
Oh that’s a good question! Sitting back, looking at what this project hopes to accomplish and how it fits in with what is already happening in the membership… yes this feels needed, there are other ways to do it but there is nothing wrong with this way.
You came here looking for my blessing on this?
Yes, and to kind of disaster-proof my process with this as much as possible.
I don’t think it will be a disaster. It might not be as successful as you hope, but it might be more! This idea seems solid, you are reflecting on past wins and loses, what kinds of approaches have and have not worked for you, what feels needed and relevant now… both for you personally in your process with how you will deliver this AND in terms of business stuff.
OK I feel reassured. There are no guarantees. But I am going to give this my best shot.
And I feel like I FELT the part of this that feels important for the soul of my business - the essence/quality that it would add to the Creative Dream Incubator membership - and I will hold onto that as a special part of this project.
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