The Art of Receptivity: How to Do Less to Manifest More Success

“Life is a dance between making it happen & letting it happen.“
-Arianna Huffington

The sun is bright. The sky is pale blue and cloudless.

I’m tapping away at my laptop outside of a local Starbucks, completely grounded and filled to the brim with awe.

If I look at my life, everything I’ve been dreaming of is taking physical form. I’m practicing the art of receptivity. I’ve risen my dreams from the ground, like Queen Elsa and her magnificent castle of ice.

I feel the power in my finger tips.

And I’m leaning into this power more than I ever have before without driving myself into the ground; without working myself to the bone.

Life is unfolding quite differently than last year, when I spent the entire summer holed up in my house, creating free challenges, hosting tele-summits, and crafting perfect posts that were getting my business nowhere.

And now, I’m doing less and manifesting even bigger and better results 🪄

There is so much space in my life. Beautiful space. Space that allows me to feel free without guilt. Space that allows me to follow my creative whims during a long stretch of afternoon.

Space that I can take, without fear that what I’ve built will fall.

After all, isn’t that why we work ourselves so hard? We think that doing more will help us manifest more success? We think that if we do less, the foundation we worked so hard to build will collapse?

This is not true.

And I’m going to say right now—if you’d like to hold steadfast to these beliefs, then you might not want to continue reading. But, if you started a business to do what you love so that you could have MORE freedom to enjoy your life and it’s not feeling that way right now, then you might want to keep reading because something needs to shift. You know it. You feel it in your bones.

➡️ So what was the shift that occurred for me that might help you too?

The shift was one of surrender.

It was tuning into my intuition; into my softness.
It was embracing the art of receptivity and divine feminine energy.
It was re-aligning to the actions that felt good and would help me do less, while manifesting more success.

In our society, masculine energy is favored when it comes to building a business. When you’re overly invested in your masculine energy, you believe it’s up to you alone to make it happen. It’s up to you to put in the work to create the results you want, often until you’re ragged with exhaustion or teetering on the edge of collapse.

And yes, it is your responsibility to take action and breathe life into new ideas and projects, but there are two parts to breathing—the actionable swell of the inhale and the release and emptying of the exhale.

The exhale is what makes room to receive a new breath.

The same thing applies to business.

I see so many business owners taking inhales [taking so much action], without taking time to exhale. It’s chaotic and exhausting. 

🦋 What would happen if you cut out half of what you’re currently doing?
🦋 What would happen if you only focused on the tasks that really lit you up?
🦋 What if you let your own inspiration lead the inhale?
🦋 And then you stepped back to watch what appears in the space of the exhale?

Practicing the art of receptivity takes work, especially if you’re a high achiever.

Trust me, I get it. When I’m trying to fill a workshop or a spot in my coaching practice, I have a tendency to lean towards taking more action.

Lately though, I’ve been pausing. I’ve been resting in stillness. And somewhere in that stillness, an intuition bubbles to the surface. I receive guidance to craft a post, or offer a particular person a free coaching call, or invite a particular person to coach with me.

I take the guided action. And then I wait.

I surrender, practicing the art of receptivity by handing over the outcome to the Universe.

I’ve done my part and that’s all I can do. The high achiever within [who operates solely from masculine energy] would have me believe that I can control the outcome if only I take more action. This is an illusion. Instead of taking more action, I switch gears from the masculine to the feminine; from the inhale, to the exhale.

And what tends to get created in the exhale is pure magic because 90% of the time, my desired outcome appears sooner or later [without the extra work]. 

Success, just like life, is a dance between making it happen and letting happen.

Success in itself is the art of receptivity.

Without the ability to receive, you would not be able to experience success. Therefore, practicing the art of receptivity after taking action is allowing your frequency to align to what you desire. And as you know if you read my blogs often, you must BE before you can do or have.

✨ You must be in the energy of what you want before it appears.

So, how can you practice the art of receptivity today?
And trust that success will happen if you sit back and let it?

With love & surrender,
-Kayla

P.S. If you’d like support with embodying the art of receptivity, let’s chat. I currently have an open spot in my LIFE BY DESIGN coaching program, which will help you quantum leap into the next level of your soul-led life and business [with more spaciousness and enjoyment included].

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