Before we get to the video, I wanted to make you aware that a program I haven’t run for more than a year, the Spiritual Development Program, will be starting again in August.
Heart leadership requires being comfortable with the uncomfortable. For me as CEO of Heart of Business, I’ve been struck by how this principle of Yollana’s has, time and again, served me in helping to get clarity on the way forward.
It’s only about 5 minutes. See what awakens in your heart around your business.
Can you name at least one relevant, juicy, guiding question for your business that might never be answered?
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The Spiritual Development Program is more than half-full
Honestly, if you’re in complete start-up, you probably need business development rather than spiritual development.
However, once your business has some movement to it, you may be struggling with how to make clear decisions from the heart, how to access and express love even when overwhelmed or when something triggers you, and how do you come to terms with issues like wanting more and yet still yearning for humility.
Hands down, the single biggest factor in our clients’ success is the spiritual access to their own heart. This access is always there, but it’s not always easy to get to.
If your heart is tugging at you about this, take a look at the program. Only 20 spots, and it’s nearly half-full.
Full details here: Heart of Business Spiritual Development Program. After you take a look at that page, ask any questions you may have!
With love and appreciation,
Mark
31 Responses
Hi, my question is simply how can I best serve my students and clients and the plants, giving them what they are truly meant to receive from me?
Beautiful question, Iris…
Hi,
My question is ‘who needs my help?’
Best Wishes
Caroline
This is an interesting question, Caroline, I’m curious about the context – is this something you ask yourself every day in your life in general, or something you are specifically asking in your business at this time?
… and does it also imply you are asking “and what help do they need?”
Curious to know more.
Hi Yollana,
Its particulary related to my business and who are my target market to focus my energies on to engage as clients.
Thanks
Caroline
My ongoing question… What is the meaning of my life?
This is such an essential and deep question, Laurel.
I wonder whether it generates different kinds of answers / movement if you play with asking this in a different way, like:
“how can I make my life meaningful?” or “how can I live in a way that truly honours that which gives my life meaning?”
My question…How can I best serve and love my wife, Jude, who went through the hell of chemo-therapy and created her own integral healing plan including researched alternative also to stay alive and healthy knowing I would be devastated without her? She is thriving now more and more as a result, as is our relationship and lives together. She wrote a book about detailing the healing team and strategy she built that worked so well. It’s called Living Aggressively Through Cancer and is available online. Please excuse the commercial, but I experience her work is so valuable, I want the world to know about it. Her background is that she worked at one of the most advanced hospitals in the world, and a portion of her clients were cancer patients. More details are in the book. I love this video, thank you!
What a beautiful story Theo! …And a beautiful question… how can I best serve and love my wife Jude, and help her share this healing message with the world …
My question is “How do I best model and share the nonverbal aspect underlying the relationship language that I teach?” This nonverbal aspect is the most important and vital part of what I teach. It is holding an intention of coming from a placee of no right or wrong and from true compassion. I often say to my students, “It is not the words. It is your intention behind the words that determine the results.” This is not always very easy to convey, so I find myself asking this again and again.
Yes! I’ve experienced this, Tory – the essential transmission of the joy of compassionate living – at the heart of NVC… I love that you are asking “how can I model and share this…” I’m guessing it is not just modelling it, but how can you live it even more deeply yourself (or course, that results in modelling it for others)… because that’s part of how the transmission happens… by soaking in it… Mark shared a blog post once a while back on Transmission… did you see it? http://heartofbusiness.com/2010/video-challenge-day-four/
How can our Community Group maintain passion, vision and enthusiasm while successfully establishing a sustainable living and education “Go to” hub for the whole of the local rural community and not burn out or lose momentum?
What a juicy question, Carolyn! This sounds like it is a question that you are asking as a group, which would be even more dynamic, in terms of the many answers, pathways and strategies it is generating…
I loved this video, Yollana. I notice that in life my question is how I can release struggle and give myself full permission to embrace joy. In my business, I ask how I can help leaders who want to take the hard work out of achieving results. And yes, I fully recognise the way both questions are a journey. Like CP Cavafy’s poem, Ithaka:
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Dorothy –
Yes! Thank you for sharing this wonderful poem…
“Arriving there is what you are destined for. But do not hurry the journey at all.”
Dorothy thank you so much for sharing this poem! It reminds me of a moment with a client who was studying with Heart of Business, when we were discussing how to move a project forward, he said “It’s ok. I have infinite patience with this work.” How inspiring! It created such spaciousness. And Thank you Yollana for sharing this video!
I am so loving the questions you all are sharing here…
And I noticed that the last poem I shared on my poetry blog was on this very same topic! I think the link will show up below…
I love your video and the concepts you so beautifully articulate about the power of asking the important questions. Mine right now would be, how can I best offer my gifts to the world to honor and support life, mine and others, knowing we are all connected.
Alison – yes! 🙂
Love this question Alison! And the post.
Inspiring video Yollana.
My question is ‘How can I help people to feel safe enough to connect with the earth and want to protect this planet?’
Beautiful question, Juliet.
This is such a powerful thing to reflect on, Yollana! I appreciate you for posting this, as it is giving me the chance to reflect on what would be the fruitful questions for me…My question for myself would be: How can I bring my core essence more fully into everything I do?
Still working on the one for my business…
Love your question for your self, Lia. 🙂
So beautiful of you to create this video and bring our attention to asking questions that are deep and that create meaning and….which we can always keep finding ways to answer. My question is: How can I keep developing my relationship with the Divine and attract and receive those people that my heart longs to serve within their healing process?
Thank you Yollana for taking time out to help us focus on what is important to us?
My pleasure, Daniela! This is a great question… How can you? 🙂
And I forgot to write Yollana, I especially appreciate you reminding us that it is ok to take the pressure off feeling ‘we have to know everything’….what a relief!
Yes! 🙂
I am working on this relationship everyday because my heart has been blocked off….and even with this, my deepest longing is to be an instrument of love and light and learn to receive those clients who I am inviting in to work with me just like I am learning in the Connection part of the Found1 course. It is deeply beautiful to learn to work like this!
I love the way you frame this, Yollana. I’m at a somatic conference right now (BodyMind Centering Association), and was beginning to sense that the questions I was asking all the time is really one *I* need to keep asking and discovering the “answers” (or perceptions) for myself: “How can I learn more deeply and precisely (realizing it’s an ongoing journey) the language of my body’s cells, tissues, organs, systems and bring that awareness to the language of plants (which involves taste, smell, touch, and the plant’s spirit — all of which work within us) to create plant medicines and help others to discover and create plant medicines that are the right nourishment and support for whatever we need in the moment — whether it’s help on a healing journey, or a desire for a fuller expression of heart and self. How is this conversation and “jewel” of a response a reflection of a conversation with the natural world around us that we are included within? How is this all about beauty and a nourishing reality? Okay, so that’s several questions :-).
Beautiful Jane, it reminds me of Charles Eisensteins book… The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible… I have heard him share that one of his essential questions is – How Can I Make This World More Beautiful? Which reminds me of Marshall Rosenberg’s essential question – How Can I Make Life More Wonderful (for myself and others)?