How To Expand Your Energetic Capacity To Hold More Abundance
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What if the reason you’re struggling to call in more isn’t that you’re doing something wrong…but that you simply don’t have the energetic space to hold it yet?
This is something I’m actively working on right now after realising during my last launch that I wasn’t creating enough energetic space to actually hold the abundance I was calling in.
I was doing all of the strategic and practical things I needed to do to create a successful launch, but energetically, I was at capacity.
And when you’re actively trying to call in more abundance, more money and more clients, but you feel like there is no space left in your life or business to hold any more, it can make it very difficult to actually receive what you’re calling in.
What Is Energetic Capacity?
When I talk about energetic capacity, I’m talking about your body, your nervous system and your mind.
It’s the threshold you have to hold everything that is going on in your life at any one time.
That includes the emotions you’re holding, the physical things you’re doing throughout your day, what you’re thinking about, how many things are on your to-do list, your mental load and how much energy you have left to give to all of those things.
What's important to understand is that your energetic capacity isn’t capped or static.
It expands. It contracts. It shifts and changes.
Which means you can consciously expand your capacity to hold more.
I’ve seen this in my own life over and over again.
Before I had kids, my energetic capacity was very different to what it is now.
I’m a mum of three, I have a one-year-old at home with me full time, two older boys, I’m running a business, actively scaling and working towards doubling my revenue this year.
And I’m doing all of that while wanting to be a present mum, a good partner, look after myself, have somewhat of a social life and not burn myself out in the process.
I’m holding a lot.
And what I’ve found fascinating is that each time I’ve had a baby, my capacity has expanded because I’ve had to hold more.
Things that once felt like they would be impossible to hold are now simply part of my normal life.
And if your capacity can expand through circumstance and necessity, it can also expand through intention.
Your Energetic Capacity Impacts Your Ability To Manifest
This is where it gets really interesting.
Because I believe you can only manifest what you are able to hold in your energetic field. Or you might manifest something, but not actually be able to hold onto it.
We see this with money all the time.
Someone might suddenly come into a large amount of money, but if they don’t have the capacity to hold that level of wealth, they may find themselves back where they started a few years later.
They manifested the money. But energetically, they weren’t necessarily ready to hold it.
And I think this is something that can happen in our businesses too.
You might say you want more clients. More money. More visibility. More success.
But if you are already completely stretched, your calendar is full, your mental load is enormous and you genuinely feel like you couldn’t possibly hold anything else right now, then there isn’t a lot of energetic space for that next level to come in.
Are You Creating Space For What You’re Calling In?
One of the simplest ways I think about energetic capacity is through physical space.
Imagine you’re single and wanting to manifest a partner.
But your calendar is completely full. Your bedroom is packed with stuff. Your wardrobe has no space. Your bed is pushed up against the wall and you only have one bedside table.
There is very little space for another person in your life.
So part of creating space for that relationship might look like moving your bed away from the wall, getting a second bedside table, clearing some space in your wardrobe and creating some space in your calendar.
You’re physically creating space for the person you want to call in.
The energetic side of things works in a similar way.
Start With An Energetic Audit
The first thing I recommend doing is an energetic audit – looking at everything that is currently taking your energy, your outputs, and everything coming in, your inputs.
When you're eating well, moving your body and nourishing yourself in the ways you need to, you're in a much better place to hold what you need to hold. Your capacity expands when you’re looking after yourself.
You want the energy you're taking in, the people you're connecting with and the content you're consuming to be expanding you.
We are chronically overstimulated as a society. Our brains weren't designed for this volume of input, and the messaging we're seeing, the state of the world right now, all contributes enormously to that drain. So be mindful of how you're engaging with that information and what you're allowing in.
I recommend looking at:
Where your energy is going and whether it’s serving you
What energy is coming in and whether it’s serving you
What you need to change as a result
Think about: Your work. Your family. Your relationships. Your responsibilities. Your thoughts. Your habits. All of it.
Practices To Expand Your Energetic Capacity
Once you have awareness around where your energy is currently going, you can start consciously expanding your capacity.
And there are lots of different ways to do this. There is nuance here, and there will be practices that you feel intuitively drawn towards. Trust those inner nudges.
For me, mindset work has been a really powerful part of this.
In the past, I’ve loved hypnotherapy for expanding my mindset, rewiring my beliefs and opening myself up to more possibilities.
Right now I'm revisiting recordings from past sessions with my hypnotherapist, made specifically for me at a time when I was feeling really stuck in my life and business. They opened me up to more expanded possibilities then, and I'm leaning on them again in this next season of expansion.
I'm also leaning into what this looks like somatically.
Recently, we had a guest session inside the Spiritual Business Mistressmind with Em Roberts, a somatic practitioner, who came in and led a session around visibility and being more visible in your business.
It reminded me of how much we can actually play with and feel into the expansion of our energetic field.
This is something I first learned when I trained as a Reiki healer – tapping into your own energetic field and working with that field through your healing practice.
And you can do this for yourself too.
If you’re somewhere safe and you’re able to, close your eyes and feel into your energetic body. Your energetic body usually sits just outside your physical body.
Notice what your current capacity feels like. What does it look like? What does it feel like? Trust whatever comes up for you.
Then, with your intention, begin to expand that energetic field out. Imagine it growing bigger. How big can you go? Play with that.
There is also a safety piece here. What does it feel like in your body to hold more than you currently are? What comes up when you imagine having more money? More clients? More visibility? More responsibility? More abundance? Does your body feel safe holding it?
You don’t need to force anything. This is about gently exploring what expansion feels like in your body. And the more you practise it, the more natural it can become.
Your Energetic Capacity Is Not Fixed
You can expand it. You can contract it. You can create more space physically, practically, mentally and energetically.
And you don’t need to have it all figured out.
I have been in business for ten years. I have been a reiki master for even longer. I have been doing energetic and manifestation work for a really long time. And I still have to actively work on this.
I still have moments where I realise I’ve let this fall away and I need to come back to it. Or I realise there is another layer of the work for me. It’s not a one-and-done thing. It’s a continual process.
And I’m sharing this with you while I’m in the middle of doing it myself. I’m not perfect. I’m still learning. I’m still discovering things.
But I now have the awareness to recognise when I’m contracted, when I’m at capacity and when I need to create more space. And that awareness gives me the power to do something about it.
Sometimes that might mean rearranging your calendar. Getting more support. Taking something off your plate. Creating physical space. Changing your relationship with your phone.
And sometimes it might mean doing the energetic work.
Ideally, you’re doing both.
What Would It Look Like To Hold More?
So I want to leave you with these questions:
Where might you be contracted or at capacity right now?
And what could it look like for you to create more energetic space?
Maybe you’re calling in more clients but your calendar is already overflowing.
Maybe you want more money but your nervous system feels overwhelmed by the thought of holding more responsibility.
Maybe you want more visibility but being seen at a bigger level doesn’t yet feel completely safe in your body.
Maybe you’re craving more abundance but there simply isn’t any space left in your current life to receive it.
Whatever it is for you, you have the power to start creating that space.
You don’t need to force it. You don’t need to become a completely different person overnight. And you certainly don’t need to burn yourself out in the pursuit of more.
You can expand your capacity consciously, intentionally and in a way that supports the life and business you actually want to create.
If you want support with both the strategy and the energetics as you grow your spiritual business, that's exactly what we do inside the Spiritual Business Mistressmind.