by Christel | Jul 9, 2021 | Podcast
How do you find your purpose? Your purpose is about so much more than what you do for work.
I’m Christel Arcucci, you’re listening to the Soul Purpose Podcast, a resource guide to the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration. You can quit people pleasing, reclaim power, and create your soul purpose legacy.
This podcast is informational. It’s also a transmission of power using hypnotic rhythm and energetic healing, which includes a variety in the quality, intensity, and speed of my voice. Notice how that makes you feel…
I see so many people stuck and deeply tormented. Wondering what is my purpose? When will I find my purpose? Where will I find my purpose?
You can put so much weight on this question as if you only get one chance. So you better get it right, and you better be happy with all aspects of whatever you choose FOREVER.
I think your purpose finds you.
Often, your purpose is so obvious and that’s why you don’t see it, you might disregard it, or even ignore it. If you’re interested in discovering your purpose. Living your purpose and embodying your purpose. I invite you to start by exploring what you value most.
What do you value physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and financially?,
And even more importantly, where do you invest your time, energy, money, and attention?
The disconnect between these answers is where you can find an infinite source of power.
For example, I value love, connection, creativity, truth, and nature. I can incorporate these values into everything I do. I could be a postal worker, kindergarten teacher, the CEO of a company, or a homeschooling mom, and bring all of those values into what I do in my life,
Step one: discover your purpose by focusing on what you value and the disconnection between what you value and what you’re actually doing.
Are you investing time, energy, money, and attention into what you value?
Are you stuck in an existential crisis loop thinking if I’m not living my purpose and doing the ultimate thing, I am failing at life?
If you feel unhappy, I will bet that you’re living out of alignment with your values in at least one area of your life. You feel pressure to change your life, but you’re not allowing yourself to live in alignment with your values because of cultural conditioning or trauma or both.
It’s up to you to build the foundation with what you value most and begin incorporating that into whatever you’re doing in your life now.
Step two: What quality of being do you want to create more of in the world?
What qualities of being do you value?
How can you bring this quality of being into every aspect of your life?
Earth School is intense and when you focus on your quality of being first, then turn your attention to what you’re doing. There will be greater power, pleasure, flow, ease, and clarity.
People think finding your purpose is the holy grail, and once you find it, you will never have a problem again. Which simply is not true.
When you are living your purpose, you will face challenges. Yet, when you are clear on what you value, who you are and how you show up, you will navigate whatever challenges arise with greater grace and ease.
Step three: What are your natural talents? Discover your soul purpose, magic powers.
Often your soul purpose powers are skills that you may not have professional training in.
These powers come so naturally and you’re so good at them. You most likely act like it’s no big deal. It’s like a fish not knowing what water is, even though they have spent their entire life swimming in it.
So you may need to ask people around you for their perspective on your greatest strengths and what activities they see come the most naturally to you.
For example, I’m a natural organizer and I enjoy organizing.
When people come to my home, they often comment about how organized and clean my home is. For years, I would brush off the compliments until I was living in Asia and a friend was coming to visit. I asked him to go into my storage unit and bring a list of specific items.
We were on the phone when he entered my unit and he gasped, I said, “what? Is something wrong?”
He laughed and said, “no, it’s like an immaculate warehouse with everything neatly organized and labeled.”
Oh, I replied relieved. I proceeded to guide him exactly to the shelf and box to go in for each item and it had been months since I had been there, he was in awe and kept talking about how crazy organized I am.
It finally reached to my brain and I jokingly said, “oh, you mean my organizing ability? Isn’t normal?”
“No, this is not normal. You are an organizing super hero.” He said.
I don’t have training to be a professional organizer yet I am a Capricorn and I have taken on projects to help clients organize their office downsize or move out of a home after decades of living in one location.
Organizing information is an essential part of my business coaching. Since I help clients organize their expertise to create signature programs that serve their students and clients.
In life, coaching the organization skills come in with organizing spaces, information, time, conversations, boundaries, et cetera.
You see the skill has always been there without official training. It is valuable to others yet It took a lot for me to even recognize that it’s a superpower.
Organizing is a skill I’m good at it and comes easily to me. I do enjoy it, and I didn’t receive any professional training for it.
Organizing information and possessions are aspects of my life and business coaching.
If you are working in a job you don’t love, or you’re working in your business and you’re not totally stoked. Start by focusing on an expanding the desired qualities of being into what you’re doing now.
Once that is set, make a plan to transition, to be in greater alignment with your soul purpose magic, instead of staying stuck and unhappy.
Ask yourself, how you can be of service as you make this transition in your life to live in greater alignment with your values, focus on your soul purpose, as qualities of being combined with what you enjoy doing, and then incorporate that into everything and anything you’re doing.
There are many ways you can bring desired qualities of being and essential core elements of who you are into what you’re doing.
Stop believing the hype that there is only one right answer to living your purpose. It will change over your lifetime. Let go of the idea that you only get one chance and you better get it right since you’re going to be stuck doing that for the rest of your life, don’t believe the lies that your brain tells you.
