What is your Readiness IQ? (Intention Quest-Ability)?
How ready are you to see your life unfold like a beautiful lotus flower?
The lotus flower phases can represent your readiness path for making major life changes. The lotus flower phases can beautifully calculate your Readiness IQ in images; your ability to follow the quest to reach your Intention.
Like humans, the lotus flower begins to sprout in a water environment. It then has a major growth spurt deep in muddy and rough conditions. In order to blossom it pushes through those conditions to clarity. And, finally, begin the unfolding process.
And, like most humans, the lotus flower unfolds one pedal at a time. Each unfolding a transformation until it reaches its full potential. Why are these phases important to creating the life you want? Knowing what phase you are in at any one time, allows you to work through it to the next phase. You continue unfolding until you have reached the clarity you want in any area of your life.
What is your Readiness IQ (Intention Quest-Ability), what phase are you in, and what phase do you want to be in:
- Phase One, Stuck in the Mud – The lotus flower in this phase is beneath the surface, in mud and challenging conditions.
- If it stays in this phase, it will not fully bloom. Are you are in this phase of feeling stuck in a muddy situation (in relationships, with finances, in health, or any other life area)? Do you feel unable to move from it, then your Readiness IQ is low. This is not good or bad, it is just where you are.
- You may choose to stay in this phase and accept that this situation will remain difficult.
- Is this your Readiness IQ? If you want support in moving through this phase, click here for some words of encouragement.
- Phase Two, Pushing Through the Mud – The lotus flower in this phase has pushed through the murkiness of being below the surface.
- In this phase, you have moved through some challenges and can see some light and hope. This often takes strength and determination.
- At this phase, the stem of the lotus flower is growing, just as your Readiness IQ is growing. At this phase, much like the flower, it requires light and other nurturing conditions.
- Is this your Readiness IQ? If you want support in keeping you motivated to fully manifest (a better relationship, healthier financial situation, improved health, or other life areas), click here for a tool to keep you moving towards your intentions and goals.
- Phase Three, Closed Lotus Flower – The lotus flower in this phase has formed and holds the promise of fully unfolding blossom.
- Sometimes in this phase, we hold on too tightly to the way things have been. This can suffocate our intentions and doesn’t allow for us to move forward.
- Letting go is the answer. At this phase, the lotus flower lets go of how tightly it has held its pedals to its center. You too must let go of what has kept you afraid to fully blossom.
- If you are ready to take on a new, exciting life then this is your Readiness IQ.
- Is this your Readiness IQ? Are you ready to let go of people, places, and things that have kept you wound up too tightly? Maybe it’s not an accident that being wound too tight, and being wounded are spelled the same. If you want support to heal your wounds, again a tool for this is the one noted above which provides weekly clues to moving towards the life you want. Click here to access these clues.
- Final Phase, Each pedal is important to its fully unfolding.
- If you can feel some clarity to your situation, then you may be ready to slowly open to the changes you want.
- As these open one by one, you may feel both the joy and stress. Joy of becoming closer to the life you want, and the stress of change (people in your life moving away from you, feeling out of your comfort zone, etc).
- Sit with those feelings, acknowledge them, and then move on to the final phase.
- Is this your Readiness IQ? Are you able to see the fruits of your work to make life changes? One major tool for keeping you moving in the direction you want to go is to get the right kind of support. You can get that support by taking the online course, Five Steps to Overcoming Scarcity, which will be available soon. If you want more information on this Five Step process, contact me at jan@possibilitydetectives.com.
Aligning with the Five Steps to Overcoming Scarcity, your lotus flower self will:
- Accept being in a muddy situation in some area of your life.
- Set the goal of breaking through the mud and murkiness of this life area.
- Keep your attention on nurturing the potential of your goals.
- Appreciate what nurtures you and let go of what does not.
- Get support to grow and unfold towards more light and joy.
What you need to know to move towards more joy, gratitude, and abundance – go to: The Overcoming Scarcity Online Course.
Jan facilitates national workshops for therapists and life coaches. She presents at conferences on topics related to holistic psychology and living your dreams.