Welcome to the Vibrant Flow podcast. On this podcast, you will learn the power of your femininity and be reminded of the fact that you can go from being stuck, rigid and perfectionistic to being soft, radiant, peaceful, and pursued and that more is available to you and that God is good. This is where we reclaim our feminine essence and start living an abundant life. I'm your host, Johanna. I'm a women's coach, musician, wife to my incredible husband, and a Mama to a little baby boy.
It's my joy and privilege to help you realize your full potential and give you the tools to become a magnetic queen. Walking in purpose, courage, and faith, you get to experience the vibrant flow in every area of your life. So let's begin. I want you to imagine that someone comes to you. Perhaps it is a friend, a close one that you really want to support and see them succeed in. Whatever they feel like they are called to do what they desire to do, what they are just super excited about.
And then they come to you and say, do you know what? I really want to learn to play the guitar, or I really want to learn to play the bassoon or whatever instrument. I want to learn to play this instrument. But you know what? I really want to do it without getting in those 10,000 hours of practice or the practice.
You know, I just, I want to cut the practice in half and just be really good at it. You know, the 10,000 hours is just, you know, it's kind of like the 10,000 steps, which that idea actually originates in Japan and the way Japanese letters are or how, how it looks with the 10,000 steps. And anyway, with the 10,000 hours, it's also this idea that it's really important to get in those 10,000 hours of practice to actually gain mastery of a skill. Let's say it is playing an instrument.
Don't get too hung up on the, the number here. That's that's really not the point. But someone comes to you and says, you know what, I really want to learn to do this. I want to play the instrument. I want to be a like a guitar superstar. But you know, I just want to maximize my feminine energy and my magnetism and receptivity so that I don't have to do all the work. You know, what would you say? How, how does that like, how does that sound?
How does that land in you? I hope there's something that you feel that's that's, that's just not lining up because we can't assume that because we are learning the ways of honoring the feminine. We're learning the ways and honoring the femaleness of our biology, that we're learning the ways of living like a woman, a vibrant woman, instead of trying to live like a man. That that somehow takes away the practice and the work that is supposed to be in the equation.
Yes, we say no to the hustle on the grind, the sort of mindless working productivity for the sake of productivity that that we used to make ourselves feel worthy. Because that became a coping mechanism in the past where we tried to earn acceptance, admiration. We tried to earn the just the noticing, like even our parents noticing us, the attention that we craved from those that we loved, that we perhaps didn't get in the way that we needed.
We say no to that. We understand that that is not in service to us anymore. We don't blame ourselves for for the coping mechanisms that we had because they served us for the time that they did. And now we have self-awareness and we're stepping out of that and into the vibrant flow out of rigidity, out of perfectionism, out of fear and out of insecurity. But is that to say that hey, I deserve all the success in the world without doing the work?
No, my friend, that is not what it is about. And with all of the messages that I share about receptivity, your power and potency and how easy things can get and how much ease we can experience in the things that feel difficult, that is attained because we are devoted to the path of practice. You are devoted. You are moving like devotion in motion, as we always say, right? So there's no stagnancy, but there's not also not this sense of entitlement.
And that is the whole point of this episode is to bring awareness to what this society at large with our instant gratification culture, what it has created is this expectancy to see results without the weight, without, you know, the period of planting and allowing something to grow and watering it day in, day out you go and you water what you have planted so that you can see the season and witness the season of
harvest. Instead, what we see is like, I want now and I should get now and it doesn't matter what it is. It's like a relationship needs to work immediately to, you know, be worth your time. The tender culture. Not saying that there's something wrong with going in the online dating world, obviously not, But it's the attitude, the expectancy, the posture of your heart with which you go into these worlds that that is the thing that we need to focus on.
And so we have this expectancy that you can just press a button and just like, you can order food to come in and some, you know, food Courier is going to appear at your door because you ordered something from a restaurant or from a grocery store, which is, yeah, it's handy. It's great. I mean, we're using it all the time with a baby now because we don't have time to go to a grocery store or we would rather use that time differently.
But we need to be really careful of not applying that same attitude, that same way of relating to us and the world and our desires that expects results just like that. Because we're, you know, in the feminine energy, we're receptive, we're magnetic, whatever. Yes, all of those things are something that we get to experience and amplify the joy and the the flow and the ease. But you, you don't get good at something without the practice, without the proverbial 10,000 hours of practice.