You can focus different phases of your life on different expressions of your purpose.
I’ve had many phases in my business over the last 30 plus years. One phase focused on making jewelry and doing art shows. Another phase was massage therapy. Hands-on bodywork and energy. Another phase focused on being a yoga teacher and then becoming a yoga teacher trainer, another phase focused on helping clients with back pain, which opened the path to becoming a money coach, which led to becoming a business consultant, which led me to focus on helping people with soul purpose.
Would you say that any of that was wrong or off track?
I think this is how your purpose guides you to the next thing and the next evolution.
If you’re listening and paying attention, focus on one thing at a time and just like stepping stones at a garden path, you will find alignment and flow.
Who you are will guide you to what to do live in alignment with your values.
Follow your passion, heal your relationship with money clear past traumas and show up in service as you share your soul purpose magic.
When it comes to your soul purpose as a business, Or if you’re making a transition into business for yourself, it is important to remember why you’re doing the work you’re doing.
Why did you become a professional in your line of work in the first place?
Why is your work important to you?
Step four: explore your bold vision and take a stand.
Are you living in alignment with your values?
Are you becoming the best version of yourself no matter what you’re doing?
When you focus in this way on who you are being first and then align that with what you’re doing you come into a great place of power in your life, expressing your soul purpose magic.
As you rebuild after the global reset, I encourage you to take an even bolder and more courageous sand for your values and the vision for the present and the future you want to co-create.
The pressure on humanity to awaken consciousness is greater than ever before people and communities are experiencing more stress and need support with a variety of challenges. This is an ideal time to make changes since the old way and world has fallen apart. Take the risk to experiment and dive deeper into the next evolution of your purpose.
You can peel back activities that are no longer in alignment and let go of habits that aren’t helpful when you have a solid foundation in your why, when you experience a crisis or have to change and engage in unfamiliar activities like transitioning to remote services, building a new program in your business, being more visible in your marketing or asking for a sale, it will be easier to change because you have no choice
And let’s face it, most humans won’t change unless you have to.
Ground into your body.
As you learn new things and gently expand yourself outside of your comfort zone. The transition will happen with grace.
Your why doesn’t have to be some grandiose altruistic mission yet it can be, it can be as simple as you want to pay your bills with ease. You want to be a good example for your children or in your community. Or it can be a mission that addresses a challenge your community is facing.
My big dream is to support women, to have empowered relationships with money and to create financial freedom doing what you love.
More specifically, my focus is to support 1000 women to become millionaires.
My dream is important to me. Not only because I am a woman but also because I believe women having empowered relationships with money and business will change the world for the better.
In addition, I am actively working to change the common imprint and negative impact of my mother, not feeling confident to support herself and her children and therefore getting into an abusive marriage after my parents’ divorce, because she thought she needed a man to take care of her just to survive.
It is my purpose to make sure that no woman needs to compromise her health or safety in order to survive and thrive.
My purpose gets me out of bed to take care of business, support myself and other women to have an empowered relationship to money and business and service to the common good.
My mission and dream upsets some people and that’s okay.
An essential part of healing, the people pleaser is being willing to take a stand for something people don’t agree with and no matter what you choose to stand for, someone will be upset about it.
That’s why learning to embody your qualities of being align with your values and strengthen your mission so that no one can stop you. This an essential part of living your soul, purpose and transforming past trauma onto fuel for your mission.
Take a slow and breath, become rooted in any resistance to changing your offerings, adding a new service or taking a bold stand.
Breathe, feel the resistance and fear as you notice write down any stories that are going on in your mind.
“I don’t want to do this. This is going to be hard. I’m only valuable when I’m working at a job or when I work with people in person or when I’m a people pleaser. It won’t be the same. If I can’t touch people, be in person or have the security of a job.”
These are all forums of resistance, which will keep you safe and stuck.
When resistance comes, it’s important to acknowledge it, listen to what the voices say and write down exactly what it says. Feel the story. Notice the sensation of fear and breathe into it. Don’t push it away, breathe into and gently expand and open what’s possible. I guarantee there are gifts dormant inside you that will awaken because you are stretching outside your comfort zone.
Also, if you’re willing to explore things you’ve been wanting to try, you’ll find delight in aligning with your soul purpose. What is your someday vision you’ve been hesitant to try it?
Allow yourself to play without pressure to work within certain parameters.
What if something new and exciting as possible for you to create right now?
What is your someday dream that you want to bring in to your heart?
And explore in your imagination.
Can you allow yourself to create it?
What can you explore now?
What do you want to expand right now?
Someday is today.
When you come to resistance in this process, pause, breathe more gently soften the edges of your body and let yourself be curious about what gifts await.
What would you like to try?
How can you let this process be playful?
Where is your heart calling you to explore and expand?
What challenges have you overcome?
Where is the opportunity for you to share your soul purpose magic?
Notice the mindset shift you need to step into greater power.
