Author Archive for Michele McHall
What Is Body Intelligence?
In the Whole IQ, Body intelligence is a reflection of the outer world of tangible forms and relationships in our lives. The tangible forms are not to impress people. Rather they are expressions of who we are. Michele talks about the “creative lifecycle” that she teaches where we aligned and connected with ourselves and world from the inside out.
The Vitality of Your Whole IQ
When you ignite your Whole IQ, the true Mind is able to serve your Spirit and Heart intelligences rather than seek to control them. When we live from greater wholeness, we see so many more creative possibilities!
Michele’s latest vlog: Transformations
Michele talks about why transformation is such a relevant theme in our world today, and the importance of having experiences and processes in our lives that support us to sync up with our souls. The result is greater and greater freedom from reactivity.
Video: Developing the presence to respond to your circumstances
As we develop the bandwidth and interconnectivity of our Whole IQ, we find greater presence in meeting our life circumstances from a place of deeper self-care, honesty, and integrity. Michele talks about how our presence is contingent on living in an energy that is honest and best serves ourselves and our world each day.
Top 5 IT Factors—Do You Recognize Yourself in These Beliefs, Patterns, or Roles?
Part of the Soul’s Dream work is identifying a belief, pattern, or role that holds you back from realizing your full potential. This is called an IT Factor, and the IT doesn’t stand for Internet Technology. It stands for an area of reactivity you want to Intentionally Transform.
The five most common IT Factors that hold people back from catalyzing that inner spark of imagination and possibility that lives within them are:
#1. “Not Good Enough”
People hold themselves back when they don’t feel that they are good enough to pursue what they want, or to express themselves in a more meaningful way. This is a sign of a Mind intelligence that is being hijacked by the Con Artist. The Mind clarifies our truths, and when it’s hijacked, we can’t get to Heart intelligence, our meaning-maker.
#2 “Perfectionism”
This IT Factor is a sign that Spirit intelligence, our energy, is being neglected or used for the purposes of looking good and achieving more. Here again the Heart is marginalized because it’s the intelligence that governs our authentic feelings. When we’re trapped in “perfectionism,” we are rarely transparent with our true feelings.
#3 “Judgment of Self and Others”
This IT Factor infiltrates all the intelligences. It’s a clear sign that the Con Artist is running the show with a negative message that doesn’t allow us to generate positivity and new possibilities because there is more being criticized than realized.
#4 “Self-Doubt”
The most mercurial and challenging IT Factor out there, this is so perverse in our culture because we are constantly pushing ourselves and then the validity of our perceptions. This IT Factor can be a big wet blanket on the Whole IQ, and it keeps the focus Body intelligence, meaning it prioritizes that which is tangible for the sake of proving that everything is okay.
#5 “Status Quo/Autopilot/Unmotivated”
This is one of the most unrecognized IT Factors by the people who live with it. Many people simply “go along to get along,” or have patterns of avoidance because they feel that change or transformation would upset the proverbial apple cart. This IT Factor is a sign of unlived potential and passion. Spirit intelligence, or energy, is where our passion begins, but when you can’t tap into your passion because you don’t want to take risks, you’re blocking yourself from deeper connection. The Mind, after all, can only find new truths and realize our gifts when it’s in connection with our Spirit and Heart intelligences.
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There are many other IT Factors, like “People Pleaser,” “Overly Self-Reliant,” “Worry,” “Unlovable,” and “Martyr.” What’s important to remember is that no matter what your belief, pattern, or role, it’s a reactive way of attempting to control your lives.
The more we awaken our Whole IQ, the more we mature our Life Artist awareness and develop the ability to hear and see our inner resources and skills that can support us to be more authentic and connected in our lives.
This freedom leads to greater intimacy with ourselves and others. Ultimately, the reactivity and resistance we experience when we’re being run by our IT Factors is too time consuming—and life is too short.
Emergence
It’s been a beautiful few weeks of witnessing Soul’s Dream travelers emerge in their journeys through the Mandala. What I’m witnessing is what I call the “butterfly effect” of guiding people through the process of intentional transformation.