And I've talked about this like in the imposter syndrome episode that I have recently did, how we need to adjust our expectations. Yes, we get to live in hopeful expectation, having this expectancy to see the good in our lives, to be, you know, just see the harvest, see the season of harvest. We have that expectancy, that spiritual posture of always waiting to see how God works out everything or how works or how how God works everything out for the good of us, right, Because
we love him. That is the scripture. That is a promise of scripture. But there is still the element of practice. And just like you would be shaking your head and being like, girl, let's talk. If your friend came to you and said that that they wanted to be these superstar bassoonist or or guitar player without the practice that they are just so you know, excited about their feminine receptivity. And they just think that it's going to happen without all the work that is required.
The devotion, the coming in, coming into the practice every day, not with a sense of hustle and grind and the sort of burning yourself out completely exiting that matrix. But yes, we are called to be devoted to the work that were that is currently relevant, meaningful and inspirational in our lives. So the same goes to or same the same goes with motherhood with marriage like expecting to have
an amazing relationship. Guess there gets to be this peace and ease, you know, feeling that it's easy to be in someone's company, obviously, but but the long term success of a relationship takes practice, especially in the arena of communication and how you relate to yourself, what kind of energy you bringing to the relationship, all of that. Being a mother, I'm realizing so much of it. It is just so organic, so beautiful that I get to tune in and listen. But that also requires practice.
And if I have this entitled attitude that it should just be easy with no discomfort whatsoever, I would be constantly so disappointed and frustrated that at some point I would say I give up it. It's not worth it. And the same goes with everything. Say you want to start a blog, say you want to start dancing some some sort of dancing, you want to take dance lessons.
The same goes with your nervous system recalibration or the the work quote UN quote that you do with your nervous system so that you can create more balance, more ease, more regulation into your system. It's the long game. It's not snapping your fingers and expecting things to just work because you are in your feminine energy. And the same goes with social media. The same goes with any project that you have, any growth aspect
of your personhood. Having ease in anything is the result of being devoted to the work, for lack of a better word here, over time. It's the compound effect of being faithful to something that you know is worthwhile. That is what we sometimes need to remind ourselves and not so that we are just all about wanting to maximize our magnetism and and receptivity so that we don't have to do the
work. Sometimes this happens without us realizing that we're sort of getting or falling into this trap of thinking that we can somehow forego the necessary processes that mature us. That is part of the maturation process, the necessary aspects of your journey so that you can actually come to the season of harvest. And social media is very easy or makes it very easy to be blinded by all of the I did this and, and it and it gave me instant
results. And or just seeing the highlight reels and not seeing the, all the work that is behind someone and their brand or their social media presence. Like how many years they've been dedicated to something, to working on themselves or honing in on their craft and, and practicing day in and day out, acquiring skills very intentionally and realizing that, OK, I have this desire, this fire, this gift, this passion for something. So I get to get in the work or go in the work.
Speaking today apparently is very hard for me. Again, going in the work and honoring it coming from a place of devotion rather than I have to I need to I need to push, you know, this sort of self sourcing and extracting kind of an approach to anything which is not what we want. What we need to do is everyday ask to have our cups be filled, to honor the things that bring us energy, that energizes, to be re devoted day in and day out to what is important.
If you're a mother, this is especially relevant to you. I find that it's humbling and sobering to realize that I really need my cup to be refilled every single morning because by the end of the day, I feel like I've run out of steam very easily. And I am not quitting, I am not throwing in the towel. But I'm seeking ways to bring in the joy to re energize me even more.
I'm asking better questions that make my brain look for different ways of seeing things, you know, giving yourself the assignment to look for ways to fill your life, your days with joy and simple pleasures. That's what your mind is going
to do then. And that way I keep myself devoted to what is important, the work on myself, the work on my growth, the work on my projects, anything that is important to me, the professional aspects of where I really want to see myself as a professional or I'm claiming my place as a professional, that's also where I am practicing this. And I invite you to do the same, to leave out the attitude of entitlement and understanding that you get to be devoted and
it is a gift. And you cannot skip the process of acquiring skills, increasing self-awareness, bringing in more of that inner regulation where you're not so quick to throw in
the towel when things get tough. But you know what grounds you, You know the things that the techniques, the the tools that help you stick with it. And to go even deeper and understanding that every season gifts you a bucket load of insights if you are faithful to the process and you're constantly asking yourself the question of what is this particular season in my journey to become, becoming really good at this thing teaching me. So that's what I wanted to share
today because I don't want you to get blinded by all of the like, flashy marketing of instant results, the sort of idea of just gratifying your wishes right away or wanting success without the work. There was no such thing as an overnight success. There's always probably deck a decade or even more of devoted work behind that, behind someone who is now claimed to be an overnight success in whatever area. You can think of this in terms
of you being a mother. You can think of this in terms of being a wife, of being a professional, of any, anything that you do, the work that you do with your healing and your passions, your joy, your creativity. I want you to stick with it. The best strategy is to be devoted. So devotion over entitlement. That is the message of today. Share this episode with someone.
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