Say, “yes, my purpose may challenge me, but I will figure it out. How can I leave my job? How can I transform my relationship with money? How can I do remote sessions? How can I build a location, independent business? How can I serve more clients and charge money for my services with ease? How am I going to serve clients and create financial abundance and the process?”
Living your purpose is a challenge, but it’s also an opportunity. Building a location independent business, working over the phone or video and offering recordings gives you the training needed to work with a group of clients at the same time, which can help you in the future living your purpose and making a living doing what you love.
It is a challenge and an opportunity where your gifts will awaken. It will demand that you tap into gifts you haven’t strengthened yet, or didn’t even realize you had gifts, gift you thought you might save for someday.
Someday is today.
Today is an opportunity to share your work, also known as marketing your services in fresh ways, based on education, inspiration, entertainment and offering value.
Remember that marketing is not, “Hey, buy my thing, buy my thing.” That’s annoying when you see it on social media or when you’re talking to people in your community and you know, it doesn’t work since you don’t like it. Don’t do it, but don’t let that stop you from contributing to your community through educating, entertaining and inspiring.
When you see a social media post or an ad that is telling an interesting story, offering value and you’re drawn to it because it’s something you need. Notice what turns you on and what turns you off when you see others sharing and marketing online, the most important thing is to take daily aligned and inspired action in growing your business and living your purpose.
the same is true when you focus on teaching and sharing stories, people will not truly ask to work with you so have your programs ready to serve.
My first book called soul purpose business circle will teach you the elegant soul centered system to build a referral based business without social media. The release date into the wild is set for September, 2021.
In order to receive the pre-release resources and join the movement of creating your bold vision and your soul purpose business. Go to: soulpurposebusinesscircle.com
Thank you for being here. And I look forward to walking the soul purpose path with you. You’re listening to the soul purpose podcast, a resource guide to the lightening path of embodied spiritual awakening with light and shadow integration. You can quit people pleasing, reclaim power, and create your soul purpose legacy.
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I am sending you so much Love.
by Christel | Jul 1, 2021 | Podcast
Gratitude practice is a common teaching in spiritual and personal growth communities. Let’s look at how gratitude practice can *stop* you from having the health, love and financial success that you desire.
I’m Christel Arcucci you’re listening to the Soul Purpose Podcast the place to learn the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing, reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
This podcast is informational it’s also a transmission of power using hypnotic rhythm and energetic healing, which will include a variety in the intensity and speed of my speech. You may move into a trance state… so be mindful about what you’re doing while you listen.
Hey have you heard that gratitude practice is the ultimate technique to get you out of survival mode and into thriving mode and a life of abundance.
While I do agree that gratitude practice and appreciating what you have by keeping a gratitude journal is a powerful practice to shift your awareness out of survival mode.
Yet what I don’t hear teachers talking about how Gratitude practice can EASILY be a tool for gaslighting yourself, shaming and making yourself wrong which pushes what you want further out of reach.
“Woah, Christel did you really just say that?”
Oh, yes I did.
What is gaslighting?
Gaslighting is psychological manipulation that makes your question your sanity and yes you can do this to yourself although it’s most commonly spoken about in dysfunctional relationships with other humans.
To clarify gratitude practice CAN BE harmful but doesn’t have to be when you understand how gratitude practice can be gaslighting.
Have you ever finished a gratitude journal entry and felt worst? Did your practice make you think you’re crazy because you have so much to be grateful for yet you feel stuck and unhappy so you must be broken?
If gratitude practice is creating internal conflict then stay tuned to understand how to avoid a harmful gratitude practice and into move into gratitude gone wild.
If you only focus on gratitude practice by saying, “I’m grateful for my family. I’m grateful for the food in my fridge. I’m grateful for freshwater coming into my house. I’m grateful for heat. I’m grateful for my job. I’m grateful for my friends.” If those are all true and your genuinely feel thankful for them, that’s awesome.
BUT if you have all these things you “should be” grateful for yet you’re not also acknowledging that you’re also unhappy or stuck that’s were it can turn toxic in a flash.
If you focus on appreciation without acknowledging conflicting thoughts, emotions and beliefs then your gratitude practice can become a subtle yet destructive form of gaslighting, shaming, blaming, making yourself wrong, bad or broken.
The shame of having so much to be grateful for yet still being unhappy, anxious, ill, depressed, guilty because others don’t have what you have or not being ecstatically happy can be rooted in trauma from your childhood and or the cultural program of destructive consumerism.
I’m not suggesting you ditch feeling grateful for what you have in your life, what I am suggesting is to practice gratitude and also recognize your shadow desires, beliefs, and emotions around what you have and what you want.
Let’s take a slight detour to the common teaching in the new age and law of attraction circles that “wanting” is bad and just leaves you wanting without receiving. It’s hard for me not to rant on that topic but let’s just say that teachings that wanting and desire are bad are a trap to keep you stuck and powerless. I talked about the ‘power over’ dynamic in episode 1.
