Divine Self-Connection: the hidden well of abundance in business
Rachel Connor | Issue 002: The Sacred Thread That Binds | May 31st, 2025
The moment before I connected with my client, I paused: feet grounded, breath deepening, awareness expanding to all parts of my body.
In that simple act of presence, something shifted. The subtle anxiety of needing to 'get it right' dissolved into spaciousness. My internal landscape transformed from cluttered mental preparation to an open field of possibility. Normally, I'd have planned the call with my head, thinking about what we covered last time. Instead, I felt gravity beneath me—my sit bones on the chair, feet on the ground, all four planes of my body—and a sense of permission that whatever would emerge could emerge.
This is the paradox at the heart of divine connection in business: to truly connect with others, we must first drop into the well of our own being.
The fractured self in business
Most of us operate from a fragmented state: rushing from call to call, planning our next response while another speaks, bringing only slivers of ourselves to our work. We become hypervigilant about maintaining appearances while, internally, everything feels disconnected.
Yet when we create small pockets of contemplation—those sacred moments of reconnection with our essence—we access a different quality of presence. From this grounded state, I found myself listening more deeply to my client, improvising with courage, co-creating rather than imposing my agenda. My presence felt expanded and more alive. I had the confidence to experiment with exercises I'd never tried before. Together, we developed a movement exercise that helped her prepare for a crucial music audition. The client responded with more curiosity and the dividends of that micro moment of self-connection rippled outward.
Anchoring our service
Divine self-connection isn't a lofty spiritual practice separate from business strategy. It's the foundation upon which authentic business relationships are built.
When I neglect this practice—when I don't pause to move, breathe, or shift context—I become trapped in stories of scarcity and lack of confidence. These stories inevitably result in reduced outreach, business stagnation and diminished income.
I experienced this directly last year, when I neglected these practices. My business stalled and income dropped. The practices aren't luxuries; they're business essentials.
The divine isn't something out there; it resides in the essence of who we are. When we make space to honour this essence—whether in client sessions, content creation, even in our accounting processes—we operate from wholeness, bringing our gifts forward not just to the person before us but to the entirety of their network of inter-relationships.
This is particularly true in how I show up for my audience on Substack. During my first ever Substack Live recently, approaching from a place of self-connection created a relaxed flow that allowed me to bring more of myself to the fore. The very thing I feared—authentic visibility—became so much more easeful when grounded in self-connection.
Breathing into abundance
This self-connection is both a receiving and a giving. In my spiritual practice, while I'm aware in my meditation of the web of life beyond me—the trees and birdsong—I’m mostly in receiving mode, connecting to my bodily sensations, thoughts and impulses. In business, it becomes more outward-facing: how can I help and support people?
They are inherently intertwined in a loop of both receiving and giving. One requires the other.
Without this cycle, the well runs dry and our service becomes depleted.
In practice, this means daily meditation however busy I am; pottering around tending to my plants; or taking five minutes after a walk to lean against a tree, feeling its strength and the solidity of its roots. I’ve realised that these mini-recharges where I soak in good energy form the bedrock for all connection, inside and out.
What if your business success hinges not on doing more but on being more fully present with yourself first?
Before your next business interaction, experiment with this: take a minute to feel the weight of your body, notice your breath and sense the space you occupy. Approach the interaction from a place of deep service, tuning into the wider network of energies at play.
Was there a different aliveness in the exchange? A greater capacity to listen? More courage to bring forth your gifts?
This simple practice holds the key to abundance—not just in business metrics, but in the richness of connection that makes our work meaningful and brings more wholeness for ourselves.
This essay was featured in Issue 002: The Sacred Thread That Binds. Read the Full Publication
Rachel Connor is a contributing writer for The Sacred Business Writer’s Collective focused on helping creative professionals overcome barriers to authentic self-expression. You can follow her on Substack here.
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