As entrepreneurs and leaders, learning to sustain uncomfortable sensations is key to continuing on our path of growth and expansion, both personally and as a business. The secret to achieve it is in our nervous system because professional development usually brings with it more stress, which immediately activates protection and hyperactivation mechanisms such as perfectionism and overwhelm, among many others, with which it is very easy to feel overwhelmed and stagnant in certain states that we do not seem to be aware of. allow us to move forward or make us suffer the process.
It is as if your nervous system came “equipped” with a 20-volt cable, but to travel this path of growth and expansion you need a 40-volt one. The good news is that, by reconnecting with our body, the source of our true wisdom and intuition , it is possible to expand our ability to sustain our power despite the challenges that the environment presents.
It has taught us to give up power and be “good”
However, the issue is “complicated” because added to the stress of this path of growth and expansion are the effects of socialization that the economic, political and cultural system has on women, where we have been taught to cede power and be “good” instead of “powerful”. This is a reality about which little is said that also affects absolutely all areas of our lives (including, of course, the professional) and can be expressed in one of the following ways (or in all):
- You have a tendency to please and take care of others before yourself
- You try not to bother
- You have a hard time setting limits
- You overwork and give more to compensate for your insecurities
- You follow outside rules and “should bes” instead of listening to your own inner guidance
- To not pose a threat, you speak, act, and express yourself as expected
- Would you like to control what others think of you?
- You get caught in cycles of perfectionism that include analysis-paralysis, overcomplication, procrastination, and more
- You feel guilty for wanting more
- You avoid conflict or confrontation
- You push yourself to the limit and you burn
The nervous system, an ally of a high-performance woman
So if you are a high performance and performance woman and you have already achieved a lot through effort, discipline and willpower, but you feel exhausted, anxious and irritable, or you procrastinate and keep thinking over and over again about what yourself, then it is time to work with your nervous system to regulate and make it more flexible and reconnect with your physical, emotional and energetic bodies, because that is where the key to your success lies and your ability to continue expanding without overwhelming yourself and without so much sacrifice and exhaustion. .
This, of course, also implies claiming YOU power, as well as working with “nice girl” patterns and the effects of socialization to welcome her into the POWERFUL WOMAN who enjoys, rests, lives and works on their own terms with confidence, freedom and sovereignty,
Sea Talanquer She is a specialist and pioneer in Latin America in Embodiment and the nervous system with a gender perspective (which does take into account the patriarchal system and its effects).