Desire is pure power. The fire of your desire needs to be put into inspired and aligned action in order to actually create what you want. Your desire unlocks your power.
Putting on blinders on that only allow you to look at what is good in your life without integrating the challenging feelings will keep you stuck.
It is good to put the MAJORITY of your energy and attention on creating momentum and focusing on what is going well and what you appreciate.
BUT If you fail to validate the challenging feelings, you separate yourself from what is really happening and how it’s impacting you. Pretending it’s all fine with only gratitude practice is spiritual bypass by putting frosting on poop and calling it a cupcake.
Yes gratitude practice has INCREDIBLE power to create change yet if you don’t rip out the foundation by resetting your limiting beliefs and resolving trauma gratitude practice can be harmful.
The common pop culture phrase that “it’s all good” can be harmful especially if you experienced trauma in early childhood that demanded you “put on a happy face” or you had to walk on eggshells to feel safe.
It is essential that to learn to be comfortable with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings.
Being present with challenging emotions from the past or in the present trains your body and mind to experience intensity not as something to be avoided but as a source of pure power.
The practice of developing emotional resilience is life changing and a core element of transforming trauma.
You may have heard people talk about feeling truly grateful for the greatest trauma or life challenges they have faced like cancer, death of a child, or other intense tragedy., generally after the situation is resolved. You may have been through this yourself.
Feeling grateful for tragedy, catastrophe or crisis may sound outrageous and radical yet clarity happens during a crisis because it gets to the core of what matters.
A life reset demands clarity about who you are, your priorities and where you are going in your life.
So let’s talk about the epic 2020-21 global reset.
This challenge has collective and individual impact and many people are also having significant personal challenges on top of it.
If you force yourself to only focus on what is good in your life and not make space for challenging emotions, the shame, blame and make-wrong can make the whole situation wildly more difficult that it already is.
The improvisation practice of “yes and” is a powerful remedy to acknowledge what is good while making space for shadow emotions. For example, “I am grateful for my beautiful, safe, and clean home and I feel afraid of what will happen next.” I am grateful for the food in my fridge and I am worried about my business income decreasing and not having enough money to pay the bills.”
Practice feeling grateful and turning towards challenging emotions. Turn towards unwanted, unlovable and undesirable. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
I predominately see people teaching gratitude practice by glorifying what is good, right and going well in your life while demonizing the challenges. Like somehow you’re failing if your life isn’t Instagram perfect.
This “it’s all good” spiritual bypass creates a problem for most people by reinforcing the pattern that you’re not good enough and you are broken that keeps you from experiencing more of what you want in your life. Because it fuels the inner conflict, “if it’s all good why do I feel bad?”
It can be a good and helpful practice to recognize and appreciate the good emotions and positive aspects in your life YES AND let’s take time to befriend and be with the fucking hard messy reality of being human.
Let’s not put frosting on poop and call it a cupcake. Note: I am not a poop talk girl but this one gets be fired up and saying it thins way gets the point across with greater potency and this is the lightning path so…..
it is really all good and I should feel “I am grateful that I lost my job or I’m grateful that I’m in the hospital with Covid” or whatever whatever.
What I am suggesting is if you’re in a really really hard place and feeling stuck is to start by speaking the TRUTH. “I’m having a really hard time right now. I’m really feeling alone and afraid and uncertain and unlovable.”
If you go deep enough into the shadow you may access anger, “life is fucking hard right now and I feel desperate. I am afraid and I hate this feeling!”
Turn towards and be with you depth, darkness and fear. This may be one of the only safe spaces you will find to be real and fully feel yourself.
Turn you attention towards the uncomfortable and be grateful for truth and honesty.
Say to yourself, “thank you for telling me the truth. Thank you for trusting me.”
Be with the feelings and discomfort and getting out of spiritual bypass aka “it’s all good” or the gaslighting that you can’t be yourself, do your best to avoid “should”ing on yourself and demand that you feel grateful when you don’t.
Once you have confessed the truth and thanked yourself you will likely more authentically be able to feel grateful for the food in my fridge, or the air you breathe.
Be present with that intensity because the power of your truth and life force is power and so I continues to suggest that gratitude practice when it only focuses on what is good and right and going well in your life it cut you off from the Power of the fact that being human is fucking hard and that you were going to lose people and possessions that you love.
Devastating things are gonna happen in your community and in the world. You’re going to get sick and people you love are going to get sick and terrible things will happen.
I Imagine a diehard law of attraction practitioner out there is clutching there pearls right now….. look life on earth is both heaven and hell… let’s be honest about that so we can stop the spiritual bypass and gaslighting that is keeping good people stuck and struggling.
Excuse me while I get down from my soapbox… no actually this podcast IS MY SOAPBOX!
Gratitude practice is not focus on ONLY good things. Yes I agree that the majority of you time, energy and attention is best invested in creating momentum in the direction you want to go… but if you are bullshitting yourself about the truth of struggle you will not get the results you desire!