Travelers begin this journey inching along in their efforts to deal with their challenges and their Con Artists. Through developing their Life Artist awareness and Whole IQ, they actually transform their caterpillar-like consciousness and expand into a gorgeous, colorful expression of themselves. They are calmer, freer, more present, clear, creative, and carry so much less psychic overhead!
The evolutionary process of this journey is so stunning that I was unexpectedly overcome with tears with one traveler this week. I’m amazed again and again over the transformation that occurs in the Soul’s Dream journey.
Honoring Boundaries
I’ve been contemplating honoring boundaries this week in my intentional practice, and I’ve been learning a lot around self-respect and respecting others. I saw myself and others honoring our boundaries this week in our failures and strengths. However, where I saw honoring boundaries most clearly was in a daily wink where I witnessed a crane communicate to another crane that it was not going to allow it to swim into it’s territory in the creek. The crane spiked its hair on its head up and spread it wings and didn’t hesitate to communicate, “This is my space. Get out!” The other crane swam away, and then promptly turned around and tried again to swim into the other crane’s space behind its back. Of course, it was caught again and the crane put on it’s punk hairdo, spread it wings wider and let it know that it was serious in not sharing its space in the creek. Once the other crane got the picture, it had a soft strength as it swam in the other direction and never looked back. Both birds were glorious to me in their own expression of honoring boundaries as they quietly swam in opposite directions—both gliding away in self-respect and respecting others.
Laughter
I write today in honor of my beloved Uncle Duke who passed away this week. My uncle’s greatest gift to me was laughter. We both have big laughs and when we’d laugh together, it was contagious. His nickname for me was “Rose”—Rambling Rose to be exact. He liked to say it with a swagger in his voice that let me know he recognized both my wild and delicate nature. It’s so rare that a person lets us know that we are seen for some unique and precious quality of our essence. My Uncle Duke was a special man who went through several big hardships in his life and always emerged gracefully. While I will miss him playing “Clare du Lune” on his piano and his amazing cooking, I will miss our laughter together the most, and of course the sound of his voice when he said, “You know what, Rose…”
Continuity of Love
This word “continuity” has stood out in my mind’s eye this week in many ways. The place I’ve been looking is where continuity meets true connection versus where it’s an investment in a habit or expectation of myself, or others, that supports my comfort, security, and validation in some way.
While it’s natural to desire the continuity that supports our comforts like having coffee or tea, or exercising in the morning to wake ourselves up, I was wondering about what wakes us up to the continuity of love. What inspires us to fall in love with our work, to feel the love that awakens the truth of who we are. Opening to the continuity of living in this love brings me to my knees.
While life is full of commitments and challenges, what is it to truly open yourself to give and receive the continuity of love?
Leaning into the Mystery
As my relationship with the Universal Intelligence, as I call it, or Source, grows stronger and stronger, I continue to realize how paradoxically small and yet significant I am—we all are. Our small selves want so much to control things and figure them out. Yet, the more I practice showing up and releasing my will to the breeze of the great Mystery, the more significantly I can impact my reality.
My favorite sandals were stolen last week at a lovely spa I visited while on vacation. The person who took them insisted they were hers. As I watched her walk out in my shoes, I didn’t want to make a scene and instead leaned into the acceptance that this was her karma to live out.
As it turned out, it was also my karma to live out. These sandals were sacred to me. They could have been any other pair of shoes and I wouldn’t have cared so much. What I realized as I reflected upon this experience is that I too often lean into the Mystery when it’s convenient for me because I’m afraid to stand up for what I know to be true, or to experience a loss of something sacred to me. In the past, I’ve allowed other “sacred” experiences be reduced to something less significant because of my willingness to accept, or because my fear of being inappropriate or hurt. In this case, I allowed leaning on the Mystery to be a crutch, and I realized a profound difference between leaning on the Mystery and leaning into the Mystery. I did let this woman walk away with my sandals, and in fact leaned on the Mystery rather than trusting my heartfelt conviction that this was not okay.
In trusting the Mystery and turning our experience over to it, we must not allow ourselves and our Truth be trampled in the process. Only when there’s alignment of personal Truth and being unattached to outcome can the healing and the magic begin. Otherwise the machinations of our desire to control look like Oz behind the curtain, and we live in a world in which we don’t truly understand our own significance in relationship to the Mystery.
Lean into, not on, and let go . . .
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