what do you do with panic about business? Encouragement please.

So I have a few things that I do. Generally the first thing I do is go to the water. Standing on the shore, listening to the lapping of the water and seeing an endless stretch of water in front of me reminds me that I am part of a bigger whole and that the situation I am in at the moment is just a part of the bigger whole of my life. It puts me back in the right mind frame to make forward progression.

Second, I pick up a book, listen to an audio or a teleseminar that puts me back in the "positive" mind frame.

Third, I write down all the negatives in one column and then in the another column I turn them into positives. Example: Negative = no money to pay all my bills. Positive = all my basic needs are being met. It really helps to change my focus to the positive aspect of what I am currently feeling as a negative.

Last but not least - I keep a daily graititude journal. It helps to go back and reread all the reasons I have to be grateful for the place I find myself in at this current time.

Elke,

There is so much to say.

I love you and all that you bring to this world. You matter.

Well I think there a a variety of things going on here. Remember, questions are a way to power, so I will ask you questions to ask yourself. Power also can be found by standing at a boundry, like water and land, as Trina suggested.

First STOP, its OK if things fall apart. Where am I internally? Whose running the show? Is the kid, parent or adult running the show? Is there any self judgement about NOT paying the bills? Am I the kind of person who can't pay their bills? Is this my kid, parent or adult talking? Usually its my kid and my kid shouldn't be in charge of bills. My adult, problem solver has that job.

Remember, we work for Goddess/God and an awesome one at that.

Second, I focus on matra, God/Goddess and get in this now. Breath and center myself. Most of my anxiety is future based. I don't know what the future holds, but I do know two things. Thought plus emotion manifest and happiness is a CHOICE.

Next, Feel. Don't explain it, don't talk about it, don't define it. Feel with your body without explaining or acting out. You can safely feel anything.

If you find yourself judging yourself, you will then probably find yourself judging yourself for judging yourself....sorry, but that one cracks me up, so that's how I get happy.

Get help, which you are doing here.

Celebrate. I brush me teeth. I heard a bird singing. Like Trina said, what did I do well today. Gratitude. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Thank you for this breath.

Now, empowered in your own presence, tapped into higher consciousness, you could even call up people you want to pay and negotiate if that's what it takes.

No judgement, just empowered curiosity.

You are sooo awesome, just like Goddess.

Love Kenton's response.

Wow, I go into this state at least once a month...sometimes once a day.

Isn't it just the mantle we indie biz-ers wear by nature of our circumstances?

I think so.

What do I do when I feel worried about money, judgmental that I'm not earning "enough," and even panicky that I might need to stop doing what I'm doing?

Well, lately, I stop. I just hold still and check in with my parts and my body.

I reconnect to Presence, core Self, higher Self, Spirit, however you word it.

And I, too, remind myself of the difference between "not fully comfortable" and "at the end of my rope."

If I'm not at the rope's end, it's time to realign my parts, remind all my little inner children that business/financial success isn't the same as "I'm already enough," and then, from a grounded and heart-centered place, breathe some new energy into my business.

I write a blog post, or get back on Biznik, or attend an event, or even take a nap in my office after visioning the next ideal client who will reach out to me.

Speaking of breathing energy into our businesses, Elke, what happened to the manifesting discussion thread in Turquoise Tribe?

I would love to start a new one. You in?

Elke, I thought a great deal about how to answer your question. In fact, I started writing an answer the day you sent it and apparently it wasn't the answer you needed - the computer gnome ate it and it never made it off of my desk top.

This panic - this fear - is something I think most entrepreneurs face. It is certainly one that I have faced repeatedly. Hmmmm. Repeatedly. That means that what I was doing in the past was not resolving the condition that created the "problem".

What I now believe is true for me is that I in fact feared the power of money. Silly isn't it? Yet it is the grease in the machine that allows our society to run. Having a lot of money means that I will be able to affect some of the positive changes in this world that are important to me.

So, now I LOVE money! When those old fears try to sneak back in I take time to meditate and visualize thousands of happy dollars running toward me, arms open with huge grins on their face, delighted that they will be used in such a positive way.

Sounds silly - but it works!

Wow, that's a really thought-provoking response, Marcie!

It makes me question whether I'm really using my money to make positive changes in the world.

I'm supporting businesses, surely, but...am I making the world a better place through my purchasing power?

Are my dollars really happy to run into my arms, knowing that they'll be an influence for good? Hmmmm...

Thanks for the food for thought!

Ok, the new manifestation discussion is up! Thanks, Elke for the push!

I am delighted and humbled that my words may have helped. I love the thread that you have started Rachel. May it help the many of us entrepreneurs create the grass-roots change that is so necessary in our shift to the new age.

Namaste.

Marcie

Thanks, Marcie! I hope to see your affirmations in there, too, so I can help support them.