Move in and embrace the light and shadow, Intensity and ecstasy of being human and move out of this illusion that glorifies only good and perfect and pleasing being success.
The myth that when life is hard, push it away because you are somehow failing… is ridiculous. Struggle, challenge and heartbreak is part of the game you signed up for when you came to earth school.
You can try aversion as much as you want yet it’s almost guaranteed to keep you stuck in the cycle of suffering.
Can you practice being with what is?
Take a gentle breath now without pushing or pulling.
Can you be with what is?
The more you practice the easier it becomes.
A consistent gratitude practice can be super helpful but it’s not the antidote for being in a hard place, First embrace and land in the challenge. Feel it, be with it, befriend it. This will help you to be honest with yourself and when you truly become intimate with the truth of your experience no matter how ugly, awful, painful, disgraceful it is…. You will meet your truth and yourself and from there you will be authentically grateful.
If you are in a deep state of suffering and struggle then FORCING gratitude practice could be poisonous.
Be with what is. Recognize your wounds. Then choose to focus on the present and future you want to create.
When you can peel back all the should and land in truth then you will find the ecstatic power of gratitude in the simplest things:
The sun is shining and I’m grateful for the sunshine on my face right now and like is really fucking hard but right now there’s a crack so I let it in.
That is the gratitude gone wild practice of yes and….
Yes, life can be beautiful and it’s fucking hard too.
Yes, I’m having a really hard time. I’m going to be with intensity. Be with the energy. I am turning towards lonely. Feeling depressed, hopeless or powerless.
I will not push it away.
I refuse to resist.
I turn my full attention towards the challenging aspects of being human.
I will be with the hard things.
I not pushing them away.
I name my experience what it is.
I move out of this shiny object syndrome that clings to, chase after and glorifies that which appears good to our ego and cultural agreements.
Spirit is designed to thrive in all settings.
There are countless stories throughout history of people that survived and thrived in extraordinarily terrible, awful, devastating situations.
What made this possible?
How did they do that?
Being with their experience as much as possible.
Not pushing away the hard stuff and force trying to be grateful.
I imagine it came down to the exquisite simplicity of present moment awareness with “yes and” with no denial of pain and suffering.
“I’m grateful for this breath, yes and I am present with the pain in my body.”
“I love the way the light shines in the window, yes and or I feel afraid.”
Each moment you are FULL present with what is, you will feel grateful.
You can look for and celebrate what anchors you into the present moment.
Awakening and enlightened are being fully with what is. So simple yet not easy.
My issue with the gratitude teachings is it can just is another way of striving, another way of disconnecting you from the struggles of be human on earth now, another way of making you wrong for being human.
Embody the light and shadow.
it’s not using gratitude practice as a spiritual bypass or gaslighting tool to keep only focus on what is deemed good and therefore keeping you from feeling bad things.
Pay attention to hard things.
Utilize your gratitude practice to bring you into the Present moment.
Gratitude Gone Wild Practice: “Even though I’m in pain right now I appreciate that my breath is moving in and out of my body without effort.”
When your gratitude practice is truly anchored in your physical experience, in the present moment instead of in the mind and the list of things that we should be grateful for… That’s where you can unlock the greatest power of bringing ourselves into the present moment.
Bring yourself deeper into the human experience of light and shadow, amazing and challenging things, love and loss, fear and fortitude.
Let your gratitude practice bring you more deeply into the present moment.
Feel your experience to find what you appreciate in your feelings rather what the ego wants which often speaks through our mind to say “I should be grateful there’s so much that I should feel good about.”
Recognize and feeling the challenges that you experience of being human.
True, honest and uninhabitedwillingnessto FEEL is the most potent pathway to heal.
Thank you for being here, and I look forward to walking the soul purpose path with you.
‘Yes and’ your way to your deepest truth, power, pleasure and purpose.
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I believe in you and the magic power of your soul.
I am sending you so much love!
by Christel | Jun 22, 2021 | Podcast
“Your Body is Holy Ground.”
I received this teaching from my inner guidance. Do you receive messages from your inner guidance?
I’m Christel Arcucci you’re listening to the Soul Purpose Podcast the place to learn the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing, reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
This podcast is informational it’s also a transmission of power using hypnotic rhythm and energetic healing to integrate the teachings into your body-mind.
Today is the dark moon, and the day before the new moon. I sat down to work on my art journal entry when a booming voice said, “your body is holy ground.”
I stopped, and it repeated, “your body is holy ground.”
This declaration struck me like a bolt of lightning in my bones, grounding and anchoring me into my body and the moment. This simple statement was an energetic transmission that amplified my connection to planet earth in a way that I have only experienced In the heart of nature.
The dominant culture program running is that your body is a problem.
Many traditions teach that the only way to enlightenment is to get beyond the body, as I talked about in episode 1.
The idea that the body is the source of original sin, especially if you’re a woman, is widely accepted as truth.
Stating that the body is sacred, and holy ground is radical.
Treating yourself and your body like it’s a miracle is a revolutionary and rebellious act!
Learning to trust your body by unraveling stress and trauma patterns is one of the most important practices you can explore.
Will you accept the invitation to practice acknowledging, accepting, appreciating, and even loving your body?
I know it’s radical and let’s go deeper into embodied spiritual awakening.
How does it land in your body when I say, “your body is holy ground.”
What thoughts or feelings come up for you?
What sensations do you experience?
Now try this breath work practice: Take a gentle breath as deeply into your body and heart as you can. Place your feet flat on the floor with your hands resting on your thighs. One breath to open the back of your body, open breath to open the heart and front of your body. One breath into your hips, legs and feet. One breath flits your spine, neck and opens the crown of your head. Now speak out loud, “My body is holy ground.”
What do you feel and notice with no pushing away or pulling towards?
What is your experience in your body mind right now?
Right now is the place to access your power. Yet the mind pulls you into the past or future and makes the present so unfamiliar you don’t know how to skillfully ride your experience. Most often you will only be willing to be present if it’s good and even then your mind will jump into fear of something “bad” happening.
This moment. This experience. This NOW is magical, powerful and holy and your body is the gateway that is always always always with you and available.
As I tune in to my experience right now, I feel the central channel of vertical energy as clear and powerful. The central channel runs from the center of your hips between your sit bones in the core of your pelvis all the way through the top of your head.
My central channel lights up with excitement and upward moving, sparkly enthusiasm. “Yes, yes, yes, my body is holy ground!”
You should know that this has been a focus of my practice for decades so when I am reminded of this teaching it is a beautiful anchor to help me feel that my body right now is holy ground, but it has taken a lot of practice to have instant access like this.
A core element is being able to BE WITH whatever is happening in my body without trying to push it away or grasp on to whatever you are experiencing. I am not trying to dominate my experience or change it in any way.
The golden keys to access your body’s holy ground wisdom:
Present moment willingness to be with what is, not pushing away nor pulling towards.
The mind is a storyteller (which is a fancy way of saying it’s a liar.)
The body only tells the truth, although in order to access the truth you must unwind layers of trauma and stress response to discover the body never lies.
A golden key to unlock the felt sense and knowing is the pure flow of experience. Sometimes experience is like a fresh mountain stream and sometimes it is like the inside of the sewer system. Both are essential elements of life on earth, but often the focus is pushed onto only what is considered good, clean and worthy.
If this is a new concept for you, it may be met with resistance or it may not land for you if you are still working on resetting old programs that are running.
I worked out a little I bit too hard yesterday and so physically I am in some pain today. There’s something going on in my pelvis that is more that just muscle discomfort.
The truth is… I’m in physical pain today.
I mention this because it’s important to I speak honestly about both the pain and the knowingness that my body is holy ground exists at the same time.
Many people are experiencing pain in the bodies, which can make it difficult to feel the truth that your body holy ground and my intention with this episode it to create an opening for a different experience.
When you’re not feeling good, it’s easy to buy into the belief that you can only feel good when you feel better when you’re not in pain, ill, anxious, depressed, or sad, etc.
A big focus today is “be” with whatever is happening in order to feel better. I invite you to try, don’t wait until things are perfect in order to feel good.
Yes, it’s hard to remember and feel that your body is holy ground when you’re feeling crappy.
Feeling good can be elusive and that’s how you remember that earth school is the project that you signed up for in order to focus on this!
Life experience, stress and trauma often disconnects you from your body and from remembering your infinite creator self. Yet inner guidance, gently and sometimes not so gently, teaches you to remember your Creator Self.
You have a body in order to experience, learn and remember that your body is holy ground, all of your experience, wonderful and terrible, beautiful and devastating, embrace and be with the extremes.
Embodied spiritual awakening is revolutionary practice and is more challenging and important for women to remember that your body is holy.
Your body is holy ground does not mean it’s perfect or flawless.
Your body is MIRACULOUS! All the systems that are working together right now for you to be alive and listening to this are truly astonishing. Note, my intention is not to gaslight you into making yourself be grateful. I have an upcoming episode about when gratitude practice can do more harm than good.
What has your body done that’s astonishing or amazing? Recovered from a serious accident, injury, or illness? Run a marathon? Or simply woken up to enjoy another day? Part of this practice is to give your attention to the miraculous things our bodies does daily.
Being human is not flawless. Being human is wildly messy and chaotic, yet also amazing!
The Body as Holy Ground practice in this episode it’s not about being flawless, it’s about witnessing your present moment experience and maybe even enjoying the mess and miracle of life in a human body.
Holy is about your body being sacred and miraculous and also painful, ill or broken sometimes. Can you be curious and playful about everything and anything that is happening in your body?
On earth, it’s challenging to remember the body is holy.
Being human which is incredibly flawed and wildly challenging.
And most spiritual traditions and religions teach that the body is a problem not even remotely close to the body is holy.
It’s your work today is to remember that your struggles, flaws and programming is not what defines you.
When you feel stuck, or circling in a negative feedback loop, stop and embrace that life is difficult.
I am making this recording while we are in the coming out of a global pandemic.
Life is extra messy right now because it’s not just me and my humanity, messiness, hope, fears, anger, love and my gratitude that are present in my life right now.
When I tune in to what’s happening outside of my little bubble of my life, the entire world is in a global reset.
What the heck is happening?!
The reality of earth school is THIS is what you signed up for!
The best thing you can do it pause, breath, touch your legs and remember your body is holy ground, your experience and full embrace of whatever is happening in the moment is the gateway to FEELING THE SACREDNESS OF LIFE.
You may have to do this practice 10,000 times before you feel it, yet I promise you will feel this truth if you continue to do the practice.
Truth be told I often wonder, “what am I doing here?! Why did I think this was a good idea?”
Yep, even after all these years I often question myself!
A key is to not expect yourself to be enlightened and awake all the time.
Recognize the messiness of humanity.
Acknowledge the struggle.
That is why it’s holy Ground.
It’s a complete mind fuck and trust me… just keep practicing!
Humanity is fucking messy.
Embrace that everything shifts.
Holy and messy co-exist at the same time.
All right, my friends, this is the wisdom for this transmission.
Thank you for being here, and I look forward to walking the soul purpose path with you.
You’re listening to the soul purpose podcast filled with teachings and resources for the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
You can access the Free Soul Success Journal & meditation and all the episodes of the podcast at soulpurposepodcast.com.
I believe in you and the magic power of your soul.
If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and follow on Apple Podcasts. I look forward to connecting with you in the next episode.
I am sending you so much love!
by Christel | Jun 20, 2021 | Podcast
What if you Forget Ascension & Focus on Turned-On Embodiment?
I want to talk about why ascension teachings distract from the human-ness and enjoyment of embodiment.
I’m Christel Arcucci you’re listening to the Soul Purpose Podcast the place to learn the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing, reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
This podcast is informational. It’s also a transmission of power using hypnotic rhythm and energetic healing, which will include a variety in the intensity and speed of my speech. I will use sounding and deep breaths to help you feel and integrate the teachings into your body mind. I invite you to notice how this style lands for you. Does it take you deeper into your body or it distracting because it so different from other audio recording?
Your practice is to notice your experience without trying to change it. Be with what arises.
What’s the point of the soul purpose podcast? Who am I anyway? And what’s the benefit of listening for you?
The focus of this podcast is to support you to discover your forbidden fruit and delight in eating the most delicious fruit you’ve ever tasted, the sweet taste filling your mouth, washing over your tongue with juice run down your fingers so you can lick up every single delicious drop.
Yes, I mean it but also what does that mean in real life?
The forbidden fruit is living your purpose with power and pleasure.
Why is purpose, power and pleasure forbidden?
Modern culture has conditioned empaths and sensitive souls to be people-pleasers.
The condited program says. “it’s your job to focus your life on doing for others. This is your value. You will know what your loved-one’s need before they know they need it and you will provide it. You will live disconnected from your own body and heart and be completely oblivious to your own wants, needs, and desires. You will sacrifice yourself for others. Your job is to be the Rescuer and if you don’t rescue the victim, you will be called the perpetrator.”
This dynamic is the trauma or drama triangle, I call it VPR for short which stands for victim-perpetrator-rescuer which are the only rolls available to choose from. And as an empath, of course you will choose to become the rescuer.
In future episodes we will explore the trauma triangle in greater depth but for now the most important aspect for you to know is this framework creates ‘power over’ relationships.
The focus of this podcast is to reclaim power by creating ‘power with’ relationships.
How do ascension teachings play into the trauma triangle?
I am so glad you asked. Transcendence or ascension as the primary goal of your spiritual practice perpetuates the problematic ‘power over’ model that your human body is a problem or sinful. You have to get past, move beyond, and overcome the messiness of being human in order to awaken or achieve enlightenment.
The lightning path is a rebellious exploration of that disrupts this common model of transcendence and ascension teachings that dominate spiritual communities.
The key teaching here is: You are not broken, you don’t need to change, fix or get past anything.
The purpose is to awaken in and through the body by enjoying all of it. To embrace and be with all your shadows and light by integrating and embodying your greatness and your greatest challenges.
I believe you deciding to become human from your infinite creative self in order to eat and delight in the forbidden fruit of the tragedy and ecstasy of life on earth, which will be an experience of both heaven and hell. This is NOT a problem, it’s the point.
I am here to give you the permission you don’t need but want in order to enjoy the fuck out of this crazy trip called being human right here and now.
On the practical level you will learn daily recode practices, how to reset your stress response, resolve trauma, restore soul loss, skillfully navigate a dark night of the soul, since collectively we coming out of a global reset now.
You may be looking for meaning, purpose, tools to navigate and bring your soul gifts, more fully into the world and create wealth, vibrant health and great love.
But again, and again and again I will guide you to find the forbidden and fucking eat it, to enjoy the conflicting feelings of disgust and delight as you ENJOY YOUR CRAZY-ASS SOUL-CENTERED LIFE!
If you are waiting for someday to create a magical life, SOMEDAY IS TODAY!
Who am I, and what’s my story?
I am Christel Arcucci The quick version of my life story is my parents were the first in their families to go to college when my mom got pregnant with my older sister. Although I grew up in a fancy suburb of Chicago, both of my parents were alcoholic smokers.
When I was six months old I had a near death experience, often called an NDE. I stopped breathing and nearly died. This opened the veil between life and death, which means I see, feel, hear, and know the true nature of reality. Which may sound fancy, amazing or like a huge ego boost but my experience was this access was a total mind fuck for a child in a dysfunctional family because I didn’t have a teacher or a way to understand the stark difference between the reality I knew was possible with the reality humans are generally living.
Dying was my exit strategy out of this life, but my older sister called me back.
Earth school is a wild experience of ecstasy and tragedy, love and loss, the full spectrum of human possibility exists here.
If you are here, I imagine you are also an empath or highly sensitive person and what you see people say and do verses what you know and feel in your bones creates a disconnect and cognitive dissonance which makes it hard to enjoy being in a human body in this time in history.
You may wonder what I remember about being six months old?
Life is a magical and mundane exploration of extremes. I believe all children are born open, curious, playful, innocent and we remember that love is the source of all that is.
Soul retrieval work and working in the Akashic Records grants access to any information, time or place it’s all available. Almost dying at 6 months old changed my life and put me onto a transformational healing path that demanded that I skillfully navigate being an infinite being in a limited human body. I was forced to transform trauma into turn-on and make impossible dreams turn into my reality.
Life will bring you to your knees, likely many times and in many ways.
Yet the focus is not to transcend the human experience by moving into the upper chakras or “finishing” the work of the 3D.
The focus is to enjoy the fuck out of the madness, mayhem and mind blowing possibilities here on earth. This calls you deeper into the experience of being human, deeper into the muck, mud and hard stuff and to find your energy and power. Not to try to escape human experience with by getting beyond human struggle or being saved.
Eating the forbidden fruit means finding pleasure in the sacred and profane… I know it’s an usual path, yet it’s the lightning path of embodied awakening not seeking enlightenment beyond the body but in and through the body and the real challenges of being human.
My focus is to help you navigate Phoenix Life Reset experiences of when your life falls apart or burns to the ground because of illness, death of a loved one, loss of a job home, marriage, child, pet and skillfully come out of global situations that reset the entire world.
I want you to have fun and play with the craziness of being human and restore your intuition and direct access to your creator self so that you know without a doubt:
What to let go of?
What do you take a stand for?
How can you create a life sourced from great love and truth, no matter what is happening inside you or in the world around you?
You will create beauty from tragedy and have fun and find pleasure in the shadow, unwanted, uncomfortable aspects of your unconscious power as a person to create and destroy.
A metaphorical death, just like a near death experience is an initiation into a new chapter in your life, an opportunity to change, yet often the unconscious programming is so deeply engrained you will fight to recreate what you had instead of creating what you truly want.
I want to co-create new turned-on possibilities with you.
I have spent my life on the personal and professional transformational journey with depth studies about health, spirituality, psychology, metaphysics, magic, fitness, shadow work, stress response, soul purpose, navigating trauma, abuse, loved one’s addiction issues, the stress of extreme health challenges and nearly dying dozens of times.
I’ve experienced so many incredible things in my life and so much trauma and loss yet I have a creative and rich life not despite the challenges I faced but because I learned to transform wounds into wisdom.
Creating a rich life is a unique and individual process of determining your values and designing your life based on your bold vision. The intention of this podcast is to guide you to create a rich life in your body mind and being in order to create physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial wealth.
This is an in depth and edgy exploration of power, creativity, sex, money and soul and living your embodied soul truth.
We will dive deeply into, roll around with and get intimate with daily tools to come into the greatest soul alignment that is possible for you.
There is literally infinite information available on your mobile phone in your pocket, yet even more is available by accessing and embodying your creator self.
Living as your creator self you will transform old limitations and get to the heart of your purpose, power and pleasure so you can create your lasting soul purpose legacy.
Your soul is calling you to rewire your brain, change your habits, transform the choices you make in order to move from survival mode to thriving mode and embody the full potential of your soul.
The focus of each episode will be short with practical tips that you can implement immediately.
Thank you for being here, and I look forward to walking the soul purpose path with you.
You’re listening to the soul purpose podcast filled with teachings and resources for the lightning path of embodied spiritual awakening with shadow and light integration in order to quit people-pleasing, reclaim power and create your soul purpose legacy.
You can access the Free Soul Success Journal & meditation and all the episodes of the podcast at www.soulpurposepodcast.com
I believe in you and the magic power of your soul.
If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and follow on Apple Podcasts. I look forward to connecting with you on the next episode.
I am sending you so much love!
